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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

For further information, see also

Description of Series

Series I. Works, 1942-1965

Series II. Clippings and Printed Materials, 1935-1983

Series III. Correspondence, 1920-1973

Series IV. Personal Papers, 1922-1972

Series V. Financial and Legal Documents, 1944-1973

University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Fred Gipson:

An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center



Descriptive Summary

CreatorGipson, Fred, 1908- .
TitleFred Gipson Papers
Dates: 1920-1973
Abstract:The papers include manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, contracts, financial and legal documents, and photographs that documenting Gipson's life as one of the most prolific writers of the American Southwest.
RLIN Record #TXRC95-A71
Extent34 boxes (14 linear feet), 1 oversize folder
LanguageEnglish.
RepositoryHarry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Sketch

Frederick Benjamin Gipson, journalist and author of western and children's literature, was born February 7, 1908, near Mason, Texas. As the son of cotton farmers, Gipson worked as a field laborer while attending Mason High School. After graduating in 1926, Gipson worked as a goat driver, mule skinner, and day laborer before enrolling as a journalism major at the University of Texas in 1933. That same year Gipson won a writing contest for which J. Frank Dobie, the Texas folklore writer, was a judge. Gipson's winning story, "Hard-Pressed Sam," was later published in the Southwest Review. He also wrote for the University's student paper, The Daily Texan. Gipson married Tommie Eloise Wynn in 1940 with whom he had two children; they were divorced in 1964. In 1967 Gipson was married to Angelina Torres.

Gipson's career as a newspaper reporter and columnist from 1937 to 1940 included work for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Denver Post, the San Angelo Standard-Times, and the Paris, Texas News. In 1940 Gipson moved back to Mason, Texas, where he began writing a syndicated newspaper column, "Around Our Place," as well as fiction for pulp western publications. In 1943 Gipson sold his first story to Colliers magazine, followed by sales to other magazines such as Reader's Digest, Look, and Liberty. His first book, Fabulous Empire: Colonel Zack Miller's Story,was published in 1946. Other nonfiction works by Gipson include Big Bend, with J. Oscar Langford (1952), Cowhand: the Story of a Working Cowboy (1953), and The Cow Killers: With the Afton Commission in Mexico (1956).

Although he was successful as a writer of nonfiction, it was as a novelist that Gipson became best known. In 1945 Gipson met literary agent Maurice Crain, which led to a long-term association between the two Texans. Gipson's first best sellers, Hound-Dog Man (1949) and The Home Place (1950), were listed in the New York Times best seller list and were optioned for film rights by Twentieth Century-Fox. From 1953 to 1955 Gipson wrote for and served as associate editor of True West, a pulp magazine of nonfiction western stories founded by Joe A. Small. From the mid-1950s to early 1960s, Gipson published four more novels for young readers, Trail Driving Rooster (1955), Recollection Creek (1955), Old Yeller (1956), and Savage Sam (1962). Gipson wrote the screen adaptation of Old Yeller (1958) for Walt Disney Studios as well as the screen adaptations of Hound-Dog Man (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959) and Savage Sam (Walt Disney Studios, 1963).

Gipson was the recipient of several literary awards including the William Allen White Children's Book Award, 1959 and the First Sequoyah Award, Oklahoma, 1959. In 1965 Gipson became president of the Texas Institute of Letters and was named a “Fellow” in 1970. Gipson died at his ranch in Mason County on August 17, 1973, and was, by special proclamation of the governor, buried in the State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Two of his novels for young readers, Little Arliss (1978) and Curley and the Wild Boar (1980), were published posthumously.

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Scope and Contents

The Fred Gipson Papers, 1920-1973 (34 boxes), include manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, contracts, financial and legal documents, and photographs that document his life as one of the most prolific writers of the American Southwest. The collection is arranged in five series: Works, 1942-1965 (11 boxes), Clippings and Printed Materials, 1935-1983 (3 boxes), Correspondence, 1920-1973 (17 boxes), Personal Papers, 1922-1972 (1.5 boxes), and Financial and Legal Documents, 1944-1973 (1.5 boxes).

The creative works consist of manuscripts (often including multiple annotated and corrected drafts) of short stories, novels, screenplays, speeches, and newspaper articles. While short story drafts and printed versions dominate the works series, also present are numerous story ideas or outlines, called “briefs” by Gipson. Gipson's most famous novel Old Yeller is not found in this collection, but several revised drafts of Savage Sam (both novel and screen adaptation) are present.

Correspondence with friends, literary agents, and publishers, and fan mail comprise one half of the collection. This correspondence reflects Gipson's literary achievements and the influence his books had on young readers, whose letters dominate the fan mail subseries. The correspondence series also illuminates the problems and struggles Gipson endured in his personal life and writing career. Significant correspondents include: Walter Brennan, Bernard Brister, Maurice Crain, Margaret Cousins, J. F. Dobie, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., John Henry Faulke, Lyndon B. Johnson, Tommy Kirk, Zack Miller, Fess Parker, Cactus Pryor, General Jesus Jaime Quiñones, J.A. Small, H. N. Swanson, Evan Thomas, Walter Prescott Webb, Annie Laurie Williams, and Chill Wills.

Additional series include printed material by and about Gipson and his works, personal papers, financial and legal documents. In the Personal Papers series are items such as address cards, school diplomas, birth certificates, maps, travel guides, and personal and publicity photographs. Other materials relating to Gipson's publishing and film writing career and general finances are found in the Financial and Legal Documents series.

