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Scott Preston Papers, 1976-2007
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Scott Preston Papers
- Dates
- 1976-2007 (inclusive)19762007
- Quantity
- 11 linear feet, (23 boxes)
- Collection Number
- MSS 262
- Summary
- Correspondence, notes, drafts, articles, poems, and other papers documenting Scott Preston's work as writer, publisher, and advocate of cowboy poetry.
- Repository
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Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is available for research.
- Languages
- English
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Scott Preston papers consist of various drafts, published works, correspondence, personal files, and an assortment of cowboy poetry memorabilia. The collection contains all issues of the White Clouds Revue, works of Scott Preston as contained in other anthologies, as well as poetry books published by Preston and his Wind Vein Press.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Although Scott Preston was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Preston's literary career bean after moving to Idaho in 1980. Soon after, Preston began the Wind Vein Press and published his first book of poems called, counting the aerie escalator's steps. The Wind Vein Press printed five issues of Preston's White Clouds Revue as well as anthologies that focused on landscapes and cowboy poetry such as The Trouble with Dreams.
Preston was a prolific writer. For many years, he contributed articles, letters, poems and reviews to The Wood River Journal. Later, he wrote an article called "Potshots" for the paper. Outside of newspaper work, Preston wrote short stories, poems, and literary reviews for many journals.
As a poet, Preston became well known for organizing and performing in community poetry readings. He also participated in the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering for many years.
Preston married Shelly Studley in 1987. We was a father to two children, Sarah McKay and Anneka Preston. Preston passed away in his home in Missoula, Montana on March 21, 2007.
Sources:
Biographical Information found within the collection
Obituary, Idaho Mountain Express, April 11, 2007
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
[item description], Scott Preston Papers, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series 1: Personal Papers, 1969-2007Return to Top
This series includes an unfinished autobiography, newspaper clippings, poems to Shelly Preston, and his personal collection of recordings of poetry. Preston was also a supporter and participant in the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering and his memorabilia from the event is included.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | |||
| 1 | The Redneck Review pin
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| 1 | Preserve Cowboy Poetry pin |
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| Folder | |||
| 1 | 1 | Autobiography |
1979-2007 |
| 1 | 2 | Poems to Shelly Preston |
1987 |
| 1 | 3 | Photographs |
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| 1 | 4 | Scott Preston Keepsakes |
1988-2004 |
| 1 | 5 | Rosalee Sorrels |
1994 |
| 1 | 6 | Radical Press |
1987-1988 |
| 1 | 7 | Clippings of comic strips |
1980-1992 |
