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Hack Miller papers, 1937-1996
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Miller, Hack
- Title
- Hack Miller papers
- Dates
- 1937-1996 (inclusive)19371996
- Quantity
- 14.5 linear feet
- Collection Number
- ACCN 1678
- Summary
- The Hack Miller papers (1937-1996) contain newspaper articles, magazine stories, trip diaries, office files, and correspondence pertaining to the career of this Utah journalist.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Harold "Hack" Guest Miller (1915-1998), better known in the newpaper and sports world as Hack Miller, was born in Salt Lake City Utah to Austin Porter Miller, and Mary Jane Guest Miller. He began writing for the Deseret News in 1934, and continued his column there until 1978. Hack earned his Doctorate in Jurisprudence at the University of Utah, and served in World War II as a buck private. After his return from the European front, he rejoined the Deseret News as Managing Editor, eventually becoming their Sports Editor as well as a feature writer. He was the first reporter to to feature a live sports spot in Utah on KSL, and later on KTVX. He extended his television work to the A.M. series in California, where he leatured on various countries he visited, including Russia, Siberia, Vietnam, and Morocco (where he played golf with King Hussein.) Hack Miller covered six Olympic Games, and was on the Utah Symphony;s 15-nation Latin American Trip. He was the first news reporter to interview President Nixon after Nixon's resignation. In addition, he covered the World Series, and many NFL games as well as golf tournaments. He retired from the Deseret News in 1978, and served an LDS mission in New York City with his wife of many years, Barbara Cannon.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Hack Miller papers (1937-1996) is mostly sports-related, although there are scatter articles about World War II and the Vietnam conflict. Also included are articles concerning the Olympics, including the unsuccessful bid by Salt Lake City for the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Skiing in UtahReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Articles by Hack Miller and Other Authors |
1968-1981 |
| 1 | 2-3 | Utah Ski Articles |
1940-1965 |
| 1 | 4 | Jean-Claude Kelly in Utah |
1968 |
| 1 | 5 | Wasatch Mountain Club-Ski History |
1945 |
BoxingReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 2 | 1-13 | Gene Fullmer Boxing Articles |
1957-1964 |
| 3 | 1-9 | Gene Fullmer Boxing Articles |
1957-1964 |
| 3 | 10 | Gene Fullmer Book |
|
| 3 | 11 | Rex Layne Boxing Articles |
1950-1962 |
| 4 | 1 | Jack Dempsey Articles |
1962-1964 |
| 4 | 2 | Boxing Hall of Fame: Jack Dempsey |
|
| 4 | 3 |
West Jordan Athletic Commisson's Boxing and Wrestling Rules
|
1954 |
| 4 | 4 | Clay versus Patterson |
1965 |
| 4 | 5 | Maxim versus Moore |
1953 |
| 4 | 6 | Boxing, General |
1961-1975 |
| 4 | 7 | Maxim versus Charles |
1951 |
| 4 | 8 | Don Fullmer Fight Data |
1966 |
| 4 | 9 | General Boxing Articles |
1963-1973 |
Basketball and FootballReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 5 | 1 | Deseret Simplots |
1946 |
| 5 | 2 | Dixie Basketball Classic |
1956 |
| 5 | 3 | USWBA (United States Writers of Basketball Association) |
1961 |
| 5 | 4-13 | NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Basketball Tournament |
