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Finding Aid of the Nancy C. Wood Papers, 1950-2011

University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research

Email: cswrref@unm.edu
URL: http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/

Funding provided by: University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies.

© 2012

The University of New Mexico



Collection Summary

Title Nancy C. Wood Papers
Dates (Inclusive) 1954-2011
Creator Wood, Nancy C.
Abstract This collection primarily contains writings, research, and correspondence, spanning Nancy Wood’s fifty year career as a professional writer.
Collection Number MSS 888 BC
Size 30 Boxes (27.5 cu. ft.)
Repository University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research
Languages English

Biography / History

Nancy Wood was born in 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey. She moved to Fort Carson, Colorado in 1958 and it was here that the landscape and environment first captured her soul. In 1962, she met Roy Stryker who became her artistic teacher. Roy Stryker managed the photography movement of the Farm Security Administration, and he enlisted Nancy to help him compile a book of FSA photos that depicted the happier, hopeful side of the Great Depression. In 1973, their joint editorial collaboration, In This Proud Land, was published. Although it would be over 10 years after meeting Stryker that Nancy would pick up the camera in a professional capacity, Stryker taught her the art of seeing.

In 1961, Nancy married photographer Myron Wood and they collaborated on projects together, with her writing the narrative and he providing original photographs. It was in 1962 that Nancy began to write magazine articles and children’s books. Her first children’s book, a collaboration with Myron Wood entitled Little Wrangler, was published in 1966. Writing children’s books soon expanded into writing books of poetry, short novels, and narratives for her own photographic work. Her second book, Hollering Sun, was a book of poetry written after spending time at Taos Pueblo. Nancy’s time at Taos Pueblo would have a tremendous impact on her life.

Roy Stryker may have been Nancy’s artistic teacher, but her spiritual teacher was Taos Pueblo elder Red Willow Dancing. While still living in Colorado, Nancy began to write about Taos Pueblo and its spirituality. Her own religious views shifted from devout Roman Catholicism to the religiosity of the Taos people, which involved a profound sensitivity to nature. In 1984, she left Colorado and moved to Taos, New Mexico where she photographed Taos Pueblo and its people for five years. She was to write nine books on Taos over the years, which she has described as a “kind and loving tribute" to the Taos people.

Her writing and photography over the last 45 years has yielded 32 books, all influenced by the real situations, people, and environment of the West. Her work focuses on the grassroots of many Western regions and peoples such as Colorado, the Utes, Taos, Pueblo, Pie Town, and rural New Mexico. Nancy's four children are: Karen Alison, Christopher Keith, Eleanor Kathryn, and India Hart. Nancy passed away on March 12, 2013 at her home in Santa Fe, NM, as a result of cancer.

Her awards include: the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Photography Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (2008) for Eye of the West, the finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award (2005) for Old Coyote, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award (2005, 1998), the Zia Award (2005), the Frank Waters Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), the Lee Bennett Hopkins Children's Poetry Award (1994) for Spirit Walker, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Literature (1987) for The Soledad Crucifixion, the Pulitzer Prize Nominee for musical adaptation of poetry (1976) for War Cry on a Prayer Feather, and she was the finalist for the Southwest Book Award (2009) for We Became As Mountains.


Arrangement

5 series:

Awards, Grants, Publicity

Correspondence

Research, Notes, Clippings, and Articles

Full Length Manuscripts

Audio Recordings


Scope and Content

This collection is organized into five series: Awards, Grants, Publicity; Correspondence; Research, Notes, Clippings, and Articles; Full-Length Manuscripts; and Audio Recordings.

Awards, Grants, Publicity: This series includes the application materials Wood assembled for various grants, including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Wood was awarded a substantial grant from the Colorado Bicentennial Commission in 1976 to fund Grassroots People; in 1987 the Museum of New Mexico awarded her a large grant to support her Taos Pueblo photography; and she won an NEA fellowship in literature in 1988 for “The Soledad Crucifixion" (published as Soledad in 2012). Her unsuccessful 1974 Guggenheim application would have funded an historical novel on Taos Pueblo. The series also includes materials from a 2012 NEA application which would fund a narrative poem on the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico.

Correspondence: This series holds materials that reflect Wood’s professional and personal life. This series is subdivided into: Publishers; Agents; General; Appraisers/Collectors; and Teaching. Included are letters sent to Wood and carbons of letters written by Wood. Several folders contain correspondence between Wood and her agent and close friend Marie Rodell.

Research, Notes, Clippings, and Articles: Wood wrote and sold a number of articles in the 1960’s and early 1970’s before focusing exclusively on books. Most of the articles are about Colorado towns and Western themes. Subjects include environmental issues like deforestation, cattle ranching, nuclear energy, and radioactive pollution. Wood collaborated with members of the Sierra Club to publish articles about conservation and the timber industry. Wood published several profiles of Colorado cowboys and wild horses. This series includes one oversized box containing scrapbooks with Wood’s early work for the Beachcomber and the New York Times.

Manuscripts - Full Length: Ms. Wood’s work includes fiction, non-fiction, photography, children’s literature, poetry and an edited collection. Full length manuscripts are arranged chronologically. Wood collaborated with her photographer-husband Myron Wood on her first three books. The manuscripts are: Central City: A Ballad of the West; Little Wrangler; Colorado: Big Mountain Country; The Last Five Dollar Baby; Hollering Sun; Clearcut: The Deforestation of America; Many Winters; In This Proud Land; The King of Liberty Bend; The Man Who Gave Thunder to the Earth; The Grass Roots People; War Cry on a Prayer Feather; When Buffalo Free the Mountains; Heartland New Mexico; Taos Pueblo; Spirit Walker; Dancing Moons; The Girl Who Loved Coyotes; Shaman’s Circle; The Serpent’s Tongue; Sacred Fire; Thunderwoman; How the Tiny People Grew Tall; Mr. and Mrs. God; Old Coyote; Eye of the West; We Became as Mountains.

