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John I. White papers, 1889-1994
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- White, John I. (John Irwin), 1902-
- Title
- John I. White papers
- Dates
- 1889-1994 (inclusive)18891994
- Quantity
- 36 Boxes, (20.5 linear ft.)
- Collection Number
- UUS_COLL MSS 201
- Summary
- Contains correspondence, research files, and artifacts. Includes correspondence related to songs and song makers of the American West
- Repository
-
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Restrictions
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
John I. White (1902-1992) was a writer, singer of cowboy songs, radio personality, and map draftsman. His singing career culminated when he played his guitar and sang as "The Lonesome Cowboy" on the NBC radio drama "Death Valley Days" sponsored by Twenty-Mule-Team Borax from 1929-1936. He maintained a lifelong interest in cowboy songs and the American West, researching and writing articles and two books on this and other topics.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Contains correspondence, research files, and artifacts. Includes correspondence related to songs and song makers of the American West; significant correspondents include such as Will C. Barnes, Badger Clark, Gail Gardner, Romaine Lowdermilk, Dominick J. O'Malley, Powder River Jack Lee, Austin Fife, and many other cowboy songwriters, singers, and scholars. Also includes fan mail written to White who sang as "The Lonesome Cowboy" for the "Death Valley Days" radio show in the 1930s. Research files contain research notes, ideas for articles and plays, drafts of articles, original scripts, and related correspondence. Artifacts include White's guitar and the cowboy hat given to him by cowboy poet Dominick J. O'Malley.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the John I. White papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation:John I. White papers, MSS 201, Box #. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:COLL MSS 201, USUSC.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arrangement: Correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent; research arranged alphabetically in order that John I. White placed them.
Acquisition Information
Donated in 1992 by his widow, Augusta Postles White, and two children, Jennifer White Fischer and Jonathan Postles White.
RHL copy of roughdraft of "Big Corral" article in the Arizona Republic in box 5, folder 18 was donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by Romy Gerould in 2018.
Correspondence from John I. White to Romaine Lowdermilk dated March 14 and May 23 1965, November 28 1966, April 2 and 26, 1967 in box 5, folder 12, and August 2 1968, May 1 1969 in box 5, folder 13 were donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by Romy Gerould in 2018.
"There is 'Great Grandma' Too" paper in box 5, folder 25 was donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by Romy Gerould in 2018.
"References to Strawberry Roan" in box 31, folder 14 was donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by Romy Gerould in 2018.
Processing Note
Processed by USU Special Collections & Archives
Related Materials
John I. White photograph collection; Also located at Utah State University, Merrill Library, Special Collections and ArchivesP0037
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
A-C, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Adams, Andy |
1934 |
2 | Babb, John - John I. White gives notice to
NBC |
1930 June 30 |
3 | Barnes, W.C. |
1889-1930 |
4 | Barnes, W.C. |
1889-1930 |
5 | Barnes, W.C. |
1889-1930 |
6 | Barnes, W.C. - concerning "Portrait for a
Western Album" published in American West
March/April 1979 |
1979 |
7 | Barnes, W.C. - articles by John I. White
about Barnes |
1889-1994 |
8 | Barnes, W.C. - articles about Barnes |
1889-1994 |
9 | Barnes, W.C. - articles and notes about
Barnes |
1889-1994 |
10 | Barnes, W.C. - articles and notes about
Barnes |
1889-1994 |
11 | Boyd, Joe Dan |
1889-1994 |
12 | Boyd, Joe Dan - articles |
1889-1994 |
13 | Bond, Johnny |
1889-1994 |
14 | Brininstool, E.A. |
1889-1994 |
15 | Buehler, Richard E. - managing editor for
Abstracts of Folklore Studies
|
1968 February-March |
16 | Cannon, Hal |
1889-1994 |
17 | Chittenden, William Lawrence |
1889-1994 |
18 | Cheetham, Everett |
1889-1994 |
19 | Clark, Badger |
1889-1994 |
20 | Clark, Badger |
1889-1994 |
21 | Clark, Badger |
1889-1994 |
22 | Clark, Badger |
1889-1994 |
23 | Clark, Badger - files |
1889-1994 |
24 | Clark, Badger - Border Affair |
1889-1994 |
25 | Clark, Badger - music to Border Affair |
1889-1994 |
26 | Clark, Badger - The Glory Trail |
1889-1994 |
27 | Clark, Badger - Badger Clark Ballads |
1889-1994 |
28 | Clark, Badger - Arizona Highways article |
1969 February |
29 | Clark, Badger - Biographical Material |
1889-1994 |
30 | Cohen, Norm |
1889-1994 |
31 | Coolidge, Dane - concerning "Zebra Dun" |
1889-1994 |
32 | Critchlow, R.R. - relations with Lomax and
Fife |
1889-1994 |
D-F, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 2
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Daniel, Harlan |
1964-1966 |
2 | Daniel, Harlan |
1967-1968 |
3 | Daniel, Harlan |
1970-1989 |
4 | Dobie, J. Frank - single letter |
1934 February 26 |
5 | Dobie, J. Frank - articles by and about
Dobie |
1889-1994 |
6 | Fan mail addressed to John I. White's
radio personality, the "Lonesome Cowboy" |
1930-1939 |
7 | Fan Mail (Lonesome Cowboy) |
1930-1939 |
8 | Fan Mail (Lonesome Cowboy) |
1930-1939 |
9 | Fan Mail (Lonesome Cowboy) |
1930-1939 |
10 | Fan Mail (Lonesome Cowboy) |
1930-1939 |
11 | Fife, Austin |
1980-1989 |
12 | Fife, Austin |
1970-1979 |
13 | Fife, Austin |
1960-1969 |
14 | Fife, Austin - articles by Austin Fife |
1889-1994 |
15 | Fletcher, Tex |
1967-1971 |
16 | Foster, Jesse May to Newell Hart |
1982 November 2 |
G, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 3
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Gardner, Gail |
1930-1939 |
2 | Gardner, Gail |
1960-1969 |
3 | Gardner, Gail |
1970-1979 |
4 | Gardner, Gail |
1980-1989 |
5 | Gardner, Gail - Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only
|
1930-1989 |
6 | Gardner, Gail - Arizona Republicarticles on Gardner |
1967 |
7 | Gardner, Gail - articles and poems by |
1930-1989 |
8 | Gardner, Gail - articles about |
1930-1989 |
9 | Gardner, Gail - "Tying knots in the
devil's tail" or "The Sierry Petes" |
1930-1989 |
10 | Gentry, Dr. E. Linnell |
1973-1976 |
11 | Gillespie, Angus |
1980-1989 |
12 | Gordon, Robert W. |
1889-1994 |
13 | Gray, Harry J. |
1983 |
14 | Gressley, Gene |
1960-1969 |
15 | Gressley, Gene |
1970-1979 |
16 | Gressley, Gene |
1980-1989 |
17 | Griffith, Jim - University of Arizona |
1980-1989 |
18 | Green, Archie - University of Illinois |
1960-1979 |
