Earl Wayland Bowman Papers, 1904-1953

Overview of the Collection

Title
Earl Wayland Bowman Papers
Dates
1904-1953 (inclusive)
Quantity
15.5 linear feet, (16 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Collection Number
MSS 004
Summary
Correspondence, manuscripts of novels and short stories, newspaper articles by Bowman, published writings, clippings, memorabilia, biographical material, and other papers, relating to Bowman's literary and journalistic careers and to his legislative service as Idaho's first Socialist state senator (1915). Includes mss. of his novels The Ramblin' Kid (1920) and Solemn Johnson Plus (1928) and his Western stories; and newspaper articles written as a correspondent during the Mexican border disturbances (1916). Correspondents include Agnes Just Reid.
Repository
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

Collection is available for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Earl Wayland Bowman, "the Ramblin' Kid," promoter of Idaho and author of popular stories and novels of the American West, was born in Missouri on March 13, 1875, to Francis Marion Bowman, a Baptist preacher, and Sidney Anne Priestly Bowman. Orphaned at the age of ten or eleven, he spent most of his youth wandering through Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Old Mexico, and Indian Territory, working at a variety of jobs -- cattle punching, cooking, butchering, dishwashing, coal digging, and most significantly, in a print shop in New Mexico. There he learned enough of the trade to enable him to work as a traveling tramp printer. His early Western experiences, and the colorful characters he met along the way, provided fodder for the many stories he would write later in life.

At the age of 21, back in Missouri, Bowman married Elva Eldora Moss. For a while he ran a newspaper in Panama, Missouri, and later worked for other small-town Missouri newspapers. Always restless, though, he moved with his wife and first-born daughter to Idaho in 1901, first to Weiser and then to Council, where he established a ranch. He wrote for several newspapers in the Council valley, including the Advance and the Council Leader. In 1909 went into the real estate business. By his own account, he made approximately twenty thousand dollars in one summer, but lost it all in a slump.

In 1912, Bowman did feature writing for the Boise Capital News and in 1914 began publishing and editing a magazine called Homeseeker's Illustrated Monthly, later called The Golden Trail. While the Homeseeker's Illustrated Monthly focused on real estate and economic development, The Golden Trail expanded its scope to include fiction, poetry, and articles about Southern Idaho and its distinguished citizens written by Bowman and other contributors. He published The Golden Trail until 1920. It was in the pages of The Golden Trail that readers were introduced to Bowman's folksy alter ego, "The Ramblin' Kid."

Politically, Bowman was a Socialist with a populist tilt. Editorials he wrote for the Council Advance express support of striking miners and child labor laws; in the inaugural issue of the Council Leader (1908) he contributed an essay entitled "The Class Struggle." He also spoke out against the liquor traffic. Bowman has the distinction of being the first and only Socialist Party candidate elected to office in Idaho. He was elected to the State Senate from Adams County in 1914 and during his single term in the legislature authored several bills dealing with irrigation, conservation, and emergency employment. His employment bill passed the legislature handily, provoking one newspaper to declare "Socialist Bill Becomes A Law" (Treasure Scrapbook, p. 4). Presumably through politics Bowman became friends with Rose Pastor Stokes and her husband James Graham Phelps Stokes. He stayed with them during visits to New York and represented James Graham Phelps Stokes in some business dealings in Tacoma, Washington, in 1926.

During the Mexican border disturbances in 1916 Bowman went with the Second Idaho Infantry to Nogales, Arizona, as a correspondent for the Boise Capital News, sending numerous dispatches back to Idaho on the regiment's activities. As World War I raged in Europe, Bowman voiced his philosophical objections to war in the pages of The Golden Trail, and after America's entry into the conflict, criticized President Wilson roundly for what he considered the government's suppression of the free speech. One of his editorials prompted the Boise postmaster to temporarily suspend mail delivery of the magazine. He railed against war and false patriotism, but by 1918 concluded that Germany must be defeated. He became publicity director for the statewide war bond campaign, traveling all over the state and writing extensively for the fundraising drives. After the war he divided his time between Boise, where he had established a small ranch, and New York City, near the popular magazine publishers, where he wrote Western stories and finished his novel, The Ramblin' Kid. First published in serial form in All-Story Weekly, it was issued in book form by Bobbs-Merrill in 1920 and made into a motion picture starring Hoot Gibson in 1923. Despite his socialistic political leanings, Bowman was well acquainted and apparently well-liked by Idaho's business establishment. He was made an honorary member of the Boise Ad Club at its founding in 1919, and in 1920 the Boise Chamber of Commerce feted him with a gala luncheon to celebrate the success of The Ramblin' Kid.