Correspondence with Roy Stryker is included with manuscript material for In This Proud Land, which was a collaboration between Wood and Stryker. Wood’s most well-known publication treating her experience on the Ute Indian Reservation is When Buffalo Free the Mountains. Several of her publications were deeply influenced by her relationships with several members of the Taos Pueblo; most well-known is the book of photography, Taos Pueblo. The libel suit brought against Wood for her work on the Ute people can be found among the materials for War Cry on a Prayer Feather, one of two books that she wrote on the Ute.

Audio Recordings: This series contains oral histories with members of the Taos Pueblo and with FSA photographers. Included are interviews with John Collier, Jr. and Russell Lee, as well as an oral history with Ms. Wood dated February 9, 2012.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. Anyone seeking rights or permissions should contact Info@NancyWood.com. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws.


Preferred Citation

Nancy C. Wood Papers (MSS 888), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico Libraries


Processing Information

There is no box 12. Audio tapes were re-formatted to CD in March, 2012. CD 17, CD 23, and CD 26 were inaudible and therefore discarded.

Inquire with reference staff for access to unprocessed addition - 77 boxes, B3-13A.


Separated Material

Archival CDs are stored in B3.

Book titled "A Treatise on Auricular Confession", Raphael Melia, 1865 (used by Wood in her research for "Soledad.") removed for preservation and cataloguing.


Related Material

Nancy C. Wood Photograph Collection, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.


Access Terms

Authors, American – 20th century

Children's stories, American

Clearcutting -- United States

Collier, John, 1913-1992 -- Interviews

Colorado -- Description and travel

Colorado -- Social life and customs

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Juvenile fiction

Indians of North America – New Mexico

Land use -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)

Lee, Russell 1903-1986 -- Interviews

Letters

Manuscripts

New Mexico -- Rural conditions -- Pictorial works

New Mexico -- Social life and customs

Pueblo Indians -- Juvenile literature

Pueblo Indians -- Juvenile poetry

Research grants

Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs

Sound recordings

Southwest, New -- Juvenile fiction

Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975 -- Correspondence

Taos Indians

Taos Pueblo (N.M.)

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Pictorial works

United States -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works

Ute Indians -- Colorado

West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions

West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs

Women authors, American – 20th century

Wood, Myron

Wood, Nancy C.


Contents List

Awards/Grants/Publicity/Biographical  1954-2009

Description Container

Awards  1981-2005

Box 1 Folder 1

Curricula Vitae  1976-2006

Box 1 Folder 2

Grants  1975-1981

Box 1 Folder 3

Grants  1990-1993

Box 1 Folder 4

Guggenheim  1973

Box 1 Folder 5

NEA  2012

Box 1 Folder 6

Letters of Support  2008

Box 1 Folder 7

Nancy Wood Lifetime Collection  2006

Box 1 Folder 8

Publicity  1963-1973

Box 1 Folder 9

Publicity  1971-1980

Box 1 Folder 10

Publicity  1981-1989

Box 1 Folder 11

Publicity  1990-1999

Box 1 Folder 12

Publicity  2000-2010

Box 1 Folder 13

B&W copy negative of Wood with child; Wood's 1954 High School Yearbook; religious ephemera  1954

