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Lewis L. Gould papers, 1907-1987
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Gould, Lewis L.
- Title
- Lewis L. Gould papers
- Dates
- 1907-1987 (inclusive)Date of CollectionDate of Collection
- Quantity
- 3.70 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 01742
- Summary
- The papers of Lewis A. Gould consist primarily of research materials regarding the history of Wyoming, documents related to his published works, and “New Left” materials that he collected during the mid- to late 1960s.
- Repository
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American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Lewis L. Gould was a professor and historian. Born in 1939, Gould received an A.B. from Brown University in 1961, an M.A. from Yale University in 1962, and a Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1966. After teaching at Yale, he joined the faculty of the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin in 1967 and was chair of that department from 1980 to 1984. Gould’s research interests included political history in Wyoming and Texas, as well as the Progressive Era in the United States. Among his many publications were Wyoming: A Political History, 1868-1896 (1968), Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era (1973), and 1968: The Election That Changed America (1993).
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists primarily of research materials regarding the history of Wyoming and documents related to Gould's published works, including manuscripts of some of his books. Also included are “New Left” materials, many of them focused on organized labor (especially farm workers) and opposition to the Vietnam war, that Gould collected during the mid- to late 1960s, as well as reprints of some articles that he published in various academic journals.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Copyright InformationThe researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Preferred Citation
Preferred CitationItem Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Related Materials
Related MaterialsAs of the date of processing, there is one known other archival collection created by Lewis L. Gould: Lewis L. Gould Collection of American Political History, 1870-1920, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Acquisition Information
Acquisition InformationThis material was received from Lewis L. Gould, 1965-1978.
Processing Note
Processing InformationThe collection was processed by Roger Simon in December 2017.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I. Collected Publications and Print Materials, The New LeftReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | ||
1 | “AIM [American Independent Movement]” |
1966-1967 |
1 | “Core-Lator [Congress of Racial Equality]” |
1964 |
1 | “Council for a Livable World” |
1966-1967 |
1 | “Delano Newsletter [Farm Workers’ Information]” |
1966, undated |
1 | “LID [League for Industrial Democracy] News Bulletin” |
1966-1967 |
1 | “El Macriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker” A publication started by Cesar Chavez.
|
1966-1968 |
1 | “News & Letters: The Root of Mankind is Man” A Marxist publication.
|
1966-1967, undated |
1 | “Rights [Emergency Civil Liberties Committee]” |
1966-1967 |
1 | “WIN: Peace and Freedom thru Nonviolent Action” 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.
|
1966-1969 |
1 | WRL [War Resisters’ League] News” |
1966-1968 |
1 | Assorted 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.
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1966-1967, undated |
Series II. ManuscriptsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | ||
2 | Articles 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.
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undated |
2 | Book Reviews 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.
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undated |
Books |
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Box | ||
The Presidency of William McKinley Published in 1980.
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Box | ||
2 | Copy Pages |
1980 |
2 | Original Typescript Titled "William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power." Includes annotations.
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undated |
3 | Original Typescript Titled "William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power." Includes annotations.
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undated |
3 | Page Proofs Includes annotations.
|
1980 |
3 |
The Progressive Era Published in 1974. Includes annotations.
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undated |
Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics in the Wilson Era Published in 1973.
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undated | |
Box | ||
3 | Original Typescript Titled "Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics, 1911-1921." Includes annotations.
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undated |
4 | Original Typescript Titled "Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics, 1911-1921." Includes annotations.
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undated |
4 | Page Proofs Includes annotations.
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undated |
4 |
Reform and Regulation: American Politics from Roosevelt to Wilson Published in 1978. Titled "Reform and Regulation: American Politics, 1900-1916." Includes annotations.
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undated |
Wyoming: A Political History 1868-1896 Published in 1968.
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Box | ||
5 | Original Typescript 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.”
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1968-1969 |
5 | Page Proofs Three sets.
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1968 |
Series III. Published MaterialsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | ||
6 | Articles 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.
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1985, undated |
6 | Book Reviews 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.
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undated |
6 | Books An unbound copy of The Progressive Era.
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1974 |
Series IV. ResearchReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | ||
Wyoming History |
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Box | ||
6 | John A. Campbell Notes from John Allen Campbell’s incoming and outgoing correspondence—Campbell was the first governor of the Wyoming territory.
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undated |
6 | Joseph M. Carey 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.
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undated |
6 | Correspondence 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.
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1960-1966 |
6 | Grenville Dodge Notes from Grenville M. Dodge’s incoming and outgoing correspondence—Dodge was a Union army officer, U.S. congressman, and railroad executive.
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undated |
6 | Historical Correspondence (copies) 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.
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undated |
6 | Notes from Historical Correspondence 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.
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undated |
6 | Notes from Manuscript Sources |
1973, undated |
7 | Notes from the National Archives |
1972, undated |
7 | Notes from Wyoming Newspapers |
1972, undated |
7 | Notes on Wyoming Territorial Politics |
undated |
7 | Willis Van Devanter 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.
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undated |
Assorted |
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Box | ||
7 | Historical Correspondence Three letters from Indian Inspector James McLaughlin to J.W. DuBois Gould.
|
1907 |
Series V. General Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | ||
7 | Clippings and Press Releases 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.
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1967-1969, 1982-1987, undated |
7 | Correspondence, Incoming Includes a letter to Gould regarding whether another author had used one of Gould’s articles as a source.
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1967, 1977, undated |
7 | Jack Gould 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.)
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1966 |
7 | Page Proofs, Index Proofs, and Layout Plans For books and book chapters not written by Gould--he may have been editor.
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1974, undated |
7 | Thesis "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.
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1967 |
7 | Assorted 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.
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1966, undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- Organizing
- New Left -- United States
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements
Personal Names
- Van Devanter, Willis, 1859-1941
Geographical Names
- Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918
- Wyoming -- History -- 19th century
- Wyoming -- History -- To 1889
- Wyoming -- Politics and government