urn:taro:utexas.cah.00037 A Guide to the Mody Coggin Boatright Papers, 1907-1978 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. Edited by Bob Stewart, May 30, 2002. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:26:23 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.cah.00037 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). 6/9/2009 10:46 AM Added AR 2009-133, reprints, by Laurel Rozema. July 2009 Updated photograph and oversized information, by Laurel Rozema. Descriptive Summary Boatright, Mody Coggin, 1896-1970. Boatright (Mody Coggin) Papers 1907-1978 Boatright, Mody Coggin, Papers 34 ft., 7 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Papers of Mody Boatright (1896-1970), folklorist and professor of English at The University of Texas (1926-1969), include personal papers and materials related to his career as teacher and chairman of the English Department and as secretary-editor of the Texas Folklore Society. English. Scope and Contents

Papers of Mody Boatright (1896-1970), folklorist and professor of English at The University of Texas (1926-1969), include personal papers; items related to the Boatright and Reck families; and materials related to his professional career as teacher, chairman of the English Department, secretary-editor of the Texas Folklore Society, Fellow of the American Folklore Society, and member of numerous organizations. Other material relates to research on the oil industry and western history and folklore, as well as to his numerous publications. Included are correspondence, newspaper clippings and other printed items, scrapbooks, notes, student papers and other teaching materials, bibliographies, literary productions, oral history transcripts, and photographs.

Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Boatright, Mody Coggin, 1896-1970. Boatright family Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940. Paredes, Américo. Reck family Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Thornton, Word Augustus. Subjects (Organizations) American Studies Association Texas Folklore Society University of Texaas. Dept. of English Subjects Academic freedom American literature American literature--Southwest, Old American literature--Texas Boom towns College teachers--Texas--Austin Cowboys Crime and criminals Fiction Fire extinction Gas industry Motion pictures Folklore History--Study and teaching Livestock equipment Oral histories Petroluem industry and trade Wit and humor Places Austin (Tex.) Breckenridge Oil Field (Tex.) Desdemona Oil Field (Tex.) Galveston (Tex.) Houston (Tex.) Ranger Oil Field (Tex.) Sweetwater (Tex.) Texas. Use Restrictions

Some material is restricted. Consult archivist.