Box 1 Folder 14

Correspondence  1965-2010

Publishers 

Description Container

American Heritage  1970-1971

Box 2 Folder 1

Atlantic Monthly  1973-1974

Box 2 Folder 2

Audubon  1969-1970

Box 2 Folder 3

Barefoot Books  2003

Box 2 Folder 4

Candlewick  1999-2005

Box 2 Folder 5

Candlewick  2004

Box 2 Folder 6

Candlewick - Contracts  1999-2006

Box 2 Folder 7

Colorado Magazine  1965-66

Box 2 Folder 8

Curtis Brown  1980-1984

Box 2 Folder 9

Curtis Brown  2003-2004

Box 2 Folder 10

Denver Post  1968-1974

Box 2 Folder 11

Doubleday  1965-1972

Box 2 Folder 12

Doubleday  1974-1983

Box 2 Folder 13

Empire  1983

Box 2 Folder 14

Harper & Row  1971-1983

Box 2 Folder 15

Knopf  1988-1990

Box 2 Folder 16

New York Graphic  1973-1977

Box 2 Folder 17

The New York Times  1966-1970

Box 2 Folder 18

Pearson  2009

Box 2 Folder 19

Photo Researchers  1980-1983

Box 2 Folder 20

Reader's Digest  1965-1967

Box 2 Folder 21

Saturday Evening Post  1967-1968

Box 2 Folder 22

Simon & Schuster  1971-1981

Box 2 Folder 23

Sunstone Press  2007

Box 2 Folder 24

Tailwinds  1982-1984

Box 2 Folder 25

Tuttle Mori - Japan  2003

Box 2 Folder 26

Unbridled Books  2005

Box 2 Folder 27

UNM Press  2006-2007

Box 2 Folder 28

Agents 

Description Container

Anderson, Kathy  2004

Box 3 Folder 2

Book Doctors  2003

Box 3 Folder 3

Chenery, Janet  1982-1984

Box 3 Folder 4

Nicholson, George  2002

Box 3 Folder 5

Rodell, Marie  1965

Box 3 Folder 6

Rodell, Marie  1966

Box 3 Folder 7

Rodell, Marie  1967

Box 3 Folder 8

Rodell, Marie  1968

Box 3 Folder 9

Rodell, Marie  1969

Box 3 Folder 10

Rodell, Marie  1970

Box 3 Folder 11

Rodell, Marie  1971

Box 3 Folder 12

Rodell, Marie  1972

Box 3 Folder 13

Rodell, Marie  1973

Box 3 Folder 14

Rodell, Marie  1974

Box 3 Folder 15

Rodell, Marie  1975

Box 3 Folder 16

Rodell, Marie  1976

Box 3 Folder 17

Rodell, Marie  1977

Box 3 Folder 18

Rodell, Marie  1978

Box 3 Folder 19

Rodell, Marie  1979

Box 3 Folder 20

Rodell, Marie  1980

Box 3 Folder 21

Schulman, Susan  2006

Box 3 Folder 22

Various Agents  2005-2011

Box 3 Folder 22a

General 

Description Container

1962

Box 3 Folder 23

1963

Box 3 Folder 24

1964

Box 3 Folder 25

1967

Box 3 Folder 26

1968

Box 3 Folder 27

1969

Box 3 Folder 28

1970

Box 3 Folder 29

1971

Box 3 Folder 30

1972

Box 3 Folder 31

1973

Box 3 Folder 32

1974

Box 4 Folder 1

1975

Box 4 Folder 2

1976

Box 4 Folder 3

1977

Box 4 Folder 4

1978

Box 4 Folder 5

1979

Box 4 Folder 6

Brittingham, John  1978-1982

Box 4 Folder 7

Evans, Brock  1971-1972

Box 4 Folder 8

Evans, Brock  1973

Box 4 Folder 9

Evans, Brock  1973

Box 4 Folder 10

Evans, Brock  1981-1982

Box 4 Folder 11

1980

Box 4 Folder 12

1981

Box 4 Folder 13

1982

Box 4 Folder 14

1983

Box 4 Folder 15

1984

Box 4 Folder 16

1985

Box 4 Folder 17

1986

Box 5 Folder 1

1987

Box 5 Folder 2

1988

Box 5 Folder 3

1989

Box 5 Folder 4

Deloria, Vine  1987

Box 5 Folder 5

1990

Box 5 Folder 6

1991

Box 5 Folder 7

1992

Box 5 Folder 8

1993

Box 5 Folder 9

1994

Box 5 Folder 10

1995

Box 5 Folder 11

1996-1998

Box 5 Folder 12

1999

Box 5 Folder 13

2000

Box 5 Folder 14

2001

Box 5 Folder 15

2002

Box 5 Folder 16

2003

Box 5 Folder 17

2004

Box 5 Folder 18

2005

Box 5 Folder 19

2006

Box 5 Folder 20

2007

Box 5 Folder 21

2008

Box 5 Folder 22

2009

Box 5 Folder 23

2010

Box 5 Folder 24

Undated

Box 5 Folder 25

Appraisers/Collectors 

Description Container

Ewell, Bernard  2003-2004

Box 5 Folder 26

Howsam, Robert  2004

Box 5 Folder 27

Southern Ute Cultural Center  2009-2010

Box 5 Folder 28

University of Utah  2003

Box 5 Folder 29

University of Wyoming  1980-1983

Box 5 Folder 30

Teaching 

Description Container

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies  1994

Box 5 Folder 31

Center for Teaching International Relations  1972

Box 5 Folder 32

University of Colorado  1969

Box 5 Folder 33

Research, notes, clippings, and articles  1964-1999

Description Container

Aspen  1969

Box 5 Folder 34

Aspinall  1968

Box 5 Folder 35

Atomic Energy/McCall's  1970

Box 5 Folder 36

Atomic Energy/McCall's  1970

Box 5 Folder 37

Atomic Energy/McCall's  1970

Box 5 Folder 38

Atomic Energy/McCall's  1970

Box 5 Folder 39

Atomic Energy Commission  1970

Box 6 Folder 1

Atomic Energy Commission  undated

interview transcripts

Box 6 Folder 2

Atomic Energy  1970

Box 6 Folder 3

Atomic Energy  1970

Box 6 Folder 4

Atomic Energy  1970

clippings

Box 6 Folder 5

Baca  1983

Box 6 Folder 6

Baca  1983

Box 6 Folder 7

Baca  1979

Box 6 Folder 8

Beef Industry  1973

Box 6 Folder 9

Broadmoor Hotel  1965

Box 6 Folder 10

Camping  undated

Box 7 Folder 1

Canyons and Mesas  1967

Box 7 Folder 2

Castle Concrete  undated

Box 7 Folder 3

Cheyenne Village  1972

Box 7 Folder 4

Cheyenne Village  1972

Box 7 Folder 5

Cities  1965-1966

Box 7 Folder 6

Clippings  1960's

Box 7 Folder 7

Clippings  1970's

Box 7 Folder 8

Clippings  1970's-1982

Box 7 Folder 9

Clippings  1980's

Box 7 Folder 10

Clippings  1980's

Box 7 Folder 11

Clippings  1990's

Box 7 Folder 12

Clippings  1990's

Box 7 Folder 13

Clippings and Wood Poems  1984-1993

Box 7 Folder 14

Clippings  1993-1994

Box 7 Folder 15

Clippings: "Weird File"  circa 1993