H-K, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 4
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Haden, Walter - University of Tennessee at
Martin |
1969-1974 |
2 | Halpert, Herbert |
1968-1970 |
3 | Hanson, Joseph Mills |
1933-1934 |
4 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - correspondence with
Mrs. Hanson |
1965-1970 |
5 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - correspondence with
editors about publishing an article |
1889-1994 |
6 | Hanson, Joseph Mills |
1889-1994 |
7 | Hanson, Joseph Mills |
1889-1994 |
8 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - "A Ballad in Search
of an Author" |
1889-1994 |
9 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - "Last Day with the
Dogies" |
1889-1994 |
10 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - "Maverick Cowboy
Songs" |
1889-1994 |
11 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - "Railroad Corral" |
1889-1994 |
12 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - Railroad Corral" |
1889-1994 |
13 | Hanson, Joseph Mills - World War I and
military material |
1889-1994 |
14 | Haviland Publishing Co. concerning the
Lonesome Cowboy Songbook
|
1932-1933 |
15 | Hennessey, Paul |
1860-1994 |
16 | Hickerson, Joseph - head of Archive of
Folksong at the Library of Congress |
1966-1978 |
17 | Ives, Charles |
1889-1994 |
18 | Keller, Shirley |
1988 |
19 | KiLarr, Stanley - lost songs detective |
1973-1974 |
20 | Korn, Michael |
1985-1989 |
21 | Korn, Michael |
1984-1985 |
L-Lowdermilk, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 5
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Lair, John W. |
1966-1978 |
2 | Lawless, Ray |
1965-1969 |
3 | Laws, Malcolm |
1965-1970 |
4 | Lee, Katie |
1968-1972 |
5 | Lee, Katie |
1973-1975 |
6 | Lee, Katie |
1976-1986 |
7 | Lee, Powder River Jack |
1934 |
8 | Lodgson, Guy |
1976-1988 |
9 | Lomax, Alan |
1935 |
10 | Lomax, John A. |
1934-1937 |
11 | Lowdermilk, Romaine |
1930-1939 |
12 | Lowdermilk, Romaine |
1964-1967 |
13 | Lowdermilk, Romaine |
1968-1969 |
14 | Lowdermilk, Romaine |
1970-1979 |
15 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - files and prints of
"Big Corral" from songbooks and discography |
1889-1994 |
16 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - "Big Corral" article |
1889-1994 |
17 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - rough draft of "Big
Corral" article for The Instructor
|
1889-1994 |
18 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - "Big Corral" article
in Arizona Republic
|
1889-1994 |
19 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - "Big Corral" |
1889-1994 |
20 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - "Great Grandad" |
1889-1994 |
21 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - "He Put Great
Grandad on the Map" - concerning the article |
1889-1994 |
22 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - "He Put Great
Grandad on the Map" - published AFF Word
|
1889-1994 |
23 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - drafts of "He Put
Great Grandad on the Map" |
1889-1994 |
24 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - copies of the
published song "Great Grandad" |
1889-1994 |
25 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - notes on the "Great
Grandad" article |
1889-1994 |
26 | Lowdermilk, Romaine - Yarapai Magazine
|
1928 June |
Lumpkin-O'Malley, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 6
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Lumpkin, Ben Gray |
1966-1968 |
2 | Lumpkin, Ben Gray |
1967-1969 |
3 | Lumpkin, Ben Gray |
1969-1972 |
4 | Lumpkin, Ben Gray - publications |
1889-1994 |
5 | Mare, Frank |
1988 |
6 | Michener, James A. |
1976 |
7 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1932 |
8 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1933 |
9 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1934 January-March |
10 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1934 April-May |
11 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1934 June-December |
12 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1935 January-March |
13 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1936 |
14 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1935 April-December |
15 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1937-1938 |
16 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1889-1994 |
17 | O'Malley, D.J. |
1968-1971 |
18 | O'Malley, Alicia and Margaret |
1972-1975 |
19 | O'Malley, Alicia and Margaret |
1977-1978 |
20 | O'Malley, Alicia and Margaret |
1979-1982 |
21 | O'Malley, Alicia |
1984-1985 |
22 | O'Malley, Alicia |
1984-1985 |
23 | O'Malley, D.J. - proposed item for the
75th Anniversary of of D-2 Horse Wrangler for the Denver Post
|
1889-1994 |
24 | O'Malley, D.J. - photo caption for Montana magazine article on O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
25 | O'Malley, D.J. - captions sent to Mrs.
Paladin for O'Malley article in Montana
magazine |
1889-1994 |
26 | O'Malley, D.J. - material for Montana magazine |
1889-1994 |
27 | O'Malley, D.J. - draft of footnotes for
Montana magazine article |
1889-1994 |
28 | O'Malley, D.J. - drafts for Montana magazine article |
1889-1994 |
Lumpkin-O'Malley, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 6a
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | O'Malley, D.J. - John I. White
correspondence with the editor of the Miles
City Star
|
1967-1969 |
2 | O'Malley, D.J. - John I. White
correspondence with Vivian A. Paladin, editor of Montana
|
1967 |
3 | O'Malley, D.J. - John I. White
correspondence with various people - used in Montana article - (Laura E. Root, William Tracy Page,
Charles Marshall, Miles City Star, Jack McCausland, Roberta Cheney,
Frank M. Jacobs) |
1934-1970 |
4 | O'Malley, D.J. - Poems |
1934 |
5 | O'Malley, D.J. - notes on his poems |
1934 |
6 | O'Malley, D.J. - xerox copies of
correspondence between O'Malley and J.B. Moore |
1935-1938 |
7 | O'Malley, D.J. - xerox copies of
correspondence between O'Malley and Mrs. D. Shy |
1935-1938 |
8 | O'Malley, D.J. - "An Eyewitness account of
the early days in rip-roaring Miles City was given by D.J. O'Malley in
one of his newspaper articles written in the mid-1930's" |
1935 |
9 | O'Malley, D.J. - John I. White's notes for
articles |
1960-1989 |
O'Malley, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 7
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | O'Malley, D.J. - "D.J. O'Malley Cowboy
Poet" by D.J. O'Malley and John I. White |
1889-1994 |
2 | O'Malley, D.J. - two early drafts for an
A.F.S Journal article by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
3 | O'Malley, D.J. - concerning A.F.S. article
on O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
4 | O'Malley, D.J. - final draft for A.F.S.
