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Paul Schullery papers, 1974-2015

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Schullery, Paul
Title
Paul Schullery papers
Dates
1974-2015 (inclusive)
Quantity
31.25 linear feet
Collection Number
2490
Summary
The Paul Schullery Papers consist of correspondence, articles, manuscript materials, research, talks, reviews, and other assorted documents. Topics include bears, fly fishing, Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, and national parks.
Repository
Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions

Series 1-5 are restricted until the deaths of both Paul Schullery and Marsha Karle.

Much of Series 6, 7, and 8 is available for research; folders in these series that are restricted are marked as such individually.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Paul Schullery is a prominent western conservationist, writer, and scholar. Schullery was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania and lived for a time in Bozeman, Montana. He obtained his bachelor's degree in American History at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio in 1970 and Master's Degree in American History from Ohio University in 1977. In 1972, Schullery started to work for Yellowstone National Park as a seasonal ranger-naturalist, also working three winters as historian-archivist, during which time he completed his M.A. thesis (Ohio University, 1976) on Yellowstone's administrative archives. In 1977, he left Yellowstone National Park to work as the executive director of the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont. In 1982, Schullery moved to Livingston, Montana to work as an independent researcher and writer before returning to Pennsylvania in 1986, to work as an associate editor for County Journal Magazine. In 1988, Schullery returned to work for Yellowstone National Park until his retirement from the National Park Service in 2008. During this time, he held a series of positions for the park service working on writing and researching the parkand its management issues, as well as developing the park's publication program, including the quarterly journal Yellowstone Science, and launching the biennial scientific conference series on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In 1996, he became a part-time park service employee in order to spend more time pursuing his own research and writing projects. In 2003, he and his spouse, Marsha Karle, moved from Yellowstone to Bozeman, Montana, where Schullery continued to work part-time for the park service until his retirement in 2008. At various times Schullery has served as an advisor for a variety of organizations, institutions, and other educational enterprises such as: Montana State University Library, Florentine Films, the Science Museum of Minnesota, The International Fly Fishing Center, The Amon Carter Museum, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Montana Historical Society, BBC, Discovery Channel, the Museum of the Rockies, and more. Schullery is the author, co-author, or editor of more than fifty books and has received many awards including honorary doctorates from Montana State University and Ohio University. In 2009, he was named scholar in residence at Montana State University Library, a voluntary position Schullery still holds.

Many of Schullery's book-length works that relate to Yellowstone National Park, and the overwhelming majority of shorter works he prepared on that subject, were completed as part of his duties as an employee of the National Park Service (i.e., Schullery received no royalties or fees for this work beyond his routine salary, and retains no copyright to these works). This means that most of the administrative records relating to these works remain in the National Park Service's record systems under the appropriate Federal records-management schedules and procedures, and will not be found here. Thus, folders dedicated to some projects may be unexpectedly thin.

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Content Description

This collection is organized into 8 series: Articles, Manuscript Material, Post-Publishing Materials, Talks and Miscellaneous Material, Research Files, Bear Research Files, Fly Fishing Research, and Anglers A-Z. Series 1 includes articles, reviews, talks, and other pertinent documents authored by Schullery from 1975-2004. These articles range from topics on fly fishing, Yellowstone, biology wildlife history and ecology, conservation history, and more. Series 2 includes manuscript material pertaining to some of Schullery's many books in various editions, ranging from 1988-2010 including: If Fish Could Scream (2008), Old Yellowstone Days, second edition (2010), Nature and Culture at Fishing Bridge: A History of the Fishing Bridge Development in Yellowstone National Park (2010), The Rise (2006), The Orvis Story, second edition (2007), Mountain Time (UNM edition 2005), This High, Wild Country: A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (2010), Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park (2003) with co-author Lee Whittlesey, Old Yellowstone Days (1979), The Bears of Yellowstone (1992), A Trout's Best Friend (written with Bud Lilly) (1988), Royal Coachman: Adventures in the Fly Fisher's World (2007), Searching for Yellowstone (1997), Real Alaska (2001), America's National Parks: The Spectacular Forces that Shaped our Treasured Lands (2001), Fly Fishing Classics (a collection of 6 classics fly fishing literature collected and edited by Schullery), Lewis and Clark Among the Grizzlies (2002), and Hanging Valleys (2010). Series 3 pertains to the pre- and post-publishing administrative and editorial materials surrounding Schullery's manuscripts consisting of post-publishing royalty reports, correspondence with publishers, as well as correspondence with other authors pertaining to their own writing. Series 4 contains talks and miscellaneous material. The bulk of the series pertains to talks and presentations Schullery authored as well as material for classes (and potential classes) Schullery taught at Montana State University. Series 5 contains research files that primarily includes research on topics such as: national parks, Alaska/Yukon, Yellowstone, and Yukon British Columbia. Additionally, there are a collection of road maps--primarily road maps for national parks inside of the United States and British Columbia, Canada. Series 6 includes research pertaining to bears primarily in Montana, Wyoming, the Greater Yellowstone Area, and North America. The bulk of this material is scientific and historical research relating to bear populations, ecology, management and conservation, bear hunting histories, and folklore surrounding bears, educational material, and news reports. This series is broken into four sections, the final section of this series being material specifically related to exploratory research Schullery conducted for a fourth edition of his books The Bears of Yellowstone, which was never written. Series 7 contains research concerning fly fishing historical topics, bibliographies, research pertaining to the Federation of Fly Fishers and the American Museum of Fly Fishing, and articles written by various anglers on subjects relating to historical fishing practices such as: fly fishing ethics, angling techniques, equipment history and advancement, competitions, and more. Angler authors Norman Maclean, Bud Lilly, and Charles Orvis. Series 8 consists of a collection of essays and articles that pertain to prominent contemporary and historical fly fishing anglers. Authors include: Izaak Walton, Lee Wulff, Datus Proper, Charles Orvis, Norman Maclean, Bud Lilly, and Robert Haig-Brown.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Creator Name], [Date of Creation], [Brief Description of Object], Folder [#], Box [#], [Collection Name], [Collection #], Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Series 1 Articles

Series 2 Manuscript Material

Series 3 Post Publishing Materials

Series 4 Talks and Miscellaneous Material

Series 5 Research Files

Series 6 Bear Research for Publication

Series 7 Fly Fishing Research

Series 8 Fly Fishing Anglers A-Z

Acquisition Information

Articles, manuscript, as well as pre- and post-publishing materials, talks, research, and other documents created or collected by Paul Schullery were donated to Montana State University in two installments on June 14, 2004 and March 3, 2017.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2018 December 14

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Geographical Names

  • Montana

Kim Allen Scott
2019

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