* Note, this detailed, item-level inventory of the Charles Bowden archive was created by Mary Martha Miles and her assistant, Erin Almeranti, in 2007 prior to offering the archive to the Wittliff Collections.
This original guide is provided as a reference resource to complement the Wittliff's finished Finding Aid for the Bowden Papers.
Compiled by Mary Martha Miles and her assistant, Erin Almeranti. Annotations by Charles Bowden and Mary Martha Miles.
Consult the Finding Aid for the Bowden Papers for current box number locations for each item.
History: 2
Books: 3-131
Published Manuscripts: 3-114
Prepublication Manuscripts: 114-119
Unpublished Manuscripts: 119-122
Copies of Books published by Charles Bowden: 123-127
Miscellaneous Copies of Books w/ Contributions from Charles Bowden: 128-131
Magazines: 132-163
Miscellaneous Research Notebooks: 164-166
Newspapers: 167-181
Newspaper Articles about Chuck: 182-185
Anthologies: 186-192
Correspondence: 193-208
Speeches: 209-217
Media of or about Chuck: 218-220
Audio Tapes of or belonging to Chuck: 221-227
Albums Belonging to Chuck: 227-233
Awards: 234-243
Photographs: 244-256
Other Writers Miscellaneous: 257-260
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous: 261-278
Grants: 279-280
Personal Memoirs by Friends: 281
Book Reviews by Bowden: 282
Financial: 283
Book Negatives: 283
Born July 20, 1945, Joliet, IL
Moved from the farm into Chicago at age 3
1957 Moved from Chicago to Tucson at age 12
B.A. History, University of Arizona, 1966
M.A. American Intellectual History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967
Doctoral work, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968-1970
Married Zada, 1968
Instructor, American History, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1970
Researcher, University of Arizona Office of Arid Land Studies, 1973-1974
Grant Director/NEH Grants, KUAT Television, Tucson, Arizona, 1976-1978
Divorced from Zada, 1976
1977 Killing the Hidden Waters
Journalist, Tucson Citizen, afternoon daily newspaper, 1981-1983
1981 Street Signs Chicago (with Lewis Kreinberg)
1986 Blue Desert
Editor-in-Chief, City Magazine, Tucson, Arizona, 1986-1989
1987 Frog Mountain Blues (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
1988 Mezcal
1989 Red Line
Jesse Bowden Niwa born to Debbie Niwa, April 26, 1987
Divorced from Kathy Dannreuther, 1989
Free-lance journalist, 1989-2014
1991 Desierto
1992 The Sonoran Desert (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
1992 Expansions (with photographs by William Lesch)
1993 The Secret Forest
1993 Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions (with Michael Binstein)
1995 Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
1996 Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
1996 Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge (with photographs by Virgil Hancock)
1997 Mary Martha Miles moves to Tucson
1998 Juarez: the Laboratory of Our Future
1999 Paul Dickerson 1961-1997
2001 Eugene Richards 55 (with photographs by Eugene Richards)
2002 Down by the River
2002 Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from the Underground
2005 A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
2006 Inferno (with photographs by Michael Berman)
2008 Exodus (with photographs by Julián Cardona)
2009 Trinity (with photographs by Michael Berman)
2009 Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
2009 The Charles Bowden Reader (Anthology) edited by Mary Martha Miles and Erin Almeranti
2009 Leaves Tucson to spend half of each year in Las Cruces, New Mexico and the remaining half in the home of Jim and Linda Harrison in Patagonia, Arizona
2010 Murder City: Cuidad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
2010 Dreamland: The way Out of Juarez with illustrations by Alice Leora Briggs
2012 Scicario, edited with Molly Molloy
Following an illness in Patagonia, Arizona dies August 30, 2014 in Las Cruces, New Mexico
1971 Dissertation
| BOX F | |||
| Box 1 (F) | |||
| Draft titled Broke Bodies: A Look at 19th Century Notions about Health | Undated – The University of Wisconsin | 346 pages | |
| Box 2 (F) | |||
| Draft titled Broke Bodies: A Look at 19th Century Notions about Health | 1971 (dated) – The University of Wisconsin | 346 pages | |
| Box 3 (F) | |||
| Bound draft titled Ashfield Skyline: A Look at 19th Century Notions about Health | Undated | 110 pages | |
| Box 4 (F) | |||
| University of Arizona Classwork – 5 parts | Part I – October 1965, Part II – December 1965, Part III – January 1966 (revised May, 1966), Part IV – October 1966, Part V – February 1967 | These undergraduate papers become Chuck’s MA Thesis | |
| Letters regarding dissertation | All dated from between ’72 and early ‘74 | 11 letters | In envelope and labeled on front in Chuck’s handwriting “This envelope contains letters on my employment in Illinois & on my efforts to get dissertation published/accepted” |
| Letter from Bill to Lew regarding Chuck’s dissertation | 1 page | ||
| Dissertation Correspondence | Letters from libraries, galleries, etc regarding Chuck’s research for his dissertation | ||
| Opium Order Form | 1917 | Dissertation research | |
| Draft of Dissertation titled The Brighter and Quicker-Witted Men | 41 pages | Apparently filed at the University of Massachusetts – in their reserves of the library |
1977 Killing the Hidden Waters
| Box 1 (Q) | |||
| Impact of Energy Development on Water Resources in Arid Lands (University of Arizona) | 1975 | 2 originals | Chuck was fired from the University of Arizona after he filed this report & he based Killing the Hidden Waters on the report. |
| A photocopy of a review of Killing the Hidden Waters | 1 photocopy (rough) | ||
| Outside magazine – excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters | December 1977 | 1 original (only the pages of the article from magazine) | |
| Letter from Jodi Edell from The Sidney Hillman Foundation stating that the excerpt published in Outside magazine is being considered for the 1977 Sidney Hillman Award. | Dated January 5, 1978 | Letter 1 page long, one original of magazine | Also a copy of December issue of Outside magazine – the excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters (Chuck won the Sidney Hillman in 1996 for “While You Were Sleeping” – Harper’s magazine |
