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  1. "A Cowboy Marries" - Manuscript

    Brief handwritten story ideas for "A Cowboy Marries" with main character Dusty Knight and the horse Capitan, to be submitted to Liberty or Redbook, and for "Tough Moore--the mildest wagon boss ever was..."

    Record Type: Archive

  2. "A Cowboy to Be" - Manuscript

    Five typed pages are titled "A Cowboy to Be", an essay about people who have read James' work and decided they would like to be cowboys. James says he has not "flowered" his writing to make the cowboy life more attractive. This title appeared in ALL IN THE DAY'S RIDING.

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Cowboy to Be"
  3. "A Cowboy" by Will James re Will Rogers - Manuscript

    "A Cowboy" by Will James. Four pages handwritten in pencil contain reminiscences by Will James of Will Rogers and Ray Bell, written on the back of Snook Art Company stationery. James met Rogers in the dressing room at the Globe Theatre in New York.

    Record Type: Archive

  4. "A Cowpuncher Speaks" - Manuscript

    Typed manuscript (carbon copy), "A Cowpuncher Speaks" written and illustrated by Will James. Opening sentence: "I'm up on a knoll--the river bottom stretches out below me and as far as I can see is a checkered country of little pastures..." Published in COWBOYS NORTH AND SOUTH and Scribner's Magazine April 1923.

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Cowpuncher Speaks"
  5. "A Cowpuncher Speaks" - Manuscript

    Will James hand-written manuscript, ," on both sides of six pieces of paper, 12 pages in all. Opening sentence: "I'm up on a knoll."

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Cowpuncher Speaks"
  6. "A Drifting Cowboy" - Manuscript

    Draft manuscript, 20 pages typed with revisions in pencil, "A Drifting Cowboy". Opening sentence: "I'd heard a few shots the night before and I had a hunch they was being exchanged, but as the deer season was open..." Subject: a horse thief.

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Drifting Cowboy"
  7. "A Home Guard" - Manuscript

    Partial manuscript, carbon copy of typed version, headed "A Home Guard, Text and Illustrations by Will James", book rights reserved. A later draft of the story filed in VS2001.153, incorporating revisions. Ends in mid-sentence on page 4. Character Flint Spears. Published in SUN UP.

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Home Guard"
  8. "A Home Guard" - Manuscript

    Manuscript, 19 pages, typed with revisions in pencil, "A Home Guard". Opening sentence: "If there's anything I hate worse than a home guard," says Flint Spears, "that's another home guard." For portions of a later draft, see VS2001.154. For a possible earlier draft, corresponding in part to text starting on page 3, see VS2001.155. Published in SUN UP.

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Home Guard"
  9. "A Home Guard" - Manuscript

    Manuscript, typed with revision in pencil, headed "A Home Guard". Characters, Flint Spears and Don Evans.See also VS2001.153 (see page 3 of that version). Another paragraph in pencil is written on the back of the third page. Published in SUN UP.

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Home Guard"
  10. "A Man and a Horse" - Manuscript

    Two typed manuscript pages with revision in pencil, each a different version, "Introduction for A Man and A Horse." Opening sentence: "This story is about a shadow of a man...which turns into being a real man." The cleaner version ends in mid-sentence, "and a girl comes along, a..."

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Man and a Horse"
  11. "A Promise" - Manuscript

    Two pages of typewritten draft on pink paper with the title "A Promise" feature characters King Massey and Latch Massey. The back of one page has brief sketches.

    Record Type: Archive

  12. "A Quick Strike" (Kleiber illustration) - Card, Greeting

    An example of a Hans Kleiber Christmas card, titled "A Quick Strike", depicting a fly fisherman in a mountain lake.

    Record Type: Archive

    card, Christmas, "A Quick Strike"
  13. "A Stampeder" - Manuscript

    Typed manuscript, "A Stampeder" on yellow onionskin paper. begins: "Of all the happenings that's apt to make a cowboy white around the gills there's none that averages up with a stampeding horse..."

    Record Type: Archive

    "A Stampeder"
  14. "After a ferocious battle" - Drawing

    The unsigned pencil sketches appear on two sides of notepad paper. "After a Ferocious Battle" is the title of a two-image sketch; at base, a "dude" with hands gesturing, telling a story to three people. At the top, a hunter who has dropped his gun and lost his hat, fleeing just ahead of an angry bear. On the reverse side, a man is being thrown from a horse, titled "Queer ways men get throwed."

    Record Type: Archive

  15. "All Cowboy, All Artist" - Manuscript

    Typed manuscript, two pages, titled "All cowboy, all artist". Begins: "I was about thirteen years old when I remember first running acrost pictures of Charles M. Russell." The manuscript describes James's opinion of Charlie Russell and quotes from a book of Russell's, "Good Medicine".

    Record Type: Archive

    "All Cowboy, All Artist"
  16. "An Arrow" - Manuscript

    Typed manuscript with revisions in pencil, headed Chapter three - An Arrow - page 28. Opening sentence: "Bill didn't take no more trail herds from then on." Character: his wife Donna. This is a continuation of "An American Cowboy", VS2001.204, and is Chapter 3 of THE AMERICAN COWBOY.

    Record Type: Archive

    "An Arrow"
  17. "And There It Was" - Manuscript

    Manuscript, 24 pages typed, "And There It Was", opening sentence: "It was springtime on the Ortevaca range, and Dart Arnold not only had the fever of that time, but..." (See also VS2001.170 for another copy, and VS2001.235 & VS2001.293 for earlier versions entitled "Find the Girl." ) Also see VS2001.604 for a sketch titled "Find the Girl".

    Record Type: Archive

    "And There It Was"
  18. "And There It Was", typed manuscript, old envelope with drawings - Manuscript

    Typed ms, final draft, "And There it Was", numbered pages to p. 24. The earlier draft title was "Find the Girl". Features cowboy Dart Arnold, the setting the Ortevaca range. See media file for illustrations. Old Department of Commerce envelope has note: Orig: "Find the Girl", "Written 1932 revamped 1940", "And There It Was. Two sketched illustrations on envelope. Also, three sketches below, "Object- Matrimony, orig. "Love takes to the hills"...

    Record Type: Archive

  19. "August" and "September" - Manuscript

    Single-page typed draft manuscript with revisions in pencil, "August" and "September", published in "The Cowboy Calendar" in ALL IN THE DAY'S RIDING.

    Record Type: Archive

    "August" and "September"
  20. "Being a Cowboy" aka "Range Riding" manuscript fragment - Manuscript

    One-page typed incomplete ms fragment on legal size page, initial title "Range Riding" crossed out and "Being a Cowboy" inserted. See media file.

    Record Type: Archive

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