Box 7 Folder 15a

Clippings  2000's

Box 7 Folder 16

Clippings  2000's

Box 7 Folder 17

Colorado: America's Ruined Utopia  undated

Box 7 Folder 18

Colorado Historical Society Exhibition  1977

Box 7 Folder 19

Colorado Notes  undated

Box 7 Folder 20

Colorado Notes  undated

Box 7 Folder 21

Colorado Notes  undated

Box 7 Folder 22

Colorado Springs City Council  1974

Box 7 Folder 23

Conservation  1980

Box 7 Folder 24

Council on Economic Priorities  1971

Box 7 Folder 25

Craig, Colorado  undated

Box 7 Folder 26

Creede  undated

Box 7 Folder 27

Cripple Creek  undated

Box 7 Folder 28

Cripple Creek: "Gold"  1974

Empire Magazine article

Box 7 Folder 29

Cripple Creek Novel  undated

Box 7 Folder 30

Cowboys  undated

Box 7 Folder 31

Deer Dance  2003

Box 7 Folder 32

Denman, M.D.  1966

Box 7 Folder 33

Denver Diagnostic Screening Test  1968

Box 7 Folder 34

The Defoliation of a Small Town  undated

Box 8 Folder 1

Drop City  undated

Box 8 Folder 2

E.L. Timmons, M.D.  undated

Box 8 Folder 3

Empire articles  1970

Box 8 Folder 4

Film Proposals  undated

Box 8 Folder 5

Foreign Language Publications  undated

Box 8 Folder 6

Fort Carson  1969

Box 8 Folder 7

Fort Carson  1970

Box 8 Folder 8

Fort Union  undated

Box 8 Folder 9

Gary Herbert  undated

Box 8 Folder 10

Girl Scouts vs. Smokey Bear  1970

Box 8 Folder 11

Goodbye to a Frontier  undated

Box 8 Folder 12

The Good, Strange Life  undated

Box 8 Folder 13

Great Sand Dunes  1969

Box 8 Folder 14

Great Sand Dunes  1970

Box 8 Folder 15

Gulf  1969-1970

Box 8 Folder 16

Hermit Pass  undated

Box 8 Folder 17

Highway Mentality  1968

Box 8 Folder 18

Holiday  1970

Box 8 Folder 19

Housekeeper Wanted  undated

Box 8 Folder 20

The Instant Westerner  undated

Box 8 Folder 21

Julian  undated

Box 8 Folder 22

The Lacys  undated

Box 8 Folder 23

Lasaster  1967

Box 8 Folder 24

Lasaster  1969-1973

Box 8 Folder 25

Letters to the Editor  1970-2002

Box 8 Folder 26

Letters to the Editor  undated

Box 8 Folder 27

Logos  undated

Box 9 Folder 1

Loretta Lynn Fan Club  undated

Box 9 Folder 2

Mace, Stewart  undated

Box 9 Folder 3

Mace, Stewart  1982

Box 9 Folder 4

Man and the Land  undated

Box 9 Folder 5

Maps  undated

Box 9 Folder 6

The McCombers  undated

Box 9 Folder 7

Melodrama  1965

Box 9 Folder 8

Mesas  undated

Box 9 Folder 9

Mesa Verde National Park  1968

Box 9 Folder 10

Mining  1970

Box 9 Folder 11

Mining Boom in Colorado  undated

Box 9 Folder 12

Miscellaneous  1968-1970

Box 9 Folder 13

Miscellaneous Publications  1964-1984

Box 9 Folder 14

Miscellaneous Publications  1978-1981

Box 9 Folder 15

Miscellaneous  undated

"The City Watchers,""Cracked Teacups," "Thinking Out Loud," "Children's Chapel," "Farrington Carpenter," "The Vanishing Cowboy," "The Jelly Glass Letters," "Police Department," "Internal Revenue Service," "The Doctor Who Can't Retire"

Box 9 Folder 16

The Mountain Men  undated

Box 9 Folder 17

Mountain Mystique  1974

Box 9 Folder 18

Mountains  1967

Box 9 Folder 19

Multiply and Subdue  undated

Box 9 Folder 20

New York Times  1960's

Box 9 Folder 21

New York Times Articles  1965-1970

Box 9 Folder 22

No Name, Colorado  1969

Box 9 Folder 23

Notes  1960's

Box 9 Folder 24

Notes  1963

Box 9 Folder 25

Notes  1970's

Box 9 Folder 26

Notes  1980

Box 9 Folder 27

Notes  1981

Box 10 Folder 1

Notes  1980's

Box 10 Folder 2

Notes  1990's

Box 10 Folder 3

Notes  undated

Box 10 Folder 4

Of Trees and Men  1973-1974

Box 10 Folder 5

Out of Welfare and Into Awareness  undated

Box 10 Folder 6

Peggy Marshall  1972

Box 10 Folder 7

A Piece of String  undated

Box 10 Folder 8

The Penitentes  undated

Box 10 Folder 9

Plains  1967

Box 10 Folder 10

Poetry  1969-1999

Box 10 Folder 11

Public Land Law Review Commission  1970-1971

Box 10 Folder 12

Public Land Law Review Commission  1971

Box 10 Folder 13

Pueblo Life  undated

Box 10 Folder 14

Quotes  undated

Box 10 Folder 15

Randolph Johnsonn, Sculptor  undated

Box 10 Folder 16

Requiem for a Frontier  1961

Box 10 Folder 17

Rocky Mountain Magazine  1978

Box 10 Folder 18

The Ruined Rockies  undated

Box 10 Folder 19

The Sangre de Christos  undated

Box 10 Folder 20

Sangre de Christos book  1973

Box 10 Folder 21

The San Luis Valley  undated

Box 10 Folder 22

San Luis Valley  1966

Box 10 Folder 23

San Luis Valley Look Magazine  1966

Box 10 Folder 24

Santa Fe  1978

Box 10 Folder 25

Slobs on Wheels  1969

Box 10 Folder 26

Sopris, Colorado  1970

Box 10 Folder 27

Sopris, Colorado  1970

Box 10 Folder 28

Soviet Union  1967

Box 10 Folder 29

Taos Pueblo Visitors News  1985

Box 10 Folder 30

Te Deum for a Cowboy  undated

Box 11 Folder 1

Telluride  undated

Box 11 Folder 2

Trung: A Lesson in Love  1968

Box 11 Folder 3

Turnstile  undated

Box 11 Folder 4

Turtles  undated

Box 11 Folder 5

The Vanishing Cowboy  1972

Box 11 Folder 6

Watrous  undated

Box 11 Folder 7

What is Wilderness  undated

Box 11 Folder 8

Wilderness  undated

Box 11 Folder 9

Wild Horses  1968

Box 11 Folder 10

Wild Horses  1969

Box 11 Folder 11

Wild Horses  1969

Box 11 Folder 12

Early articles  1953-1960

Box 31 Folder unfoldered

Manuscripts - Full length  1966-2008

The Little Wrangler (1966) 