1947-1979 |
| 5 | 14 | Lee Grouseup |
1961-1965 |
| 5 | 15-17 | NIT (National Invitation Tournament) |
1948-1970 |
| 5 | 18 | Famous Utah Basketball Coaches |
1961-1970 |
| 5 | 19 | University of Utah Basketball |
1949 |
| 5 | 20 | NCAA Basketball Bribery Scandal |
1961-1962 |
| 5 | 21 | Jack Gardner |
1968 |
| 6 | 1 | Billy McGill Controversy |
1962 |
| 6 | 2 | Basketball Hall of Fame |
1950 |
| 6 | 3 | Racial Issues in BYU Basketball |
1969 |
| 6 | 4 | Allen Holmes: Basketball Under Hypnosis |
|
| 6 | 5 | Barry Epstein Probation Case |
1963 |
| 6 | 6 | Basketball in General |
1953-1967 |
| 6 | 7 | Basketball Hall of Fame |
1964 |
| 6 | 8 | Utah Stars Basketball |
1971-1974 |
| 6 | 9 | Football Bowl Games |
1959-1976 |
| 6 | 10 | Liberty Bowl
v
|
1964 |
| 6 | 11 | University of Utah Football Coach Mike Giddings |
1967 |
| 6 | 12 | WAC (Western Athletic Conference) Bowl Games |
1961-1977 |
| 6 | 13 | High School Sports |
1973-1976 |
| 6 | 14 | People in Football and Basketball |
1967-1977 |
| 7 | 1-4 | Hack Miller Columns |
1951-1977 |
TripsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 8 | 1 | Russell Frazier expedition to South Pole |
1957 |
| 8 | 2-3 | Yellowstone by Snow-Plane |
1957 |
| 8 | 4 | Snowmobile Trips |
1957-1965 |
| 8 | 5 | Montana Trip and Earthquake |
1959 |
| 8 | 6 | Washington D.C |
1960 |
| 8 | 7 | World Fair Seattle |
1962 |
| 8 | 8 | Travel Articles |
1964-1977 |
| 9 | 1 | Letter of Permission to Visit Vietnam |
1965 |
| 9 | 2 | The First Trip to Vietnam |
|
| 9 | 3 | Vietnam Trip- Pictures and Letters |
|
| 9 | 4-6 | Columns from Vietnam |
1965-1966 |
| 10 | 1 | North Pole by Snowmobile |
1968 |
| 10 | 2 | Centennial Train Ride |
1969 |
| 10 | 3-5 | Siberia Trip |
1970 |
| 10 | 6 | Extra Newsprint of Siberia |
|
| 10 | 7 | Siberia, Log and Diary |
|
| 10 | 8 | Utah Symphony in Latin America, |
1971 |
| 10 | 9 | Green River Trip |
1971 |
| 10 | 10-11 | Russia |
1972 |
| 10 | 12 | Guatemala |
1973 |
| 10 | 13 | San Simeon |
1973 |
| 10 | 14 | BYU Basketball team in Italy |
1974 |
| 10 | 15 | Petra |
1978 |
| 10 | 16 | Parley's Canyon Railroad |
|
| 10 | 17 | Japan |
|
| 10 | 18 | Hole in the Rock-Lake Powell |
Utah Figures and LoreReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 11 | 1-5 | Lowell Thomas |
|
| 12 | 1-5 | Lowell Thomas |
|
| 13 | 1 | Philo T. Farnsworth |
1986 |
| 13 | 2 | Yeti |
194 |
| 13 | 3 | Robert Redford: Downhill Racer |
|
| 13 | 4 | David O'Mckay |
1970 |
| 13 | 5 | George Von Elm |
|
| 13 | 6-7 | Johnny Miller |
|
| 13 | 8 | Ben Hogan |
1997 |
| 13 | 9 | Utah Sports Cartoons |
1961-1977 |
| 13 | 10 | Hack Miller Nostalgia |
|
| 13 | 11 | Retirement of Les Goates |
|
| 13 | 12 | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer in Salt Lake City |
1981 |
| 13 | 13 | Colorado River Lore |
1940 |
| 13 | 14 | Southern Utah Lore |
1923 |
| 13 | 15 | Deseret News Personnel |
1968-1976 |
| 13 | 16-17 | Extra Copies of Vietnam Columns |
|
| 13 | 18-19 | Articles by Hack Miller in other publications |
|
| 13 | 20 | Granite High School Reunion |
1980 |
SportsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 14 | 1 | Judo National Tournament |
1967 |
| 14 | 2 | Auto Racing |
1962-1976 |
| 14 | 3 | Ice Hockey |
1971-1975 |
| 14 | 4 | Utah Baseball |
1958-1976 |
| 14 | 6-7 | Baseball-General |
