Archives West Finding Aid

A publication started by Cesar Chavez.

A Marxist publication.

A publication started by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group that functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters’ League.

Includes materials from various people, groups, committees, and organizations, including Senator Eugene McCarthy, poet Archibald MacLeish, Martin Luther King, Jr., the “Committee of 100” in support of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Committee of Historians for Senator (Gale) McGee, the National Farm Workers Association, Americans for Democratic Action, the Committee for Nonviolent Action, Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, the League for Mutual Aid, the Mutual Real Estate Investment trust, the Farm Workers Press, the AFL-CIO, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Manuscripts of the following articles: (1) “Diplomats in the Lobby: Franco-American Relations and the Dingley Tariff of 1897,” published in the August 1977 issue of The Historian; (2) “Joseph M. Carey and Wyoming Statehood: Some Unpublished Letters,” published in the October 1965 issue of Annals of Wyoming; (3) “New Perspectives on the Republican Party, 1877-1913,” published in the October 1972 issue of The American Historical Review; (4) “Popular Government and Political Reform, 1890-1920, ” published in the July 1974 issue of Current History; and (5) “Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics, 1911-1921,” published in the July 1971 issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Manuscripts of the following book reviews: (1) “Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897-1917, by Albro Martin,” published in the April 1973 issue of Pennsylvania History; (2) “A Life in the Republican Party,” published in the March 1976 issue of Reviews in American History; (3) “Rocky Mountain Constitution Making, 1850-1912, by Gordon Morris Bakken,” published in the Winter 1988 issue of Montana: The Magazine of Western History; and (4) “Tariffs and Markets in the Gilded Age,” published in the June 1974 issue of Reviews in American History.

Published in 1980.

Titled "William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power." Includes annotations.

Titled "William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power." Includes annotations.

Includes annotations.

Published in 1974. Includes annotations.

Published in 1973.

Titled "Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics, 1911-1921." Includes annotations.

Titled "Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics, 1911-1921." Includes annotations.

Includes annotations.

Published in 1978. Titled "Reform and Regulation: American Politics, 1900-1916." Includes annotations.

Published in 1968.

Includes handwritten annotations and a note by Gould that says, “Manuscript and page proof of Lewis L. Gould Wyoming: A Political History for deposit in the University of Wyoming Archives.”

Three sets.

Includes (1) “First Ladies,” a reprint of an article published in the Autumn 1986 issue of The American Scholar; (2) “First Lady as Catalyst: Lady Bird Johnson and Highway Beautification in the 1960s,” a reprint of an article published in the Summer 1986 issue of Environmental Review; (3) “Modern First Ladies in Historical Perspective,” a reprint of an article published in the Summer 1985 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly; (4) “The Paladin and the Rough Rider: Lord Grey’s Account of a Visit with Theodore Roosevelt in 1911,” a reprint of an article published in a 1984 issue of Durham University Journal; (5) “The Reick Telegram and the Spanish-American War: A Reappraisal,” a reprint of an article published in the April 1979 issue of Diplomatic History; (6) “The University Becomes Politicized: The War with Jim Ferguson, 1915-1918,” a photocopy of an article published in the October 1982 issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly; (7) "William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power,” a reprint and a photocopy of an article published in a 1978 issue of Ohio History; and (8) “Discovering Texas,” an article in a 1985 issue of the UT-Austin publication Discovery.

Includes (1) “Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator? William McKinley, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippines: A Review Essay,” a reprint of a book review published in the Summer-Autumn 1985 issue of Ohio History; and (2) “Tariffs and Markets in the Gilded Age,” a reprint of a book review published in the June 1974 issue of Reviews in American History.

An unbound copy of The Progressive Era.

Notes from John Allen Campbell’s incoming and outgoing correspondence—Campbell was the first governor of the Wyoming territory.

A photocopy of a letter to Gould from Agnes Wright Spring regarding Joseph M. Carey—Spring had worked for Carey, who was the eighth governor of Wyoming and represented Wyoming in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding Gould’s research. Includes letters about Willis Van Devanter, Francis E. Warren and the Johnson County War, Asa S. Mercer and the Johnson County War, Joseph M. Carey, and Elwood Mead.

Notes from Grenville M. Dodge’s incoming and outgoing correspondence—Dodge was a Union army officer, U.S. congressman, and railroad executive.

A letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Daniel M. Browning to Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, a letter from U.S. Senator Joseph M. Carey to Willis Van Devanter, chairman of the Republican State Committee, a letter from U.S. Senator Francis E. Warren to Thomas Nelson Haskell, and a letter from Warren’s private secretary to Haskell. The date range of the letters is 1894-1903.

Typewritten and handwritten transcriptions of correspondence for some of Gould’s research projects, including letters to and from Wyoming cattleman Fred G.H. Hesse and others relating to the Johnson County War, John Hunton, and Grover Cleveland. The date range of the letters is 1886-1895.

Willis Van Devanter was a city attorney in Cheyenne, WY, a member of the territorial legislature, and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Includes a list of manuscript sources, a copy of a letter from Van Devanter to a J.A. Blomgren in Minnesota, typewritten transcripts of correspondence to and from Van Devanter, and a photocopy of part of the book The Van Deventer Family by Christobelle Van Deventer. Also includes photocopies of materials related to Van Devanter, including an address that he delivered, interviews, biographical materials, proceedings in his memory, typewritten transcriptions of correspondence from Van Devanter, and a master’s thesis on Van Devanter’s contributions to the field of constitutional law.

Three letters from Indian Inspector James McLaughlin to J.W. DuBois Gould.

Includes two articles in which Gould is mentioned. Other articles deal with UT-Austin libraries, including the search for a library director, the purchase of a Gutenberg Bible, and the acquisition of the Pforzheimer Library of English Literature from H. Ross Perot. Also includes materials regarding a class that Gould taught at UT-Austin on “First Ladies in the Twentieth Century,” an article on William H. Goetzmann and Karen Sloan, professors at UT-Austin, and a clipping regarding a lecture by Karen Gould, Gould’s wife, on the history and background of the Gutenberg Bible.

Includes a letter to Gould regarding whether another author had used one of Gould’s articles as a source.

Letter from New York County Assistant District Attorney Richard H. Kuh to Gould’s father Jack. Jack Gould (1914-1993) had been a prominent reporter and TV and radio critic for the New York Times from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s, and Kuh contacted him to ask if he would be willing to testify for the prosecution in its case against comedian Lenny Bruce. Also included is a photostat of a transcription of one of Bruce’s performances that was the subject of the prosecution. (In the letter, Kuh says that he has enclosed transcripts of two performances.)

For books and book chapters not written by Gould--he may have been editor.

"Robert Walter Speer and Benjamin Barr Lindsey: The Progressive Dilemma in Municipal Government,” by Walter Wood Garnsey, Jr., a student at Yale University. In the acknowledgments, Garnsey thanks Gould for his advice and criticism.

Includes an invitation to celebrate historian and UT-Austin Prof. Joe Bertram Frantz’s fifty years with the University, a parody press release regarding H. Ross Perot’s acquisition of God, and a small poster advertising the George W. Littlefield Lecture Series at UT Austin. Also includes "The City and Westward Expansion: Cheyenne’s Big Horn Expedition of 1870” by Gilbert Stetler, a conference paper dated 1966 and subsequently published in the April 1973 issue of Western Historical Quarterly.