Description Container

Children's Roundtable Talk  1967

Box 11 Folder 13

Correspondence  1964-1970

Box 11 Folder 14

Drafts  1964

Box 11 Folder 15

Draft  1965

Box 11 Folder 16

Proposal  undated

Box 11 Folder 17

Publicity  1966

Box 11 Folder 18

Gull Liver's Travels (1967) 

Description Container

Manuscript Scrapbook  1967

Box 30 Folder 

Colorado:Big Mountain Country (1969) 

Description Container

Correspondence, research, notes  1963-1967

Box 13 Folder 1

Drafts  circa 1963-1967

Box 13 Folder 2

Drafts  circa 1963-1967

Box 13 Folder 3

Publicity  1969

Box 13 Folder 4

Hollering Sun (1972) 

Description Container

Original Notes  undated

Box 13 Folder 5

Early Drafts  1966

Box 13 Folder 6

Drafts, Background  undated

Box 13 Folder 7

Draft  undated

Box 13 Folder 8

Draft  undated

Box 13 Folder 9

Correspondence  1966

Box 13 Folder 10

Synopses  undated

Box 13 Folder 11

Reviews  1972

Box 13 Folder 12

The Last Five Dollar Baby (1972) 

Description Container

February, 1969 (A)  1969

Box 13 Folder 13

February, 1969 (B)  1969

Box 13 Folder 14

February, 1969 ©  1969

Box 13 Folder 15

Draft (A)  circa 1969

Box 13 Folder 16

Draft (B)  circa 1969

Box 13 Folder 17

Draft (A)  circa 1969

Box 13 Folder 18

Draft (B)  circa 1969

Box 13 Folder 19

Draft  circa 1969

Box 14 Folder 1

Draft  1969-1970

Box 14 Folder 2

Draft  circa 1969

Box 14 Folder 3

Drafts, scraps  undated

Box 14 Folder 4

Draft  undated

Box 14 Folder 5

Drafts, comments, notes  undated

Box 14 Folder 6

Film  1990

Box 14 Folder 7

Film, publicity  1972-1973

Box 14 Folder 8

"The Last Five Dollar Baby"  1969

Box 14 Folder 9

Yellowbird Productions  1973

Box 14 Folder 10

Clearcut: The Deforestation of America (1972) 

Description Container

Addendum to Chapters  1970

Box 14 Folder 11

An American Cowboy  1975

Box 14 Folder 12

Bitterroot and Other Sorrows  1971

Box 14 Folder 13

Blue Ribbon Commission  1970

Box 14 Folder 14

Church Hearings  1971

Box 14 Folder 15

Church Hearings  1971

Box 14 Folder 16

Church Hearings  1971

Box 14 Folder 17

Clearcut: A Conservationist's Views  1971

Box 15 Folder 1

Clearcut Clippings  1970

Box 15 Folder 2

Clearcut Notes  1971

Box 15 Folder 3

Clearcut Notes, Clippings  1971

Box 15 Folder 4

Clearcut: Mitch's Corrections  circa 1971

Box 15 Folder 5

Clippings  1971

Box 15 Folder 6

Clippings  1971

Box 15 Folder 7

The Deforestation of America  circa 1971

Box 15 Folder 8

The Deforestation of America  circa 1971

Box 15 Folder 9

The Deforestation of America  circa 1971

Box 15 Folder 10

Forest Service  1970

Box 15 Folder 11

Forest Service  1971

Box 15 Folder 12

Frontier Ranch  circa 1970's

Box 15 Folder 13

Industry  1969-1970

Box 15 Folder 14

Industry  1970

Box 15 Folder 15

Monogahela  1970

Box 15 Folder 16

Redwoods  1966

Box 15 Folder 17

Sierra Club  1971-1972

Box 16 Folder 1

Sierra Club Correspondence  1971

Box 16 Folder 2

Sierra Club Materials  1965-1970

Box 16 Folder 3

Sierra Club Outlook  1970

Box 16 Folder 4

Solutions  1971

Box 16 Folder 5

Timber Supply Act  1971

Box 16 Folder 6

Wilderness Act  undated

Box 16 Folder 7

In This Proud Land (1973) 

Description Container

Dust Bowl Women  undated

Box 31 Folder 

Captions  undated

Box 16 Folder 8

Correspondence  1972-1975

Box 16 Folder 9

Final Print Selection  circa 1972

Box 16 Folder 10

FSA Selections  1935-1942

Box 16 Folder 11

FSA Book Notes  undated

Box 16 Folder 12

"In This Proud Land"  1973

Box 16 Folder 13

In This Proud Land Draft  1973

Box 16 Folder 14

In This Proud Land Draft  1973

Box 16 Folder 15

Draft  1973

Box 16 Folder 16

Library of Congress  1973

Box 16 Folder 17

Library of Congress  1986

Box 16 Folder 18

Publicity  1973

Box 16 Folder 19

Stryker Correspondence  1970

Box 16 Folder 20

Stryker Drafts  1973

Box 16 Folder 21

Stryker Notes  circa 1972

Box 16 Folder 22

Stryker Shooting Scripts  1942-1973

Box 16 Folder 23

Stryker Shooting Scripts  1936-1942

Box 17 Folder 1

Wilson Correspondence  1973-1977

Box 17 Folder 2

Many Winters (1974) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1973

Box 17 Folder 3

Draft  circa 1973

Box 17 Folder 4

Draft  circa 1973

Box 17 Folder 5

Drafts, Notes, Poems  circa 1973

Box 17 Folder 6

Original Manuscript  undated

Box 17 Folder 7

Publicity  1974-1975

Box 17 Folder 8

The Man Who Gave Thunder to the Earth (1976) 

Description Container

Draft  1976

Box 17 Folder 9

 

Box 17 Folder 9a

King of Liberty Bend (1976) 

