Pathfinder #16:
Recreation, travel, and leisure of the Southwest:
a partial descriptive list of special
collections at the Center.
Arrangement is by topic, then roughly chronological. |
Bicycling:
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Collection I 057: Frank Whitt papers on microfiche. 38
microfiche of selected papers, pamphlets and books on the topic of human
powered vehicles,
especially bicycles, collected by Frank Rowland Whitt and organized by Fred
DeLong and David Gordon Wilson, et al. Frank Whitt (1911-1984) was the
principal author of Bicycling Science (The MIT Press, 1974 and 1982),
technical editor and correspondent of several bicycling journals, notably
Cycle Touring, and president (1971-73) of the Southern Veteran-Cycle
Club. On shelf 166 38.8 (ask at Delaney Library reference desk).
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Collection M 192:
Ed Zink mountain biking papers.
Durango mountain bike competition records and ephemera. Ed Zink,
lifelong Durango resident and FLC Foundation board member, organized and
founded the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic (held in and around Durango annually
since 1971). Includes records of the first-ever World Mountain Bike
Championships, held at the Durango Mountain Resort (Purgatory) in September
of 1990.
Skiing and other outdoor recreation:
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Collection M 016:
Durango (Colo.) Chamber of Commerce records.
23 document cases and 2 flat boxes. Records and
correspondence, circa 1892-1998, of the Durango Area Chamber Resort
Association and its predecessors, the Durango Chamber of Commerce, the
Durango Board of Trade, and also of the Durango Exchange. Includes a
volume for the period 1915-1926; Board of Director's minutes, 1955-1958
and 1965; subject files; printed materials; and a Chamber
chronology/history for 1883-1972.
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Collection M 023: Colorado Land Use Commission records.
7 document cases. Includes agendas and minutes of meetings, 1970s;
legislative printed materials, 1971-1974; reports, 1973- ; project
records and correspondence (including Marble Ski Area, etc.). Also
records pertaining
to plans for the 1976 Winter Olympics in
Colorado.
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Collection
M 180:
Four Corners printed
materials and ephemera collection.
Includes
many printed materials pertaining to recreation and leisure.
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Collection
M 130:
Spanish Trails Fiesta records.
6 document cases. Legal records, minutes, correspondence,
publicity materials,
newspaper clippings, and photographs of an annual fair and rodeo held in
Durango, Colorado. This fairgrounds holds claim to being the first
venue for photo finish documentation of a horse race. The Spanish
Trails Fiesta and San Juan Basin Rodeo, an annual event held at the La
Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango during the latter part of July and
early August, now goes by the name Fiesta Days.
Travel and transportation (including early travel in
the Four Corners region):
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Collection I 098: An American sampler: life in the 1800s:
An exhibit catalog compiled by the Exhibits Office. 4
color microfiche of a catalog of a traveling exhibit that consisted
of lithographic prints, photographs, etc., and of quotations from
travelers' journals, newspapers, and other sources, all from the
collections of the Library of Congress.
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Collection M 053-021: John Watts journal.
Approximately 300 pages. Journal, bulk 1859 Mar.-1860 Sept.,
kept by John Watts while he and his brother J. Howe Watts lived in
Santa Fe, March - October 1859. John Watts was one of the sons
of John S. Watts, the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court justice,
Territorial delegate, and land grant attorney. Appointed to the
Territorial Court in 1851, John S. Watts was from Bloomington,
Indiana.
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Collection M 050: Thomas Tully papers. James
Terry Gardiner's letters and stories from the Old West, 1863-1875.
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Collection M 053-063. Kirk Munroe correspondence.
Photocopied typescript of letters from Kirk and Susan M.
Munroe to his parents, et al., 1867 May 28 - July 9, during a trip
across the Plains, from Salina, Kansas, to San Francisco. Also, a
1967 article by Irving A. Leonard about Kirk Munroe. All in 1
folder. Kirk Munroe (he dropped the first name Charles when he
became a writer) left his devout parents in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in April of 1867, at age 16. Later, he was captain of
the New York Bicycle Club, a world traveler, journalist, and popular
writer.
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Collection M 053-064: Sport, travel and scenery on the
Southwest Colorado frontier. 1 folder. Photocopy of
an article on pages 540-541 of The [London] Field: the country
gentleman's newspaper, 1878.
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In Collection M 197: Une
Française chez les chauvages ["A Frenchwoman among the Savages"]
by Jeanne Goussard de Mayolle (146 pages; all accessible
online here). Rare narrative by a French woman of a trip with
her husband, a mining engineer, to "savage" southwestern Colorado
and northern New Mexico. She and her husband and his secretary
traveled from France to New York, by rail to Chicago and then to
Pueblo, Colorado, and on by rail over La Veta Pass to Durango (which
she describes in some detail), then by horse and carriage to
Bloomfield, New Mexico. It seems that the trip was in the
1880s or early ‘90s (at least before 1892), because she says they
visited Chicago prior to the World's Columbian Exposition.
This rare book has never been translated into English.
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Collection M 053-039: A. I. Sanborn diary. 1
folder (25 pages). Transcription of the diary that A. I.
Sanborn, a traveling pioneer, kept from in the fall of 1883.
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Collection M 053-013: San Juan Basin toll roads documents.