The Gipson papers represent aspects of his work and life from his early childhood to his death in 1973. Beyond the study of Gipson and his writings during part of the most prolific times of his life, this collection also provides insight into the process of writing and publishing popular western and children's literature in the last half of the twentieth century.

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Restrictions

Access

Open for research

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Index Terms

Correspondents
Brennan, Walter, 1894-1974.
Brister, Bernard.
Crain, Maurice.
Cousins, Margaret, 1905- .
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.
Goldwyn, Samuel, 1926- .
Faulk, John Henry.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Miller, Zack, b. 1878.
Parker, Fess.
Pryor, Cactus.
Quinones, Jesus Jaime, General.
Small, Joe Austell.
Swanson, H. N.
Thomas, Evan.
Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888-1963.
Williams, Annie Laurie.
Wills, Chill, 1902-1978.
Subjects
subject Authors, American--West (U. S.)--20th century.
Document Types
First drafts.
Galley proofs.
Legal documents.
Scripts.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition

Gift 1965, Purchase, 1973

Processed by

Carla Ellard, Linda Peterson, Lisa Rush, and Tim Thompson, 1994; Revised, 1995 by David Hatfield Sparks

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For further information, see also

Cox, Mike. Fred Gipson, Texas Storyteller. Austin: Shoal Creek Publishers, 1980.

Henderson, Sam H. Fred Gipson. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1967.

Lich, Glen E. Fred Gipson at Work. College Station: Texas A & M Press, 1990.

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Series Descriptions

 

Series I. Works, 1942-1965
(11 boxes)