Ill health forced Bowman to move to Arizona in 1921 and, soon thereafter, to Southern California, where he continued writing, finding frequent outlets for his Western stories in the national pulp magazines. According to one clipping in his scrapbook, he also wrote movie scenarios. He is credited with a small acting part in one film, When Seconds Count, starring Billy Sullivan. Bowman's second novel, Solemn Johnson Plus, was published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1928, and a third book, Arrowrock, was published by Caxton Printers in Caldwell, Idaho, in 1931. Arrowrock includes many poems and stories that appeared previous in newspapers and magazines.

Earl Wayland Bowman died in California on September 5, 1952, survived by his wife, a son, and two of his three daughters. Although many of his stories were written in California, he always considered himself an Idaho author. In a 1923 letter to his friend Agnes Just Reid, he advised that the California state librarian had sent him a card requesting biographical data as a "California author." He told the librarian that he was "an Idaho Author, if any kind," adding a remark to his friend: "I'm all Idaho and want to stay that way."

For a brief review of Wayland's political career, drawn mainly from the American Socialist and his correspondence in the Socialist Party collection at Duke University, see David R. Berman, Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners and Wobblies (University Press of Colorado, 2007).

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Earl Wayland Bowman collection contains Bowman's Western stories and novels (in both typescript and published form), news articles and press releases, letters, clippings, several photos, and other biographical material documenting his work as a writer and his brief career in elective politics.

The largest part of the collection consists of Bowman's writings. Included are clippings of newspaper articles and editorials, typescripts of short stories and novels, plus issues of many of the magazines in which his stories appeared, including Argosy All-Story Weekly and Munsey. Also present are the press releases he wrote promoting the sale of World War I war savings stamps. Copies of his magazines, The Golden Trail and Homeseeker's Illustrated Monthly, have been cataloged separately for Special Collections.

By far the largest file of correspondence is with fellow author Agnes Just Reid of Shelley, Idaho. The collection contains approximately 80 letters Bowman wrote to Reid between 1917 and 1926. Their correspondence began when Reid submitted some of her work to The Golden Trail and Bowman responded warmly, with encouragement. Over the next few years he published several of her poems and some of the stories that were later included in her book, Letters of Long Ago (1923).

Bowman's service in the Idaho legislature, his dispatches from the Mexican border, and his war bond work, in particular, are documented by clippings in two scrapbooks.

A part of the Idaho Writers Archive.

There is no Box 8 in the collection (accidentally skipped when numbering).

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[item description], Earl Wayland Bowman Papers, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in eleven series: 1. Biographical materials; 2. Correspondence; 3. Writings for newspapers; 4. Solemn Johnson and Dirty Shirt Smith stories; 5. Other stories; 6. Poetry and meditations; 7. American folkstuff; 8. Novels; 9. Oversize items; 10. Magazines (originals); and 11. Photocopied original documents.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mr. Bowman's daughter, Gladys Bowman Knight, Council, Idaho, 1972.

Processing Note

Much of the paper in the collection is highly acidic and fragile. For that reason, researchers are asked to use photocopies; originals are retained in separate files and may be consulted if necessary.

Related Materials

Additional materials related to Earl Wayland Bowman are located at Boise State in:

Gladys Bowman Knight Papers (Bowman's daugher)