 Personal 3M509 Correspondence 3M509 1918-1949 3M509 1918-1949 3M509 1966-1967 3M509 Certificates, 1921, 1922, and undated 3M510 Correspondence, 1968-1970 3M510 Notebook, 1918-1919 3M510 German Postcard Folder 3M511 Notes and Poems on Germany, World War I 3M511 Notes on English Authors 3M512 M.C. Boatright's Student Papers, 1929-1930 3M512 Sul Ross State Teacher's College, Publication, December 1, 1926 3M513 M.A. Thesis; Plot-Structure in the Novels of Sir Walter Scott 3M513 Dissertation; Scott's Use of the Supernatural in the Waverley Novels, pp. 164-457 3M514 Dissertation: Scott's Use of the Supernatural in the Waverley Novels 3M515 Notes on Sir Walter Scott 3M515 Walter Prescott Webb 3M515 Article by Webb 3M515 Clippings 3S193 Scrapbook Pages 3S196 Scrapbook Societies and Organizations 3M516 American Dialect Society, Clippings 3M516 American Folklore Society 3M516 Miscellaneous Correspondence 3M516 Program 3M517 American Studies Association 3M517 Correspondence, 1956-1963, and undated 3M517 Membership Information, 1953, 1954 3M518 American Studies Association, Meeting at Baylor 3M518 Authors Guild Bulletin, Feb.-Mar., 1964 through Nov.-Dec., 1966 3M519 Authors Guild Bulletin, Jan.-Feb., 1967 through May-June, 1970 3M519 Texas Folklore Archive, Correspondence 3M520 Texas Folklore Society 3M520 Correspondence 3M520 Manuscript of Told by the Folk, pp. 1-60 3M521 Stories from T.F.S. Publications 3M521 Dobie, Paisano Project, News Release, September, 1965 3M522 Dobie, Paisano Project, Miscellaneous University of Texas Material 3M522 American Studies Program, Publications 3M522 Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, 1948 3M523 Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, Reports, Clippings 3M523 Rainey Controversy, T.S. Painter 3M524 Rainey Controversy, Pamphlets 3M524 Regents' Rules 3M525 Report of the Committee of Seventy-Five, December, 1958 3M525 Miscellaneous Publications, 1965 3M526 Miscellaneous Publications, 1966-1968 English Department 3M526 The Alcalde, March 1956 3M526 Grants to Boatright 3M527 Materials on Method 3M527 Ph.D. Candidates 3M528 Américo Paredes, Ph.D. Candidate 3M528 Register of Graduate Students in English, 1947-1948, 1951-1952, Part I 3M529 Register of Graduate Students in English, 1947-1948, 1951-1952, Part II 3M529 Teaching Materials 3M529 English Literature, Notes 3M529 Minor 18th Century Novelists 3M530 Teaching Materials, English Literature 3M530 General Notes 3M530 Tests 3M531 English 280K 3M531 English 380K 3M532 Teaching Materials, American Literature 3M532 Notes, Philosophy and Literature 3M532 Notes, Walt Whitman 3M533 Tests on Age of Innocence 3M533 Tests, Miscellaneous 3M534 Notes 3M534 Teaching Materials, Bibliography 3M534 18th Century American Essays 3M535 General 3M535 Southwest, various subjects OD1182 Teaching Materials, map 3M536 Teaching Materials, Bibliography 3M536 Hamlin Garland, Biography, Criticism 3M536 Student Papers 3M536 Adam-Bell 3M536 Donalson-Dugas 3M537 Eargle-Felder 3M537 Hazelwood-Hlavinka 3M538 Holland-Hubka 3M538 Nesmith-Ogden 3M539 Pannill-Potts 3M539 Soriero-Threadgill 3M540 Tillery-Weber 3M540 Miscellaneous Personal Correspondence: 3N10 Boatright Family, 1907-1973 and undated 3N11 Boatright Family, 1907-1973 and undated 3N11 Elizabeth Reck Boatright, 1922-1930 3N11 Reck Family, 1925-1931 and undated 3N11 Non-family, 1922-1931 3N12 Genealogical Materials: Boatright Family Literary productions 3N12 Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1930-1978 and undated 3N12 Printed material, 1925, 1929, 1949, 1964, 1969, and undated 3H219 Reprints, 1927-1970 3N12 Miscellaneous 1909-1936, 1949, 1972?, and undated 3N13 Poem, “An Hour in the Library” 3N13 Short Story, “Incomplete Couplet” 3N14 Articles on Walter Scott, Walt Whitman 3N14 American Literary Realism, 1840-1910, (Boatright, Consultant) 3N15 Freshman Prose Annual, No. 1 3N15 Oil Industry, Folklore of the Oil Industry, p. 146 to p. 321 3N16 Oil Industry, Folklore of the Oil Industry, p. iii to p. 142 3N16 Draft of “The Role of Chance” 3N17 Draft of “The Geologist” 3N17 Draft of “Lingo” 3N18 Draft of “Songs and Verse” 3N18 Correspondence, Publication, 1958-1970 3N19 Western History and Folklore 3N19 Articles on the Humor of the American Frontier 3N19 Folk Laughter..., 3N19 “Backwood Belles” 3N20 “Men and Manners” 3N20 “Buoyant or Despairing?” 