The Works series consists of drafts (original and carbon copy), and proofs of short stories, screenplays, novels, newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs and speeches, as well as research notes. The manuscripts of short stories, which dominate the Works series, include numerous corrected and annotated versions and often include additional publication and financial information. These works have been arranged alphabetically by title. While Gipson's most famous novel Old Yeller is not found in this collection, several revised drafts of Savage Sam (both novel and screen adaptation) are present. Manuscripts of other novels include Curly and the Wild Boar: An Adventure Tale for Boys, nd; Home Place, nd; Not all Strange Things Are Women, nd; and Recollection Creek, nd as well as the proposals and/or outlines for "The Last Days of Honest John" and a “horse novel.”
Manuscripts of screenplays or scripts (including outlines), besides the drafts of Savage Sam, include The Big Bender, nd; "Fort Mason," nd; High Lonesome Place, nd; "Old Man Lepley's Hound," nd; and The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (screenplay, 1959, teleplay, 1962). Manuscripts of nonfiction works present include the research notes on William Barton, an early Texas frontiersman; "Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy," nd; and a memoir entitled "Buried Treasure," nd. Also found here are several speeches, 1960-1965, including one entitled "Education of a Hill Country Writer." Gipson collected stories by other writers, including Bob Becker, Bernice Cosulich, Martha B. Darbyshire, L. Wingfield Hudgins, Ernest Lee, Harold Clay Pope, and David Newell.
boxfolder
11"Angels Work Overtime," [short story] nd,
2 copies
2"The Anger of Anton Jabosky," [short story] nd
3"Another Day in the Saddle," [short story] nd
4"Bad Day," [short story] nd
5"Bad Hog," [short story] nd
6"Bad Man," [short story] nd
7"The Banana Snitchers," [short story] nd,
2 copies
8Barton, William, 1782-1840 [research notes] nd
9The Big Bender, [screenplay] nd
10"The Big Goat Deal," [short story] nd
11Bigfoot Wallace, [screenplay] nd
12"Bird Woman," [short story] nd
13"Black Cat Bachelors," [short story] nd
14"Bobcat," [short story] nd
15Book Reviews for the New York Times, 1965-66
16"Bounty Hunter," [short story] nd
"Bounty Hunter from Hell,"1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
117"Boy and Horse Story," [short story] nd
18"Bright Red Calico Shirt," [short story] nd
19"Bronc Riders Are Made," [short story] nd
20"Brush Roper," [short story] nd,
2 versions
21Brush Roper, [screenplay] nd
22"Brush-wild Cow," [short story] nd
23"Buckskin Stepson," [short story] nd
24"Buffalo Rider," [short story] nd
25Buried Treasure, [memoir] nd
26"Chinchy Professor," [short story] nd
27"Chum," [short story] nd
"The Circle A Invasion,"1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
128"A Cowboy for to Be," [short story] nd
29-30"Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy," [nonfiction] nd
boxfolder
21"Cowpen Reveries," [short story, 1947]
2"The Cu-Ne-Va Ghost," [short story] nd
3Curly and the Wild Boar: An Adventure Tale for Boys, [fiction] nd
4"Cyclone Ropers," [nonfiction] nd
"A Damn Bad Man!" 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
25"A Day of Retrospect," [short story] nd
6-7"The Devil to Pay," [fiction] nd
8"The Dinner Bucket," [short story] nd,
2 versions
9"Dog in the Meal Barrell," [short story] nd
10"Dog Swap," [short story] nd
11"Education of a Hill Country Writer," [speech] 1965
12"Fisherman's Luck," [short story] nd
13"The Fishermen Got Away!" [short story] nd
14"Fishing Is a Man's Business," [short story] 1955,
3 copies
15"Fort Mason," [script] nd
16"Fox in the Ditch," [short story] nd
17"Gift Dog," [short story] nd,
2 copies
18"Gift Horse," [short story] nd,
2 copies
19"Give a Cowhand Enough Rope," [short story] nd
20"Good-Neighbor Policy," [short story] 1947
21"Graveyard Gobbler," [short story] nd
"Gun Waif," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
222"Herd Dog," [short story] nd
23"High Lonesome Place," [short story] nd,
2 versions
24High Lonesome Place, [screenplay] nd
25"High Ride," [short story] nd
26-27Home Place, [novel, nd]
boxfolder
31Horse novel outline, [proposed novel] nd
2"Hound Dog Men Are Born," [short story] 1948,
2 copies
3"I Hate Snakes," [short story] nd
4"It Sure Beats Me," [short story] nd
5"Jay Wouldn't Listen," [short story] nd
6Jesse Gentry, [novel] nd
7"King of the Wild Country," [short story] nd,
2 versions
8"Lady Jack-Whacker," [short story] nd
9The Last Days of Honest John, [proposed novel notes] nd
10"Last Escape," [short story] 1947
11"Like Hell You're Dead!" [short story] nd
12-14Little Arliss, [novel] nd
15"Lonesome Man," [short story] nd,
2 versions
16"The Melon Patch Killing," [short story] nd
17Memoirs, nd
18"Minnie McCormack's Find," [short story] nd
19"Misery," [short story notes] nd
20"Monty's Turkeys and the Rattlesnake," [short story] nd
21"Mule Talk," [short story] nd
22"My Kind of Man," [short story] nd
23"Natural-born Hunter," [short story] nd,
2 versions
24"Ned and the Bobwite," [short story] nd
"Nesters Ain't Wanted!" 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
41Newspaper column drafts, A-I, nd
2Newspaper column drafts, J-Z, nd
3"Nobody's Dog," [short story] nd,
2 copies
4Not All Strange Things Are Women, [novel] nd
5Old Man Lepley's Hound, [screenplay outline] nd
6One Thing and then Another, [column] nd
"Outlaw Till Sunset," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
47"Outlaw Treaure," [short story] nd
8"Papa's Straw Hat," [short story] 1963, nd,
3 versions
"Paycheck in Hell," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
49"Possum Money Comes Easy," [short story] nd
10"Pranking Man," [short story] nd
11"Rabbit Hound," [short story] nd,
2 versions
12-13Recollection Creek, [novel] nd,
2 versions
boxfolder
51-2Recollection Creek, [novel] nd, page proofs
3"The Retirement of Pearl Jackson," [short story] nd
4The Return of Old Sancho, [screenplay] 1957
5-6The Road Leads West, [draft] nd
7"The Rock Thrower of Bosque County," [short story] nd
8"Rudy Walters and the Fiddler Crabs," [short story] nd
9"The Ruination of Restless Solomon," [short story] nd
10"Sad Sam," [short story] nd
Savage Sam, [screenplay] 1961-62, nd
boxfolder
61Brief, nd
2First Beginning, nd
3Treatment, 1961
4Revised treatment, 1962
5First draft, 1962
Savage Sam [novel, 1962] nd
boxfolder
66-7First complete draft w/editing, nd
8Second draft, nd
boxfolder
71Second draft, nd
2-3Third draft, nd
4Fourth draft, nd
5Fourth draft w/editing, nd
boxfolder
81Fourth draft w/editing, nd
2Unedited fifth draft, nd
3-4Fifth draft, nd
5Fifth draft suggestions, nd
6-7Sixth draft, nd
boxfolder
91"Sermon in Stones," [short story] nd, [also see Short Stories Scrapbook]
"A Sheriff for to Be," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
92-3Short Stories Scrapbook, 1941-1942
4"Show-off Roper," [short story] nd
"Signed on at Murder Camp," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
"Sixgun, Salvation-and Sin!" 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
95"Soft Touch," [short story] nd
"Some Hoss Thieves Is Different," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
96Speeches, 1960-1963
7"The Story of Catarino," [short story drafts] nd
8"Supposed Your Son Were a Turtle Biter!" [short story] nd
9"Sweet Cream for Arabella," [short story] nd
10"The Tales They Tell," [short story] nd
"That Damn Chongo!" 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
911"Timid Soul," [short story] nd
12"To The Mule," [poems] nd,
2 versions
"The Toughest Man in Texas," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
913"Town of Beer and Sorrow," [short story] nd
14Trail-Driving Rooster, [short story] nd
15"Trapped in a Boghole," [short story] nd
16-17The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, [screenplay] 1959
18The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, A One Hour Television Series, [teleplay] 1962
boxfolder
101"Turkey Hunt," [short story] nd
2"Visit with Peter Hurd," [nonfiction] nd
"Valley of Missing Herds," 1942 [see Short Stories Scrapbook]
boxfolder
103"We Used to Go Fishing," [short story] nd
4"Wee Willy Rides Again," [short story] nd
5"Whittlin' Banker," [short story] nd
6"Wild Hogs Are Different," [short story] nd
7-8Wild in the Country, first draft [screenplay] 1958,
2 copies
9Wolf Hound, [short story notes] nd
10"Women Anglers Get the Fish," [short story] nd
11"Yea, Verily," [short story] nd,
2 versions
12Miscellaneous stories by other authors, 1936-1947, nd, including Bob Becker, Bernice Cosulich, Martha B. Darbyshire, L. Wingfield Hudgins, Ernest Lee, David Newell, Harold Clay Pope
Miscellaneous Titled Drafts, 1935, 1957, 1961, nd
boxfolder
1013"Big-Foot Wallace and the Little Author," by John C. Duval [condensed novel by Tommie Gipson] 1935
Big Tom, [story brief] nd
The Great Blue Shining Mountains, [adult novel brief] nd
High Ride, I Remember Uncle Firth, [character story idea] nd
A Man of Honor, [novel brief] nd
Song Maker, [novel brief] nd
The Story of the Texas Tangers, by Walter Prescott Webb (1957), [synopsis] nd
The Trail-Driving Rooster, [novel brief] nd
Mule story, [story brief] nd
Yo-Yo and His Wants, [story brief] nd
boxfolder
1014Miscellaneous untitled typescripts, briefs, and research notes, 1961, nd

