Property from the Texana Collection of ꦐꦗHoward Wilcox

(Texas) — Dobie, James Frank

An extensive collection of ma🅺nuscripts, typescripts, g꧙alleys, and other ephemera by one of the most prolific and beloved Western writers and folklorists of the twentieth century

More than 50 separate♚ articles, stories, sketches, and other short pieces (mostly from the 1940s through 1960൩s), totaling more than 330 pages (including some carbon typescripts and mimeographed sheets), manuscripts mostly in pencil, typescripts and galleys often heavily corrected, mostly in pencil; occasional, variously severe, browning. A few of the longer pieces housed in morocco portfolios.

"Boa Constrictor Grabbed Sleeping Cowboy's Dingus." In addition to the foregoing one-page sketch, other writings in this significant archive of works by "Mr. Texas" include: "A Chest of Gold in Quicksand," 4 pages; "A Summary Introduction to Remington," 15 pages; "A Travelling Yarn on Santa Anna's Marriage," 3 pages; "Coyote Talk by a Winter Fire," 4 pages; "David Crockett's Portrait of Himself," 6 pages; "Introduction to Remington" (written for the University of Oklahoma's reprint edition of Remington's Pony Tracks), 12 pages; "Ranch Names of Historic Import [Texas]," 5 pages; "Sam Houston and the Man Who was Going to Kill Him," 2 pages; "Tall and Tough Pecos Bill," 21 pages; "The Alamo," 4 pages; "The First Bookseller to Enrich My Life," 7 pages; "Mustang Gray in Fact, Legend, and Song" (chapter 10 of The Flavor of Texas), 16 pages; "The Texas 𒐪Rangers," 7 pages; "Tom Lea," 21 pages; and "When the♚ Work's All Done this Fall," 2 pages.

PROVENANCE:

"The Texas Indepe�💦�ndence Collection" (Sotheby's New York, 18 June 2004, lot 99)