| Box 2 (Q) | |||
| Stack of bibliographic notation | Each entry is taped to separate piece of paper, some handwritten notes/edits | ||
| Draft w/ outline (outline titled “A Vague Outline of Sorts…”) | Pages of draft are heavily edited and marked | ||
| Short draft titled An Abstract? | 11 pages | Handwritten editing throughout. (draft seems to go through major points of book…i.e. seems to be an abstract) | |
| Short draft w/ table of contents | Handwritten editing and notes throughout | ||
| Short draft titled Arid Lands Defined | Extensive editing – handwritten notes, marks, and cut & taped sections, etc. | ||
| Short draft titled Aboriginal Life in Arid Lands: The Sonoran Desert | Extensive editing – handwritten notes, blacked out sections, etc. | ||
| Short draft titled Consequences of Arid Lands Groundwater Use: Impacts on Land and Man | Extensive editing – handwritten notes, blacked out sections, etc. | ||
| Short draft titled The Spanish Impact on Aboriginal Life in the Sonoran Desert | Extensive editing – handwritten notes, blacked out sections, page numbers adjusted/changed, etc | ||
| Short drafts (separated with paper clips but held together as a group) | Some type of bibliographical information at beginning, extensive handwritten notes, editing throughout, etc | ||
| Short draft titled Transition | Extensive editing, notes, and some footnotes | ||
| Short draft titled Papagos | Extensive editing, notes, etc. | ||
| Short draft titled High Plains | Extensive editing, notes, etc. | ||
| Short draft titled Arid Lands Groundwater Use in Agriculture (subtitle of “Benefits and Impacts” crossed out in pencil) | Extensive editing, notes, etc. | ||
| Short draft titled Pimas | Extensive editing, notes, blacked out sections, and a bibliographical note card attached | ||
| Short draft titled Potential New Water Sources for Arid Lands | Extensive editing, notes, etc…also footnotes | ||
| Short draft titled Concluding Remarks | Extensive editing, notes, etc…also footnotes | ||
| Packet of letters for permission to use maps in other UA publications (2 letters of approval, 4 letters from Chuck asking for permission, 2 copies of each) | Handwritten letter from Chuck attached describing edits, changes, and attached letters granting/asking for permission of map use. | ||
| Arid Lands Newsletter (Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson) | January 1984 | 1 original | Nothing written by Chuck – possibly research type material for book |
| Box 3 (Q) | |||
| Draft titled The People Who Have Gone | 242 pages | ||
| Draft titled The People Who Will Come | 15 pages | ||
| Box 4 (Q) | |||
| Page Proof for Killing the Hidden Waters | |||
| Speech titled The Morning After: Some thoughts on serious drinking | 1989 | 5 pages | Regarding water use, what has changed/not changed since Killing the Hidden Waters, etc. |
| Notes for Killing the Hidden Waters | 6 pages | ||
| Outline for Killing the Hidden Waters | 1 page | ||
| Natural History magazine’s review titled “Troubled Waters” | November 1977 | 1 original of the magazine, 1 original of the article torn from the magazine, and 1 photocopy of article | This was the initial review of the book and helped get peoples’ attention |
| H.T. Odum’s drawing of the ecology of the Southwest – drawn in a bar with Chuck, before Killing the Hidden Waters | 1 page, both sides | ||
| Chuck’s notes for Killing the Hidden Waters | 2 pages | A list of species, etc. | |
| Preface for draft titled Pump (renamed Killing the Hidden Waters) | 12 pages | ||
| Reviews of the report for the University of Arizona’s office of Arid Land Studies | 1975 | 2 separate reviews | |
| Reviews of Killing the Hidden Waters | 1979-1981 | 3 separate reviews | |
| Correspondence concerning Chuck being hired to write the report | July 1978 | 1 page | From Rich Johnson at the Central Arizona Project Association, discusses length of appointment and rate of pay |
| A letter of congratulations on the report from J.L. Thomas a Public Health Engineer in Montana | April 9, 1975 | 1 page | Congratulating and also asking for advice on how he would get a copy of something referenced in book |
| Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 93rd Congress, Second Session | March 11, 1974 | 5 pages | Regarding energy use, water, economics, etc…(may be the report that J.L. Thomas – above – was asking for) |
| Box 5 (AAA) – Miscellaneous | |||
| Manila folder titled “Reviews” | |||
| Letter from Christine M. Gray from University of Texas Press | November 21, 1977 | 1 page | Informing Chuck that they “are preparing a complete run-down on promotion for [his] book,” etc (in envelope) |
| Daily Dispatch in Douglas, AZ, “Arizona using water at incredible rate” | May 26, 1979 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Library Journal | February 15, 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Journal of Arizona History | Spring 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Rain | April 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Seattle Times, “The urgency of water” | April 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Future – Abstracts | November 10, 1986 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Current Anthropology | June 7, 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| The Cattleman, “Bookshelf” | June 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| The Houston Post, “Skillful Parable of Arid Southwest” | January 15, 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Bonham Daily Favorite | November 20, 1977 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Palestine Herald Press, “Expedition Subject of Book” | December 18, 1977 | 1 original | In envelope |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Indians, water sensitively explored” | February 19, 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| The El Paso Times, “Book Briefs” | February 19, 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| El Paso Herald | February 1978 | 1 original | In envelope |
| The Arizona Republic, “Author has a sobering message for wasteful desert dwellers” | January 14, 1979 | 2 originals and 1 photocopy | |
| Advance copy of a review from Natural History | No date | 6 pages long – photocopy copy | |