Description Container

Draft  1975

Box 17 Folder 10

Draft (A)  circa 1975

Box 17 Folder 11

Draft (B)  circa 1975

Box 17 Folder 12

Master's Set 1st Pass  circa 1975

Box 17 Folder 13

Publicity, Correspondence  1964-1976

Box 17 Folder 14

Grassroots People (1978) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1977

Box 17 Folder 15

Colorado State Historical Society  1977

Box 17 Folder 16

FSA Prints  1938-1940

Box 17 Folder 17

"The Grassroots People: An American Requiem"  1978

Box 17 Folder 18

"The Grassroots People of Colorado"  1976

Box 17 Folder 19

Notes  circa 1970's

Box 17 Folder 20

Notes, Clippings  1977

Box 17 Folder 21

Notes, Draft  circa 1970's

Box 17 Folder 22

Notes, Drafts  circa 1970's

Box 17 Folder 23

Notes, etc.  1976-1978

Box 18 Folder 1

Notes: Mountains  circa 1970's

Box 18 Folder 2

Publicity  1979

Box 18 Folder 3

Publicity  1979

Box 18 Folder 4

Publicity  1979

Box 18 Folder 5

War Cry on a Prayer Feather (1979) 

Description Container

Clippings  undated

Box 18 Folder 6

Correspondence  1974-1979

Box 18 Folder 7

Draft 

Box 18 Folder 8

Galleys  undated

Box 18 Folder 9

Grandmother Bertha  1987

Box 18 Folder 10

Miscellaneous Articles  1973-1984

Box 18 Folder 11

Miscellaneous Publications  1981

Box 18 Folder 12

Mountain Ute Indians  1976-1978

Box 18 Folder 13

Mountain Ute Indians  circa 1978

Box 18 Folder 14

Photo Releases  1978

Box 18 Folder 15

Southern Ute Indians  1976

Box 18 Folder 16

Southern Ute Indians  1977

Box 18 Folder 17

Notes, Drafts  1977

Box 18 Folder 18

Publicity  1979

Box 18 Folder 19

Publicity  1980

Box 18 Folder 20

Final Galley  1978

Box 18 Folder 21

Libretto  1974-1977

Box 19 Folder 1

The Wellspring  1978

Box 19 Folder 2

When Buffalo Free the Mountains (1980) 

Description Container

Draft  circa 1979

Box 19 Folder 3

Draft  circa 1979

Box 19 Folder 4

Draft  circa 1979

Box 19 Folder 5

Draft  circa 1979

Box 19 Folder 6

Draft  circa 1979

Box 19 Folder 7

Draft  circa 1979

Box 19 Folder 8

Final Manuscript  1979

Box 19 Folder 9

Copy Edits (A)  1980

Box 19 Folder 10

Copy Edits (B)  1980

Box 19 Folder 11

Final Galley  1980

Box 19 Folder 12

Publicity  1980

Box 19 Folder 13

Birds of Paradise (1982-1983) 

Description Container

Draft  1982

Box 19 Folder 14

Draft  1982

Box 20 Folder 1

Draft  circa 1983

Box 20 Folder 2

Draft  1983

Box 20 Folder 3

Draft  1983

Box 20 Folder 4

Draft  1983

Box 20 Folder 5

Draft  circa 1983

Box 20 Folder 6

Draft  1983

Box 20 Folder 7

text  circa 1983

Box 20 Folder 8

Rejected Pages  1983

Box 20 Folder 9

Taos Pueblo (1989) 

Description Container

Taos Pueblo Research  1963

Box 20 Folder 10

Taos Pueblo Research  circa 1960's-1980's

Box 20 Folder 11

Tewa Research  1994

Box 20 Folder 12

Notes  1980-1984

Box 20 Folder 13

Notes  1985

Box 20 Folder 14

Notes  1986

Box 20 Folder 15

Notes  1984-1986

Box 20 Folder 16

Notes  1985-1987

Box 20 Folder 17

Notes  1987

Box 20 Folder 18

Notes  circa 1987

Box 20 Folder 19

Clippings  1968-1988

Box 21 Folder 1

Endorsements  1985

Box 21 Folder 2

Funding Sources  1968-1987

Box 21 Folder 3

Grants  1985

Box 21 Folder 4

Oral History Project Proposal  1984

Box 21 Folder 5

Releases  1985

Box 21 Folder 6

Photography Notes  1988

Box 21 Folder 7

Smithsonian  1987

Box 21 Folder 8

Manuscript Draft Bits  circa 1987

Box 21 Folder 9

Drafts, Miscellaneous  1986

Box 21 Folder 10

Draft, Introduction  1987

Box 21 Folder 11

Chapter I  circa 1987

Box 21 Folder 12

Chapter II  circa 1987

Box 21 Folder 13

Part III  1987

Box 21 Folder 14

Chapter IV  undated

Box 21 Folder 15

Near Final Draft  undated

Box 21 Folder 16

Comments on Manuscript  1988

Box 21 Folder 17

Vine Deloria, Jr. Introduction  1988

Box 21 Folder 18

Taos Pueblo Exhibit  1989

Box 21 Folder 19

Taos Pueblo  undated

Box 21 Folder 20

Library Talk  1989

Box 21 Folder 21

Taos Pueblo Controversy  1989

Box 21 Folder 22

Taos Pueblo Publicity  1989

Box 21 Folder 23

The Taos Pueblo Poems  undated

Box 21 Folder 24

Frankie and the Orphan  undated

Box 21 Folder 25

The Littlest Indian  undated

Box 21 Folder 26

Heartland, New Mexico (1989) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1985-1989

