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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Rak, Mary Kidder, 1879-1958 |
Collection Name: | Mary Kidder Rak papers, |
Inclusive Dates: | 1920-1950 |
Physical Description: | .8 linear feet |
Abstract: | Mary Kidder Rak papers contain correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, notes, photographs, and other papers relating to her writing career. |
Collection Number: | AZ 017 |
Respository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL:http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
Mary Kidder Rak is most widely known for being an author and a rancher in Southern Arizona. Rak wrote the book A Cowman's Wife.
Correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, notes, photographs, and other papers relating to her writing career. Included are three unpublished manuscripts of western fiction; articles and stories; a letter containing Kidder family genealogy; two photographs of Charles Rak and their ranch home, 1920; and five crayon drawings by Charles H. Owen which were used to illustrate her book, A Cowman's Wife, 1934.
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Mary Kidder Rak papers (AZ 017). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series I: Manuscripts, ca. 1930-1950 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | Unpublished manuscript: Mystery at Pecos High Bridge. | |||||||||
1 | 2 | Unpublished manuscript: The Dark Brown Mystery. | |||||||||
1 | 3 | Unpublished manuscript: At the Cross Roads of Life. | |||||||||
1 | 4 | Notes, short pieces, photographs. | |||||||||
1 | 5 | Miscellaneous articles. |
Series II: Correspondence, 1934-1944 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
1 | 6 | Correspondence: letters to Bobbie Scott; letters from Walter C. Hovey; and letters to Gertrude Hills. , 1934-1944 |
Series III: Miscellaneous, 1920-1936 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
1 | 7 | Kidder Family Geneology. | |||||||||
1 | 8 | Crayon sketches by Garles H. Owens. | |||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
2 | 1-3 | Roving Cowboy, typescript. |