| High Country News, “Becoming an Environmentalist” | January 27, 1978 | 1 original, 1 photocopy | Review on page 16 |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Indians, water sensitively explored” | February 19, 1977 | 1 original, 2 photocopies | |
| Anthropology Archaeology Folklore | 1978 | 2 originals | Found on page 6 1 copy w/ letter and flyers – letter from Rae McCartney from the University of Texas Press (dated November 29, 1978) |
| Draft of review for American Anthropologist, and letter from Richard B. Woodbury | June 3, 1979 | 2 page review and a 1 page letter | In envelope |
| The Critical Checklist of Current Southwestern Americana | December 1977 | 2 photocopies | |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Southwest comes alive through eyes of these authors” | December 3, 1978 | 1 original, 2 photocopies | |
| Victor Gruen Center for Environmental Planning | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| The New Mexico | January 1, 1978 | 1 original | |
| The Western Historical Quarterly | July 1978 | 1 original | |
| Adventures in Reading | September 1978 | 1 original | |
| Co-Evolution quarterly | Summer 1978 | 1 photocopy | |
| Wichita Falls Times – Sunday magazine, “Dismal science lesson” | December 25, 1977 | 1 original | |
| Texas Press | Fall & Winter Books 1977-1978 | 1 original and 2 photocopies | Can be found on page 10 |
| A Critical Checklist of Current Southwestern Americana | December 1977 | 1 photocopy | |
| No source | No date | 1 original | A clip |
| Publishers Weekly | November 7, 1977 | 1 original | Sent by Bette Cochran & Jim Levitt |
| American Indian Journal, “Game, Water, and People Up for Grabs: A Review Essay” | May 1979 | 1 original - 8 pages long | |
| Natural History, “Troubled Waters” | November 1977 | 1 original | |
| Pacific Historical Review, “Review of Books” | November 1979 | 1 photocopy | |
| Unknown source, titled “The Ecology of Pima Fields” by Amadeo M. Rea | No date | 1 photocopy – 6 pages long | Not a review – rather, cites Killing the Hidden Waters as ‘further reading’ |
| Publishers Weekly, “Books on Energy: A current checklist” | October 31, 1977 | 1 photocopy – 3 pages long | |
| Ad for Killing the Hidden Waters – UT Austin, On Campus for November 14-20, 1977 | 1 original | ||
| Smithsonian | January 1978 | 1 original | |
Unknown source Under “Science and Technology” subtitle | Unknown date | 1 photocopy | |
| Kliatt – under “Nature and Ecology” subtitle | Winter 1986 | 1 photocopy | |
| Sunday Oklahoman, “Paperbacks Just in Time for Christmas” | December 15, 1985 | 1 photocopy | |
| Arizona and the West | Summer 1986 | 1 photocopy | In envelope from University of Texas Press |
| Western American Literature | January 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| Arizona Daily Star | December 13, 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| Colorado Libraries | December 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Midwest Book Review | December 8, 1985 | 1 photocopy | |
| Science Books & Films, “Natural Resources” | September/October 1986 | 1 original | |
| The North San Antonio Times, “Texas sesquicentennial spawns new titled” | July 25, 1985 | 1 photocopy | |
| Earth First! Samain Edition | November 1, 1986 | 1 original | - w/ note on bottom from John Davis - review on page 15 |
| Manila folder titled “Letters” | |||
| From George Momper of Environmental Resources Group | December 10, 1978 | He read the book and explains why Chuck’s work is of importance to Momper’s group (no envelope) | |
| From Bill | January 10, 1978 | He read the book, enjoyed it – Apparently a friend of Chuck’s (in envelope) | |
| From Fred Zimmerman | May 3, 1978 | He read the book, enjoyed it, refers to Chuck’s father & mother (in envelope) | |
| Christmas card from Aunt Mariette Bowden | Dated December 14, 1977 | Refers to the copy of Killing the Hidden Waters that Chuck had sent her, that she began reading it, etc. (in envelope) | |
| From Scott W. Reed | May 13, 1978 | Attached is an article Reed wrote with mention of Killing the Hidden Waters (in envelope) | |
| From Bob Keller | No date | On a ‘while you were out’ slip | Mentions trying to see Chuck personally, wanted to compliment him on his book |
| Letter from Barry Goldwater (AZ Senator) to Mary Adams Von Bodungen | May 16, 1978 | Refers to the book sent to him (in envelope) | |
| Letter from Morris K. Udall (Congressman) to Mary Adams Von Bodungen | April 27, 1978 | Refers to the book sent to him (in envelope) | |
| From Michael S. Adams | April 26, 1978 | A teacher at the Papago Reservation at Sells, includes questions about book for his class instruction (in envelope) | |
| Letter from Scott W. Reed | March 20, 1978 | In appreciation of book, includes an article Reed wrote along a similar theme as Chuck’s book (in envelope) | |
| From Nancy Kirschner | January 31, 1978 | Knows Chuck, enjoyed the book, etc (in envelope) | |
| From Fred W. Campbell | January 26, 1978 | Mentions his appreciation of the book, that he worked at the Washington Dept. of Agriculture, included is a copy of a letter to Washington’s governor Dixie Lee Ray that Campbell sent regarding water/land use, etc. (in envelope) | |
| From Jean Palffy | March 28, 1978 | In appreciation of the book, some personal experience regarding the aquifers in Oklahoma (the ‘famous’ underground river) (in envelope) | |
| From Paul B. Sears | November 16, 1978 | Regarding Chuck’s application for the Guggenheim Foundation, that he has recommended Chuck based on his proposal and Killing the Hidden Waters | |
| From Howard G. Wilshire at the Department of the Interior | September 22, 1978 | Asking if Chuck would give an address at a symposium in honor of John Wesley Powell | |
| From Angus Cameron at Alfred A. Knopf | June 14, 1976 | A rejection for Chuck’s manuscript, but included is a positive report “as a testimonial” to their belief in the excellence in the book | |
| Manila folder titled “Research” | |||
| 3 documents of research | |||
| Box 6 (AAA) | |||
| Royalty Statement for period ending August 2006 | Envelope dated October 10, 2006 | ||
| Book jackets for the 2003 reprint of Killing the Hidden Waters | 5 jackets | ||