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Series II. Clippings and Printed Materials, 1935-1983
(3 boxes)

The Clippings and Printed Materials series contains three scrapbooks, 1935-1938, of Gipson's newspaper columns and articles that have been maintained as Gipson kept them. Also found here are miscellaneous loose clippings of reviews, critical articles written about Gipson's work, publicity materials, and copies of national, local, and international newspapers and magazines (such as Reader's Digest)in which Gipson published. While these clippings, spanning the years 1937 to 1983, are for the most part not alphabetically or chronologically arranged, one box consists of book and movie reviews organized by title of work and review date. In the folder for reviews of The Home Place (1950) is also found a serialized version published in the Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin in 1951.
boxfolder
111-16Miscellanous clippings and printed materials, 1937-1983
boxfolder
121-18Miscellanous clippings and printed materials, 1937-1983
Reviews, publicity, and other printed materials
boxfolder
131Big Bend, 1953-1953
2Cowhand: the Story of a Working Cowboy, 1953-1957
3Fabulous Empire: Colonel Zack Miller's Story, 1946-1948
4The Home Place, 1950-1952
5-6Hound Dog Man, 1948-1949
7Old Yeller, 1957-1958
boxfolder
141-3Scrapbooks (3) of newspaper columns, 1935-1938

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Series III. Correspondence, 1920-1973
(17 boxes)

