Books -- Reviews

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Archival materials following the research of writer, Mike Cox, on the Texas Rangers. This collection is made up of government documents, drafts, stories, Ranger records, obituaries, and biographies of hundreds of former Rangers. The research begins right after the Civil War up until the early 2000s.

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Includes book excerpts

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Compton’s personal writing about Curtis, correspondence about articles written (journalist), magazine

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Includes correspondences, program (“What Makes a City,” “The Economics of Taste”), report to city council, course and lecture listings

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Includes Dallas Journalism Review (1973-1974), Texas Journalism Review (1975)

Series Description Series III is subdivided into two main subseries. The first comprises documents of Compton’s early career prior to the creation of the Focus section of the Dallas Morning News. Of interest in this series are interview notes of Compton and gubernatorial candidate W. Lee O’Daniel; staff information regarding Jim Lehrer, a reporter for the Dallas Morning News from 1958-1960 and the inner-workings of the Dallas Morning News. In particular, this subseries contains information regarding the Civil...

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Includes typed notes from Compton, Arts and Entertainment (1984), Book Pages (1949-1976), Book Pages – Annual Christmas Book Sections (1950-1965), Focus (1983-1984), High Profile (1988-2001), Metropolitan (1986, 1988), Sunday Reader (1996, 1998, 1999), Texas and Southwest (1993, 1998)

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Includes newspaper article about John F. Kennedy’s assassination, 25 years later

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Includes mounted pages from the pre-run newspaper

Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by publication and surveys Lewis’s entire writing career from his earliest poetry and short fiction publications in Avesta (1955)—the student literary magazine of North Texas State College—to his last published piece, a profile of well-known photographer Birney Imes, published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine (1994). Material from a posthumous collection of Lewis’s writing,...

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Includes Dallas Observer (1980-1981), Dallas News (1971 – includes Gay Pride issue)

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Includes press kits for Lone Star Rising Lyndon B. Johnson And His Times, 1908-1960

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...

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Correspondence about book reviews

Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...

Abstract From the Series: Material consists of numerous newspaper clippings, correspondence, drafts, galleys and proofs of material written by Cox, promotional materials for books, newsletters, and some notes from early college courses in journalism and photography. Material relates to Texana column written by Cox and to his position at DPS in media relations. When possible, original file names are used and are indicated in quotation marks. Accession contains 133 photos and 3 color slides. A majority of the photos...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...

Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by author and includes mostly photocopied short stories and screenplays. Two notable items relating to Lewis are a forty-six page biography, Grover Lewis: The Uncommon Insight and Grace of an Ordinary Man, written by longtime friend and poet R.K. Scott; and the screenplay Deep Ellum, by Stan Vosper, Jr., based on Lewis’s adolescent days with Larry McMurtry and other North Texas friends. ...