Box 21 Folder 27

Dust Bowl  Undated

Box 22 Folder 1

NEH Proposal  1985

Box 22 Folder 2

Heartland Draft  Undated

Box 22 Folder 3

Hispanic Villages Notes  undated

Box 22 Folder 4

New Deal in New Mexico, Notes  undated

Box 22 Folder 5

New Deal Research  undated

Box 22 Folder 6

Pie Town: Edd Jones Journal  undated

Box 22 Folder 7

Pie Town USA Sample Chapter  1987

Box 22 Folder 8

Pie Town Notes  1986

Box 22 Folder 9

Pie Town Notes  1987

Box 22 Folder 10

Spirit Walker (1993) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1992

Box 22 Folder 11

Draft  1994

Box 22 Folder 12

Notes  1994

Box 22 Folder 13

Publicity  1994

Box 22 Folder 14

Frank Howell Monotypes  1987

Box 22 Folder 15

The Spirit Walker Trilogy  undated

Box 22 Folder 15a

Dancing Moons (1994) 

Description Container

Notes  1994

Box 22 Folder 16

Draft  1994

Box 22 Folder 17

Galleys  1994

Box 22 Folder 18

The Girl Who Loved Coyotes (1994) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1994-1995

Box 22 Folder 19

Draft  1994

Box 22 Folder 20

Draft  circa 1994

Box 22 Folder 21

Draft  circa 1994

Box 22 Folder 22

Publisher Revisions  1994

Box 22 Folder 23

Edits by Tammilou  1994

Box 23 Folder 1

Galleys: 1st Pass  1994

Box 23 Folder 2

Publicity  1995-1996

Box 23 Folder 3

Shaman's Circle (1995-1996) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1995

Box 23 Folder 4

Draft  1994

Box 23 Folder 5

Draft  1995

Box 23 Folder 6

Draft  1995

Box 23 Folder 7

Draft  1995

Box 23 Folder 8

Draft  1995

Box 23 Folder 9

Draft  1995

Box 23 Folder 10

Draft - Karen's edits  1995

Box 23 Folder 11

Draft - Notes to Karen  1995

Box 23 Folder 12

Draft - Letter to Karen  1995

Box 23 Folder 13

Draft - Robert's edits  1995

Box 23 Folder 14

Poems  1994

Box 23 Folder 15

Poems  1995

Box 23 Folder 16

Publicity  1996

Box 23 Folder 17

Galley's  1996

Box 23 Folder 18

Serpent's Tongue (1997) 

Description Container

Alternates/Rejects  1916-1997

Box 23 Folder 19

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 20

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 21

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 22

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 23

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 24

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 25

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 26

Art  undated

Box 23 Folder 27

Art Rejects  undated

Box 23 Folder 28

Bibliography  circa 1997

Box 24 Folder 1

Correspondence  1995-1998

Box 24 Folder 2

Descriptions of Authors  circa 1997

Box 24 Folder 3

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 4

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 5

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 6

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 7

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 8

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 9

Draft  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 10

Draft Bits  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 11

Illustrations  circa 1997

Box 30 Folder unfoldered

Introduction  1996

Box 24 Folder 12

Intro Final  1996

Box 24 Folder 13

Larry Littlebird  1993

Box 24 Folder 14

Miscellaneous  1995

Box 24 Folder 15

Notes From Sources (A)  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 16

Notes From Sources (B)  1916-1997

Box 24 Folder 17

Notes, Research  1882-1995

Box 24 Folder 18

Permissions  1996

Box 25 Folder 1

Publicity  1997

Box 25 Folder 2

Publicity  1998

Box 31 Folder unfoldered

Sacred Fire (1998) 

Description Container

Correspondence  1996-1997

Box 25 Folder 3

Draft  1997

Box 25 Folder 4

Draft  1996-1997

Box 25 Folder 5

Draft  1997

Box 25 Folder 6

Draft  1997

Box 25 Folder 7

Inserts  1997

Box 25 Folder 8

Miscellaneous  circa 1997

Box 25 Folder 9

Sacred Fire Draft  1998

Box 25 Folder 9a

Galleys  1997

Box 30 Folder 

Thunderwoman (1998) 

Description Container

Los Pueblos Perditos Notes  1993

Box 27 Folder 1

Early Versions  1994

Box 27 Folder 2

Notes  1994

Box 27 Folder 3

Thunderman  1994

Box 27 Folder 4

The Thunderman Trilogy  1994

Box 27 Folder 5

Thunderman Trilogy  1994

Box 27 Folder 6

Los Pueblos Perditos   1994

Box 27 Folder 7

Early Drafts  circa 1995-1996

Box 27 Folder 8

Parts 6 and 7  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 9

Part 1 Cuts  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 10

Part One  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 11

Part Two  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 12

Part Three  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 13

Part Two  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 14

Part Three  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 15

The Thunderwoman Trilogy  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 16

The Thunderwoman Trilogy  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 17

Set of Edits  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 18

Chapters 1-17  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 19

Chapters 9-18  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 20

Part 3/Chapters 18-20   circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 21

