The Laura V. Hamner Papers, 1890-1963, contain correspondence, literary productions, financial records, broadsides, scrapbooks, photographic cuts, and newspaper clippings, which document Hamner’s career as an author, teacher, newspaper columnist, and radio announcer. Correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, and other documents pertain to the publication of The No-Gun Man of Texas, Short Grass and Longhorns, and Free Grass as well as the adoption of these books as supplementary reading for schools in Texas. Correspondence concerns her radio broadcasts for Light and Hitch and consists of fan mail, requests for copies of program transcripts, and information sent to Hamner for use on the show. Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and historical narratives illustrate the production of her newspaper columns, Talk to Teens and Panhandle Scrapbook, as well as articles by Hamner and others for the Works Progress Administration in Texas and for Reader’s Digest. Topics of the narratives, clippings, and scrapbooks include the history of Texas and Texan counties, frontier and pioneer life, farming and ranching, the cattle trade, and biographies of cattlemen and early settlers. Additionally, the papers relate to Hamner’s personal life and various friendships all over the nation, including correspondence with Louis Lenz, and her association with various organizations, such as the Panhandle Pen Women Association, Poetry Society of Texas, and Texas Press Women.