The Correspondence series consists of two subseries, General Correspondence, 1920-1973, and Fan Mail and Publicity, 1946-1973. The general correspondence (13 boxes) has been maintained in alphabetical order and uses Gipson's original folder titles, and is interspersed with a few subject files. While not numerous, some of Gipson's outgoing letters are interfiled with the correspondence. The majority of the correspondents include friends, literary contacts and agents, and family members. Significant correspondents include Walter Brennan, Bernard Brister, Maurice Crain, Margaret Cousins, J. Frank Dobie, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.; John Henry Faulk, Lyndon B. Johnson, Zack Miller, Fess Parker, Cactus Pryor, General Jesus Jaime Quiñones, H. N. Swanson, Fess Parker, Joe Austell Small, H.N. Swanson, Evan Thomas, Walter Prescott Webb, Annie Laurie Williams, and Chill Wills. Much of the correspondence with the literary agents, such as Maurice Crain and H.N. Swanson provides insight into the process of writing and publishing Gipson's works. The letters of Gipson's first wife, Tommie Eloise Wynn, are of a more intimate nature.
The second subseries, Fan Mail and Publicity, 1946-1973 (3.5 boxes) includes fan mail, correspondents' photographs (mostly from young readers), as well as photocopies of Gipson's responses interfiled with letters from publishers, and copies of publicity materials including his biography and photograph. Although the majority of this subseries is chronologically arranged, a final series of folders is alphabetically arranged by location (home state) of correspondent.
Subseries A: General Correspondence, 1920-1973
boxfolder
151Abilene Christian College, 1957
2Adams, Clay, 1953-1960
3Adicks, David, nd
4Agriculture, 1952
5Aldridge, Bob and Vel, 1956-1962
6Alexander, W. O., 1952-1964
7Alford, Fat, 1952-1962
8Allen, Gloria, 1958-1962, nd
9American Library Association, 1972
10American Printing House for the Blind, 1953-56
11American Weekly, 1957-1958
12Angelus Book Shop, 1953
13Arnold, Jess, 1958
14Ashburn, Ike, 1955
15Atkins, George, 1952-1953
16Austin, Jim, 1954
17Austin National Bank, 1962, nd
18Author & Journalist, 1958
19Avon Productions, 1958-1959
20Axtell, Margaret, 1953
21B (misc.), 1956-1972
22Babcock, Havilah, 1958-1961, nd
23Bacon, Al, 1955-1956
24Baker, Rita, 1949-1956, nd
25Baker, Suzie, 1962
26Ball, Zachary, 1949-1962
27Balto [the Alaskan husky dog], 1957-1960, nd
28Banks, Jimmy, 1958
29Barker, Omar, 1953-1969, nd
30Barnard, Bill, 1955-1960
31Barrett, Mary Helen, 1958
32Bedell, Bill, 1954, nd
33Bedichek, Roy, nd
34Bennett, Frank, 1956-1959
35Bennett, Ralph, nd
36Berman, Pandro, 1962
37Best Productions, 1948
38Bishop, Curt, 1957
39Blodgett, Terrell and Dorothy, 1962
40Bloodworth, Allen, 1953
boxfolder
161Boatright, Mody, 1961
2Bode, J. R., 1961
3Bodenhamer, Dr. J. G., nd
4Bolton, Paul, 1961
5Book of the Month Club, 1961
6Book Reviews, 1950-1968
7Book Stall, 1961-1962
8Book Stores, 1948-1962
9Booksdale, Tom, 1961
10Boston, Morris Ross, 1950-1953
11Bosworth, Allen, 1962
12Bousman, Floyd, 1954
13Bowers, Jane, nd
14Boys Life,1958-1961
15Breckenridge, E. O., 1955
16Brennan, Walter, 1952-1955
17Brennan, William, 1959
18Brister, Bernard, 1949-1962
19Brooks Brothers, 1961
20Broowell, Myron, Jean and Steve, 1957
21Brown, Bill, 1952-1972
22Brown, Bud and Brownie, 1959
23Brown, Dor W., 1952-1962
24Brown, Mrs. William Sivard, nd
25Brown, Ned, 1950-1952
26Bruce, Dr. Ivan, 1960-1961
27Bruhl, Don and Leona, 1954-1972
28Bruhl, Lawrence, 1959-1960
29Buffler, Esther, nd
30Bullock, Alice, nd
31Bulsterbaum, Pauline, 1962
32Burger, Carl, 1956, nd
33Burke, Edith, 1959-1962, nd
34Burnett, Frank, 1952
365Burnett, John, 1955-1962, nd
boxfolder
171C (misc.), 1948-1956, nd
2Campbell, Camilla, 1952
3Campbell, Jim, 1955-1960
4Campbell, W. S., 1947-1957
5Case, Jack, nd
6Cavalier Magazine,1955-1957
7Centennial, 1953-1958
8Central Texas Electric Coop, 1957-1962
9Chambrun, Jacques, 1955
10Chapman, Gerard, 1948-1952
11Chenoweth, Dean, 1962
12Chrisman, Harry, 1954-1973
13Civic Reading Club, nd
14Clark, Martin, 1949-1962
15Clemmons, Larry, nd
16Clendenen, Ada, 1953
17Club Invitations, 1949-1958
18Coburn, Pat and Walt, 1946-1957
19Cocke, Inez, 1970, nd
20Coleman Company, 1954
21Collier's,1956
22Columbia Pictures, 1955
23Connell, Jack and Polly, nd
24Conners, Chuck, 1957
25Cooley, Leland Frederick, 1962
26Cooper, T.L., 1962
27Coppola, Luis, 1955
28Corcoran, Kevin, 1957
29Cousins, Margaret, 1950
30Craig, Harden, 1955
31Craig, Jan Gartman and Creighton, 1956-1962
Crain, Maurice
boxfolder
17321947-1949
331950
341951-1953
boxfolder
1811954-1955
21956
31957-1959
41960
51962-1970
6Crawford, William, 1961
7Critical Letter, 1965
8Croom, P. B. and Fletcher, 1962
9Crume, Paul, Marian and Christopher, 1956-1972
10Daniel, Beverly, 1971
11Davenport, Mrs. O. H., 1956
12Davenport, Rocky and Grace Ray, nd
13David, Mrs. Henry, 1955
14Davidson, Alvin G., 1959
15Davis, Clare Ogden, 1949
16Davis, Norris G., 1961
17Day, Beth, 1961-1964
18Day, Donald, 1965
19Day, Donald and Beth, 1946-1962
20Dean, Winne Mims, 1951
21"Debbie," 1972
22Democrats of Texas, 1957-1961
23Denious, Jesse Jr., 1958
24Denver Post, 1947-1953
25Dial Press, 1955-1961
26Dimmick, Shirley, 1956
27Disney Productions, 1956-1963
28Disney Studios, 1962-1963
boxfolder
191Dobie, J. F., 1952-1960
2Doctors, 1950-1962
3Dodgen, Howard Dean, 1960