| 1 | 8 | Newspaper clippings |
1988-1992 |
| 1 | 9 | Poetry Reading Advertisements |
1989 |
| 1 | 10 | Community Performances |
1989-2003 |
| 1 | 11 | Solstice Celebration Files |
1981 |
| 1 | 12 | "Reading for the Full Moon" |
1983 |
| 2 | 1 | Durango Cowboy Gathering Workshop |
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| 2 | 2 | Third Annual Walla Walla Prose and Poetry Party |
1992 |
| 2 | 3 | Cowboy Poetry Gathering Pamphlets Elko, Nevada |
1985-2003 |
| 3 | 1 | Poetry Gathering Memorabilia |
1985-2006 |
| 3 | 2 | Cowboy Poetry Newspaper Articles |
1990-2002 |
| 4 | Small Press Publications |
1969-1997 | |
Trimmed Lamps and Kerosene Barrels
|
1997 | ||
Litmus Magazine #10 |
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The Saga of Thunderlip Jones
|
1969 | ||
The Eyes of Jesse James
|
1973 | ||
Desperado Vol. 1 No. 1 |
1969 | ||
Desperado Vol. 1 No. 2 |
1970 | ||
Desperado Vol. 1 No. 3 |
1970 | ||
Between Earth and Sky
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Stalin as Linguist
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| 5 | Poetry Cassettes |
1977-1995 | |
Charles Potts Poetry |
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Rosalee Sorrels and Utah Phillips, "Creekside" |
1990 | ||
New Wilderness Audio Graphics |
1977 | ||
Bill Shively, "Taxi Taxi" |
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Tuli and Friends |
1989 | ||
Voices from the Trail, "Cowboys at Work" |
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Brother Little-Star, "Original Spiritual Poetree" |
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Scott Preston Bumbershoot Audition |
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Bill Shively, "Studio Varie" |
1989 | ||
Unlabeled Cassette |
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Keynote Address for 8th Poetry Gathering |
1992 | ||
Elko Music - Various Artists |
1992 | ||
Dead Can Dance Interview |
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Todd Moore, "My Name is Dillinger" |
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Soc Kim Interview |
1985 | ||
Modern Cowboy Songs from 3rd Cowboy Poetry Gathering |
1987 | ||
Various Artists from 1st Cowboy Poetry Gathering |
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| 6 | Poetry Cassettes |
1988-1992 | |
Dobro Dick and Peter Bowen, "Creekside" |
1989 | ||
Dobro Dick and Peter Bowen at the Sawtooth Club |
1988 | ||
Greg Keeler and Friends Tape 1 |
1992 | ||
Greg Keeler and Friends Tape 2 |
1992 | ||
Rod McQueary, BIll Jones, and Vess Quinlan, "War Poems" |
1991 | ||
Jerome Rothenberg Interivew on Jewish Mystical Tradition |
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Keynote Address for 5th Cowboy Poetry Gathering |
1989 | ||
Ernie Harwell Recording |
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The Redneck Review No. 17 |
1989 | ||
Scott Preston, "Another Story Sun Valley Never Hears" |
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Thoi and Lonla Oral Interview |
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Scott Preston and Jon Stark, "Wood River Poetry Night" |
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Scott Preston, Rick Ardinger, and Gerald Grimmett, "Idaho Poet's Night" |
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Murray Thomas and Cameron Lindsley, "Wood River Literature Night" |
