This collection contains manuscripts, notes,
correspondence, photographs, clippings, and related material. Several drafts of
the manuscripts for
The Saga of Billy the Kid, 1925,
Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest,
1927,
The One Way Ride, 1931 and
The Robin Hood of El Dorado: the Saga of Joaquin
Murrieta, 1932, are present. Correspondents, including Wyatt Earp and
various others, relate their experiences.
Collection Number:
AZ 291
Repository:
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/
Biographical Note
Walter N. Burns was a journalist and author of Western fiction
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains manuscripts, notes, correspondence,
photographs, clippings, and related material. Several drafts of the manuscripts
for
The Saga of Billy the Kid, 1925,
Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest, 1927,
The One Way Ride, 1931 and
The Robin Hood of El Dorado: the Saga of Joaquin
Murrieta, 1932, are present. Photographs are of people and places such
as Pat Garrett, John Slaughter, Lincoln County, N.M., and Tombstone, Ariz.
Correspondents, including Wyatt Earp and various others, relate their
experiences. Also included are short stories and articles; many about Wild Bill
Hickock. Clippings from his newspaper columns in Chicago's
Inter Ocean, 1908-1913, chiefly concern
western themes.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Wild Bill Hickock: Published Articles by Walter N. Burns.
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4
Wild Bill Hickock: Various notes and manuscripts.
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5
Wild Bill Hickock: Correspondence.
, 1923-1927
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6
Wild Bill Hickock: Photographs, miscellaneous material.
7
7
Articles: Various published and unpublished, and related
material.
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8
Article: "If Napoleon had Commanded the Allies."
, 1922
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9
Short Stories, published and unpublished.
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10
California notes.
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11
Miscellaneous items.
Includes an account of the "Bisbee Massacre" of December 1883, and
an essay written by 15-year-old Walter N. Burns on "Mineralogy and Geology"
awarded a prize by the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky in 1881.