article entitled "A Montana Cowboy Poet" |
1889-1994 |
5 | O'Malley, D.J. - "A Montana Cowboy Poet" -
children's version published in Highlights for
Children
|
1974 |
6 | O'Malley, D.J. - O'Malley's article about
Indian removal |
1889-1994 |
7 | O'Malley, D.J. - O'Malley's article for
American West |
1889-1994 |
8 | O'Malley, D.J. - articles written by
O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
9 | O'Malley, D.J. - "After the Roundup" |
1889-1994 |
10 | O'Malley, D.J. - "A Busted Cowboy's
Christmas" editorial work on converting Montana magazine article into chapter of book |
1889-1994 |
11 | O'Malley, D.J. - "Moving Day for the
Second" by D.J. O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
12 | O'Malley, D.J. - "Montana Cowboy Dominick
J. O'Malley" by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
13 | O'Malley, D.J. - "A Cowboy Poet" by John
I. White |
1889-1994 |
14 | O'Malley, D.J. - newspapers sent to John
I. White by D.J. O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
15 | O'Malley, D.J. - newspapers sent to John
I. White by D.J. O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
16 | O'Malley, D.J. - newspapers sent to John
I. White by D.J. O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
17 | O'Malley, D.J. - newspapers sent to John
I. White by D.J. O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
Owen - Turner, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 8
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Owen, John R. |
1967-1968 |
2 | Owen, John R. |
1967-1970 |
3 | Owen, John R. |
1971-1976 |
4 | Owen, John R. |
1977-1984 |
5 | Reese, Justin |
1889-1994 |
6 | Reese, Lowell Otus |
1933-1934 |
7 | Russell, Tony |
1973-1974 |
8 | Scheips, Paul J. |
1979-1984 |
9 | Scheips, Paul J. - "Will Croft Barnes A
Westerner of Parts" |
1979-1984 |
10 | Shelly, Jim - concerning a 1979 article on
John I. White |
1979 |
11 | Simon, Bill |
1968-1970 |
12 | Simon, Bill |
1976 |
13 | Sprague, Carl - miscellaneous
correspondence and Sprague's biography written by John I. White |
1960-1980 |
14 | Sprague, Carl |
1968-1969 |
15 | Sprague, Carl |
1970-1973 |
16 | Sprague, Carl |
1974-1977 |
17 | Sprague, Carl |
1980 |
18 | Tinsley, Jim Bob |
1956-1983 |
19 | Toborg, Dick |
1972-1982 |
20 | Turner, Nevada Slim (Dallas) -
correspondence and Western Gospel
Roundup
|
1973 |
University of Illinois - Words and Music, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 9
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | University of Illinois Press |
1976 |
2 | University of Illinois Press |
1975 |
3 | University of Illinois Press |
1974 |
4 | University of Illinois Press |
1973 |
5 | University of Illinois Press |
1969-1972 |
6 | U.S. Information Agency |
1975-1977 |
7 | Vogel, Jerry - transfer of rights - The Lonesome Cowboy Songs of the Plains and
Hills to Jerry Vogel |
1934-1936 |
8 | Vogel, Jerry |
1966-1968 |
9 | Vogel, Jerry |
1969-1974 |
10 | Vogel, Jerry |
1978-1980 |
11 | Weize, Richard |
1972-1975 |
12 | West, John - editor of The American Folklore Newsletter
|
1977-1979 |
13 | West, John - reprint from Western Folklore "Jack Thorp and John
Lomax: Oral or Written Transmission" |
1967 April |
14 | Winkelman, Don - editor of Abstracts of Folklore Studies
|
1964-1967 June-September |
15 | Woodman, Ruth |
1934-1970 |
16 | Words and Music |
1968-1988 |
17 | Miscellaneous |
1889-1994 |
Concerning Old Songs, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 10
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Adams, Ramon F. |
1966 -1970 |
2 | B |
1889-1994 |
3 | Barthelmess, Casey |
1969 |
4 | Billington, Ray A. - Henry E. Huntington
Library and Art Gallery |
1969-1970 |
5 | Botkin, B.A. |
1965-1974 |
6 | Clark, Kenneth |
1934 |
7 | Comber, Chris |
1974 |
8 | Coteau, Gene - "The Night Hawks Lullaby"
©1934 |
1934 |
9 | Cox, John A. |
1934 |
10 | Cunningham, Eugene |
1934 |
11 | Cunningham, Keith |
1972-1973 |
12 | Dorson, Richard |
1974 |
13 | E - G |
1968-1974 |
14 |
Granger's Index to Poetry
|
1974 - 1977 |
15 | Forrest, Earle A. |
1934-1935 |
16 | Fuld, James J. |
1968-1973 |
17 | Gaines, Newton Texas Christian University |
1934 |
18 | German, George B. - reporter WNAX-570
Sioux Falls |
1966-1973 |
19 | Hadfield, Jim |
1974 |
20 | Haywood, Charles - Queens College |
1973 |
21 | Hoeptner, Fred |
1968-1972 |
22 | Hunter, Marvin |
1933-1934 |
23 | Jackson, W.H. |
1936 |
24 | Jarrett, Merrick |
1969-1970 |
25 | L |
1967-1969 |
26 | Lingenfelter, Richard E. - University of
California |
1968-1969 |
27 | M |
1889-1994 |
28 | Makara, Steve |
1973-1975 |
29 | McCutcheon, Dick - songs sent to John I.