4Domingue, Norris, 1965
5Dorion, Isabel De, 1965
6Dorion, Señora Carlos, 1961-1962
7Dreyer, Roger, 1965
8Du Bose, LaRocque, 1955-1962
9Dugger, Ronnie and Jean, 1961
10E (misc.), 1971-1972
11Edwards, Cas, 1951
12Elam, Prudence, 1958-1959
13Erdman, Lou, 1950-1961
14Erwin, Jim and Jean, 1956
15Evans, Glen and Julia, 1953-1962
16F (misc.), 1962-1973
17Fan Mail Material, nd
18Faris, Bill, 1954
19Fath, Conrad, 1958
20Faulke, John Henry and Lynne, 1959
21Felder, Lois, 1953-1962
22Ferguson, Charles F., 1961
23Ferguson, Thomas C., 1955-1961
24Ferragamo, Dolores and Vic, 1962
25Fine, Morton, 1955
26First National Bank in Dallas, 1955-1956
27Fischer, John, 1958-1961
28Forty-Niners, 1961
29Fox, Carol, 1957
30Frantz, Joe, 1959-1970
31Free Press Weekly, 1958
32Friend, Llerena, 1960-1962
33Gaddis, Isabel, 1961
34Gann, Walter, 1955
35Gard, Wayne, 1954
36Gardening, 1958
37Gasswendt, Dorothy, 1962
38General Features Coporation, 1948
39George, Eloise Roddy, 1954-1955
40Giacomini, Lynwood, 1955-1960
41Gibson, Felix and Jewel, 1957
42Gibson, Jewel, nd
43Giezentamer, Tom, 1955-1957
44Gilliland, Bill, 1958
45Gipson family, 1920-1965
46Gierisch-Hill, Antonnette, 1973
47Goaut, Marcus and Mildred, 1960
48Goddard, Ruth, 1952
49Goldwyn, Samuel Jr., 1967
50Good Friends, 1960
51Gordon, Mrs. Joseph F., 1961
52Gore, Mr., 1961
53Goree, Miss E.S., 1955
54Graves, John, 1961
55Green, Charles, 1950
56Griffis, Esther, 1956-1958
57Gruber, Frank, 1955
58Gublick, Bill and Jeanne, nd
59Guggenheim Foundation, 1954
boxfolder
201H (misc.), 1958-1962
2Hamilton, Connie, Bob and Alice, 1960
3Hannan, Joe, 1961
4Hardin-Simmons University, 1960
5Hardy, C.M., 1962
Harper & Brothers
boxfolder
2061948-1950
71951-1963
81954-1966
91957
101958-1959
111960-1969
12Harris, Foster, 1947
13Harris, Robert M., 1961
14Hart, Weldon, 1961
15Harte, Ed, 1958
16Hathaway, Jack, 1947
17Havahart Animal Traps, 1961
18Hay, Zieger, 1951
19Headliners Club, 1959-1961
20Heisler, Stuart, 1955-1962
21Herts-Lion Production, 1959
22Hickle, John Wes, 1949-1952
23Hill, Grady, 1956-1962
24Hirsch, Harriet, 1954-1955
boxfolder
211Hog Farm Complaint, 1958-1961
2Holden, W. Curry, 1955
3Holiday Hill Stone, Inc, 1962
4Holloway, Jean and Sterling, nd
5Hoover, Jim and Bonnie, 1962
6Hopson, William, 1954
7Horne, Alvin, 1949
8Horton, J.F., 1959
9Houck, R. Howard, 1962
10Houghes, Mack and Stella, 1954
11Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946-1949
12Hound Dog Man, 1958-1970
13Houston Post, Chronicle,1957
14Howe, Elvon, 1949-1953
15Hudson, Ray, 1960-1962
16Huff, Helene, 1960
17Hunter, J. Marvin, 1955
18Hurley, Charles, 1952
19Hyde, Wayne, 1963-1972
20Insall, Mrs. Dovie, 1948
21Institute International des Artes et des Lettres, 1961-1962
22Invitations, 1950-1961
23Invitations/Public Appearances, 1963-1973
24J (misc.), 1971-1973
25Jacobson, Ethel, 1962
26Johnson, Bill and Liz, 1954-1961
27Johnson, Lyndon B., 1954
28Jordan, Mrs. Bill, 1958
29Joyce, Virginia, 1955-1958
30K (misc.), 1956-1962
31Kallison's Trading Post, 1951
32Kane, Harnett, 1955
33Kansas State Teachers College, 1959-1960
34Keller, Henry, 1962
35Kelley, E. L., 1959-1971
36Kinsley, Beryl, 1954
37Kirk, Lucy D. and Tommy, 1957-1958
38Kitchen, Merrell, 1952
39Kjelgaard, Jim, 1956
40Klingman, C. C., 1962
41Knopf, Walter, 1961
42Kothmann, Billy, 1960
43Kothmann, Dorothy, 1962
44Kothmann, Mary Anna, 1962
45Kothmann, Victor, nd
46Kowert, Art, nd
47L (misc.), nd
48Lackey, Jerry, 1961
49Langfield, Bridget, 1952
50Langford, J. O., 1951-1952
51Lansburgh, Larry, 1958
52Latham, John, 1948-1956
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221Lea, Tom and Sarah, 1956-1961
2E. E. Lee and Brothers, 1947-1953
3Lee, Jean and Russell, 1964, nd
4Leftwich, Bill, 1954-1958, 1972
5Lehman, Guss, 1960
6Levy, Maurice, 1965-1972
7Lewis, Arch, nd
8Lewis, Jack W., 1962
9Libraries (misc), 1949-1962
10Loeffler, Jenny, nd
11Long Beach Writer's Conference, 1962
12Lord, Walter, 1959-1960
13Louis, Alex, 1953-1960
14Loving, Graham, 1956-1962
15Lowe, Violet Richardson, 1960
16Lundell, C. L., 1952-1953
17MacNabb, Betty, 1961
18Madison, Virginia, 1953-1954
19Magazines & Editors, 1964
20Major, Mabel, 1955
21Manuscripts (Requests to read), 1965
22Martin, Chuck, 1954
23Mason Memorial Hospital, 1960
24Mathews, Sunshine, nd
25Maverick, Terrell, 1961
26Maxwell, Allen, 1953-1962
27McAvoy, Tom, 1960
28McClure, Ken, 1950
29McConnell, Deborah, 1971
30McCracken, Kay Bynum, 1958
31McDaniel, Ruel and Gladys, 1954-1961
32McGee, Jay, 1962
33McGuire, Dorothy, 1957
34McKenzie, G.R., 1962
35McNichols, Steve, 1960 [Governor of Colorado]
36McVicker, Roy and Harriet, 1960
37Meeks, Jim, 1954-1961
38Meigs, John, 1966
39Miller, Zack T. (Colonel), 1947-1948
40Miller, Max, 1954
41Miller, Sebe, 1958
42Miller, Townsend, 1953-1957
43Minute Men of Mason, 1960-1961
44Mireur, Tommy, 1948-1956
45Mitchell, Dr. Jim and Grace, 1959-1962
46Mixon, Sis, 1962
47Montgomery, Dr. R. H. and Gladys, 1959-1960
48Moody, Ralph, 1956
49Moore, Bill, 1961
50Moorman, Mrs. W. W., 1961-1962
51Moranz, Johnny and Brad, 1962
52Mueller, Judy, 1957-1958
53Mulvany, Tom, 1954
54Music, 1961-1962
55National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1971
56Nebraska Library Commission, 1964, nd
57New York Life, 1957
58New York Times, 1957-1962
59Nicholson, Mrs. J. Rector, 1960
60Nolen, O. W., 1954-1973
61Nordyke, Lewis, 1952-1958
62Norris, R. C., 1960
boxfolder
231Odessa College Writer's Roundup, 1956-1960
