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"Desert Range Riding" - Manuscript
The typed draft manuscript of "Desert Range Riding" shows much editing. There are 11 pages on legal size paper, plus a 1/2 page insert. The story was published in Sunset Magazine and THE DRIFTING COWBOY.

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"Down Sunland Way", "Our God Forsaken Country" - Manuscript
Will James: handwritten manuscript in pencil, one page, with two poems, "Down Sunland Way" and "Our God Forsaken Country," with a name or signature below, Phil H. Le Noir (?). Possibly poetry copied for his own use.

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"Down from the Hills" ( Kleiber illustration) - Card, Greeting
Two examples of a Kleiber Christmas card, titled "Down from the Hills". Whitefaced cows and calves stand in snow at a gate in a barbed-wire fence, looking at the ranch buildings in the distance. One calf is on the other side of the fence already, facing the viewer.

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"Down the Wash" manuscript fragment - Manuscript
Typed one-page manuscript fragment with revisions in pencil, draft of the first page of "Down the Wash" in ALL IN THE DAY'S RIDING. Opening sentence: "It always struck me sort of queer..."

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"Dude Ranches" - Manuscript
A carbon copy of a typed single page, "Dude Ranches and what I think of 'em", ending in mid-sentence.

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"Dude West" illustrated by Will James - Magazine article
Pages ripped from the magazine Ladies' Home Journal, issue of April 1929. The story is by Mary Roberts Rinehart, about her trip to a dude ranch where she spent several summers. Two large and two very small illustrations by Will James. One is a horse blowing up while other riders look on. Another is a large group of "dudes" riding along, while one stops to pick flowers. The small illustrations are of a woman trying to mount from a boulder, and a r...

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"Dusty Knight's Perfidy" - Magazine
Five pages from Liberty Magazine, April 16, 1932, "Dusty Knight's Perfidy", pages 36-40. An illustration lies across two pages, of a man on horseback chasing horses. Characters: Dusty Knight, Bill Huff, Tom Griffin, Capitan the horse. The illustration on page 40 of shows a horse's head with grass in its mouth. See VS2001.189 for a draft version, "For a Horse". This is the same pages as in VS2001.577.

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"Dusty Knight's Perfidy" - Magazine
The pages torn from Liberty Magazine, "Dusty Knight's Perfidy", pages from Liberty Magazine, April 16, 1932, show the story by Will James with three illustrations, featuring the horse Capitan. See also VS2001.256 for the same pages. See also a rough draft in VS2001.525.

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"Etches Name in Hall of Fame" - Newspaper
The full-page article is headlined "Etches Name in Hall of Fame", with the penciled source "Billings Gazette 12-15-35". The article features a photo of Kleiber and a reproduction of "Geese Crossing Wyoming" (see media file).

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"Fiesta and Pageant" - Manuscript
Four-page typed draft manuscript, carbon copy of "Fiesta and Pageant", giving WJ's ideas about the ideal rodeo in detail, final cost of $75,000 estimated.

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"Filling in the Cracks" - Manuscript
17-page typed manuscript draft with revisions in pencil, "Filling in the Cracks", published in THE DRIFTING COWBOY and in SUN UP. Themes: movies, Slivers, Sam the director, Edendale. See also VS2001.93, VS2001.1121.

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"Filling in the Cracks" in Southwest Review - Magazine
Two sets of pages torn from Southwest Review magazine, Volume Ten Number 4, July 1925 containing the story "Filling in the Cracks" by Will James, with cover and contents page of the magazine. The illustrations are "I does the bulldog stunt and saves the heroine..Gives me the sign...", "I shakes out my loop...". The story is about movie cowboy stuntmen, featured character Sam. Story later collected in THE DRIFTING COWBOY and SUN UP. See also VS...

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"Find the Girl" - Manuscript
Eighteen-page manuscript, typed with revisions in pencil, "Find the Girl" (not the final published title). opening sentence: "It was springtime on the Ortevaca range, and Dart Arnold not only had the fever of that time..." (See VS2001.293 for another version and also VS2001.166 & VS2001.170 for later versions entitled "And There it Was" )

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"Find the Girl" = "And There It Was" manuscript fragment - Manuscript
Typed manuscript fragment with revisions in pencil, pages 10-12, "Find the Girl". (See VS2001.166 & VS2001.170 for later version entitled "And There it Was" )

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"First Money" and "Desert Range Riding" in Sunset Magazine - Magazine
Pages torn from issues of Sunset Magazine, with pencilled notes of corrections with galley numbers. a) Four pages are portions of "First Money" [February 1925]. b) is page 54 of "Desert Range Riding" [December 1923]. "First Money" also appeared in SUN UP, and both stories were published in THE DRIFTING COWBOY.

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"Flint Spears, A Rodeo Contestant", with thumbnail sketches - Manuscript
Typed ms of "Flint Spears" from first page to numbered p. 207. Last page includes note "Finished 4 p.m. July 14 1938" Ms. is in the remains of envelope whose front has note "Flint Spears--rodeo--done". Also under this accession #, 2 pages of thumbnail sketches as key to illustrations by chapter and page number, and on back of the second page is a list of "Brands for Flint Spears", drawing out brands with their names indicated. (see the media f...

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"Folks West" - Manuscript
Manuscript, typed with revisions in pencil, "Folks West". Apparently an earlier version of the story (see VS2001.199 for a later version). Character: horse named Chinook (name later changed).

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"Folks West" - Manuscript
Manuscript, "Folks West" Text and illustrations by Will James. 10 pages. It is stamped at the top of title page, "Barbour and McKeough, Inc. 542 Fifth Ave. New York City". Character: horse named Big-Enough and how James acquired him, apparently based at James' ranch. See an earlier version of this story (VS2001.200).

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"For Strips of Smoky" - Manuscript
Manuscript, typed with revisions in pencil, "For strips of Smoky." A series of captions or descriptions of each of four panels of strips 1, 2, 3 and 4 of drawings featuring Smoky. Images: see Relations.

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"For a Horse" - Manuscript
Six typed pages are titled "For a Horse". There is significant editing. This story appeared in ALL IN THE DAY'S RIDING.

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