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  1. "Best Book for Young Readers" advertising - Booklet

    Scribner's catalog, "Best Books for Younger Readers 1933". Inside: an illustration by Will James (1928) and two of his books ("Lone Cowboy" and "Smoky") listed in the Scribner Quality Group. States that Smoky was the 1927 Newbery Medal book. List price is $2.50 each. The illustration is of a longhorn cow fleeing into the foreground, with the cowboy cutting her out right behind.

    Record Type: Archive

    "Best Book for Young Readers" advertising
  2. "Billy" - Manuscript

    A manila envelope from Western Typewriter Supply, Reno Nevada, has handwritten notes about a character "Billy" with page numbers given. On the reverse are unsigned sketches and doodles.

    Record Type: Archive

  3. "Blind Buckers" - Manuscript

    Four-page typed draft manuscript with revisions in pencil, "Blind Buckers", published in ALL IN THE DAY'S RIDING.

    Record Type: Archive

    "Blind Buckers"
  4. "Bronco Twisters" - Manuscript

    29-page typed draft manuscript with many revisions, "Bronco Twisters" . Opening sentence: "I gets up one perticular morning and has a way down deep hunch..." Pages 12 and 13 are missing. Theme: breaking horses for the army? [see also VS2001.74 for "Where the Bronco Twister Gets His Name", an illustration].

    Record Type: Archive

    "Bronco Twisters"
  5. "Bronco Twisters" - Manuscript

    Manuscript handwritten on unlined paper, "Bronco Twisters--text and illustrations by Will James", 23 numbered pages plus additional pages e.g. page 7 no.2 with two types of pencil, one ordinary graphite and another of purple lead are interchanged. Opening sentence: "I guess most everybody has their off day when everything goes wrong and all the universe seems to be against you." [see also VS2001.74 for published illustration??]

    Record Type: Archive

    "Bronco Twisters"
  6. "Bronks and Ropes" - Manuscript

    One-page manuscript, typed with revisions in pencil, "Bronks and ropes", apparently a description to accompany an illustration. Excerpt: "In the picture there's a cowboy riding a spoilt horse, a horse that's been broke and went bad...the rider was just about to rope a steer..." when the horse starts bucking. Another rider in the picture too?

    Record Type: Archive

    "Bronks and Ropes"
  7. "Calves crossing frozen island on Stillwater Winter 1918" - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photographic print, possibly taken by Isabelle Johnson or her family. (Caption on back is in her handwriting.)

    Record Type: Archive

    "Calves crossing frozen island on Stillwater Winter 1918"
  8. "Cattle Rustlers" - Manuscript

    The draft manuscript of 13 numbered pages is typed on legal pad paper, with a working title "Cattle Rustling", with two versions of p. 1. There is much editing, with an additional note on the back of the last page. The story with this title appeared in Scribner's Magazine and then in SUN UP.

    Record Type: Archive

  9. "Cattle Rustlers" - Manuscript

    Handwritten manuscript, pencil on 8 pages of unlined paper, both sides, numbered 1-14, including a page 5A. Heavily edited, jumps around. Title: "Cattle Rustlers" published in Scribner's Magazine August 1923 and SUN UP.

    Record Type: Archive

    "Cattle Rustlers"
  10. "Cattle Rustlers" manuscript fragment - Manuscript

    One-half typed untitled manuscript fragment with editing in ink. Opening sentence: "There's a few instances, as all cowpunchers know, where some cattle king increased his first little herd with a running iron..." Theme: rustlers and the Wyoming cattle war. Related to illustration in "Cattle Rustlers" in SUN UP. [mentions the hill billy toting a carbine]

    Record Type: Archive

    "Cattle Rustlers" manuscript fragment
  11. "Cleaning Westerns" - Manuscript

    "Cleaning Westerns" is the title of a three-page typed draft manuscript on legal pad paper, with editing. James critiques the action in motion pictures, especially westerns.

    Record Type: Archive

  12. "Colonel" draft pp. 1-59 (THE DARK HORSE) - Manuscript

    Handwritten draft manuscript with the provisional title "Colonel" (pp. 1-59) in a legal-sized pad. Notes on the cover include several possible subtitles: "A Tenderfoot Thoroughbred" (crossed out), "Blue Grass to Sage Brush", "A Thoroughbred on the Range". The manuscript is for THE DARK HORSE.

    Record Type: Archive

  13. "Colonel" draft pp. 60-119 - Manuscript

    Continuation of VS2001.350, "Colonel" from THE DARK HORSE, numbered pages 60-119, handwritten draft ms on legal pad.

    Record Type: Archive

  14. "Coming West?" - Manuscript

    Four-page typed manuscript draft with revisions in pencil, "Coming West?" Opening sentence: "I expect there'll be a lot of folks coming West this summer..."

    Record Type: Archive

    "Coming West?"
  15. "Complete" - Manuscript

    Typed manuscript with revisions in pencil, titled "Complete", 22 numbered pages with some smaller additional sheets. Published in COW COUNTRY and unidentified magazine.

    Record Type: Archive

    "Complete"
  16. "Cow Range Philosophy" - Manuscript

    Two pages of a manuscript fragment, carbon copies (pages 4 and 6). These two pages have been decorated in the margins with ink depictions of cattle brands; at least some are real (the OW for example). At the top of each page a title, "Cow Range Philosophy". Characters: Mrs. Bar X. Theme: what men can expect from women.

    Record Type: Archive

    "Cow Range Philosophy"
  17. "Cowboy? What's a Cowboy?" - Manuscript

    Will James: handwritten manuscript on unlined, unusual size paper, "Cowboy?--What's a Cowboy?", 15 hand-numbered pages. Opening sentence: "Seems as though the public in general 've kind of woke up to the fact that there's such a critter as a cowboy roaming this here planet...." The final sentence ends "...and write about the real old honest-to-God Ranahan." See VS2001.589 for a drawing with the title "The Real Old Honest To God Ranahan", dated ...

    Record Type: Archive

    "Cowboy? What's a Cowboy?"
  18. "Cowboys, North and South" - Manuscript

    Ten-page typed manuscript, some editing, on legal size paper, some water damage at bottom. "Cowboys, North and South", published in COWBOYS NORTH AND SOUTH.

    Record Type: Archive

  19. "Cupid, the Mustang" - Manuscript

    "Cupid, the Mustang", collected in SUN UP. Typed draft manuscript with 23 numbered pages, with substantial handwritten editing included on the backs of pages.

    Record Type: Archive

  20. "Dear Reader" re SMOKY - Manuscript

    This handwritten single page draft, front and back, relates the history of SMOKY and Will James' fictional version of his biography. See also VS2001.873 and VS2001.874 for the "bio".

    Record Type: Archive

    "Dear Reader" re SMOKY

Thank You!

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