White |
1932 |
30 | Myran, Ole H. |
1968-1969 |
31 | O-P |
1889-1994 |
32 | R |
1889-1994 |
33 | Randolph, Vance |
1934-1939 |
34 | Russell, Don |
1970-1971 |
35 | Sackett, S.J. |
1967-1969 |
36 | Sandburg, Carl |
1934-1936 |
37 | Shellans, Herbert |
1968-1974 |
38 | Sires, Ina |
1967-1974 |
39 | Tobitt, Janet E. |
1966 |
40 | Tucker, Steve |
1975 |
41 | Tye, Otis |
1934-1935 |
42 | V |
1889-1994 |
43 | W-Z |
1889-1994 |
Files on Old Songs, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 11
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Sheet music written out by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
2 | "Baldy Green" - Ed Stiles, author |
1933 |
3 | "Banks of Sacramento" |
1889-1994 |
4 | "Bell Brandon" |
1889-1994 |
5 | "The Bold Vaquero" |
1889-1994 |
6 | "Buffalo Skinners" - with clipping of poem |
1887 |
7 | "Bury Me Not" or "Lone Prairie" - early
newspaper clippings |
1889-1994 |
8 | Miscellaneous B |
1889-1994 |
9 | C |
1889-1994 |
10 | "Cowboy's Lament" |
1860/1994 |
11 | D |
1889-1994 |
12 | G |
1889-1994 |
13 | "God Bless America" |
1889-1994 |
14 | F |
1889-1994 |
15 | H |
1889-1994 |
16 | "Happy Miner" |
1889-1994 |
17 | "He's the Man for Me" |
1889-1994 |
18 | I |
1889-1994 |
19 | J |
1889-1994 |
20 | "Jingle Bells" |
1889-1994 |
21 | L |
1889-1994 |
22 | "Last Roundup" |
1889-1994 |
23 | "Lorena" |
1889-1994 |
24 | M |
1889-1994 |
25 | "Molly O Molly" |
1889-1994 |
26 | O |
1889-1994 |
27 | "Oh My Pretty Quadroon" |
1889-1994 |
28 | P |
1889-1994 |
29 | R |
1889-1994 |
30 | S |
1889-1994 |
31 | T |
1889-1994 |
32 | "Take Me Back to Old Montana" |
1889-1994 |
33 | U |
1889-1994 |
34 | V |
1889-1994 |
35 | W |
1889-1994 |
36 | "Wreck of Old 97" |
1889-1994 |
37 | Y |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - A, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 12
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | "A Day on the Cowtrail" |
1889-1994 |
2 | "Acres of Clams" - Ivar Haglund placemat |
1889-1994 |
3 | African-Americans in the West - research |
1889-1994 |
4 | Alaska - "Wires in the Wilderness" -
research, correspondence, and text published in Westworld
|
1979 June |
5 | Allen, Jules |
1889-1994 |
6 | American Vignettes - Dr. Jackson (First
Transcontinental Motorist) |
1889-1994 |
7 | Artists and Writers of the West |
1889-1994 |
8 | Audio Project - proposed tapes for schools
- text and correspondence |
1889-1994 |
9 | Audio Project - "Texas Longhorns Pointed
North" - text, reference, dates, and correspondence |
1889-1994 |
10 | Audio Project - research for "Close Call
for the Buffalo" tape |
1889-1994 |
11 | Audio Project - "Last Day with the
Longhorns" - tape, text, and research |
1889-1994 |
12 | Audio Project - "Homesweet Homestead" -
tape, text, and correspondence |
1889-1994 |
13 | Audio Project - tape ideas |
1889-1994 |
14 | Automobile Collection (Harrah) - "Wall to
Wall Automobiles" |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - B, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 13
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | "Baby Makes Three?" - play by John I.
White |
1889-1994 |
2 | "Bachelor's Dream" article |
1889-1994 |
3 | "Backfire" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
4 | Barbed Wire research |
1889-1994 |
5 | Biographical Material on John I. White |
1889-1994 |
6 | Biographical Material on John I. White -
graduating class |
1889-1994 |
7 | Biographical Material on John I. White -
wedding |
1930 October 4 |
8 | Biographical Material - on John I. White -
University of Maryland Glee Club |
1923 |
9 | "Bivouac of the Dead" - music by John I.
White |
1889-1994 |
10 | "Blood on the Saddle" |
1889-1994 |
11 | :Bounty Jumper" - encapsulated |
1889-1994 |
12 | "Brevity is the Soul of Wit" and "On
Keeping it Short" - text and research |
1889-1994 |
13 | Buffalo, wolf, cayote, and burro research |
1889-1994 |
14 | Buffalo, bison, and beefalo research |
1889-1994 |
15 | Buffalo - "Return from Oblivion" and "It
was Inevitable" - text and correspondence |
1889-1994 |
16 | "Busted Cowboy's Christmas" - text and
correspondence |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - C, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 14
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Calendar - Exxon - "That Amazing
Contrivance The Calendar" |
1981 |
2 | Calendar - Exxon - "Rivers of America" |
1982 |
3 | Calendar - "A Birthday for Our Calendar" |
1889-1994 |
4 | Cattle Breeding |
1889-1994 |
5 |
Chatham
Journal and New Vernon News - 4
600 word pieces |
1889-1994 |
6 | Chatham, New Jersey - Creative Chathams -
newspaper clippings |
1889-1994 |
7 | Chisolm Trail paper delivered to American
Fork Society |
1976 |
8 | Chisolm Trail - "A Song of Cowboy Life" |
1889-1994 |
9 | "Chisolm Trail" - song |
1889-1994 |
10 | Cowboy - Song Reprints |
1889-1994 |
11 | Cowboy - Singing to the Herd |
1889-1994 |
12 | Cowboy - Llibrary of Congress: The
American Cowboy exhibit |
1889-1994 |
13 | Cowboy - "Marvels of the New West" by
William Thayer - Chapter on cowboys and stockraising |
1889 |
14 | Cowboy - general information and research |
1889-1994 |
15 | Cowboy - hall of fame |
1889-1994 |
16 | Cowboy - newspaper clippings and articles |
1889-1994 |
17 | Cowboy - obituaries |
1889-1994 |
18 | Cowboy - personal notes |
1889-1994 |
19 | "Miss Cunningham's Shadow" -
correspondence, research, and text |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - D, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 15
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Dalhart, Vernon |
1889-1994 |
2 | Dalhart, Vernon |
1889-1994 |
3 | Deals with the Devil |
1889-1994 |
4 | Death Valley Days - Pacific Coast Borax
Co. booklet |
1931 |
5 | Death Valley Days - Pacific Coast Borax
Co. booklet |
1931 |
6 | Death Valley Days - Pacific Coast Borax
Co. "Better Ways to Wash & Clean" pamphlet |
1889-1994 |
7 | Death Valley Days - Hauling 20 mule team
Borax puzzle - Pacific Coast Borax Co. |
1933 |
8 | Death Valley Days - tourist pamphlet |
1931 |
9 |
Death Valley Tales as told by the Old
Ranger
|
1934 |
10 |
Old Ranger's Yarns of Death Valley
|
1930-1939 |
11 |
Old Ranger's Yarns of Death Valley
|
1930-1939 |
12 |
Old Ranger's Yarns of Death Valley
|
1930-1939 |
13 | Death Valley Days - script - "The World's
Biggest Job" |
1935 April 11 |
14 | Death Valley Days - script - "The World's
Biggest Job" |
1935 April 11 |
15 | Death Valley Days - 2nd-6th series |
1889-1994 |
16 | Death Valley Days - picture sheet |
1889-1994 |
17 | Death Valley Days - NBC Artist Passes |
1889-1994 |
18 | Death Valley Days - NBC Studio Notes |
1933 |
19 | Death Valley Days - Lonesome Cowboy
newspaper clippings |
1889-1994 |
20 | Death Valley Days - ads for The Lonesome Cowboy songs of the Plains and
