Boise State University Special Collections and Archives
Tim Woodward Papers
MSS 270
1 linear feet
1 box
1983-1989
Contains the research materials gathered by Tim Woodward, longtime columnist for the Idaho Statesman, to write his biography of Vardis Fisher, Tiger on the Road: The Life of Vardis Fisher (Caxton Printers, 1989).
English
.
Collection is available for research.
Donated by Tim Woodward to the Idaho Center for the Book in 2008. This donation was subsequently transferred to Special Collections and Archives on October 27, 2008, by Tom Trusky.
[item description], Tim Woodward Papers, Box [number], Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
This collection contains correspondence, interviews, clippings, photos, complete typescript, and other research materials, written or compiled by Woodward during his research for and writing of Tiger on the Road: The Life of Vardis Fisher. The Research Materials series consists primarily of photocopies of articles (academic journals and newspapers). There is also a copy of the letter that Vardis Fisher's sister, Irene Mead, sent to Leonard Harrington about her brother's religious beliefs; a copy of the paper that Harrington and co-author Jon Haupt delivered arguing Vardis Fisher was a life-long Mormon; and an open letter that Fisher's wife, Opal Laurel Holmes, wrote to the president of the LDS noting that her husband never was a Mormon.
Tim Woodward is a longtime Idaho Statesman columnist. He retired in 2011 and now writes a column every other Sunday for The Statesman's Life section.
Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968
Caxton Printers
Literature
Authors, American
Literature
Idaho
Photographs
Photographs
Tiger on the Road Drafts
1985-1987
English.
Tiger on the Road Typescript
1985-1987
1
1-2
Tiger on the Road Typescript (with handwritten edits)
1985-1987
1
3-4
Tiger on the Road Typescript (reflecting printer's edits)
1985-1987
1
5-6
Tiger on the Road Chapter Outline and Precis
1985-1987
1
7
Research Material
1931-1986
English.
Research Notebooks (handwritten)
1984-1986
1
8
Research Notes (handwritten)
1984-1986
1
9
Research Material
1931-1968
1
10-11
Fisher of the Antelope Hills - Crandall (photocopy with Fisher's marginalia)
1949
1
12
Vardis Fisher Correspondence (photocopies)
1915-1916
1
13
Vardis Fisher Correspondence (photocopies)
1917-1941
1
14-16
Idaho Librarian (October 1990) - Fisher Family Letters
1990
1
17
Leona Fisher Medical Examiner Report (photocopy)
1924
1
18
Vardis Fisher Statesman Newspaper Columns (photocopies)
1941-1945
1
19
"The Mormon Experience in Idaho" - Leonard Arrington
1976
1
20
"The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher" (typescript) - Leonard Harrington and Jon Haupt
1976
1
21
Opal Laurel Holmes Open letter to LDS President Spencer W. Kimball
1977
1
22
Irene Fisher Mead Letter to Joseph Arrington (about Vardis Fisher's Mormon faith)
1976
1
23
Vardis Fisher Memorial Monument Dedication Program
1991
1
24
Hemingway Year Brochure Draft
1986
1
25
Reviews of Tiger on the Road
1990-1991
English.
1
26
Correspondence
1983-1992
English.
General Correspondence
1983-1992
1
27
Caxton Printers
1985-1987
1
28
Cort Conley
1986
1
29
Grant Fisher
1985-1990
1
30
Frederick Manfred
1985
1
31
Irene Fisher Mead
1984-1985
1
32
Katy Murphy
1985-1990
1
33
Wallace Stegner
1985
1
34
University of Utah
1985
1
35
Photographs
1926-1991
English.
Consists of photos of Vardis Fisher and others of his family.
Photographs
1926-1991
English.
1
36
Audio-Visual
undated
English.
Interview with Irene Fisher Mead (CD and audio-cassette tape)
undated
English.
1
37