1960-1973 |
| 14 | 8 | Dizzy Dean |
1971 |
| 14 | 9 | University of Utah Women's Swimming |
1964-1976 |
| 14 | 10 | University of Utah Athletics |
1960-1973 |
| 14 | 11 | NCAA Track and Field |
1962-1977 |
| 14 | 12 | Track and Field |
1964 |
| 14 | 13 | Snowmobiling |
1965-1973 |
| 14 | 14 | Volleyball |
1960 |
| 14 | 15 | Wrestling |
1969-1977 |
| 15 | 1-2 | Outdoors, Wildlife |
|
| 15 | 3-4 | Outdoors, Fish and Game |
|
| 15 | 5-6 | Outdoors, General |
|
| 15 | 7 | Outdoors, Columns |
|
| 15 | 8 | Browning Gun History |
|
| 15 | 9-10 | Everett Thorpe Drawings |
|
| 15 | 11 | General Articles |
1946-1953 |
| 16 | 1-2 | General Articles |
1947-1948; 1952 |
| 16 | 3-4 | Rod and Gun |
1937-1978 |
General MaterialsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 17 | 1-6 | Olympic Articles |
1960-1976 |
| 17 | 7 | Salt Lake City and Denver Bid for Winter Olympics |
1976 |
| 17 | 8 |
Salt Lake Tribune Front Page |
1941 |
| 17 | 9 | World War II Newspapers |
|
| 17 | 10-11 | General Materials |
ArticlesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 18 | 1 |
Rod and Gun
|
1937-1941 |
| 18 | 2 | Apollo Moon Landing |
1969 |
| 18 | 3 | Articles Collected by Pauline Miller |
|
| 18 | 4 | Yellowstone Park |
1948 |
| 18 | 5-7 | Fishing |
1947-1960 |
| 18 | 8-9 | Vietnam Articles |
|
| 18 | 10 | Vietnam Back Drops |
|
| 19 | 1-2 | Articles |
1947-1949 |
| 19 | 3 | Great History in Sports |
1954-1966 |
| 19 | 4 | Playbills from Broadway Shows |
OlympicsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 20 | 1 | Olympic Columns |
1959-1986 |
| 20 | 2 | Squaw Valley Olympics |
1960 |
| 20 | 3 | Grenoble Olympics Columns, Brochures, and DuPont Letter |
1968 |
| 20 | 4 | Grenoble Olympics Brochures |
1968 |
| 20 | 5 | Mexico City Olympics
Official Game Results.
|
1968 |
| 20 | 6 | Sapporo Olympics
Brochure and ephemera.
|
1972 |
| 20 | 7 | Sapporo Olympics, Brochures and Columns |
1972 |
| 20 | 8 | Munich Olympics, Brochures and Original Manuscript |
1972 |
| 20 | 9 | Innsbruck Olympics |
1976 |
| 21 | 1 | Montreal Olympics |
1976 |
| 21 | 2 | Montreal Olympics, Brochures |
1976 |
| 21 | 3 | Montreal Olympics Brochures and Articles |
1976 |
| 21 | 4 | Salt Lake City Olympic Bids, Columns and Correspondence |
1962-1991 |
GolfReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 21 | 5 | The 49th PGA Championship Brochure |
|
| 21 | 6 | The 66th USGA Open Championship Brochure |
1966 |
| 21 | 7 | The 74th United States Open Brochure |
1974 |
| 21 | 8 | Billy Casper Magazine Articles |
1966; 1976 |
| 22 | 1 | Sahara Invitational Columns |
1961-1970 |
| 22 | 2 | Masters Columns |
1973-1977 |
| 22 | 3 | Utah Open, Papers and Columns |
1953-1971 |
| 22 | 4 | US Open Columns |
|
| 22 | 5 | Pinehurst Coolumns |
1973 |
| 22 | 6 | Golf Columns |
1953-1977 |
| 22 | 7 | Golf History |
|
| 22 | 8 | Tournament of Champions Brochures |
1953; 1972; 1974-1977 |
| 22 | 9 | Womens' Golf |
1962-1977 |
| 22 | 10 | Miscellaneous Golf Columns Roster |
1965-1972 |
| 22 | 11 | Utah seniors Columns |
1966-1977 |
| 22 | 12 | PGA Tour |
1967 |
Vietnam TripReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | |
| 22 | 13 | Vietnam Columns, Manuscripts, Articles, and Ephemera |
Hunting, Fishing, and MiscellaneousReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 23 | 1 | Fremont and Wondriover Columns |
1963 |
