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Edison Engle Papers, 1948-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Engle, Ed 1950-
Title
Edison Engle Papers
Dates
1948-2006
Quantity
3 linear feet
Collection Number
Collection 2613, MtBC, us (collection)
Summary
The Edison Engle Papers consists primarily of published and unpublished articles, stories, poems, and books.
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

This collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Edison (Ed) Engle was born in 1950 in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended Michigan State University and the University of Colorado where he was granted a B.A. in Biological Sciences. Engle’s occupations and interests include newspaper reporter, author, fire fighter, poet, hunter, outdoorsman, timber crew foreman, and avid angler. He has spent most of his life working outdoors in some capacity. Engle is the author of several books on fly fishing and the outdoors that include Fishing Small Flies, Flyfishing the Tailwaters, and Seasonal: A Life Outside. He is an accomplished speaker and dedicated conservationist.

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Content Description

The Edison Engle Papers consists primarily of published and unpublished articles, stories, poems, and books. Additional materials include photographs, artwork, and correspondence with longtime friend John Gierach in Box 7; additional information on Gierach can be found in Collection 2612. An interview by Engle detailing his life as an angler can be found in the Montana State University Angling Oral History Project.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Published and unpublished articles, stories, poems, books, photographs, artwork, and correspondence created or collected by Ed Engle to Montana State University May 2016.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2019 April 1

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Poetry - Salida
    Container: Box/Folder 1/1
  • Description: Poetry - Untitled
    Container: Box/Folder 1/2
  • Description: Poetry

    By various authors Riverrun 6, LOS a Quarterly review, The 9, The 10, The 11, The 12, and Riverrun 5.

    Container: Box/Folder 1/3
  • Description: Poetry

    By various authors Nine Apples, Ordinary Poets, All Things are revealed by light, A miracle of cross-breeding, The Cold Spring journal, Colorado Daily October 27, 1972, and Longhouse.

    Container: Box/Folder 1/4
  • Description: Typed and handwritten poetry - Older Mature Poems
    Dates: 1972-1975
    Container: Box/Folder 1/5
  • Description: Typed poetry - Rejects and Doubles
    Container: Box/Folder 1/6
  • Description: Poetry
    Dates: 1977
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7
  • Description: Poetry
    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: Poetry - handwritten and typed
    Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  • Description: Draft: The Elements of Style
    Container: Box/Folder 2/1
  • Description: Draft: Rising Trout
    Container: Box/Folder 2/2
  • Description: Partial typed draft: Rising Trout chapter 1
    Container: Box/Folder 2/3
  • Description: Draft: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters
    Container: Box/Folder 2/4
  • Description: Draft chapters and correspondence: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters
    Container: Box/Folder 2/5
  • Description: Research notes and articles: Tailwater Tech-Regulated Rivers-Tailwaters
    Container: Box/Folder 2/6
  • Description: Typed drafts: Outdoor Column
    Dates: 1988-1994
    Container: Box/Folder 2/7
  • Description: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photo

    Note from Ed’s mother containing items she found in fathers old desk including details of college expenses and clipping of newspaper articles written by Ed; studio photo of Ed’s parents.

    Container: Box/Folder 2/8
  • Description: Lists, pamphlet, correspondence, paper

    Texas Fly Fishing Facts and Resources List; Pamphlet from Campaign Against Marijuana Planting State of California; Letter to parents with poetry publication; brief publication history and publication list; paper titled Letters in Support of a Co-Claim.

    Container: Box/Folder 2/9
  • Description: U.S. Forest Service work history forms
    Container: Box/Folder 2/10
  • Description: Draft, diagrams, logbook, and correspondence

    Untitled story draft; Casting diagrams titled Downstream, Mending, Across and Down; pilot logbook dated September 8, 1948; letters written to New Yorker magazine proposing articles.

    Dates: September 8, 1948
    Container: Box/Folder 2/11
  • Description: Typed story: The Hunter is the Prey
    Container: Box/Folder 2/12
  • Description: Splitting Bamboo - slides and photographs

    Named individuals include Casimira Orlowski, Jeff Wagner, Don Schroeder, Dwight Lyons, George Maurer, Glenn Brackett, Homer Jennings, Jim Hidy, Joe Arguello, John Bradford, Mike Clark, Robert Gorman, Ted Knott, and Walt Carpenter.