Hills
|
1889-1994 |
21 | Dogies - origins of the term |
1889-1994 |
22 | Duryea, Frank - Thanksgiving Day race |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - F, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 16
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Fillers: 80-150 words |
1889-1994 |
2 | Fletcher, Curly |
1889-1994 |
3 | Fletcher, Tex |
1889-1994 |
4 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
Elko |
1993 |
5 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
Elko |
1994 |
6 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
Middletown Folk Festival |
1973 |
7 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
National Folk Festival |
1966 May |
8 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
club dates for singing performances |
1889-1994 |
9 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
University of Illinois |
1965-1966 |
10 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
"An Evening of Western Song with J.I.W" |
1889-1994 |
11 | Folk Festivals/Cowboy Poetry Gatherings -
Wickenburg Cowboy Poetry Gathering |
1990 |
12 | Folk Music - Singers research |
1889-1994 |
13 | Folk Music - Singers research |
1889-1994 |
14 | Fort Apache - "Adventures at Ft. Apache" -
correspondence and research |
1889-1994 |
15 | Fort Apache - Maps |
1889-1994 |
16 | Fort Stevens - Washington D.C. |
1889-1994 |
17 | Fort Stevens - newspaper clippings |
1889-1994 |
18 | Fort Stevens |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - G, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 17
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | General Drafting Co. |
1889-1994 |
2 | "Giant's Glen" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
3 | "Grass of Uncle Sam" - correspondence
about |
1889-1994 |
4 | "Grass of Uncle Sam" - articles, notes,
and words to |
1889-1994 |
5 | Grasshopper Plows |
1889-1994 |
6 | "Great Grandma" - articles about |
1889-1994 |
7 | "Great Grandma" - publication of the song |
1889-1994 |
8 | "Great Grandma" - correspondence and
article |
1889-1994 |
9 | "Green Chiffon" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
10 | Guion, David |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - H-J, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 18
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Hall, Myra - article "Cowboy Ballads"
published in Kansas Historical Quarterly
|
1939 February |
2 | Hall, Sharlot M. - "Songs of the Old
Cattle Trails," "Old Range Days," and "New in Arizona" from Outwest
|
1908 March |
3 | "He Rode for Independence" - article about
Caesar Rodney |
1889-1994 |
4 | "A Hero Returns" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
5 | "High Jinks in the Rockies" - article
about John T. O'Keefe |
1889-1994 |
6 | "Home on the Range" - (words 1876) and
"Where the Deer and the Antelope Play" - by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
7 | "Home on the Range" - The Story of Home on the Range pamphlet by
Kirke Mecham |
1889-1994 |
8 | "Home on the Range" - Trailing a Ballad
Frontier Times
|
1935 April |
9 | "Home on the Range" -
controversy-correspondence |
1889-1994 |
10 | "Home on the Range" -
controversy-correspondence |
1889-1994 |
11 | "Home on the Range" - correspondence
regarding article by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
12 | "Home on the Range" - correspondence |
1889-1994 |
13 | "Home on the Range" - diary/notes of visit
with Jerry Vogel |
1889-1994 |
14 | "Home on the Range" - research notes |
1889-1994 |
15 | "Home on the Range" - research notes |
1889-1994 |
16 | Homesteading-Timber Act |
1889-1994 |
17 | Homestead research |
1889-1994 |
18 | Homestead - "Home Sweet Homestead" and
"Little Sod Shanty on the Plain" - correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
19 | Homestead - "Home Sweet Homestead" by
Daniel Freeman |
1889-1994 |
20 | Homestead - "When Land was Free in the
West" |
1889-1994 |
21 | "I Want to be a Cowboy" - parody on "I
Want to be an Angel" |
1889-1994 |
22 | Inventions in the West |
1889-1994 |
23 | "Jackpot" - play by John I. White - Univac
Picks Horses newspaper clippings |
1959 |
24 | "Jackpot" - play by John I. White - Univac
Picks Horses newspaper clippings |
1959 |
Subject Files - K-Longhorns, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 19
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Kiskaddon, Bruce - "The Brandin' Corral"
and "Pullin' Bog" |
1889-1994 |
2 | Language of the West |
1889-1994 |
3 | "Last Day with the Dogies" -
correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
4 | Last Great Roundup |
1889-1994 |
5 | Leadbelly - newspaper clippings about his
marriage and refrain to "Whoa Back Buda" sung by Leadbelly |
1935 January 4 |
6 | Leutze, Emanuel - note cards for paintings |
1889-1994 |
7 | Leutze, Emanuel - notes on paintings and
correspondence |
1889-1994 |
8 | "Liberty Bells Galore" |
1889-1994 |
9 | Longhorn - "Return of the Fabulous Texas
Longhorn" |
1889-1994 |
10 | Longhorn - "Return of the Fabulous Texas
Longhorn" - published in Highlights for
Children - correspondence |
1974 November |
11 | Longhorn - "Report on a Rescue" -
correspondence and text - published in American
Heritage
|
1972 |
12 | Longhorn - "The Longhorns Saved the Day" |
1889-1994 |
13 | Longhorn - "The Texas Longhorns Make a
Comeback" - correspondence |
1889-1994 |
14 | Longhorn - "The Texas Longhorns Make a
Comeback" - research and text |
1889-1994 |
15 | Longhorn - correspondence on longhorns |
1889-1994 |
16 | Longhorn - Trail Herding File |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - M, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 20
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | "The Martians Are Coming" |
1889-1994 |
2 | Master Copies of John I. White articles -
"A Cowboy Poet" (about D.J. O'Malley) |
1889-1994 |
3 | Master Copy - "And That's How a Folksong
was Born" (about Romaine Lowdermilk) |
1889-1994 |
4 | Master Copy - "Assist for a Fallen Hero"
(about Mark Twain) |
1889-1994 |
5 | Master Copy - "Will C. Barnes also a Song
Plugger" |
1889-1994 |
6 | Master Copy - "A Busted Cowboy's
Christmas" |
1889-1994 |
7 | Master Copy - "Badger Clark" |
1889-1994 |
8 | Master Copy - "The Ford-Seldon Patent
Squabble" |
1889-1994 |
9 | Master Copy - "The Father of the
Automobile" |
1889-1994 |
10 | Master Copy - "Gail Gardner-Cowboy Poet
Lariat" |
1889-1994 |
11 | Master Copy - "Great Grandad the Story of
a Song" |
1889-1994 |
12 | Master Copy - "Great Grandma" |
1889-1994 |
13 | Master Copy - "Happiness was an Eight
Sided House" |
1889-1994 |
14 | Master Copy - "Home on the Range
Controversy Settled" |
1889-1994 |
15 | Master Copy - "Move Slow Dogies" |