| Page proofs of the 2003 Introduction to Killing the Hidden Waters | Also a letter from the University of Texas Press – dated June 5, 2003 | ||
| Algodones Dunes Traveling Exhibit photocopy of card/flyer | 1 photocopy | w/ quote by Charles Bowden | |
| MM’s edit of the 2003 Introduction for Killing the Hidden Waters (Titled “What I Learned Watching the Wells Go Down”) | 2003 | 5 pages | Editing throughout |
| Original draft of the introduction titled “An Afterword” | No date | 5 pages | |
| People weekly, interview with Chuck (page 57) | June 16, 1986 | 1 original | |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Indians, water sensitively explored” | February 19, 1978 | 1 original | |
| Books of the Southwest | August/September 1985 | 1 photocopy | |
| Sportsman’s Club of Texas, Inc. – Austin TX | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| The Tucson Weekly, “Water in the Desert” | September 18-24 (no year provided) | 1 original |
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| Permission requests to include material in the book for the University of Texas Press – 6 requests total | All dated 1977 and indicate the study as “Pump” Asking for use of various maps from books published by University of Texas Press, and one quote from The Band | ||
| 4 pages of notes for Killing the Hidden Waters – Series I, II, & III | |||
| University of Texas Press form for Author Information | 6 pages | Not filled out | |
| Invoice for purchase of Killing the Hidden Waters from the University of Texas Press | Dated February 13, 1978 | ||
| Manila Envelope titled “Correspondence” | |||
| From Mavis A. Bryant at the University of Texas Press to Chuck | October 11, 1977 | Congratulations on the completion of Killing the Hidden Waters (in envelope) | |
| From Barbara Houlburg to Chuck | No date | Comments having read the manuscript, personal matters, etc (no envelope) | |
| From Mary at University of Texas Press to Chuck | October 11, 1977 | Informing Chuck that the book is “out,” congratulations, etc (in envelope) | |
| Christine M. Gray at University of Texas Press to Chuck | November 22, 1977 | Killing the Hidden Waters will be published December 1, 1977, details of publication, 2 page list of publications that will run reviews (no envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner, Associate Director at University of Texas Press to ‘To Whom It May Concern’ | April 8, 1977 | Asking for permission to use lines from “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” for Killing the Hidden Waters (a copy of the letter) (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | April 18, 1977 | Mentions that “the enclosed galleys are one week ahead of schedule,” make author’s proof, send them back, etc (no envelope) | |
| 2 letters – 1) from Mary Beissner to “To Rights and Permissions” regarding the use of line from “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” 2) from Mary to Chuck regarding the decision to use the title Killing the Hidden Waters | Both dated March 4, 1977 | In same envelope | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | February 11, 1977 | Mentions the use and cost of maps in the book, changing the title to reach a larger audience, etc. Included is the list of maps as they planned to appear in the book and a copy of the map of the Arizona-Sonora Frontier (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | January 26, 1977 | Received the retyped manuscript, discusses the use of Fahrenbach’s map and other maps, includes permission forms for Chuck’s use (in envelope) | |
| From Barbara J. Smith at Capitol Records to Chuck | March 18, 1977 | Regarding his request for permission to use lyrics from “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” the address for the publisher (Canaan Music, Inc.) (no envelope) | |
| From Charles Tips to Chuck | December 17, 1976 | Mentions that Pumps should be out just in time for the big Christmas market next year, etc (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | March 18, 1977 | Mentions that she is writing “this in the middle of cardboard boxes and a lot of commotion…the Press is moving,” details about the final stages of the book, mentions Chuck’s dislike of the ‘new’ title, personal details, handwritten note at end of letter, and included w/ letter is a clip from The Texas Sun (March 16, 1977) titled “Our Just Deserts?” (in envelope) | |
| From Suzanne Comer to Chuck | October 19, 1976 | Regarding reports they have received from readers of Chuck’s manuscript Pumps, favorable to the project, mentions that the readers’ reports are enclosed, but they aren’t in the envelope with the letter (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | February 28, 1977 | Regarding Chuck’s “responses to queries…she has a few questions,” handwritten note at end of letter (in envelope) | |
| Sent from the University of Texas Press | Dated March 7, 1977 | A receipt for the advance for Killing the Hidden Waters (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | March 7, 1977 | Mentions a catalogue copy (but no catalogue w/ letter now), discussion of quotation and author description, etc (no envelope) | |
| From Charles Tips to Chuck | December 7, 1976 | Business details for getting the book published, includes two reader reports (report 1 & report 2) (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | February 16, 1977 | Regarding copies of photographs for the book, includes a list of photographs per chapter headings and a copy of Mary’s letter to Random/Knopf (dated February 14, 1977) (in envelope) | |
From Philip D. Jones (sp?) at the University of Texas Press to Chuck ** this is the original contract for Pumps | “You shall deliver to us no later than 10 January 1977…” (no other date available, no envelope, etc) | No envelope | |
| In an “Inter-Departmental Correspondence” envelope – from P.P. (sp?) to Chuck | November 19, 1975 | Regarding having read “the 150 pages you gave me, though I confess I was obliged to skim a great portion of it after about p. 100,” mentions that the manuscript “will never do as a paper for WRSIC,” other details of the grant and Chuck’s work, ends with “So where do we go from here?” (larger manila envelope labeled ‘Bowden’) | |
