Most of the collection consists of manuscripts
of various works by Phyllis and Weldon Heald. Also within the collection are
articles, clippings, and miscellaneous materials about the Healds and other
topics. The majority of the photographs were taken by the Healds during their
travels throughout the Southwest.
Collection Number:
MS 359
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
Phyllis and Weldon Heald were free-lance writers who relocated to
southeast Arizona from the northeast. They owned the Flying H Ranch in the
Huachuca Mountains, and the Painted Canyon Ranch in the Chiricahua Mountains
before settling down to write full-time in Tucson. They wrote books, articles,
short stories, poems, plays and screenplays. Much of their writing was on the
flora and fauna of the Southwest as well as historical sites in Arizona. Before
his career as a writer, artist and photographer, Weldon worked as an architect.
He wrote several books including, "Sky Island," and "The Arizona Scenic Guide."
Phyllis began her career as a playwright and she continued to write plays with
her husband. The Healds taught writing workshops at the Southwest Writers
Conference in Flagstaff. Later in her career, Phyllis was a writing consultant
for writers.
Scope and Content Note
Most of the collection consists of manuscripts of various works by
Phyllis and Weldon Heald. Also within the collection are articles, clippings,
and miscellaneous materials about the Healds and other topics. The majority of
the photographs were taken by the Healds during their travels throughout the
Southwest. Other images were made by Stephan Blake, Manley photography, the Las
Vegas News Bureau, or are reproductions from various historical societies . The
photographs are of outdoor scenes taken throughout the Southwest.
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.
People including authors Francis P. Farquhar and C.P.
Snow,
1930-1971
4
39
Heald home: Painted Canyon Ranch. Photographs by Stephen
Blake,
ca.
1950s
4
40
Arizona places: Mission in the Sun, Parker Canyon Lake,
Coronado National Memorial, Mt. Graham, Huachuca Mtns., Weaver's Needle,
Montezuma Castle, Post Hospital at old Ft. Lowell, All Creed's Chapel,
ca.
1950s
4
41
Tombstone, AZ
, ca.
1950s
4
42
San Xavier del Bac,
ca.
1950s
4
43
Other states: California, Washington, New Mexico, Nevada
and Utah,
ca.
1950s