1889-1994 |
16 | Master Copy - Notes and Queries |
1889-1994 |
17 | Master Copy - "Red Carpet for a Romanov" |
1889-1994 |
18 | Master Copy - "Return of the Fabulous
Texas Longhorn" |
1889-1994 |
19 | Master Copy - "The Strange Career of the
Strawberry Roan" |
1889-1994 |
20 | Master Copy - "That Zenith of Architecture
- The Soddy" |
1889-1994 |
21 | Master Copy - "The Ups and Downs of the
Zipper" |
1889-1994 |
22 | Master Copy - "The Virginian" |
1889-1994 |
23 | Master Copy - "Owen Wister and the Dogies" |
1889-1994 |
24 | Master Copy - "Zebra Dun" |
1889-1994 |
25 | Master Copy - List of Published Magazine
Articles |
1889-1994 |
26 | Military History - Indian Wars |
1889-1994 |
27 | Miscellaneous - Western Pamphlets |
1889-1994 |
28 | Miscellaneous - Old Songs |
1889-1994 |
29 | Miscellaneous - stories by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
30 | Murray, Arthur - "It Takes Two to Tango" -
newspaper clippings on dance fraud |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - Octagon House, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 21
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Octagon House - reference material |
1889-1994 |
2 | Octagon House - reference material |
1889-1994 |
3 | Octagon House - pamphlets and brochures |
1889-1994 |
4 | Octagon House - photos
Photos have been removed to create the Jon I. White photograph collection
(P0037)
|
1889-1994 |
5 | Octagon House - correspondence |
1889-1994 |
6 | Octagon House - Michigan |
1889-1994 |
7 | Octagon House - New England |
1889-1994 |
8 | Octagon House - "Happiness was an Eight
Sided House" - correspondence and text published in Pen
|
1973 April |
9 | Octagon Houses - Connecticut - published
in Yankee - "Happiness was an Eight
Sided House" |
1973 November |
10 | Octagon Houses - Connecticut - published
in Yankee - "Happiness was an Eight
Sided House" |
1973 November |
11 | Octagon House - "Happiness was a House
with Eight Sides" - children's version - correspndence and text |
1889-1994 |
12 | Octagon House - "Living in an Octagon" -
for textbook |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - O-P, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 22
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Ostrich farming in the U.S. |
1889-1994 |
2 | Ostrich farming in the U.S. - Cawston
Ostrich Farm |
1889-1994 |
3 | Ostrich farming in the U.S. - reference
material - John I. White text |
1889-1994 |
4 | Ostrich farming in the U.S. - reference
material - John I. White text |
1889-1994 |
5 | Ostrich farming in the U.S. - reference
material - John I. White text |
1889-1994 |
6 | Ostrich farming in the U.S. - reference
material - John I. White text |
1889-1994 |
7 | New Jersey Corral of Westerners -
correspondence and newsletters |
1889-1994 |
8 | "No More Sleep" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
9 | "Pages from a Nebraska Album" - text and
correspondence |
1889-1994 |
10 | "Oh Come Along Boys and Listen to my Tale"
- suggested book |
1889-1994 |
11 | "Oh Come Along Boys and Listen to my Tale"
- suggested book |
1889-1994 |
12 | Permissions |
1889-1994 |
13 | Presidents |
1889-1994 |
14 | "Pushbutton Parking" - Parking Towers -
research information and text |
1889-1994 |
15 | "Get Yourself a Pretzel Factory" - idea
for an article |
1970 September 21 |
Subject Files - R, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 23
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | "The Railroad Corral" - published in Cobblestone
|
1982 June |
2 | "Red Carpet for a Romanov" - published in
The American West - correspondence,
research, and text |
1972 January |
3 | Requests for Photographs |
1889-1994 |
4 | "Rhyme on the Ranges" - John I. White
reprinted from America Speech
|
1927 July |
5 | Rodeo |
1889-1994 |
6 | Rogers, James Grafton |
1889-1994 |
7 | "Royal Gorge" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
8 | "Royal Gorge" - play by John I. White |
1889-1994 |
9 | "Russia's Floating Saucers" - The State - text, correspondence, and
research |
1979 September |
10 | Russel, Charles M. |
1889-1994 |
11 | Russel, Charles M. - newspaper clippings |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - Sod Houses, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 24
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Sod Houses - correspondence |
1889-1994 |
2 | Sod Houses - correspondence |
1889-1994 |
3 | Sod Houses - reference material |
1889-1994 |
4 | Sod Houses - "How Prairie Pioneers Built
their Houses" |
1889-1994 |
5 | Sod Houses - "Sod Houses on the Prairie" |
1889-1994 |
6 | Sod Houses - "The Windows Have No Glass"
and "The Little Sod Shanty on the Plain" - correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
7 | Sod Houses - "And the Windows Have No
Glass" - American History Illustrated
|
1986 January |
8 | Sod Houses - "Little Old Sod Shanty" -
notes on the song |
1889-1994 |
9 | Sod Houses - "Little Old Sod Shanty" |
1889-1994 |
10 | Sod Houses - "The Little Old Sod Shanty on
the Claim" - information on the song |
1889-1994 |
11 | Sod Houses - "Happiness was a Sod House" |
1889-1994 |
12 | Sod Houses - "When Happiness was a Sod
House" - correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
13 | Sod Houses - "When Happiness was a Sod
House" - George White Soddy captions |
1889-1994 |
14 | Sod Houses - "When Happiness was a Soddy" |
1889-1994 |
15 | Sod Houses - "Sod House in America" |
1889-1994 |
16 | Sod Houses - Sod House in Canada -
research and writings |
1889-1994 |
17 | Sod Houses - Rammed Earth Houses |
1889-1994 |
18 | Sod Houses - "Prairie Schoolhouse" -
correspondence and text published in NRTA
Journal
|
1971 January/February |
19 | Sod Houses - Sod Schoolhouses |
1889-1994 |
20 | Sod Houses - J.C. Cram soddy |
1889-1994 |
21 | Sod Houses - Harry Chrisman -
correspondence about sod houses |
1889-1994 |
22 | Sod Houses - "On the Lone Prairie" -
Chrisman Girls |
1889-1994 |
23 | Sod Houses - "On the Lone Prairie" and
"American Girls: Prairie Style" - correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
24 | Sod Houses - "American Girl" -
correspondence with Scott Foresman Co. |
1889-1994 |
25 | Sod Houses - Two Story Sod House Built by
Isidore Haumont |
1889-1994 |
26 | Sod Houses - "The Sod House on the
Prairie" - children's book |
1889-1994 |
27 | Sod Houses - "The Sod House on the
Prairie" - illustrative material |
1889-1994 |
28 | Sod Houses - "The Sod House on the
Prairie" - John I. White's sketches |
1889-1994 |
29 | Sod Houses - Sod House Illustrations |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - S-U, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 25
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | "She was Beautiful" - play by John I.