| From Rae McCartney at the University of Texas Press to Chuck | December 8, 1978 | Regarding Chuck’s letter, the number of copies sold of Killing the Hidden Waters so far, mentions the good review in Tucson, etc. (in envelope) | |
| Packing slip for 1 copy of Killing the Hidden Waters | |||
| From Chris at the University of Texas Press to Chuck | February 9, 1978 | “I put your order for one book against royalties,” mention of sales, mention of Mary not having found a job, etc (no envelope) | |
| From Mary (Beissner) to Chuck | August 4, 1977 | Capitol Records granted permission for use of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” mentions the coming reviews in Natural History magazine and Outside magazine, mentions that the budget for salaries was cut and she was “canned,” but that he should look her up if he’s in Austin, etc. (in envelope) | |
| From Mavis Bryant to Chuck | May 24, 1977 | Granting permission to use material from Land of the Underground Rain (in envelope) | |
| From Mary (Beissner) to Chuck | July 1, 1977 | Regarding a copy change of Chuck’s author description, other details of publishing, etc. (in envelope) | |
| From Mary (Beissner) to Chuck | June 24, 1977 | Included are jacket copies (info to be included on the jacket), mentions other things, personal reading (Nichols’ book), etc (in envelope) | |
| From Chris Gray to Chuck | March 8, 1978 | Sent a copy of the book to the LA Times, other business details, etc (no envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | May 24, 1977 | “The page proofs came in three weeks early,” details about index, etc (no envelope) | |
| From Mary (Beissner) to Chuck | September 2, 1977 | She is “sending the jacket covers today,” mentions that she’s going to be unemployed, etc (in envelope) | |
| From Mary (Beissner) to Chuck | February 3, 1977 | Regarding getting the “photo Xeroxes and will be back in touch with you next week,” mentions details of the design of the book, etc (in envelope) | |
| From Mary Beissner to Chuck | January 11, 1977 | Mentions phone call, details of editing his book, reminds him to think about the index, etc…”Enclosed is a copy of Indexes on loan from the Press,” and “an example of the way the Press usually handles a table of contents,” etc ***Included an index for Energy and Structure: A Theory of Social Power by Richard Newbold Adams & the Indexes titled “Concerning Permissions” (no envelope) | |
| From Will Hearst from the First Annual Invitational .45 Caliber Feral Hog Tournament (in an Outside magazine envelope) to Chuck | Envelope dated June 13, 1978 | Asks “got my projects going? Any plans for doing a new book?” etc. (in envelope) | |
Large envelope from Outside magazine - letter from Will Hearst, managing editor for Outside to Chuck asking if “this is ok with you…maybe you’d consider writing articles for Outside.” - Copy of letter from Will Hearst to Chris Gray – “here is the proposed excerpt of Killing the Hidden Waters, etc” - Envelope w/ page proofs of the excerpt used in Outside magazine | - Letter to Chuck dated September 22, 1977 - Letter to Chris Gray dated September 22, 1977 - Envelope w/ page proofs dated September 28, 1977 | Included with the letter to Chris is the proposed excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters – also the introduction used in the magazine | |
| In Manila Folder titled “William Appleman Williams – Correspondence” | |||
| From Bill (William Appleman Williams) to Chuck | Envelope dated April 28, 1975 | Comments on the manuscript, advice, etc. (in envelope) | |
| From Bill to Chuck | February 14, 1977 | Regarding Killing the Hidden Waters, etc (in envelope) | |
| Note from Bill to Chuck | May 23/24, 1976 | Mentions that the edited manuscript is being sent, discusses some of the edits, etc (in envelope) | |
| Card from Wendy and Bill to Chuck | December 17, 1976 | Note included mentioning his Fulbright Grant, that Bill will be in Australia and the address during his time in Australia (in envelope) | |
| Card from Bill to Chuck | No date | Mentions being home from Australia, etc (no envelope) | |
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| From Bill to Chuck | November 22, 1976 | In response to a letter Chuck wrote Bill about Bill’s book, Bill responds to some of Chuck’s observations/thoughts, writes about his mother, etc, ends with “We must get together somehow” (in envelope) | |
| From Bill to Chuck | Envelope dated January 28, 1976 | A letter “to warn you not to expect any commentary for about a month,” mentions lectures he must give, ends with “PS Odum’s father was a good one!” |
1981 Street Signs Chicago (with Lewis Kreinberg)
| Box 1 (T) | |||
| Folder with various reviews and articles on Street Signs Chicago | Most dated 1982 | Many of the articles appeared in the Chicago Tribune or other Chicago papers | |
| Correspondence – letters from Lewis and, his wife, Barbara Houlberg during the time of Street Signs Chicago | |||
| Research Materials for Street Signs Chicago | |||
| Rejection Letters and Various Research for Street Signs Chicago | |||
| Box 2 (T) | |||
| Original draft titled Get Home Before Dark | 1979 | 171 pages | |
| Newspaper article titled “Chicago a Sign of the Times” - a review of Street Signs Chicago |
1986 Blue Desert
| Box 1 (R) | |||
| A Review of and an article about Blue Desert in the Arizona Daily Star | November 16, 1986 | 1 photocopy | |
| A Review of Blue Desert in the New Times | October 22-28, 1986 | 2 photocopies | |
| Partial review from the Arizona Daily Star | No date | 1 original but only first part – second part lost | |
| A review in the Tucson Citizen | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| A review in the Arizona Republic | September 26, 1986 | 1 photocopy | |
| Complete original draft of Blue Desert | 238 pages, plus one page of acknowledgements | ||
| Incomplete original draft of Blue Desert | 276 pages, plus one page of acknowledgements | ||
| Box 2 (R) | |||
| Bound draft titled Blue Desert: underneath the sunbelt | 272 pages | Some notes/editing throughout | |
| Box 3 (ZZ) - Miscellaneous | |||
| Confidential Manuscript Appraisal from the University of Arizona Press for Blue Desert | No date | 4 pages | Questions regarding Blue Desert w/ an anonymous reader’s answers/discussion |