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William Studebaker, "Idaho Poet's Night" |
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Rick Ardinger and Scott Preston, "Idaho Poet's Night" |
1985 | ||
Margaret Aho, Tandy Sturgeon, and William Studebaker, "Knee Land" |
1989 | ||
Gerald Grimmett and William Studebaker, "Idaho Poet's Night" |
1985 | ||
Scott Preston and Stephen Thomas KUSU Interview |
1991 | ||
Series 2: Writings, 1976-2003Return to Top
Preston's poems, aritcles, reviews, and clippings of the "Potshots" column are included in this series.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | |||
| 7 | Spiral Notebooks of Drafts |
1981-2002 | |
| Folder | |||
| 8 | 1 | Bibliography Cards |
1985-2002 |
| 8 | 2 | "Michigan Avenue" Poems |
1978-1979 |
| 8 | 3 | "South Dakota 1976" |
1976 |
| 8 | 4 | Pre "In Town" Poetry |
1981-1987 |
| 8 | 5 | Post "In Town" Poetry |
1987 |
| 8 | 6 | "The Outlet Chocked with Dead Trees" |
1988 |
| 8 | 7 | Writings |
1988-1989 |
| 8 | 8 | Freelance Articles |
1988-1990 |
| 8 | 9 | Prose
|
1990-1991 |
| 8 | 10 | Writings From Canyon View Hospital |
1993 |
| 8 | 11 | Post SHS: Culls and Worksheets |
1995-1996 |
| 8 | 12 | Worksheets |
1995-1996 |
| 8 | 13 | Prose |
1997 |
| 9 | 1 | Social Protest Poems |
1988-1996 |
| 9 | 2 | Miscellaneous One-Offs |
1982-1990 |
| 9 | 3 |
InTown/Out There Master Copy |
1980-1990 |
| 9 | 4 | Mad Poems |
1992-1997 |
| 9 | 5 | Ballad Style Verse |
1987-1990 |
| 9 | 6 | Fiction Prose |
1976-1995 |
| 9 | 7 | Rimbaud |
1979 |
| 9 | 8 | Rejection Letters |
1983-1991 |
| 9 | 9 | Xerox Copies of Printed Work |
1990-1991 |
| 9 | 10 |
Counting the Aerie Escalator's Steps Transcripts |
1980-1981 |
| 9 | 11 | "Imitation of Nature" |
1992 |
| 9 | 12 | "The Mimeo Revolution in Northwest/Intermountain Poetics" |
1990-1995 |
| 10 | 1 | Indochinese Oral History Project |
1985 |
| 10 | 2 | "Little Cambodia" |
1987-1988 |
| 10 | 3 | Basque Article |
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| 10 | 4 | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory File |
1988-1990 |
| 10 | 5 | Idaho Founders/Constitution Script |
1988-1990 |
| 10 | 6 | Walla Walla Poetry Party |
1991 |
| 10 | 7 | Walla Walla Poetry Party
|
1997 |
| 10 | 8 | Alexander Ross Files |
1992 |
| 10 | 9 | Pound House Project Files |
1985-1986 |
| 10 | 10 | Cold Drill Files |
1990-1991 |
| 10 | 11 | Idaho Commission on the Arts Files |
1989-1993 |
| 10 | 12 | Cowboy Ethnopoetics |
1995-1999 |
| 10 | 13 |
Letters From Elko Masters |
1994 |
| 11 | 1 | Various Typescripts for "The Sun of the Moon" |
1981-1985 |
| 11 | 2 | "Autumn Canyon Suite" |
1982 |
| 11 | 3 |
Rangers of the Rhymers
|
1995 |
| 11 | 4 | Cowboy Poetry Gathering |
1985-1986 |
| 11 | 5 | Elko Poetry Gathering |
1995 |
| 11 | 6 | Cowboy Poetry Gathering Reviews and Essays |
1989-1994 |
| 11 | 7 | Picasso Presentation |
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| 12 | 1 | Northern Rockies Folk Festival Review |
1985 |
| 12 | 2 | Reviews in "The Sun" |
1987 |
| 12 | 3 | Reviews |
1988 |
| 12 | 4 | Small Press Reviews |
1988-1993 |
| 12 | 5 | Northwest Writer's Reviews |
1989-1994 |
| 12 | 6 | American Book Reviews |
1990-1995 |
| 12 | 7 | Poetry Flash Review |
1991 |
| 12 | 8 | Western American Literature Reviews |
1986-1991 |
| 12 | 9 | Reviews |