Nona Tatum Ziegler Papers

Hugh T. Lovin Papers

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

1:  BiographicalReturn to Top

Bowman's colorful and wide-ranging career as an author and, briefly, as a politician, are documented in articles and clippings about him. The series includes both loose clippings and clippings assembled into two scrapbooks (Box 1, Folders 16-18). The "Treasure Scrapbook" is devoted principally to Bowman's legislative service (1915) and his dispatches from the Mexican border (1916); the other scrapbook mainly to his World War I fundraising and his literary career. The 1920 interview in The Red Chevron (Box 1, Folder 10) is rich in early biographical detail, and, as a veterans magazine, recounts in particular his war work on the Liberty Loan and war savings stamp campaigns. Much of the material in this series is in photocopy form. Originals have been preserved elsewhere in the collection. Quite a few of the papers have been annotated by Bowman's daughter Gladys Bowman Knight. More photos of Bowman are located in Series 9, Oversize.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Memoirs of Earl Wayland Bowman, by Gladys Bowman Knight (1971); obituary (1952)
1952 1971
1 2
Bibliography of writings, by Gladys Bowman Knight
1 3
"The Ramblin' Kid" (Incredible Idaho)
1973 Fall
1 4
"Ash Park" home, Boise: Description by Gladys
1 5
Legislative career
1915-1916
1 6
Reelection campaign
1916
1 7
Memorial tribute by Idaho Legislature
1953
1 8
"Contemporary Writers and their Work" (The Editor)
1920 June
1 9
"Interesting People" (Sunset: The Pacific Magazine)
1 10
"The Rambling Kid" (The Red Chevron)
1920 May 1
1 11
Boise Chamber of Commerce luncheon program
1920
1 12
Clippings: Golden Trail postal suspension
1917
1 13
Clippings: Miscellaneous compilation by Gladys Bowman Knight
1 14
Clippings: Miscellaneous
1 15
Clippings: Arrowrock publicity and reviews
1931
1 16-17
Treasure scrapbook (Photocopies)
1 18
Scrapbook (Photocopies)
1 19
Photographs
1926 1931

2:  CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Not much of Bowman's correspondence has been preserved, save for approximately 80 typewritten letters he wrote between 1917 and 1926 to fellow writer Agnes Just Reid in Shelley, Idaho. He addressed her as "Range Cayuse" - from the title of her first book of poems - and signed his letters "Ramblin' Kid." Written from Boise, New York, Arizona, southern California, and Tacoma, Washington, Bowman's letters include descriptions of his activities as publicity director for Idaho's World War I bond campaign, life and work in Greenwich Village and his neighborhood just off Washington Square, work on The Ramblin' Kid in New York and Idaho, interactions with publishers, later writing in California, and the making of his stories into movies. He occasionally mentions his New York friends, Rose Pastor Stokes and her husband James Graham Phelps Stokes, and Methodist minister and Golden Trail contributor J.D. Gillilan. And although there are no letters from Agnes Just Reid in the collection, Bowman often comments on her work and activities.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 20
Legislative matters
1915
1 21
Literary matters
1915-1924
1 22
Davis, D.W. (Governor of Idaho)
1919-1920
1 23
Knight, Gladys Bowman
1919 1946
1 24-27
Reid, Agnes Just
1917-1918
1 28
Truman, Harry S. (President of the United States)
1950
1 29
The Westerner (Letter to the editor)

3:  Writings for newspapersReturn to Top

These files contain examples of Bowman's writings for newspapers. Most of the editorials in Folder 30 are unsigned and unidentified, but Gladys Bowman Knight attributes them to her father and says they came from the Advance, in Council Idaho. This series contains several of Bowman's dispatches from the Mexican border in 1916; many other articles can be found in his Treasure Scrapbook (Box 1, Folders 16 and 17).

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 30
Editorials for the Council Advance and Council Leader
circa 1904-1908
1 31
Regional descriptions (Oregon and Idaho)
1911-1912
1 32
Mexican border dispatches
1916
Map Case drawer
9037 3
Mexican border dispatches (Idaho Sunday Capital News)
1916
Box Folder
1 33
War savings stamp campaign: Press releases (World War I)
1 34
War savings stamp campaign: Sales appeals (World War I)
1 35
War savings stamp campaign: Miscellaneous (World War I)

4:  Solemn Johnson and Dirty Shirt Smith storiesReturn to Top

This series contains Bowman's stories featuring the characters Solemn Johnson and Dirty Shirt Smith, two old Western prospectors, in both typescript and published form. Titles represented by typescripts are so indicated; published articles are indicated by the name of the magazine and the date of publication. Because of the fragility of the original papers, these are photocopies; originals are preserved elsewhere in the collection.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1-2
Diversion in the Seventh Oasis (Munsey)
1927 January
2 3-4
Edith in the Seventh Oasis (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1924 May 3
2 5-6
The Elusive Mule (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1924 May 17
2 7-8
The Gamble-Horse of Dead Angel Mountain (Munsey)
1926 November
2 9
The Gamble-Horse (Crack-Shot Western)
1939 October-November
2 10-11
Immunized in Advance (Ace-High Magazine)
1923 October-November
2 12-13
The Ingratitude of Hector (The Blue Book Magazine)
1926 June
2 14
The Finish of Isabel's Education
2 15
Isabel's Education (Munsey)
1928 January
2 16-17
Joshua of Three Legs (Argosy Allstory Weekly)
1924 October 11
2 18
Jug-Handle Jim of Soda-Mint Canon (Munsey)
1927 October
2 19-20
Romance Rocks Red Bluff (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1924 May 24
2 21-22
The Self-Assassination of Angel (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1924 April
2 23
This Week in Dead Angel Gulch
2 24-25
The Undoing of Horace Duanto (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1924 May 10
2 25-27
Versus vs. Beans (Ace-High Magazine)
1923 November