| Confidential Manuscript Appraisal from the University of Arizona Press for Blue Desert w/ letter to Greg attached (letter explains more thoroughly the reader’s views of the book) | Letter dated February 1, 1986 | 6 pages | Questions regarding Blue Desert w/ the reader’s answers/thoughts, etc |
| Letter from Millicent V. Hay | May 29, 1988 | 2 pages | Asking for permission to use an excerpt from Blue Desert for a guide to writing feature articles, includes the context for the use of the excerpt |
| Letter from Barry Lopez | August 23, 1987 | 1 page | Writing to say how much he and his wife enjoyed Blue Desert, compliments aspects of Chuck’s writing, etc |
| Letter from Gibbs M. Smith from Peregrine Smith Books | August 18, 1988 | 1 page | Writing in regret of not doing Blue Desert, asks Chuck to let them know if he is writing another book and to let them know, etc. |
| Original photo/artwork for Blue Desert cover | 1986 | 1 8x12 color | |
| List of number of books ordered, shipped, returned, given free, $ sales, $ returns for Mezcal, Frog Mountain Blues, & Blue Desert | Lists include 1986 thru 1989 | ||
| Shipping receipt from The Haunted Bookshop in Tucson, AZ for Blue Desert and Frog Mountain Blues | Receipt dated September 28, 1988 | Note attached to Tim from Leigh | |
| Letter from Stephen F. Cox from the University of Arizona Press | Dated February 18, 1986 | Attached is a Memorandum of Agreement – letter regarding Chuck’s signed contract for Blue Desert, along with a check as their advance against royalties | |
| 2 maps – one of Sonoyta and the other of Ajo | Maps studied in preparation for the desert crossing in Blue Desert – also mentioned specifically in essay/chapter “Blue” | ||
| Reviews for Blue Desert (manila folder) | |||
| Amicus Journal, by Charles H. Callison | Spring 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title, w/ note attached “Had you seen this?” |
| New Times, by Diane Chapman | October 22-28, 1986 | 3 photocopies | Titled “The Genuine Articles” |
| Western Wildlands, by Bill Vaughn | Winter 1988 | 1 photocopy | Titled “Mayhem in the Sunbelt” |
| Unknown source | August | 1 photocopy | Blue Desert mentioned in non-fiction reviews |
| California Magazine, by William Randolph Heart III | December 1986 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| Lexington Herald-Leader, by Gary Dretzka | February 15, 1987 | 1 photocopy | Titled “Deserts have paid a high price to builders of cities, highways” |
| American West: People and Places | June 1987 | 1 photocopy | “University Presses Select ‘Best’ Westerns” |
| Tucson Citizen, Lawrence W. Cheek | September 20, 1986 | 1 photocopy and 1 original | “A Bad Report Card on the Southwest” |
| The AZ Republic, by John Swagerty | September 28, 1986 | 1 photocopy and 1 original | “’Blue Desert’ author drawn to ‘frenzy of act’” |
| Midwest Book Review, by James A. Cox | October 13, 1986 | 1 photocopy | “The Living Wilderness” |
| Wilson Library Bulletin | March 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| Arizona Monthly | February 1987 | 1 photocopy | “A New Desert View” |
| Arizona Highways, by Budge Ruffner | May 1987 | 1 photocopy | “Bookshelf” |
| Colorado Libraries, by Kathy Weeks Earle | March 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| Kirkus Reviews | April 15, 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| Lo Que Pasa, by Marjorie Sherrill | November 10, 1986 | 1 photocopy | “Press introduces ‘sunbelt’ book” |
| Studies on Neotropical Fauna & Environment | March 1988 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| Southern Sierran, by Michael DiGregorio | December 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| The Sun Herald, by Gary Dretzka | February 9, 1987 | 1 original | No title |
| The Arizona Daily Star, by Ed Severson | November 16, 1986 | 2 originals | “The prolific Charles Bowden is non-stop writing, talking and living” |
| The Arizona Daily Star, by Ed Severson | No date | 1 photocopy | “’Blue Desert’ author paints bleak portrait” |
| AB Bookman’s Weekly | June 1, 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| The Amicus Journal, by Charles H. Callison | Spring 1987 | 1 photocopy | No title |
| American Way, by Richard West | April 15, 1988 | 1 photocopy | “Dare You Explore?” |
| Western historical Qtly, by Leonard Bird | January 1988 | 1 photocopy | No title |
1987 Frog Mountain Blues (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
| Box 1 (M) | |||
| Draft of Afterword | Dated 1994 | 11 pages | |
| Draft titled Santa Catalina Mountains or without title (difficult to tell…see draft) | Envelope dated December 3, 1984 | 62 pages | In an envelope addressed to Paul Dicheison |
| Draft titled Santa Catalina Manuscript | 202 pages | w/ bibliography and handwritten editing/notes | |
| Draft titled Frog Mountain Blues: Santa Catalinas, the City, and the Fight for Wild Ground | 203 pages | w/ bibliography | |
| Draft titled Frog Mountain Blues: Santa Catalinas, the City, and the Fight for Wild Ground | 203 pages | w/ bibliography and w/ flyer from Arizona Print/Copy (probably identical to draft listed directly above) | |
| Box 2 (M) | |||
| Draft titled Mountain by the City: The Santa Catalinas | Some handwritten editing, page numbering is confusing…perhaps in parts: pages 1-190, then pages 1-22 | ||
| Letter from UA Press w/ attached copy of book’s mention in the Arizona Daily Star | September, 2003 | ||
| Box 3 (ZZ) – Miscellaneous | |||
| Letter from A.R. Phillips from Nuevo Leon, Mexico | March 19, 1989 | Read Frog Mountain Blues and goes on to tell Chuck about his time in the Catalinas in the 30s – memories, adventures, understandings, etc. (in envelope – air mail) | |
| Letter from John Burnham | July 31 | He agrees with Chuck’s book, details other wildlands, local politics, etc (no envelope) | |
| Manila folder of reviews | |||
| following 4 are in an envelope from the University of Arizona Press dated May 4, 1989 | |||
| Explorers Journal | March 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Small Press Book Review | May/June 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| LA Times Book Review “The Taste of Cactus” | Junuary 8, 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Books of the Southwest | December 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Visions of the Catalinas” | 1987 | 1 original | |