2Odessa Natural Gasoline Co., 1962
3Old Yeller Party, nd
4Olney, Austin, 1953-1956
5Omnibook, 1949
6Operation Orphans, 1961
7Orbeck, Betty, 1962
8Orshefksy, Milt, 1949-1959
9P (misc.), 1971-1972
10Pacific Northwest Farm Quad, 1952
11Pacific Northwest Library Association, 1959
12Padva, Beth, 1962
13Parker, Fess and Marcie, 1957-1961
14Parliamentary Procedure, 1947
15Payton, Green, 1948
16People's Book Club, 1950-1956
17Platter, Paul, 1956-1959
18Plus Products, 1957
19Pocket Books, Inc., 1955
20Pogue, Margaret, 1951
21Polk, Ned and Family, 1948-1962
22Polk, Stella, nd [sister of Fred Gipson]
23Poore, Mrs. Clyde, 1951-1962
24Pope, Harold, 1952-1953
25Popular Productions, 1950-1953
26Press [clippings and publicity], 1962
27Press [clippings and publicity], 1963-1964
28Prikryl, Lanette, 1962
29Programs, 1956-1957
30Progressive Farmer,1948-1957
31Pryor, Cactus, nd
32Public Addresses, 1964
33Publishers, 1947-1962
34Purvis, Tex, 1953-1956
35Quiñones, Gen. Jesus Jaime, 1966
36R (misc.), nd
37Rainbolt, Jewel and Lutha, nd
38Raht, Carl, 1962
39Reader's Digest,1946-1957, nd
boxfolder
241The Record Stockman,1944
2Reddick, Dewitt, 1948-1963
3Rehder, Helmut and June, nd
4Reid, Ace, 1956-1962
5Reiss, Malcolm, 1954-1957
6Reynolds, Tommy, 1965
7Ripple, Joe, 1958
8Roach, Hal, 1955
9Roberts, Elda May, 1956
10Roberts, Eve, nd
11Roberts, Dr. Walter, 1959-1961
12Robinson, Ann, nd
13Room mothers, 8th grade, 1958
14Roselle, Tom, 1961
15Rosenberg, Frank, 1951-1956
16Ross, Bob, 1960-1961
17Ross, James, 1960
18Ross, Raleigh, 1962
19Rowe, James, 1955-1959
20S (misc.), 1959-1972
21Sager, Fred
22Sam Houston State College, 1969
23Sanderson, Rob, 1956-1962
24Sandoz, Mari, 1956
25Scarbrough, Nina, 1960
26Schaefer, Jack, 1953-1956
27Schaffner, Isabella, 1961
28Scholl, Jane, nd
29School invitations, 1950-1972
30Scott, Paul, 1962
31Sellars, Charles, 1961
32Sequoyah Award, 1959
33Shahan, Happy, 1961-1964
34Shambert, George and Betty, 1962
35Sheppard, John, 1960-1962
36Shepperd, Regenia B., 1972
37Shivers, Allan, 1952
38Short, Paul, 1950
39Shuffler, R. Henderson, 1954-1966
40Shurley, Dr. Jay, 1952
41Siegel, Don, 1959
42Sims, W. E., 1961
Small, J. A.
boxfolder
24431950-1954
boxfolder
2511955-1956
21957-1972
3Smith, Cal M., 1962
4Snow, Bob, nd
5Southwest Texas State Teacher's College, 1953
6Southwest Writers Conference, 1950-1962
7Spratt, Jack and Nan, 1952
8St. John, Glover, 1951-1958
9Steck, Mrs. E. L., nd
10Stein, J. D., 1962
11Stenger, A. D., 1962
12Stephan, Ruth, nd
13Stevens, Sally, 1960
14Stillwell, Hart, 1952-1962
15"Story of my life,"1944-1962
16Stovall, Grady, 1961-1962
17Stowers Furniture Company, 1961-1962
18Sutton, Dr. Richard, 1939
Swanson, H. N.
boxfolder
25191955-1957
201958
211959-1961
221962-1972
boxfolder
261T (misc.), 1972, nd
2Taliaferro, Chuck, nd
3Tanner, Henry, 1949
4Tanner, Carter, 1953-1954
5Texas Department of Health, 1962
6Texas Folklore, 1961-1962
7Texas Institute of Letters, 1948-1972, nd
8Texas Luthern College, 1968
9Theatres, 1952-1962, nd
10Thermofax, 1959-1960
11Thomas, Della, 1962
12Thomas, Evan and Anne, 1950-1969, nd
13Thompson, Philip, 1958-1962
14Thompson, Thomas, 1954
15Thurgood, Micky and Tom, nd
16Tinsley, Russell, 1953
17Tipton, Roy, 1956
18Todd, Madeline and John William, nd
19Toepperwein, Fritz and Emilie, 1949-1968, nd
20Tolbert, Frank, 1961, nd
21Tool, Pat, 1956
22Travel, 1959-1960
23True Magazine,1957
24True West,1951-1962, nd
25Tunberg, William and Jackie, 1955-1962
26Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1959
27Tyer, Travis E., 1957
28Tyrrell Public Library, 1951
boxfolder
271Underwood, Don, 1961
2Unitarian Church, 1962
3University of Texas Press, 1951-1971, nd
4Unidentified correspondence, 1971, nd
5Van Ochen, Gretchen, 1959-1960
6Varner, John and Jeanette, 1960-1961
7Vessel, J., nd
8von Zuben, Frank, nd
9W (misc.), 1962-1973
10Wagner, Bob, 1962
11Wagner, Jearnine, 1972
12Wald, Jerry, 1958-1959
13Wallace, William, 1960-1961
14Walters, Bruce and Louise, nd
15Ward, Hortense, 1951-1955
16Wardlaw, Beverly, 1973
17Wardlaw, Frank, 1961-1972
18Washburn, Beverly, 1957
19Washburn, Ozzie, 1954-1960
20Watson, Nettie Walton, 1962
21Weafer, Eugene C., 1957-1958
22Webb, Walter Prescott, 1952-1963
23Westerman, Bob (R. Cecil), 1953-1954
24Western Horseman,1949-1953
25Western Publications, 1963-1966
26Western Writers of America, 1954-1961
27White, Kenneth, 1949-1953
28Whitney, R. E., 1961
29Whittington, Jean, nd
boxfolder
281Wier, Dooley and Owana, 1963
2Wilbert, Hulda, 1951-1962
3Wilk, Jacob, nd
4Wilke, L. A., 1961
5William Allan White Award, 1956-1959
6-7Williams, Annie Laurie, 1947-1967
8Williams, Big Boy, 1961
9Williams, George, 1954-1970
10Williams, J. P., 1961
11Williams, Sandra Gai, 1962
12Wills, Chill, 1951
13Winn, Buck, 1958
14Wright, Mabel, 1955
15Writer's Digest,1949
16The Writer,1950-1951
17Writers Guild of America, 1962-1963
18Writers' Roundup, Theta Sigma Phi, 1951-1957
19Wynn, Martha, 1959-1962
20Yarborough, Ralph, 1958-1966
21Yarmac, Marky, 1971
22Yeager, Cal, 1957
23York, Jeff, 1957-1958
24Young, Collier, 1955
25Young, G., 1961-1962
26Young, Margaret, 1949-1954
27Yowell, Carl, 1952-1961
28-29Miscellaneous Christmas cards and envelopes, 1972, nd
Subseries B: Fan Mail, 1946-1973
Fan Mail
boxfolder
291-51946-1964
boxfolder
301-41965-October 1970
boxfolder
311-5November 1970-May 1972
boxfolder
321-16June 1970-December 1973, and Alabama-Texas

