Southwestern Colonial Ironwork- “Bits”, undated

The majority of materials consist of subject files covering New Mexico and the US West from colonial period until modern times. Subject files may contain notes and drafts by Simmons and others, correspondence between Simmons and others, photographs, clippings, and articles; though some files are quite small. Several binders labeled “Marc Simmons Collection” have extensive coverage of the person or subject, including biographical information, correspondence, images, writings, and clippings. Well- documented subjects include the Santa Fe Trail and the Santa Fe Trail Association, Kit Carson, and ironwork and farriership. Well-documented people include Jack Schaefer, Lawrence Clark Powell, David J. Weber, Mark Gardner, John Nichols, Elmer Kelton, Fray Angelico Chavez, Jose Cisneros, Max Evans, Ben K. Green, Rudolfo Anaya, Robert M. Utley, Tony Hillerman, Conrad Richter, John Erickson, Charles F. Lummis, Henry Crawford, Nasario Garcia, John A. Truett, V.B. Price, Jim Sagel, Abe Peña, John Ward, Herminia Chacon Gonzales, Gene Peach, S. Omar Barker, Norman Cleaveland, Neil Goodwin, and George C. Baldwin. Materials also include some Santa Fe Trail Association and Western Writers of America business files, and some documentation of Simmons books, particularly Children of the West and Southwestern Colonial Ironwork, as well as New Mexico’s Cuarto Centennial.