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Stan Lynde papers, 1934-2012

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Lynde, Stan
Title
Stan Lynde papers
Dates
1934-2012 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.4 linear feet
Collection Number
MC 400 (collection)
Summary
This collection is comprised of materials created and collected by Stan Lynde, Helena resident, cartoonist, and writer. Series include biographical material, correspondence (1971-1991), printed material (1969-2008), subject files (1972-2011), writings (1996-2008), miscellany (1951-2012), clippings, and multi-media.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Myron Stanford "Stan" Lynde was born in Billings on September 23, 1931 to Myron and Eleanor Lynde. He was raised on his father's sheep ranch near Lodge Grass, and attended school there while helping out with day-to-day ranch operations. He attended the University of Montana, where he majored in journalism with a minor in art. Mr. Lynde left the university in 1951, however, enlisting in the Navy during the Korean War and serving on Guam for a time and later on a submarine based out of San Diego, California. He created and published the comic strip "Ty Phoon" for the Navy paper.

In 1958, his most popular comic strip, Rick O'Shay, was picked up by the Chicago Tribune; for the next twenty years he wrote and illustrated the comic for the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. In 1978, Mr. Lynde created a second strip, Latigo, which he illustrated from his home in Red Lodge until 1983. The following year, Mr. Lynde self-syndicated the cartoon series "Grass Roots."

After his retirement from cartooning in the mid-1980s, Mr. Lynde penned several novels, including those in the Merlin Fanshaw series, and a historical novel entitled "Vigilante Moon." Mr. Lynde co-founded and co-organized the "Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive," and was a recipient of the "Inkpot" Award for achievement in the comic arts, and the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts. He married his wife, Lynda Brown, in 1989. Mr. Lynde passed away August 6th, 2013.

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Content Description

This collection is comprised of materials created and collected by Stan Lynde, Helena resident, cartoonist, and writer. Series include biographical material; correspondence (1971-1991), including fan mail; printed material (1969-2008), much of which concerns advertising for his publishing company, Cottonwood Publishing; subject files (1972-2011); writings (1996-2008), including drafts of several of Mr. Lynde's Western novels; miscellany (1951-2012), clippings, and multi-media.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by series. Correspondence arranged by Business, Personal, Fan Mail and Out-going. Each type arranged chronologically.

Location of Collection

17:5-1

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request.

Processing Note

Processed in 2013 with additional material added in 2014 and 2017.

Separated Materials

Artifacts transferred to Museum. Photographs transferred to Photo Archives. Consult program. for more information.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • Biographical Material

    • Description: Promotional biographical material, etc.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Biographical Material

  • General correspondence

    • Description: "Business" (correspondents include: Chuck Shonkwiler, Hank Raduta, Scotty Campbell, John T. Campbell, Dedo Weigert, and Cassandra Stump)
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Business" (correspondents include: William R. Morse, Terry Bass, Charlotte Riis, Ronnene Anderson, Ann Soehrmann, Margaret Taylor, and Ethel Gomendi)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Business" (correspondents include: Louie Nordbye, Peter Gorner, Claxton B. Seely, Glenny Bryant, and Robert Wilson)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Business" (correspondents include: Shirley Pokorny, William R. Morse, James Cobaugh, Hal Stearns, Jack Tonkovich, and George Virgines)
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Business" (correspondents include: R.O. Blomquist, James Wempner, Ellie Posey, Anita Miller, Bruce MacIntyre, Leo Behnke, Vergil Lindsey, Robert McAfee, and Deean Leckie)
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Business" (correspondents include: Julie Ralston, Jackie Maack, C.E. Kloos, Joe Johnston, Gregory Corarito, Diane Redekopp, Judi Layman, Robert S. Reed, and Diane Lowney)
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Bob Hill, Bob Swanson, Ada Currie, Carl Kloos, William Ukrainetz, Louis Dufresne, Roger Harris, Ed Vrening, Judie Hickey, Marguerite Beeshy, and Anthony Thormin)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Paul Nix, Bob and Diane Hubbs, Ken Sheckler, Robert T. Johnson, Al Krieg, Louis Lassabatere, Mary P. Goodwin, Nicholas V. De Gaetano, and Phillip Grazide)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Clovia Gallegos, Tom Eaton, Craig Yoe, Judy Carr, George Phelan, Helen Pape, Jerry Muller, and Lester H. Loble II)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Johnnie Taylor, Charles Bennett, S. Gene Benefield, Robert Koschel, John Krieg, Verne Martell, J. Lynn Blystone, and Lynn Lilliston)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Jim Sloan, Olin Ashley, Terry Givens, Dean Arthur, Ken Riggins, Sharon Kelly, Nancy Holtz, W.R. Vaiden, and Clair Wagner)
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Harry Owens, Jerry Clute, Stuart Johnson, Jack Hamm, R.J. Flood, Robert Seely, Norm O'Bryan, Luann Heid, Tim Hankel, Suzanne Brist, Dick Luety, Scott Peterson, Raymond Rond, Porter Taggart, and Paul Hartunian)
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Fan Mail" (correspondents include: Virginia Segvich, Stephen Makara, Byron Grosfield, Robert E. Summers, Carl Horah, George Quigley, Patricia McBride, Leroy Donovan, Joey Crisafulli, Madeline Boyer, Clair Wagner, Charles McGarrill, and N.E. Olson)
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: [Out-going] (correspondents to parents Myron and Elanor Lynde)
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Out-going" (correspondents include: Steve Collins, Carl Knispel, H. Burke, Randy Capp, Art Babbitt, Wendy Crum, Lee Rice, Lois Murray, Raymond Edwards, and Gregory Smith)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Out-going" (correspondents include: Verne Martel, Jud Hurd, Leo Carr, Cecelia Swensen, Robert Roth, Ray W. King, Rodney Russell, A.J. Maier, and Arlene Bryak)
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Out-going" (correspondents include: Douglas Stuart, E.A. Rockwood, Matt Konar, Judd Witman, Bert Greener, Charles Stauffer, Cara Bell Jones, Linda Countryman, E.R. Sitton, Leroy Donovan, and Milton W. Dye]
      Dates: 1975-1976
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Personal" (correspondents include: Chet Bentley, Ed Malone, Myron Lynde, Jack Bogut, Dale Burk, Mark Lynde, Richard Lynde, Bill Christiansen, Willard Fraser, Julie Williams, Carlo Chendi, and Art Babbitt)
      Dates: 1971-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Personal" (correspondents include: Dorothy Johnson, Buford Kratz, Myrtle Mockel, Sharon Lynde, Robert Wilson, Howard Lowery, Nancy Coiner, and Chet Bentley, Lorreta Lynde, Rich Lynde)
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Personal" (correspondents include: Milton Caniff, Edward Keating, Dorothy Johnson, Gordon Bess, Daniel G. Miller, C.E. Kloos, Don Galloway, Harry J. Owens, Randy Beihl, Thomas L. Judge, Lee H. Simmons, Robert Hagstrom, Reverend Carl E. Rohr, and Reverend Ronald Rademacher)
      Dates: 1975-1976, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Out-going" (correspondents include: Stan Lynde)
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Christmas Newsletter" (correspondents include: Donald Petterson, Dale Ranch, Skip Anderson, and Lynda Lynde)
      Dates: 1996, 2012
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: "Rick O'Shay's 'Sundays'" (correspondents include: DeAndrea Davis Folster)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: Letter from Charlton Heston's wife, Lydia
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: Miscellany (correspondents include: Stanford Lynde, Ernest Litch, James C. Birchby, and Lynda Lynde, Margaret Robertus)
      Dates: 1949-2000, 2011
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6-7
      Location: General correspondence
    • Description: Denney Neville
      Dates: 1970-1998
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: General correspondence