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Series IV. Personal Papers, 1922-1972
(1.5 boxes)

This series includes copies of Gipson's birth certificate, diploma, personal notebooks, school papers, address cards, brochures, maps, travel documents, and several documents related to his son, Thomas. Other materials include photographs, ca. 1957, of the publicity stunts for the premiere of Disney's version of Old Yeller. A few personal photographs of Gipson and friends as well as movie stills from Return of the Texan are also present. Other printed materials include catalogs for agriculture and gardening, and picture catalogs of mail order brides.
boxfolder
3217Address Cards
18Agriculture, 1963
19Birth certificates, passport photos, 1945, 1968, 1971
20Brochures, nd
21Diploma, 1922
22Irrigation, 1965
boxfolder
331Mail Order Bride Catalogues, ca.1971
2Maps and National Park Guides, 1947-1954, 1972
3Mexico, 1972
4Personal notebooks, nd
Photographs
boxfolder
335Old Yeller,1957, nd
6Photographs of Gipson, nd
7Return of the Texan,nd
8Ross Maxwell, nd
9School papers, 1922, nd
10Thomas Gipson, 1969-1971

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Series V. Financial and Legal Documents, 1944-1973
(1.5 boxes)

Other materials relating to Gipson's publishing and film writing career and general finances are found in the Financial and Legal Documents series, 1944-1973. This series contains business documents such as movie and book contracts, royalty statements, and correspondence that document the financial, legal and business aspects of his writing career. Some of Gipson's business papers, however, may be found in the General Correspondence subseries, such as correspondence with Harper & Brothers, Maurice Crain, Disney Productions, H.N. Swanson, Evan Thomas, and Annie Laurie Williams. This series also contains general business documents dealing with insurance, land, Gipson's ranch, taxes, and social security. These materials help document Gipson's enthusiasm for ranching and agriculture, especially the growing of native Texas grasses and raising livestock.
boxfolder
3311Author's Guild, 1956-1961
12-13Book Contracts, 1945-1972
14Central Texas Coop, 1949-1966
15Crown Publishers, 1963
16