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Pullman, WA 99164-5610 USA
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Cage
197
Howard, Helen Addison
Helen Addison Howard
Papers
1934-1989
3 containers.
2.5 linear feet of shelf space.
50 items.
Manuscripts of War Chief Joseph (1941)
and Saga of Chief Joseph (1965) and published articles on western
history.
Collection materials are in
English
Helen Addison Howard (Mrs. Ben Overland) was a writer of western U.S.
history. She published two books on Chief Joseph and was one of several 1930s
and 1940s writers who authored works on the Nez Perce. Howard also wrote on
other Western topics, the last of which was a booklength manuscript entitled
The UY Ranch: Reminiscences of a Montana Stockman's Wife:
1912-1921. The Sunflower University Press of Manhattan, Kansas,
published it posthumously in 1989. Howard was born in Missoula, Montana, in
1904. She studied history at the University of Montana (called Montana State
University at that time), under the direction of Paul C. Phillips. Howard
received a master's degree in history at the University of Southern California.
Since the 1930s, she made her home in Burbank, California. Howard continued to
write up to her death from cancer in 1989.
The Howard Papers consists principally of two book-length manuscripts
(
War Chief Joseph and
Saga of Chief Joseph); correspondence between Howard and
several other local and regional historians, and others; and maps, photographs,
and drawings used in Howard's books, and paper placemats with a Native American
motif used by the Florence Hotel, Missoula, Montana. During the mid-1930s,
Helen Addison Howard researched and wrote her first book-length manuscript,
War Chief Joseph. Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho,
published it in 1941. The volume was reissued in 1958. Howard later made
extensive revisions to
War Chief Joseph and published the revised work as
Saga of Chief Joseph in 1958. The Helen Addison Howard
Papers comprises all items accessioned at several points since 1941, except for
an autographed copy of
Saga of Chief Joseph, published in 1965. This volume was
separated from the collection and is shelved in the rare books section of the
WSU Libraries--Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections.
This collection is arranged in three series, reflecting the diverse
nature of the items included in it.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage
197, Helen Addison Howard
Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Helen Addison Howard gave the Washington State University Libraries a
substantial portion of this collection in 1941 and between 1965 and 1972. It
was catalogued as Cage 197. More recently, in 1990, Helen Addison Howard's
niece, Barbara Howard Finn, of Missoula, Montana, donated one linear foot of
related materials (accessioned as MS 90-61).
Robert W. Hadlow processed the 1990 accession and reprocessed Cage 197
in February and March 1994. Both collections are combined as Cage 197.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Howard, Helen Addison --Archives
Joseph, Nez Percé Chief, 1840-1904
Nez Percé Indians--Wars, 1877
Indians of
North America--Northwest, Pacific--Wars
Native Americans
Washington (State)
Idaho
Saga of Chief Joseph
War Chief Joseph
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1. Manuscripts of
Books
Manuscript of
War Chief Joseph
1
1
Introduction and Chapter
1
1
2
Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5
1
3
Chapters 6, 7, 8
1
4
Chapters 9, 10
1
5
Chapters 11, 12, 13,
14
1
6
Chapters 15, 16, 17,
18
1
7
Chapters 19, 20, 21,
22
1
8
Chapters 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
Appendix
1
9
Notes
1
10
Bibliography and
Index
Manuscript of
Saga of Chief Joseph
1
11
Introduction and Chapters 1, 2,
3
1
12
Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7
1
13
Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11,
12
1
14
Chapters 13, 14, 15,
16
1
15
Chapters 17, 18, 19,
20
2
16
Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27
2
17
Appendices, Bibliography,
Index, Revisions, etc.
Series 2. Correspondence and
Miscellaneous Items
2
18
The UY Ranch: Reminiscences of a Montana Stockman's Wife,
1912-1921, by Helen Addison Howard, Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University
Press
1989
2
19
Sales Brochure, Sunflower
University Press, listing
The UY Ranch.
1989
2
20
The Courier's Ordeal,
True West, photocopy
July-August 1966
2
21
A Divided Command Doomed The Nez Perces,
Frontier Times, photocopy
August-September 1967
2
22
The Puzzle of Baptiste Charbonneau,
Frontier Times, photocopy
June-July 1970
2
23
Did Chief Joseph Slay Mrs. Manuel?
Frontier Times, photocopy
December-January 1972
2
24
Original copies of preceding four
articles
Correspondence
2
25
War Chief Joseph,
1934-1949
2
26
Placemats, the Chief Coffee
Shop, Florence Hotel, Missoula, Montana
1954
2
27
Saga of Chief Joseph, book orders
1965
2
28
Copyright infringement
Hear Me, My Chiefs, NBC Radio Theatre
Production
1949
2
29
Copyrighting and Movie Rights
to
War Chief Joseph,
1952-1961
2
30
Grace Bartlett
1968-1972
2
31
Nettie Connell
1955
2
32
J. H. Horner
1941-1948
2
33
McGrath Family
1941-1945
2
34
Miscellaneous concerning
War Chief Joseph
2
35
Stephen Perry
Jocelyn
1947-1953
2
36
Lew L. Callaway
1947
2
37
Vilhjalmur
Stefansson
1953
2
38
M. Stubblefield, re:
War Chief Joseph
1941
2
39
E. Jurenne Poe
1961
2
40
Raymond R. Carlson
1962-1963
2
41
Miscellaneous
1947-1979
2
42
Newspaper Clippings
Series 3.
Maps,
Photographs,
Drawings
3
43
Miscellaneous Photographs and
Negatives used in Howard's books
3
44
Miscellaneous Drawings and Maps
used in Howard's books
3
45
Placemats, The Chief Coffee Shop,
the Florence Hotel, Missoula, Montana
1954