| The Arizona Daily Star, “The Literary West: good writers shoot straight from the heart” | November 15, 1992 | 1 original | |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Saving wilderness is fine, but don’t close Catalinas” by Pete Cowgill | April 26, 1987 | 1 original and 1 photocopy | |
| Unknown source, “Only abstinence can save Frog Mountain, author says” | Unknown date | 1 original | |
| Arizona Republic, “Catalina Conflict: Tucson ruining mountain range, author says” | April 21, 1987 | 2 originals and 1 photocopy | w/ picture of Zimmerman used in book |
| Wildlife Federation newsletter, “Wilderness? An Articulate Argument” | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Entertainment Magazine, “On top of Frog Mountain” | June 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Scientist, “Ecology” | May 18, 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Bookwatch | June 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| Publisher’s Weekly | April 17, 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| New Mexico Historical Review | January 1990 | 1 photocopy | |
| New York Times Book Review, “ A Mountain’s Right to Be” | July 5, 1987 | 2 photocopies | |
| Library Journal | June 15, 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Green Valley News, “Many works by Southern Arizona authors currently on the book scene” | May 25, 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Western Library | April 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| Journal of Arizona History | Summer 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| Tucson Citizen, “An author’s proposal: Set the Catalinas free” | April 28, 1987 | 1 photocopy and 1 original copy | |
| Orion Nature Quarterly | Autumn 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| Earth Science | Fall 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| Western American Literature | March 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Book Reader | September 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| Book Talk | Fall 1987 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Bloomsbury Review, “Prologue to Environmental Disaster” | July/August 1987 | 1 original and 1 photocopy | |
| A draft of a review written by Edward Abbey – w/ note written to Chuck from Ed | 6 pages | Editing throughout | |
| Envelope from the University of Arizona Press containing a Memorandum of Agreement between Charles Bowden and Jack Dykinga and the University of Arizona Press | Agreement dated September 10, 1984 | 3 pages total | Letter included from Stephen F. Cox indicating that “enclosed is the signed contract for your book The Santa Catalina Mountains,” etc |
| Envelope from University of Arizona Press containing a letter from Gregory McNamee and 3 reader reports | Letter dated July 8, 1985 |
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| 9 8x10 b&w Jack Dykinga work prints for Frog Mountain Blues. Development, destruction, a rancher Chuck interviewed. The book was originally to have had many more photos. | |||
| 1 green notebook w/ possible titles for Frog Mountain Blues | |||
| 1 brown notebook w/ interview notes from about 1984 with Zimmerman, a 90 year old man – one of the pioneers who created Mt. Lemmon/Summerhaven community |
1988 Mezcal
| Box 1 (K) | |||
| University of Arizona marketing excerpt | 1 original | Includes pages 30-34 from Mezcal and a one page advertisement for Frog Mountain Blues and Blue Desert | |
| University of Arizona Press catalogue | Fall 1998 | 2 originals | Catalogue includes all publications by University of Arizona press for that season, but seems to focus on Mezcal – i.e. Mezcal cover is used on catalogue cover and Mezcal is first listed |
| Bound draft of Mezcal | Dated 1987 | 161 pages | (tan binder) w/ plastic clips marking certain pages |
| Bound draft of Mezcal | Dated 1987 | 179 pages | (tan binder) |
| Bound draft of Mezcal w/ letter from University of Arizona Press | Dated 1987 | 187 pages | (tan binder) **Letter from UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Press offers “recommendations on how the work might be revised to take readers’ criticisms into account.” Also, some handwritten notes and yellow sticky papers within manuscript itself. |
| Box 2 (K) | |||
| (2nd) Original draft of Mezcal | 234 pages | ||
| 3 loose pages of Mezcal | Pages 121-123 | *loose pages formatted differently than pages of two drafts | |
| (1st) Original draft of Mezcal | 191 pages | Some handwritten editing throughout | |
| Box 3 (ZZ) | |||
| San Francisco Examiner, “Land of Lost Souls: Stalking ghosts of 49ers in a heartless desert” | August 10, 1987 | 1 original | This is the story Chuck did to pay for the hospital bills from his son’s birth; it also appears in Mezcal. |
| In Manila Folder titled “Reviews” | |||
| Vogue | January 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Wilson Library Bulletin | February 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| New Mexico Historical Review | April 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Western American Literature | June 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| British Bulletin/Publications | April 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Neon (Nevada State Council/Arts) | Summer 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
JNL/Arizona History w/ letter from Karyn E. Prechtel at the University of Arizona Press | Summer 1990 | 1 photocopy (and letter) | |
| The Sunday Camera Magazine, “Mescal and the desert” | January 15, 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Los Angeles Times Book Review, “The Taste of Cactus” | January 8, 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| Los Angeles Times Letters – 2 letters sent in reply to above review, headed w/ “A Prickly Point” – one letter from Lawrence Clark Powell (from Tucson), the famed librarian for whom the library at UCLA(?) is named for, and the other from Linda Civitello of Culver City | February 26, 1989 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Arizona Daily Star, “Bowden’s ‘Mezcal’ saucy, bottoms-up salute to life” | September 4, 1988 | 3 originals, 1 photocopy | |
