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Collection 0811, MtBC, us
Kraenzel, Margaret Powell,
1899-1988
Margaret Powell Kraenzel
Manuscripts
1957-1960
.1 linear feet
The Margaret Powell Kraenzel manuscripts consist of original
manuscript drafts of essays, articles, and a book. The manuscripts pertain to Montana,
travel and description of Iran and its people, and Kraenzel’s own childhood.
Collection materials are in English
Biographical Note
Margaret Powell Kraenzel was born on September 14, 1899, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the
daughter of John Walker and Sarah Louise (Pettay) Powell. She married Carl Frederick
Kraenzel on June 6, 1930 and the couple had four children, Sarah Janet, Frederick, Theodore,
and James. She attended the University of California and Wellesley College before obtaining
her librarian certificate from the University of Wisconsin, in 1923. Kraenzel worked as a
librarian in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, and at Elmhurst College prior to her work as
an instructor of English at Montana State College in Bozeman in 1945. She lived in Iran when
her husband was working for the Near East Foundation from 1959 to 1961. She wrote articles
and poetry for magazines and at least three books, including
The
Mouse Gray Stallion (Bobbs-Merrill, 1957) using the pen name "Wallace Blue."
Margaret Kraenzel died on November 3, 1988, near her home in Groveland, California.
The literary manuscripts in this collection represent seven works by Kraenzel regarding
Montana, travel and description of Iran and its people, and her own childhood. Two articles,
"Happy Birthday" and "The Weight Lifter of Iran" have two draft versions, both bearing
marginal corrections. The manuscript for
The Mouse Gray
Stallion also has the original galleys for the book placed in a separate folder.
All manuscripts bear correction notes and have been arranged alphabetically by title.
This collection is open for research.
Original mansucript drafts of essays, articles, and a book written by Margaret Powell
Kraenzel were donated to Montana State University in 1970 by Doris Wilson of Bozeman,
Montana. They were reported in 1979 to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
and assigned accession number 79-672.
This collection was processed 2012 December 5
Kraenzel, Margaret Powell,
1899-1988 -- Archives
Blue, Wallace,
1899-1988
Iran -- Description and
travel
Montana -- Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century --
Archives
American literature -- West (U.S.)
Galley proofs
Manuscripts for publication
Women authors, American
Children and
Youth
Literature
Publishers and
Publishing
Women
Montana
1/1
"Dear Roderick"
1/2
"Happy Birthday"
1/3
"The House on Center Street"
1/4
"Iran's Most Valued Citizen"
1/5
"Maydana Kakh"
1/6
The Mouse Gray Stallion
1/7
The Mouse Gray Stallion (galley)
1/8
"The Weight Lifter of Iran"