3N21 Notes 3N21 Correspondence and Criticism 3N22 The Cowboy as Hero 3N22 “Buffalo Bill and the American Rodeo” 3N23 “Theodore Roosevelt and the Cowboy” 3N23 “Tom Mix: The Morality Play on Horseback” 3N24 The Cowboy..., “The Triumph of the Formula” 3N24 Article, “The Myth of Frontier Individualism” 3N24 Notes 3N25 Article, “The Wild Man in Texas Lore” 3N25 Notes, Clippings Literary Productions by Others 3N25 Reprints 3H218 1920s-1950s 3N25 1925-1929 3N25 1940-1949 3N26 1950-1954 3H219 1960s, undated 3N26 Donald M. Fiene, The Controversy 3N27 Articles 3N27 Joseph Gallant 3N27 A. Scouten 3N27 P. Stewart 3N28 S. Thompson 3N28 A. Turner 3N28 F. Vandiver Research Material 3N28 Oil Industry 3N28 Boom Towns (2 folders) 3N29 Boom Towns, Card File 3N29 Bibliographical Notes on Oil 3N30 Bibliographical Notes on Oil 3N30 Fiction Relating to Oil Industry 3N31 Fiction, “Bright Danger” 3N31 Living Conditions 3N32 “The Lucky Ones” 3N32 People, Drillers, Student Paper 3N33 Oil Industry, People 3N33 The Geologist 3N33 Tex Thornton 3S196 Oil Industry, Tex Thornton 3S196 Scrapbook 3S196 Photostats 3N34 People, Texas Thornton, Student Paper 3N34 Oil Industry 3N34 Subject Card File 2 3N35 Subject Card File 3 3N35 Oral History Project 3N35 Transmittals 3N36 Oil Industry, Oral History Project 3N36 Guide to Transcripts 3N36 “Pioneers in Texas Oil,” Drafts 3N37 Oil Industry, Correspondence 3N37 General 3N37 William Hartsell 3N38 W.H. Hays 3N38 W.H. Wright 3N39 Western History and Folklore 3N39 Myth, General Notes 3N39 Hero, Notes on Early American Fiction 3N40 Notes on the Concept of the Hero 3N41 Cowboys and the American Character 3N41 Cowboy Fiction in the Saturday Evening Post to 1920 3N42 Cowboy Fiction in the Saturday Evening Post, Student Paper 3N42 Cowboy Fiction, Note Cards 3N43 Cowboy Fiction, Note Cards 3N43 Cowboy Fiction, Authors, Owen Wister and Theodore Roosevelt 3N44 Authors, Notes on Theodore Roosevelt 3N44 Authors, Student Papers on Hamlin Garland 3N45 Cowboy Fiction, Authors, Student Paper on Hamlin Garland 3N45 Bibliographical Notes on the West 3N46 Cowboy Fiction and Movies, Card File 3N46 Cowboy Movies, Notes 3N47 Cowboy Movies, Synopses of Early Movies, 1911-1914 3N47 Miscellaneous Notes on Cowboy Stars and Movies 3N48 Notes on Western Movie Reviews 3N48 Student Papers on Women's Issues, 1890-1895 3N49 Agrarian Movement, Student Papers 3N49 The Indian in the Literature of the Southwest, Notes 3N50 Notes, Articles, Clippings on Animals in the West 3N50 Rainmaking 3N51 Notes and Articles on American Humor 3N51 Frontier Humor, Religion 3N52 Aspects of the West Reported in Galveston News, 1880 3N52 Notes on History of Winchester Rifle 3N53 Western History and Folklore, Cattle Industry 3N53 Idiom 3N53 “Texas Ranch,” Life, n.d. 3N54 Western History and Folklore 3N54 Ferrington Carpenter 3N54 Outlaws, Belle Starr 3N55 Outlaws, Cole Younger 3N55 Children's Taunts and Insults 3N56 Collection of Proverbs 3N56 Book Catalogues 3N57 Book Week, January 12, 1964 3N57 Research Grant Materials Restricted 3N58 Personal 3N58 Correspondence 3N58 English Department 3N58 Budget Council Material, 1951-1953 3N58 Teaching Materials 3N58 Class Records, 1940's 3N59 English Department 3N59 Grade Books 3N59 Miscellaneous Graded Material Photographs 3S200b 9 ink line drawings of tools, by Elizabeth Keefer Boatright for article in Journal of American Folklore, July 1970 3S200b Caricature of rich Texan with oil well, diamonds, sixgun, etc., on oversize greeting card 3Y71 32 photographs of early oil industry in Texas

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 3Y71 23 postcards, color and black and white halftone and black and white photographic, of identified scenes in Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Illinois, Ohio, and Canada; unidentified scenes; color lithograph of jonquils and sailing ship 3Y71 2 packets of color halftone souvenir postcards of Galveston and Houston, [ca. 1920] 3Y71 8 black and white photographs of identified persons and places, some Texan 3Y71 7 black and white photographs of unidentified persons and places 3Y71 2 wood-block prints of radrunner (paisano) made by Mody C. Boatright, on gold foil paper 3S223 5 photographs related to early oil industry in Texas

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 Oversize personal materials 2.325/V11 Marriage license of Mody C. Boatright and Elizabeth Reck, 1925 2.325/V11 Pages 63-72 of Holland's Magazine, September 1925, plus two unidentified pages 2.325/V11 Two certificates, 1923, 1960 Microfilm Collection Research Material Oil Industry Western History and Folklore Sound Archives 7 Reels of Recording Tape