White |
1889-1994 |
2 | Sheet Music: Cowboy Songs - Red River
Valley, Old Paint, Home on the Range, The Tenderfoot, Greer County, and
Lane County Bachelor |
1889-1994 |
3 | "Shoeing a Broncho" - submitted to The American West
|
1977 |
4 | Sidelights on American History - book
project correspondence |
1889-1994 |
5 | "Singin' to 'Em" |
1889-1994 |
6 | Skits |
1889-1994 |
7 | Songs of Open Spaces - book layout |
1889-1994 |
8 | Songs of Open Spaces - finished manuscript |
1889-1994 |
9 | Songs of Open Spaces - raw song material |
1889-1994 |
10 | Songs of Open Spaces - material ready for
typing |
1889-1994 |
11 | Spanish Prisoner Racket |
1889-1994 |
12 | Sprague, Carl T. |
1985 November |
13 | Standard Time - "It's About Time" - Presbyterian Survey
|
1889-1994 |
14 | Standard Time - "A Hitch in Time" -
research |
1889-1994 |
15 | Stanley, Clark |
1889-1994 |
16 | Steamboats - "Steam Comes to Ol' Man
River" |
1889-1994 |
17 | Stephens, Harry |
1889-1994 |
18 | Thanksgiving - "Gobblers in Double
Jeopardy" |
1889-1994 |
19 | Thorp, N. Howard (Jack) |
1889-1994 |
20 | "Three Centuries on the Bottom" - It
Really Happened Believe Me! |
1889-1994 |
21 | Twain, Mark - correspondence about photos |
1889-1994 |
22 | Twain, Mark - "Assist for a Fallen Hero" -
correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
23 | "Two Famous Songs of the Southwest" - The
Strawberry Roan and Zebra Dun |
1889-1994 |
24 | "Two Pioneer Collectors" - Lomax and Thorp |
1889-1994 |
25 | University of Illinois Press publications |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - W, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 26
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Washington D.C. - plans and history |
1889-1994 |
2 | Washington, George - "The First President
Tours the South" |
1889-1994 |
3 | Washington, George - "George Washington
and the Calendar" - Old Farmer's Almanac
- text and correspondence |
1889-1994 |
4 | Washington, George - G.W. Once Changed it
Himself" - Grain Producers News
|
1978 September |
5 | Washington, George - "The First President
Takes a Trip" - Highlights for Children
- correspondence, maps, and text |
1889-1994 |
6 | Western History Association |
1889-1994 |
7 | Western Files - miscellaneous - "Where Did
Those Cowboy Songs Come From" - article |
1889-1936 |
8 | Western Photographs, correspondence, and
captions |
1889-1994 |
9 | Western Towns Looking for a Past -
articles |
1889-1994 |
10 | Where to find more songs, records, and
books |
1889-1994 |
11 | Where to find more songs, records, and
books |
1889-1994 |
12 | Wells Fargo and Pony Express - research |
1889-1994 |
13 | "Who Said It?" - research on quotes and
text |
1889-1994 |
14 | "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" - article |
1889-1994 |
15 | "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" - correspondence and
notes |
1889-1994 |
16 | "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" - Owen Wister and the
Dogies |
1889-1994 |
17 | Wild Horses - research |
1889-1994 |
18 | Winchester - "Song of the Winchester" |
1889-1994 |
19 | Women in Politics - "Gentlemen Move Over"
- research, text, and correspondence |
1889-1994 |
20 | Women in Politics - "Uncles Sam's
Daughters in Politics" |
1889-1994 |
Subject Files - Wister, Owen, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 27
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Wister, Owen - "Owen Wister, Song Writer" |
1889-1994 |
2 | Wister, Owen - "Owen Wister, Song Writer" |
1889-1994 |
3 | Wister, Owen - "Git Along Little Dogies" -
Owen Wister and the Dogies |
1889-1994 |
4 | Wister, Owen - correspondence - Owen
Wister to John I. White |
1934 |
5 | Wister, Owen - correspondence with Mrs.