  • Printed Material

    • Description: Advertising
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: American Artist Business Letter
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: The Bodacious Kid - Advertising [Cottonwood Publishing]
      Dates: 1991-1996
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Coffee Cup art work
      Dates: 1991-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Cottonwood Clarion Fall 1996 Newsletter, Laura Wahl
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Grass Roots Promotional Material
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: Printed Material
    • Description: Various Articles on Stan
      Dates: 1969-2008
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: Printed Material

  • Subject Files

    • Description: The Bodacious Kid - [Planning] Workbook
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Centennial Wagon Train Wagon Camp Layout"
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Cottonwood Graphics - New Catalog
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fall 1996 Newsletter and Promo
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Invite letters - Sample of School Letters sent w/ ornaments
      Dates: 2006-2011
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Al Herem - Saddle papers
      Dates: 2001-2008
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Hipshot tin cup and cowboy coffee
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Hipshot - Art work
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Island Lake Ranch
      Dates: 1972-1973
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: National Miss Indian American Pageant, Judging materials
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Newsletters and Copy
      Dates: 1991-1995
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Spur Award
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Stan notes and art
      Dates: 1991-1994, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Stan's Speeches
      Dates: 1974, 1994
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Wahl, Laura
      Dates: 1996-1997
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Denney Neville
      Dates: 1976, 1990, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 16
      Location: Subject Files

  • Writings

    • Description: "Careless Creek" [publishing proof]
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 17
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Bodacious Kid" [publishing proof]
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 18
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Pardners, Book Two: The Legacy"[draft notes]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Vendetta Canyon"
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
      Location: Writings

  • Miscellany

    • Description: Advertising, Ad copy
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Buck and Betsy" (pen and paper drawings)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Art, originals
      Dates: 1991-1996
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Cottonwood Graphics, Inc - Business Plan
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Historical Miscellany
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: John 11:25 Artwork
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Maps
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Memorabilia (includes city of Helena proclamation declaring September 6, 2013 as Stan Lynde Day)
      Dates: 1951-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Post card and screen saver art
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 11
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Rick O'Shay promotional material
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Footloose and Fancy Free"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 13
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Diary
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box/Folder 8A / 3
      Location: Miscellany

  • Clippings

    • Description: Artist reference shots/clippings, including: animals, men and women - poses, "Indians," "gauchos," soldiers, mining/miners, wagons, trains/railroads, weapons
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 14
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Newspaper clippings, some cartoon strips, etc.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 15
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Stan and Linda Thanksgiving, Wedding (Personal Videos, VHS)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Cattle Drive, "End of Trail"
      Dates: 1988-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Arapaho fire, Good Morning Houston
      Dates: 1990-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Old West Mercantile, Weeknight Edition
      Dates: 1991-1995
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Interview on KFBB-TV, Face the State
      Dates: 1995 September-December
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Newswatch 26, Public TV, KPAX
      Dates: 1995 December -1998
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Arts on the Air, Sunday Night News, Fox 10 News
      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, Cassettes/DVDs; Audiobooks
      Dates: 1995-2012
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: VHS Videos: Rick O'Shay Sample Animation, "The Stan Lynde Story"
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: TV Spots, VHS: Texas News, Total Factory Direct, Production West
      Dates: circa 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 8A / 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: VHS Videos: KRTV
      Dates: 1992 December
      Container: Box/Folder 8A / 2
      Location: Clippings

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Subject Terms

  • Artists--Montana
  • Cartoonists--United States--History
  • Fanshaw, Merlin (Fictitious character)

Personal Names

  • Lynde, Stan (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Helena (Mont.)

Finding aid prepared by Rachel Lilley
2013

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