1992-1995 |
| 12 | 10 | Small Magazine Reviews |
1993-1994 |
| 12 | 11 | "Gone in October" Review |
1985 |
| 13 | 1 | Potshots Column |
1988-1989 |
| 13 | 2 | Potshots Rebuttals |
1989 |
| 13 | 3 | Reviews Written for the Wood River Journal |
1993-1994 |
| 13 | 4 | Letters to the Editor |
1981-1983 |
| 13 | 5 | Newspaper Articles written by Scott Preston |
1981-1994 |
| 13 | 6 | Scott Preston Poetry in Newspapers |
1984-1997 |
| 13 | 7 | Articles about Scott Preston |
1984-1990 |
| 14 |
Cold-Drill : "trout dream" |
1985 | |
| 14 |
Cold Drill : "Totem Animal" |
1986 | |
| 14 |
Cold Drill : "One Fine Piece of Work," "So Who the Hell is," "Totem Animal" |
1990 | |
| 14 |
Dragonfly
|
1984 | |
| 14 |
Things to do in Idaho: "The Ketchum Coffee Grinder" |
1989 | |
| 14 |
Mud Creek: "Friday Night at the Mint" |
1990 | |
| 14 |
Dry Crik Review: Various Poems |
1991-1994 | |
| 14 |
Polluted Poems: "Yellowstone Ratios" |
1994 | |
| 14 |
The West Wind Review 17th Anthology: "An Elder's Advice" |
1998 | |
| 15 |
Swimming in the Nectar of Victory: "Sex Ed for a Daughter Estranged 19 Years; Family Life" |
2002 | |
| 15 |
Samisdat: "The Magical Economy" |
1990 | |
| 15 |
Cowboy's Day Caption Research |
1996 | |
| 15 |
Cowboy's Day Caption Research |
1997 | |
| 15 |
The Limberlost Review Poetry Postcards: The Dream of the Parks" |
1988 | |
| 15 |
The Limberlost Review: "To the dead man parked in Lake Creek Canyon" |
1992 | |
| 15 |
Limberlost Review: "Three Storm Mornings" |
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| 15 |
Mountain Standard Time:"Ted Thuman's Life Mechanic Chainsmoke Rap" |
1990 | |
| 15 |
Nexus: "a cowboy poetry junkie hits the road," "illumination in hill country," "city of rocks" |
1989 | |
| 15 |
Snapdragon: "River as a Picasso 1903" |
1984 | |
| 15 |
Mulitples 8: "Idaho Nazi Halloween" |
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| 15 |
All Mine: "Writing on the Edge" |
2003 | |
| 15 |
Writers' Chapbook: "The sun is the enemy of window washers," "S14th & River Sts," "The Bridge of Land Between Twin Lakes," "Poem for Kristin Keyes," "The Martyr in the Garden" |
1985-1986 | |
Series 3: Publishing Files, 1981-2002Return to Top
This series consists of publications from Preston's Wind Vein Press as well as related files and correspondence.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 16 | 1 |
White Clouds Revue Correspondence |
1988-1995 |
| 16 | 2 |
White Clouds Revue Drafts and Typescripts |
1981-1984 |
| 16 | 3 | Various Drafts and Typescripts |
1981-1984 |
| 16 | 4 |
White Clouds Revue Freelance Work Files |
1988-1989 |
| 16 | 5 | Writings |
1982-1983 |
| 16 | 6 |
Lithium, Clean Originals |
1995 |
| 16 | 7 | Artwork |
1985 |
| 16 | 8 |
Trouble with Dreams Boards |
1990 |
| 16 | 9 |
In Town/Out There Drafts |
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| 16 | 10 |
Cloudline Submissions |
1985-1987 |
| 16 | 11 |
Cloudline Accepted Work |
1986 |
| 16 | 12 | Junk Submsissions File |
1991-1997 |
| 16 | 13 | Junk Submissions File #2 |
1989-1990 |
| 16 | 14 | Subscriptions and Exchange Lists |
1988-1991 |
| 16 | 15 | Trade Publications |
1986-1991 |
| 16 | 16 |
Counting the Aerie Escalator's Steps Boards |
1980-1981 |
| 16 | 17 |
White Clouds Revue #1 Masters |
1987 |
| 16 | 18 |
White Clouds Revue #2 Masters |
1988 |
| 16 | 19 | Poems for White Cloud Review #2