Stokes (Fanny Kemble Wister) |
1889-1994 |
6 | Wister, Owen - Stage version of The Virginian
|
1889-1994 |
7 | Wister, Owen - The Top Ten bestsellers of
1902 and what happened to them |
1902 |
8 | Wister, Owen - Underwoods Deviled Ham ad |
1889-1994 |
9 | Wister, Owen - "When You Call me that
Smile!" - correspondence between John I. White and John S. Mayfield |
1966-1969 |
10 | Wister, Owen - Owen Wister Humorist |
1889-1994 |
11 | Wister, Owen - Owen Wister Humorist |
1889-1994 |
12 | Wister, Owen - The American West - "The Virginian" |
1970 September |
13 | Wister, Owen - "The Virginian" - Montana
|
1966 October |
14 | Wister, Owen - N. Orwin Rush data |
1889-1994 |
15 | Wister, Owen - Owen Wister - by Richard W. Etulain - Western Writers Series
#7 - Boise State |
1973 |
Subject Files - Z, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 28
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | The Zebra Dun |
1889-1994 |
2 | The Zebra Dun - research and text |
1889-1994 |
3 | Theh Zebra Dun - correspondence |
1889-1994 |
4 | Zipper - "It Took Twenty Years: The Ups
and Downs of the Zipper" - correspondence and text |
1889-1994 |
Git Along Little Dogies , 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 29
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Publicity |
1889-1994 |
2 | Publicity - sent to press, libraries, and
bookstores |
1889-1994 |
3 | Advertising |
1889-1994 |
4 | Picture Captions |
1889-1994 |
5 | Book Reviews |
1889-1994 |
6 | Spares (for distribution) |
1889-1994 |
Git Along Little Dogies , 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 30
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Notes for book of cowboy songs proposed to
University of Illinois Press |
1971 |
2 | Layout |
1889-1994 |
3 | John I. White discography |
1889-1994 |
4 | Death Valley Days radio material for
introduction |
1889-1994 |
5 | Corrections and Changes in response to
comments and criticisms from readers |
1973 June 30 |
6 | Introduction to book (playlist songs sung
on Death Valley Days) |
1889-1994 |
7 | Editor's last minute queries |
1889-1994 |
8 | "Home on the Range" chapter |
1889-1994 |
9 | Reviews |
1889-1994 |
10 | Galleys |
1889-1994 |
11 | Galleys |
1889-1994 |
Page Proofs/Caption Proofs, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 31
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | D.J. "Kid" O'Malley - Montana's Cowboy
Poet - Montana
|
July 1967 |
2 | Notes for White - Just for the Record -
ch. 1-19 |
1889-1994 |
3 | Introduction - Just for the Record |
1889-1994 |
4 | "Git Along Little Dogies" |
1889-1994 |
5 | "Owen Wister, Songwriter" |
1889-1994 |
6 | ":ast Days with the Dogies" and "Curious
History of 'The Railroad Corral'" |
1889-1994 |
7 | "Singin' to 'em" |
1889-1994 |
8 | "Move Slow, Dogies, Move Slow" |
1889-1994 |
9 | Will Barnes and "The Cowboy's Sweet Bye
and Bye" |
1889-1994 |
10 | "The Grass of Uncle Sam" |
1889-1994 |
11 | "And That's How a Folksong was Born" |
1889-1994 |
12 | "Gail Gardner Cowboy Poet Lariat" |
1889-1994 |
13 | "Badger Clark Poet of Yesterday's West" |
1889-1994 |
14 | "The Strange Career of the Strawberry
Roan" |
1889-1994 |
15 | "The Zebra Dun" |
1889-1994 |
16 | "Where the Deer and the Antelope Play" |
1889-1994 |
17 | "The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim" |
1889-1994 |
18 | "Great Grandad" |
1889-1994 |
19 | "Great Grandma" |
1889-1994 |
20 | "Carl T. Spraque, Singing Cowboy" |
1889-1994 |
21 | "Two Pioneers Collectors of Western Songs" |
1889-1994 |
22 | "A John White Discography" |
1889-1994 |
23 | "Where to Find More Western Songs" |
1889-1994 |
24 | Appendix A - "Where to Find More Western
Songs" |
1889-1994 |
Photos and Cartoons used in Git Along Little Dogies - and spares not used, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 32
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
1 | Singing to 'em - N.C. Wyeth |
1889-1994 |
2 | Move Slow, Dogies, Move Slow |
1889-1994 |
3 | The Grass of Uncle Sam |
1889-1994 |
4 | The Strange Career of the Strawberry Roan |
1889-1994 |
5 | Clark |
1889-1994 |
6 | Zebra Dun |
1889-1994 |
7 | Will Barnes - The Cowboy's Sweet Bye and
Bye |
1889-1994 |
8 | Introduction - Photos of John I. White,
Lowdermilk, and Death Valley |
1889-1994 |
9 | Introduction - Cartoons |
1889-1994 |
10 | Git Along Little Dogies |
1889-1994 |
11 | Where the Deer and the Antelope Play |
1889-1994 |
12 | Gail Gardner, Cowboy Poet Lariat |
1889-1994 |
13 | And That's How a folksong was Born |
1889-1994 |
14 | Two Pioneer Collectors |
1889-1994 |
15 | Great Grandma |
1889-1994 |
16 | Great Grandad |
1889-1994 |
17 | Sprague |
1889-1994 |
18 | The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim |
1889-1994 |
19 | Last Day With the Longhorns - The Railroad
Corral |
1889-1994 |
20 | O'Malley |
1889-1994 |
Old Issues of the Stock Growers Journal - (1889-1893) Miles City, Montana - and special Golden Jubilee (May 24, 1934) - In addition, there are additional copies of some John I. White artticles, 1889-1934Return to Top
Container(s): Box 33
File of 3x5 cards containing information on songs, biographies of selected song writers, Western books, sheet music, and other printed materials on songs, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 34
Plaques, 1860-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 35
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
New Jersey Folk Festival award fro
distinguished contributions in folk music |
1984 | |
Highlights for
Children patriotic featureof the year - "A Presidential Quiz" |
1986 February | |
Banner for John I. White display at the
Elko Cowboy Poetry gathering |
1994 |
John I. White's cowboy hat, 1889-1994Return to Top
Container(s): Box 36
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Country music -- History -- History -- Sources.
- Cowboys -- Songs and music -- History -- Sources.
- Death Valley Days (Radio program)
- Folk music -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
- Folk musicians -- Records and correspondence.
- Radio actors and actresses -- Records and correspondence.
Personal Names
- Barnes, Will C. (Will Croft), 1858-1936 correspondent.
- Clark, Badger, 1883-1957 correspondent.
- Fife, Austin E. correspondent.
- Gardner, Gail I., b. 1892 correspondent.
- Lee, Jack H. correspondent.
- Lowdermilk, Romaine. correspondent.
- O'Malley, Dominick John, 1867-1943 correspondent.
- White, John I. (John Irwin), 1902- -- Records and correspondence.
Corporate Names
- Utah State University. Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.