    Container: Box/Folder 3/1
  • Description: Splitting Cane - interview transcripts
    Container: Box/Folder 3/2
  • Description: Spitting Cane - Memorabilia, Photographs, correspondence, and research note
    Container: Box/Folder 3/3
  • Description: Articles

    Colorado Springs Sun, August 29, 1979 “Arkansas will only improve” and “State of a dying art”; Colorado Springs Sun, May 10, 1979 “Foothills Project precedent could effect city” and “Caddisfly Hatch a spring Spectacular”; Colorado Springs Sun, May 17, 1979 “You win some, you lose some”, “Energy and land can work together”, “If at first the fish won’t bite, try another tactic”; The Durango Herald, July 7, 1985 “Fishing the High Lakes”; Typed article titled Fishing Column June 24, 1988; and Photocopy of “History of the Engle Family”.

    Dates: August 29, 1979; May 10, 1979; May 17, 1979; July 7, 1985; June 24, 1988
    Container: Box/Folder 3/4
  • Description: Boulder Daily Camera articles
    Dates: 1988-1995
    Container: Box/Folder 3/5
  • Description: Colorado Springs Sun clippings
    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box/Folder 3/6
  • Description: Colorado Sun columns
    Dates: 1979-1980
    Container: Box/Folder 3/7
  • Description: Newspaper clippings
    Container: Box/Folder 4/1
  • Description: Durango Herald columns
    Container: Box/Folder 4/2
  • Description: Colorado Springs Sun article clippings
    Dates: 1978
    Container: Box/Folder 4/3
  • Description: Colorado Springs Sun article clippings
    Dates: 1981-1982
    Container: Box/Folder 4/4
  • Description: Drafts, notes, maps, brochures

    Draft writings titled Fire, research notes on California wildfires, maps, and camping brochures.

    Container: Box/Folder 4/5
  • Description: Correspondence, song sheet, case study

    Correspondence, 1987-1997; Handwritten song sheet “Hot Dusty Roads; case study Wildland/Urban Interface Fire.

    Dates: 1987-1997
    Container: Box/Folder 4/6
  • Description: The Hill Country Rivers - typed drafts, final article, and related correspondence
    Container: Box/Folder 4/7
  • Description: Fishing the Texas Hill Country - notes, articles, clippings, and correspondence
    Container: Box/Folder 4/8
  • Description: Editor correspondence
    Dates: 1989-1992
    Container: Box/Folder 4/9
  • Description: Colorado AGS Guide School
    Dates: 2002-2006
    Container: Box/Folder 4/10
  • Description: Article drafts and correspondence
    Dates: 1982-1986
    Container: Box/Folder 4/11
  • Description: Correspondence and research notes: Seasonal
    Container: Box/Folder 5/1
  • Description: Authors proof: Seasonal
    Container: Box/Folder 5/2
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Night Jars and related correspondence
    Container: Box/Folder 5/3
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Mountain Running
    Container: Box/Folder 5/4
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Glade Station
    Container: Box/Folder 5/5
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Rough Canyon
    Container: Box/Folder 5/6
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Monica
    Container: Box/Folder 5/7
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter preface
    Container: Box/Folder 5/8
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter The Tree Planters
    Container: Box/Folder 5/9
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Timber Beast
    Container: Box/Folder 5/10
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Old Growth
    Container: Box/Folder 5/11
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Glorious Misery
    Container: Box/Folder 5/12
  • Description: Typed drafts: Seasonal Chapter Medicine
    Container: Box/Folder 5/13
  • Description: Chapter proofs: Seasonal
    Container: Box/Folder 5/14
  • Description: Photocopied articles

    Fly-Fishing Mistakes That Guides See, Canyon Trout, The Excellent Art of Fishing Small Streams, Midges Made Easy, Belly-Boat Basics, Striking, Fishing Dry Flies, and Nymphing.

    Container: Box/Folder 5/15
  • Description: Notes and draft chapters: Lonesome Angler
    Container: Box/Folder 6/1
  • Description: Typed draft: Lonesome Angler
    Container: Box/Folder 6/2
  • Description: Typed story: National Defense
    Container: Box/Folder 6/3
  • Description: Typed story: Cutts
    Container: Box/Folder 6/4
  • Description: Typed story: Woooo-eee Baby
    Container: Box/Folder 6/5
  • Description: Typed drafts: An Army of Occupation