| 23 | 2 | Lake Powell Columns |
1963-1973 |
| 23 | 3 | Rainbow Bridge and Lake Powell Columns and Brochures |
1965-1978 |
| 23 | 4 | Lake Powell Houseboat Columns |
1964-1975 |
| 23 | 5 | River of No Return Columns, Ephemera and Photos |
1945-1947 |
| 23 | 6 | Salmon River Columns: Rod and Gun, Roundabout Magazines |
1938-1963 |
| 23 | 7 | Strawberry Reservoir Columns |
1968-1975 |
| 23 | 8 | Boating Accident with Miller Photos |
1968-1975 |
| 23 | 9 | Yampa River Running Columns |
1937-1977 |
| 23 | 10 | Steelhead Middlefork Columns and Brochure |
1974 |
| 23 | 11 | Windriver, Bridger Wilderness Columns and Letters |
|
| 23 | 12 | Annual Friendship Cruise |
1960; 1975 |
| 23 | 13 | Column Material and Book Columns |
1940s-1977 |
| 23 | 14 | Amethyst Basin Manuscript, Columns |
1952 |
| 23 | 15 | Unitah Lakes Columns |
1948-1956 |
| 23 | 16 | Assorted Fishing Trips and Fishing Treatise |
1974 |
| 23 | 17 | Column Manuscripts |
|
| 23 | 18 | Robert Rice Biography, Columns and Articles |
|
| 23 | 19 | Rice Columns Memos and Rice Brochure
These columns were ghost-written by Hack Miller.
|
1963-1973 |
| 23 | 20 | Hawaii with the U of U Basketball Team |
1956 |
| 23 | 21 | Everet Thorpe Sports Portrait Drawings |
1955-1968 |
| 23 | 22 | Chas Nickerson Cartoons |
1953-1977 |
| 23 | 23 | Wildlife Report and Photos |
1977 |
| 23 | 24 |
Field and Stream Ad |
1936; 1963 |
TravelingReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 24 | 1-2 | Golfing with King Hassen II of Morocco |
1975 |
| 24 | 3 | Golfing with President Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines |
|
| 24 | 4-5 | Vietnam War |
1965 |
| 24 | 6-7 | Skiing in Guatamala |
1964 |
| 24 | 8 | Korea |
1965 |
| 24 | 9 | Fishing in La Paz, Mexico |
1954 |
Fishing and the OutdoorsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 25 | 1 | Writings of the Outdoors |
|
| 25 | 2 | Kissing Deer |
1975 |
| 25 | 3 | General Motors Expedition, Middle Fork of the Salmon River |
1949-1950 |
| 25 | 4-5 | Salmon River |
1938-1939; 1957-1959 |
| 25 | 6 | Salmon River and Middle Fork Seniors |
1970 |
People ArticlesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 26 | 1 | Larry Crosby |
1963 |
| 26 | 2 | John A. Dixon |
1992 |
| 26 | 3 | Russell Frazier |
1940-1971 |
| 26 | 4 | Frazier Expedition |
1934 |
| 26 | 5 | Charley Gibbons |
1963 |
| 26 | 6 | Allen Holmes |
1963 |
| 26 | 7 | Evel Knievel |
1974 |
| 26 | 8 | Lee Liberace |
|
| 26 | 9 | Art Linkletter and Alf Engen |
1968 |
| 26 | 10-11 | Richard Nixon |
1974-1975 |
| 26 | 12 | Julius Stone |
1939-1941 |
| 26 | 13 | Lowell Thomas |
1970-1974 |
General MaterialsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 27 | 1 | Pamphlets of Banquet at Explorers Club |
1979 |
| 27 | 2 |
Looking Back with Hack
|
1981 |
| 27 | 3 | Tintic High School Graduation |
1937 |
| 27 | 4 | Hack Miller's Childhood |
|
| 27 | 5 | Trophies |
1977 |
| 27 | 6 | Writings |
1973-1978 |
| 27 | 7 | Miscellaneous Stories |
1975 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Skis and skiing--Utah--History--Sources
- Sports--Utah--History--Sources
- Sportswriters--Utah--Salt Lake City
Form or Genre Terms
- Articles
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Office files
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Rogers
2007 (last modified: 2019)
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