|
1988 |
| 16 | 20 |
White Clouds Revue #3 Masters |
1988 |
| 16 | 21 | Poems for White Clouds Revue #3
|
1988 |
| 16 | 22 | Poems for White Clouds Revue #4 "All Idaho Issue" |
1988 |
| 16 | 23 |
White Clouds Revue #4 Masters |
1988 |
| 16 | 24 | Poems for White Clouds Revue #5
|
1988 |
| 16 | 25 |
White Clouds Revue #5 Masters |
1988 |
| 16 | 26 | Scott Preston Presentations |
1988-1992 |
| 16 | 27 | Idaho Humanities Council Correspondence |
1991 |
| 16 | 28 | Ken Slike Files |
1996 |
| 16 | 29 | Angry Letters |
1986-1988 |
| 16 | 30 | Unanswered Mail |
1985-1997 |
| 17 |
The White Clouds Revue #1
|
1987 | |
| 17 |
The White Clouds Revue #2
|
1988 | |
| 17 |
The White Clouds Revue #3
|
1988 | |
| 17 |
The White Clouds Revue #4
|
1989 | |
| 17 |
The White Clouds Revue #5
|
1992 | |
| 17 |
Quadritryptichal Beckettian Permutation(s)
|
2002 | |
| 17 | 4 Poems from Friday Night at the Mint
|
2002 | |
| 17 | a selection from in town/out there
|
1989 | |
| 17 |
Ranges of the Rhymers
|
1995 | |
| 17 |
ThoughtCrimes against Old Glory
|
1991 | |
| 17 |
Canyonvue
|
1995 | |
| 17 |
Cloudline
|
1985-1986 | |
| 17 |
counting the aerie escalator's steps
|
1980-1981 | |
| 17 |
Letters from Elko
|
1992 | |
| 17 | Paul Zarzyski Poem and Song
|
1993 | |
| 17 |
The Trouble with Dreams
|
1990 | |
| Folder | |||
| 17 | 22-23 | Assorted Correspondence |
Series 4: Correspondence, 1982-2003Return to Top
Scott Preston's correspondence ranges from friends, fellow poets, and other publishers of small, independent presses. Please see Series 3 for correspondence regarding the Wind Vein Press and The White Clouds Revue.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 18 | 1 | Richard "Rick" Ardinger |
1984-1997 |
| 18 | 2 | Peter Bowen |
1987-1995 |
| 18 | 3 | Hal Cannon and the Western Folklife Center |
1987-1995 |
| 18 | 4 | Amy Estelle Carlock |
1995 |
| 18 | 5 | Patty Chizum |
1997-2003 |
| 18 | 6-8 | John C Dofflemyer |
1991-1992 |
| 18 | 9 | Sharon Doubiago |
1989-1997 |
| 19 | 1-2 | Peggy Godfrey |
1994-2000 |
| 19 | 3 | Jim Green |
1985-1993 |
| 19 | 4 | Carl Hanni |
1995-1997 |
| 19 | 5 | Gus Keeler |
1990-1996 |
| 19 | 6 | Cameron Lindsley |
1990-1992 |
| 19 | 7 | Kendall McCook |
1990-1991 |
| 19 | 8 | Bob Moore |
1989-1994 |
| 20 | 1-3 | Charles Potts |
1988-1997 |
| 20 | 4-7 | Vess Quinlan |
1986-2004 |
| 20 | 8 | Buck Ramsey |
1994-1998 |
| 21 | 1-2 | Penelope Reedy |
1986-1996 |
| 21 | 3 | Joe Robinson |
1985-1990 |
| 21 | 4-6 | Kell Robertson |
1989-1999 |
| 21 | 7-8 | William Studebaker |
1984-1997 |
| 22 | 2 | BIll Shively |
1991-1992 |
| 22 | 3 | Joan Silva |
1989-1992 |
| 22 | 1 | Carl "Skinny" Rowland |
1987-1988 |
| 22 | 4 | Ford Swetnam |
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| 22 | 5-6 | G. Murray Thomas |
1984-2004 |
| 22 | 7 | Stephen B Thomas |
1991-1998 |
| 22 | 8 | Presley Vishniac |
2002 |
| 23 | 1 | Sue Wallis |
1992 |
| 23 | 2 | Andy Wilkinson |
1994-1995 |
| 23 | 3 | Harald Wyndham |
1986-2003 |
| 23 | 4 | Keith Wilson |
1982-1995 |
| 23 | 5-8 | Paul Zarzyski |
1987-2003 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- American poetry--20th century
- Literature
- Poetry
- Poets, American
- Publishers and Publishing
Form or Genre Terms
- Broadsides
- Cowboy poetry
Mandy Moncur
2014; updated 2023
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