Chapters 18-26  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 22

Chapters 29-31  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 23

Part Two  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 24

Titles Thunderwoman  circa 1994-1998

Box 27 Folder 25

Seeds of Revolt  1996

Box 27 Folder 26

Revolt - Before and After  1996

Box 27 Folder 27

North Pole  1996

Box 27 Folder 28

Onate's Feet  1996

Box 27 Folder 29

Part III  1996

Box 27 Folder 30

Full Draft  1996

Box 27 Folder 31

Poetry  1996

Box 27 Folder 32

Poems  1996

Box 27 Folder 33

Poems  1996

Box 27 Folder 34

Poems  1996

Box 27 Folder 35

Poetry  1997

Box 28 Folder 1

Final Poetry  1995-1997

Box 28 Folder 2

Final Poetry  1997

Box 28 Folder 3

Poetry Complete  1998

Box 28 Folder 4

Coronado  1996-1997

Box 28 Folder 5

Departure from Arenal  1996-1997

Box 28 Folder 6

Creation  1996-1997

Box 28 Folder 7

Semi-final  1996-1997

Box 28 Folder 8

Old Version  1996-1997

Box 28 Folder 9

Part 1 Myths  1997

Box 28 Folder 10

Kobili/Sayah  1997

Box 28 Folder 11

Thunderwoman Part I  1997

Box 28 Folder 12

Chapters 39-41  1997

Box 28 Folder 13

Sayah  1997

Box 28 Folder 14

Pages, notes, odd bits  1997

Box 28 Folder 15

Parts 2 and 3 cuts  1997

Box 28 Folder 16

Draft  1997

Box 28 Folder 17

Draft  1997

Box 28 Folder 18

Alternate ending  1997

Box 28 Folder 19

Clippings - Onate  1997-1998

Box 28 Folder 20

Lotz's Edits  1997-1998

Box 28 Folder 21

Part 4 Lotz's Comments  1998

Box 28 Folder 22

K. Lotz's Comments  circa 1998

Box 28 Folder 23

Lotz's Final Corrections (A)  1998

Box 28 Folder 24

Lotz's Final Corrections (B)  1998

Box 28 Folder 25

Final Version  1998

Box 28 Folder 26

Read by Richard Erdoes (A)  1998

Box 29 Folder 1

Read by Richard Erdoes (B)  1998

Box 29 Folder 2

Draft  1998

Box 29 Folder 3

Graphics  undated

Box 29 Folder 4

Correspondence  1997

Box 29 Folder 5

Publicity and Correspondence  1998

Box 29 Folder 6

Advance, Uncorrected Proof (bound, signed)  1953-1998

Box 30 Folder unfoldered

Wild Love (1995-1999) 

Description Container

Congdon, Don  1996

Box 25 Folder 10

Correspondence  1997-1998

Box 25 Folder 11

Drafts  1995-1996

Box 25 Folder 12

Drafts  1995-1998

Box 25 Folder 13

Drafts  1996

Box 25 Folder 14

Drafts  1996

Box 25 Folder 15

Drafts  1996

Box 25 Folder 16

Drafts  1997

Box 25 Folder 17

Drafts  1997

Box 25 Folder 18

Drafts  1998

Box 25 Folder 19

Drafts  undated

Box 25 Folder 20

Drafts  1999

Box 25 Folder 21

Johnston, Carolyn  1997

Box 26 Folder 1

Lichtenberg, Maggie  1997

Box 26 Folder 2

Notes  1996

Box 26 Folder 3

Rejected Pages  1996

Box 26 Folder 4

Virginia's Copy  1996

Box 26 Folder 5

Scraps  1996

Box 26 Folder 6

Weiss, Greg  1996

Box 26 Folder 7

Wight, Karen  1996

Box 26 Folder 8

How the Tiny People Grew Tall (2001) 

Description Container

Draft  1999-2003

Box 26 Folder 9

Drafts, correspondence  2001

Box 26 Folder 10

Draft  2003

Box 26 Folder 11

Layout, comments  2004

Box 26 Folder 12

Mr. and Mrs. God in the Creation Kitchen (1999-2005) 

Description Container

Comments, Correspondence  1999-2004

Box 26 Folder 13

Draft  2003

Box 26 Folder 14

Draft  2004

Box 26 Folder 15

Draft  2004

Box 26 Folder 16

More Tales from the Creation Kitchen  2005

Box 26 Folder 17

 

Box  Folder 

Old Coyote (2006) 

Description Container

Draft  2000

Box 26 Folder 18

Publicity  2004

Box 26 Folder 19

Artists' sketches  2004

Box 26 Folder 20

Eye of the West (2007-2008) 

Description Container

Drafts  2007

Box 26 Folder 21

Publicity  2008

Box 26 Folder 22

We Became as Mountains (2008) 

Description Container

Draft  2008

Box 26 Folder 23

Draft  2008

Box 26 Folder 24

Draft  2008

Box 26 Folder 25

Draft  2008

Box 26 Folder 26

Audio  1981-2012

Description Container

Cassidy, Father Walter  1987

Box 29 CD 1

Chavez, Blas  1987

Box 29 CD 2-3

Collier, John   1985

Audio shifts channels and distorts on CD 4

Box 29 CD 4-6

Lee, Russell and John Collier - Museum of N.M  1985

Box 29 CD7

Concha, Meko  1985

Box 29 CD 8

Cordova, Val  1986

Box 29 CD 9

Eagle, Annabelle  1981

Pertains to Ute libel suit

Box 29 CD 10

Fast, Willard  1994

Box 29 CD 11

Gomez, Sandy  1985

Box 29 CD 12

Lee, Russell   1985

Box 29 CD 13-16

Lujan, Bobby and Crusita Romero - Taos Pueblo  1985

Box 29 CD 18

Many Winters  Undated

Box 29 CD 19

McKee, Roy - Pie Town  1985

Box 29 CD 20-21

McKee, Roy, Rex, Granny, Roy  1985

Box 29 CD 22

Monk, Jan  1986

Nancy talks about her work.

Low frequency buzz on CD 24

Box 29 CD 24-25

Norris, Rex, Redshirt  1985-1986

Box 29 CD 27

Reyna, Sharon - Taos Pueblo  1985

Box 29 CD 28

Thunderwoman interview  undated

Box 29 CD 29

Wood talk  2004

Box 29 CD 30

Letter to Nancy  undated

Box 29 CD 31-32

Oral History with Nancy Wood  2012

Conducted by Carolyn McSherry.Nancy talks about how she got started as a writer, how she began writing about the Taos Pueblo, her renunciation of Christianity for a nature-based spirituality, the authors who influenced her work, the ways her works relate to each other, how she started writing poetry, her childhood and her grandparents, how she got started as a photographer and her relationship with Roy Stryker, and how she related to the subjects of her photography, among other themes.

Box 29 CD 33

Wood Interview  2008

Box 29 CD 34

Nancy Wood - Speaking on New Mexico, Taos Pueblo, Roy Stryker, FSA projects, learning and beginning her career in photography, writing, and her archival collection. (Recorded by Jack Loeffler)  2009

Box 29 CD 35

 
 
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