5:  Other storiesReturn to Top

Like the Solemn Johnson and Dirty Shirt Smith stories, both typescripts and photocopies of published versions of these stories are present in this series.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
As Told by the Ramblin' Kid (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1927 October
3 2-3
The Blue One (Popular Magazine)
1921 February 20
3 4-5
Blunt Nose (The American Magazine)
1920 February
3 6-7
Carrita of Santa Rosa (Ranch Romances)
1940 April
3 8
Der Pretzel of Destiny
3 9
The Diamond Kid
3 10
Capitan Satan
3 11
Ever Since Adam (People's Story Magazine)
1922 May 25
3 12
High Stakes (The American Magazine)
1920 September
3 13-14
I'm From Arizona (Munsey)
1927 June
3 15
Kidding the Kindergarten: Disappearing Garter Snake
3 16
Kidding the Kindergarten: Magic Coconut
3 17-18
Leave It To Sid (The Westerner)
1939 April
3 19-20
Longhorn Psychology
3 21-22
The Powerful Eye (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1921 February 19
3 23
The Primer of Preparedness
3 24
Propinquity
3 25-26
Providence Plus (Munsey)
1927 February
3 27
Rain on the Marigolds (Home)
1934 November
3 28
Th' Ramblin' Kid Rides Again
3 29
A Road to Yesterday
3 30
S. Rawlins, Sheriff Pro-Tem
3 31
Scat!
3 33-34
Senorita Serpente (Weird Tales)
1923 August
3 34
Shag (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1920 August 28
3 35
So Brave the Coward (Liberty) [with Kay Fougera]
1935 May 11
3 36
Something Happened
3 37
Thirteen Days (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1925 October 24
3 38
Unexpected Bull Elk
3 39
Vibrations
3 40
When the Fittest Fight
3 41
Whose Horrorscope? / Whose Horoscope
3 42
The Worm Turns
3 43
Untitled (involves the Magic Coconut)

6:  Poetry and meditationsReturn to Top

Bowman mentions his "Papa Goose" rhymes (Folder 51) occasionally in his letters to Agnes Just Reid. They evidently were published in a number of newspapers across the country.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 44
Philosophical meditations
3 45
The Cow-Puncher's Farewell (Munsey)
1927 August
3 46
The End of the Trail (Munsey)
1927 September
3 47
God Keep My Soldier Laddie
3 48
Mrs. Jones' Hat
3 49
The Outlaw's Odds (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1925 May 16
3 50
A Ridin' All Alone (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
1927 January 22
3 51
Ramblin' Kid's Papa Goose Rhymes (typescripts)
3 52
Ruthless Rhymes (typescripts)
3 53
Miscellaneous poems
3 54
Miscellaneous published poems

7:  American folkstuffReturn to Top

In 1938 and 1939, Earl Wayland Bowman compiled life histories and stories for the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project (U.S. Work Projects Administration). These are typescripts of two sets of stories; one set narrated by Harry Reece, the other by William D. Naylor. Bowman headed the stories "American Folkstuff." Bowman apparently was in New York at the time, for his informants were New Yorkers and he records his address as 86 West 12th St., New York. The Library of Congress has published versions of most of these stories, along with biographical information about Reece and Naylor not found in the collection, on their American Memory website, American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940. (Search for Bowman).

Reece's stories were of Uncle Steve Robertson's experiences in the Idaho outback. Documents at the Library of Congress filed by Bowman along with the interviews identify Reece as a native of Illinois, about 55 years of age, who spent time in the West around cowboys and was at the time of Bowman's interviews the operator of a bookstore at 63 Washington Square South. Bowman says he had known him for about ten years. He indentifies William D. Naylor as a New York native who traveled with Doc Porter's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show on the carnival circuit in the 1890s. Naylor's stories are of his experiences with the show.

The Library of Congress website also reproduces several interviews by Bowman with other persons not represented in the collection at Boise State.

