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Prescott, Orville, 1906-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1906    

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

A. B. Guthrie Jr. Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 60
Abstract:

A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1901-1991), Montana-born writer whose popular Western novels include The Big Sky (1947), The Way West (1949), and Fair Land, Fair Land (1982). His autobiography was published in 1965. In his later years Guthrie became an outspoken advocate of conservation in the West.

Dates: 1901-1991

Wallace Notestein papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 544
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, notes, speeches, and other papers of Wallace Notestein, historian, teacher, author, and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale from 1928-1947. The bulk of the papers consist of letters received by Notestein from other historians, scholars, writers, students, and publishers and relate largely to academic and professional matters, to politics, and to his personal life.

Dates: 1899-1969

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