All in 1 folder. Two letters and two maps, all
circa February 25-26, 1885, describing various apparently related
issues of transportation. Includes a letter from John A. Porter to
C. M. Williams of the Durango Board of Trade, supporting the
proposed purchase of the La Plata County portion of the Rico toll
road. Also, a letter to Williams from John F. Watkins, secretary of
the Pasadena Production Company in Rico, regarding a proposal for
freighting to Montrose. Also, a drawing of the roads between Durango
and Montrose and notes as to distances and bullion freighting costs.
The fourth item is a map on linen of the Rockwood Road from Conley's
House to the Rockwood Depot, passing through a number of sections
labeled Porter, Conley, etc.
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Collection M 053-041: William F. Saunders memoirs.
1 folder. "The Joy of the Frontier", undated memoirs of W. F.
Saunders, former editor of The New Mexican. Also, a copy of a
newspaper clipping from the New Mexican, Dec. 1956. Photocopies. The
author was a child in Alabama during the U.S. Civil War, grew up in
Norfolk, VA., attended college in the South, and traveled west to
Denver in an emigrant car. He describes mining, meeting Chief Ouray
and the Ute Indians, and other topics.
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Collection
M 102A:
Susan A. Davies papers:
Navajo Trail Highway materials. 1/2 document case.
Brochures, sheet music, articles, tape and transcript of a radio
advertisement, and other printed materials and ephemera, circa
1962-1979, regarding the inter-state Navajo Trail.
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Collection
M 205: Navajo Trail
Association records. 2
records boxes. Records, printed materials, and ephemera, circa
1962-79, regarding the Navajo Trail, "America's shortest, paved,
all-weather, East-West Scenic Highway." Robert S. Ayres of
Durango was its Vice-President.
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Collection M 194:
Nina Heald
Webber Southwest Colorado printed materials. Items
pertaining to the San Juan Basin in Southwestern Colorado from the
late 19th century. Topics include narrow gauge railroads, Mesa
Verde, Spanish Trails Fiesta, etc. Also, related artifacts.
The printed materials are Series 1 and include ephemera, leaflets,
pamphlets, etc. The post cards
are Series 2, and are described by more than three thousand
item-level records.
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Collection M 052: Frank Yeager papers. 3
document cases. Printed circulars on Colorado travel.
See inventory dated 11/16/1983 by Robert Delaney, in collection case
file.
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Collection M 083: Arizona printed materials. 1
document case. Articles, circulars, photos, etc. pertaining to
Arizona. Compiled from various sources.
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Collection M 085: Utah printed materials. 1/2
document case.
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Collection M 128: Roadless Area Review and Evaluation
printed materials. 1/2 document case. Reports
on RARE II, including large fold-out maps, draft environmental
statements, assessment, and a trial plan. For Mesa Verde and Rocky
Mountain national parks.
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Collection C 001: Southwest maps. A
diversified collection of maps, of miscellaneous origin, re: the
Four Corners region (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) and
surrounding area of the Southwestern United States. Topics include
history, tourist spots, Jeep trail maps, and transportation.
Arranged by these and other broad topics. Filed topically by broad
categories.
Four Corners region travel scenes (photographs):
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Collection P 015-016:
Colorado's beauty spots souvenir photographs booklet.
1 volume. Views of Colorado along the Colorado
and Southern Railway. B/w lithographs in a published booklet.
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Collection
P 011:
Durango (Colo.) Herald photonegatives,
1955-1992. Includes numerous views of
recreation in and around Durango.
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Collection P 002:
Colorado scenes
slides. 18 boxes. Miscellaneous scenes
photographed in the state of Colorado.
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Collection P 013:
Arthur Wyatt slides.
Approximately 8,000 film transparencies, in 4 document
cases. These are Arthur Wyatt's photographic views of
scenes in and around Durango and the Four Corners region.
Arthur Wyatt came to Colorado in 1901 and was in Durango by
1929. He owned and managed the Brookside Tourist Court,
reportedly the first motel in Durango, and established the Basin
Truck and Implement Company in Durango.
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Collection P 033:
John Funk
photographs. 2 flat boxes and 1 document case.
A Durango resident's views of nature in the Four Corners region.
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Collection
P 047:
John Funk slides.
3,102
color photographs of Southwest scenery, 1950-1990.
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Collection
P 049:
Blackington Southwest
photographs. Compiled
by an Easterner for his tourism slide show on the Southwestern
U.S.
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Collection P 017-002:
Four
Corners slide collection of Sherry Ballard. 55
film transparencies, in 1 folder. 27 color slides of
Canyon De Chelly, Arizona, and 28 color slides of other Four
Corners region views. All are identified and marked S. Ballard.
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Collection P 060:
Al and Edith Ingersoll family slides.
106 glass film
transparencies, in 1 document case. Color slide photos of
Al and Edith Ingersoll and family and scenes in La Plata Canyon
and vicinity, circa 1960-1967.
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Collection P 061:
Terry Hobbs slides.
365 film transparencies, in 19 sleeves in 1/2 document
case. Color slide photos of family and Four Corners (?)
scenes. None are dated or identified. Perhaps from the 1950s.
Donor believes they came from around Ignacio, Colorado.
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Collection
P 058:
Gayle Maloy slides.
Views photographed by Gayle Maloy in the Southwest, especially
in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, with an emphasis on Monument
Valley and Arches. 677 color slide transparency photographs
(including 362 glass transparencies) in 2 document cases.
- M 194: Nina
Heald Webber Southwest Colorado collection
(includes 3,000 postcards of
Southwest Colorado -- most of them, digitally available and
described online).
See also:
Page revised:
February 18, 2008