    Letter and with notes on story from John Gierach

    Container: Box/Folder 6/6
  • Description: Typed drafts: Making Waves
    Container: Box/Folder 6/7
  • Description: Typed drafts: High Lakes Savvy
    Container: Box/Folder 6/8
  • Description: Typed paper: Troutist and Troutist Chapter Synopsis
    Container: Box/Folder 6/9
  • Description: Handwritten story: Eyes Only
    Container: Box/Folder 6/10
  • Description: Typed story: Humidity
    Container: Box/Folder 6/11
  • Description: Fishing Small Flies: Chapter Outline
    Container: Box/Folder 6/12
  • Description: Diagrams, Correspondence, and notes: Fishing Small Flies
    Container: Box/Folder 6/13
  • Description: Typed draft: First and The Main Channel
    Container: Box/Folder 6/14
  • Description: Typed and handwritten stories

    untitled stories and story titled An Old Tale

    Container: Box/Folder 6/15
  • Description: Typed draft: Fundamentals of Casting
    Container: Box/Folder 6/16
  • Description: Typed drafts: Wood; Puma’s and Poodles; The Older Americans
    Container: Box/Folder 6/17
  • Description: Typed drafts: untitled stories
    Container: Box/Folder 6/18
  • Description: Miscellaneous research notes
    Container: Box/Folder 6/19
  • Description: Correspondence with John Gierach
    Dates: 1992-2006
    Container: Box/Folder 7/1
  • Description: Correspondence from John Gierach
    Container: Box/Folder 7/2-3
  • Description: Article and poetry

    Article “Some letters are worth keeping” by John Gierach; poetry by John Gierach Signs of Life and The Neighborhood Stranger

    Container: Box/Folder 7/4
  • Description: John Gierach poetry

    The Great Horned Owl, Migrations and Motel Thought in the 70’s

    Container: Box/Folder 7/5
  • Description: Drafts: untitled story
    Container: Box/Folder 7/6
  • Description: Typed manuscripts

    How to buy flies; O’Toole’s Pool; Beaver Pond Trout; Aspen; Incantations of a Western Stand Hunter; John and I with attached letter from Gray’s Sporting Journal; The Great Lead Controversy; Why Catch and Release?; Untitled story; and Sample Column.

    Container: Box/Folder 7/7
  • Description: Articles

    The National Angler, March 1982; Fishing World, October 1982; `Colorado Outdoor, Spring 1986; Colorado Outdoor, Summer 1986; Colorado Outdoor, Fall 1986

    Dates: March 1982; October 1982; Spring 1986; Summer 1986; Fall 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 8/1
  • Description: Articles

    Rocky Mountain Sportsman, January 1987; Colorado Outdoor, Winter 1986; Colorado Outdoor, Spring 1987; Colorado Outdoor, June 1987

    Dates: January 1987; Winter 1986; Spring 1987; June 1987
    Container: Box/Folder 8/2
  • Description: Articles

    Colorado Outdoor, August 1987; Scientific Anglers, Fall 1987; Trout, Autumn 1987; Durango Magazine, Summer 1988

    Dates: August 1987; Fall 1987; Autumn 1987; Summer 1988
    Container: Box/Folder 8/3
  • Description: Articles

    Sports Afield, September and January 1990 and May 1991; American Forests, October 1991; Flyfishing Quarterly, Fall 1991

    Dates: September 1990; January 1990; May 1991; October 1991; Fall 1991
    Container: Box/Folder 8/4
  • Description: Articles

    American Forests, January 1992; Sports Afield, February 1992; Game Journal, July 1992; Flyfishing Quarterly, Fall 1992; American Hunter, December 1992

    Dates: January 1992; February 1992; July 1992; Fall 1992; December 1992
    Container: Box/Folder 8/5
  • Description: Articles

    Fly Fishing for Trout, Spring 1993; Sports Afield, June 1993; Sports Afield, February 1994; Front Range, Summer 1995

    Dates: Spring 1993; June 1993; February 1994; Summer 1995
    Container: Box/Folder 8/6
  • Description: Articles

    Fly Fishing for Trout, Spring 1996; Fly Fisherman Japanese Edition, Spring 1997; Front Range, Summer 1997

    Dates: Spring 1996; Spring 1997; Summer 1997
    Container: Box/Folder 8/7
  • Description: Calendars and story draft

    Calendars: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000; draft: Untitled story

    Dates: 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1998; 1999; 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 9/1
  • Description: CD’s

    Trout Lessons Photos; Trout Lessons Manuscript, digital photos, captions; Trout Lessons Final Copy Manuscript, digital photos, captions; Trout Lessons Chapter Photos

    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Microcassettes

    Maurer - March 2001 and May 1996; Rosenlund and August 3, 2001 Camera; Wayne Maca; Gorman and Pat Dorsey; Apache Cults

    Dates: March 2001; May 1996; August 3, 2001
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: 3.5 inch hard disks
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Fly Boxes

    Small round case “Flies for book” and compartment case with individually labeled flies

    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Drawings

    Drawings for Spilling Cane number D1-D12 and D14-D21, 3 unlabeled, 1 photo of drawings and letter dated Nov 15, 2002 speaking to use of drawings in book.

    Container: Box Oversize

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