Container(s) Description
Uncle Steve Robertson stories, narrated by Harry Reece
Box Folder
4 1
Bob White's Self-Skinnin' Skunks
4 2
Bob White's Trained Dog, Salmon
4 3
Hell, Bob an' Me Planted 'em
4 4
How 'Salton Sea' was Caught
4 5
How Snipe Hunting was Invented
4 6
Meteor Hell, Cicero Done It
4 7
The Mysterious Hole
4 8
Old Haystack was a Grizzly
4 9
Them Petrified Buzzards
4 10
Them 'toxicated Wild Geese
4 11
Them Winds was Just Breezes
William D. Naylor stories
Box Folder
4 12
The End of the Feud
4 13
Chief Joe-Bull's Joke
4 14
The Dancing Turkeys
4 15
The Arkansas Shakes )
4 16
Uncle Zeb's Inside Frog

8:  NovelsReturn to Top

Earl Wayland Bowman wrote at least four novels, two of which were published: The Ramblin' Kid (Bobbs-Merrill, 1920) and Solemn Johnson Plus (Grosset and Dunlap, 1928). Both are represented here in typescript. In addition, this series contains copies of the serialized version of The Ramblin' Kid as well as reviews and publicity. Copies of Bowman's two published novels as well as Arrowrock, the collection of his verse and stories published by Caxton Printers in 1931, have been cataloged separately for the book collection of the Special Collections Department. Additional materials relating to The Ramblin' Kid can be found in Series 9, Oversize items.

Two unpublished novels are found in Box 5. They are quite unlike Bowman's usual work. He described "Issmir Will Sing Again" as an "American romance novel." It is the story of a young child stolen by Gypsies from her Southern home. "Autobiography of a Worm" is a whimsical vehicle Bowman used to explore philosophical and religious themes and notions of civilization. Neither typescript is dated, though Bowman gave his address on the title pages of both as Los Angeles.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 17-18
Ramblin' Kid
4 19-23
Th' Ramblin' Kid (All-Story Weekly)
1920 February 7
4 24
Th' Ramblin' Kid, Letters to the Editor (All-Story Weekly)
1920 May 22
4 25
The Ramblin' Kid: Publicity
4 26
The Ramblin' Kid: Reviews
Map Case drawer
9037 3
"The Ramblin' Kid" Excerpt in Hartford Courant (Connecticut)
1920
Box Folder
4 27-28
Solemn Johnson Plus
5
Autobiography of a Worm: Translated from the Original Wormese
5
Issmir Will Sing Again
6
Solemn Johnson Plus (autographed and inscribed)
6
Arrowrock (autographed and inscribed)

9:  Oversize itemsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
7
Unfoldered items
Ramblin' Kid advertising neckerchief
Ramblin' Kid publicity broadside
The Ramblin' Kid illustration dust jacket
Senatorial campaign broadside
1916
The Red Chevron containing interview with EWB
1920 May
Weird Tales containing "Senorita Serpente"
1923 August
Bowman Novel Made Into Real Thriller (Los Angeles Times)
1923 August 8
El Capitan Satan (The Times Illustrated Magazine)
1922 September 17
He Called Me "Sheepherder" (Illustrated Magazine)
1932 February 4
S. Rawlins, Sheriff Pro-Tem (Los Angeles Times)
1922 June 11
The Ramblin' Kid, (Sunday News-Leader Magazine)
1920 July 11
'Tis A Bitter Word (The War Cry)
1940 February 3
Map Case drawer
9037 3
Earl Wayland Bowman photographic portrait, with pipe
9037 3
Earl Wayland Bowman photographic portrait, equestrian
9037 3
Second Annual Canyon County Picnic featuring Earl Wayland Bowman (Canyon County Central Committee Socialist Party) Poster
1915

10:  PeriodicalsReturn to Top

This series contains the original magazines in which many of Earl Wayland Bowman's stories and poems were published. Most of the issues are here in full; but many are represented only by their covers and the pages with Earl Wayland Bowman's stories, which Gladys Bowman Knight extracted from the magazine. Photocopies of these stories can be found in Series 4 and 5.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
9
All-Story Weekly
Th' Rambling Kid
1920
Th' Rambling Kid, fan letters
1920
10
Argosy All-Story Weekly
Shag
1920 August 28
The Powerful Eye
1921 February 19
The Self-Assassination of Angel
1924 April 26
Edith in the Seventh Oasis
1924 May 3
The Undoing of Horace Duranto
1924 May 10
The Elusive Mule
1924 May 17
Romance Rocks Red Bluff
1924 May 24
Joshua of the Three Legs
1924 October 11
The Outlaw's Odds (poem)
1925 May 16
Thirteen Days
1925 October 24
A Ridin' All Alone (poem)
1927 January 22
As Told by the Ramblin' Kid
1927 October 1
11
Munsey
The Gamble Horse of Dead Angel Mountain
1926 November
Diversion in the Seventh Oasis
1927 January
Providence Plus
1927 February
I'm from Arizona
1927 June
The Cow-Puncher's Farewell (poem)
1927 August
The End of the Trail (poem)
1927 September
Jug Handle Jim of Soda Mint Canon
1927 October
Isabel's Education; and My Friendly Hills (poem)
1928 January
12
The American Magazine
Blunt Nose
1920 February
High Stakes
1920 September
12
Home
Rain on the Marigolds
1934 November
Liberty
So Brave the Coward
1935 May 11
Box
12
Tavern Topics
Review of The Ramblin' Kid
1920 August
12
The Westerner
Leave it to Sid
1930
Leave it to Sid; letter to editor
1930
13
Ace-High Magazine
Immunized in Advance
1923 October 3
Versus vs. Beans
1923 November 3
13
The Blue Book Magazine
The Ingratitude of Hector
1926 June
13
Crack-Shot Western
The Gamble-Horse
1939 October-November
13
The Popular Magazine
The Blue One
1921 February 20
13
People's Story Magazine
Ever Since Adam
1922 May 25
13
Ranch Romances
Carrita of Santa Rosa
1940 March

Photocopied originalsReturn to Top

These original documents, on fragile paper, are represented by photocopies in Series 1 through 10 of the collection. Researchers should consult the photocopies first, and refer to these originals only if the photocopies do not meet their research needs.

Container(s) Description
Box
14
Original typescripts
The Blue One
Blunt Nose
Carrita of Santa Rosa
Der Pretzel of Destiny
Diversion in the Seventh Oasis
"Edith" in the Seventh Oasis
El Capitan Satan
The Elusive Mule [Solemn Johnson Almost Wins a Prize]
The Finish of Isabel's Education [Isabel's Education]
The Gamble-Horse of Dead Angel Mountain
I'm from Arizona
Immunized in Advance
The Ingratitude of Hector
Joshua of Three Legs
Longhorn Psychology
The Powerful Eyes
Propinquity
Providence Plus
Romance Rocks Red Bluff
S. Rawlins, Sheriff Pro Tem
Senorita Serpente
The Undoing of Horace Duranto
15
Original scrapbooks
Treasure scrapbook (copies in Box 1, Folders 16-17)
Scrapbook of clippings (copies in Box 1, Folder 18)
16
Original documents
Box Folder
16 1-2
Correspondence: Agnes Just Reid
16 3
Correspondence: Others
16 4
The Diamond Kid
16 5
Kidding the Kindergarten
16 6
Mrs. Jones' Hat
16 7
The Primer of Preparedness
16 8
Th' Ramblin' Kid Rides Again
16 9
Scat!
16 10
Something Happened
16 11
This Week in Dead Angel Gulch
16 12
Unexpected Bull Elk
16 13
Whose Horoscope / Whose Horrorscope
16 14
The Worm Turns
16 15
Untitled (about Magic Coconut)
16 16-18
The Ramblin' Kid
16 19
The Ramblin' Kid: Publicity
16 20-21
Solemn Johnson Plus
17 1-2
Poetry: Papa Goose rhymes
17 3
Poetry; Philosophical meditations
17 4
Biographical: Legislative career
17 5
Biographical: "Contemporary Writers...." (The Editor)
17 6
Biographical: "Interesting People" (Sunset)
17 7
Biographical: Golden Trail postal suspension
17 8
Biographical: Clippings, Miscellaneous
17 9
Biographical: Arrowrock publicity
17 10
War stamp campaign: Press releases
17 11
War stamp campaign: Sales appeals
17 12
Writings: Mexican border dispatches
17 13
Writings: Regional descriptions
17 14
Biographical: Clippings: Miscellaneous compilation by Gladys Bowman Knight

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • American literature--20th century
  • Authors, American
  • Idaho--Politics and government
  • Idaho. Legislature. Senate
  • Literature
  • Poetry
  • Poets, American
  • Socialism
  • Western stories

Personal Names

  • Reid, Agnes Just, 1886-1976

Corporate Names

  • Caxton Printers

Geographical Names

  • Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographs
  • Scrapbooks