| Kirkus Review | September 1, 1988 | 2 photocopies | |
| The Arizona Daily Star, “Writer Bowden a serious part of People magazine” | June 15, 1986 | 1 original | |
| Publisher’s Weekly | August 26, 1988 | 1 photocopy | In small envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| The Book Reader | November/December 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Arizona Daily Star | December 18, 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Boulder Daily Camera | January 15, 1989 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Midwest Book Review | February 1989 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Science Books & Films | November/December 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| New Mexico Historical Review | October 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Journal of the Southwest | Autumn 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Journal of the Southwest | Autumn 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| Earth Science | Fall 1988 | 1 photocopy | In large manila envelope from University of Arizona Press |
| In Manila Folder titled “Outline for Mezcal – Bar Napkin” | |||
| Bar Napkin 1 | Lists books already published w/ corresponding dates and outlines future book titles and dates (future being after Red Line) | ||
| Bar Napkin 2 | Outline titled Mescal Highway – categorized by speed limits, dates, locations, and number of pages | ||
| Bar Napkin 3 | A continuation of above Mescal Highway outline | ||
| In Manila Folder titled “Correspondence” | |||
| Letter from Gregory L. McNamee to Chuck | September 22, 1987 | Writes “In Stephen Cox’s absence, I am returning the signed contract for your book Mezcal,” etc. | |
| Memorandum of Agreement (the signed contract mentioned above) | Signed by Chuck on September 9, 1987 | ||
2 letters stapled together
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1989 Red Line
| Box 1 (K) | |||
| Bound draft titled Red Line | Dated 1988 | 220 pages | (red binder) |
| Bound draft titled Red Line | Dated 1988 | 206 pages | (brown binder) |
| Bound draft titled Red Line | No date | 116 pages | (light green binder) |
| Notice from Harvard Magazine of note on Red Line appearing in their publication | Appeared in July/August 1990 publication | 1 photocopy | |
| Box 2 (L) | |||
| Draft titled Red Line | Manuscript dated 1988 | 225 pages | (not bound – just in manila folder) w/ handwritten notes of editing |
| Bound draft titled Red Line | Dated 1988 | 225 pages | (dark blue binder) |
| Box 3 (YY) – Miscellaneous | |||
| Royalty statement and other financial statements for Red Line | January 27, 1989 | 20 pages | |
| Confidential Manuscript Appraisal form w/ letter to Greg attached | No date | 5 pages total | Questions w/ discussion and responses to a reading of Red Line |
| Letter from Gerald Howard | January 10, 1989 | 1 page | “A note to acknowledge receipt of the reviewed manuscript Red Line,” some questions and thoughts regarding editing of the text, etc |
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner, Chuck’s literary agent, w/ contract and insurance agreement attached | December 20, 1988 | 6 pages total | |
| Phoenix magazine, “excerpt from Red Line” | October 1989 | 1 original | |
| The following in Manila Folder titled “Reviews, Etc.” | |||
| Two blurbs – 1 from Jim Harrison and another from Lucius Shepard | Lucius Shepard’s is dated May 15, 1989 | 1 copy of each | Jim Harrison’s includes a P.S. “I’ve got about 30 galleys on my cabinet but I couldn’t resist this one.” |
| Advanced Comment on Redline – w/ a photocopy of the book cover | No date | 3 photocopies | Includes two reviews – Jim Harrison’s and Lucius Shepard’s – and a description of Red Line |
| Kirkus Review (review of Red Line) | August 15, 1989 | 3 photocopies | |
| Book News (review of Red Line) | No date | 1 original and 2 photocopies | |
| Book cover for Red Line | 1 photocopy and 1 original (page proof version?) | ||
| Letter from Gerald Howard at W.W. Norton w/ article titled “Natural Clauses: Nature writers’ pens become their swords” | Letter dated November 13, 1989 | w/ Gerald Howard’s business card (w/ handwritten note on business card) and article attached…article mentions Chuck and his writing…letter regarding attached article | |
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner, Chuck’s agent, w/ review attached from Publishers Weekly | Letter dated August 3, 1989 Review dated August 4, 1989 | Comments that it is an excellent review. | |
| Publishers Weekly review | August 4, 1989 | 1 original, 1 photocopy | |
| Los Angeles Times, “Sand in the Minimalist Paint” | December 24, 1989 | 2 photocopies, 1 original | |
| Bookshelf | No date | 1 original, 2 photocopies | |
| Envelope with a copy of the review in the Boston Phoenix and Gerald Howard’s business card | Envelope dated February 9, 1990 Review dated January (complete date unavailable) | 1 photocopy | Handwritten note on business card |
| Manila Folder titled “Red Line Correspondence” | |||
| From Timothy Schaffer to Gery Howard | November 22, 1988 | Regarding publication, points of the negotiation, other details | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Sara Fisher | January 22, 1989 | Includes mention of Red Line; he’ll be sending copies of the final revised manuscript and more comments on Chuck and his work | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Tom Miller | June 29, 1989 | Regarding pieces for Tom’s anthology – Chuck cited | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Dan Frank | November 2, 1988 | Sending Chuck’s manuscript, a summary of Red Line, mentions that he is sending the manuscript to a few select editors around town, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Pat MulCahy | November 2, 1988 | Sending Chuck’s manuscript, a summary of Red Line, mentions that he is sending the manuscript to a few select editors around town, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Michael Pietsch | November 2, 1988 | Sending Chuck’s manuscript, a summary of Red Line, mentions that he is sending the manuscript to a few select editors around town, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Jack MacRae | November 2, 1988 | Sending Chuck’s manuscript, a summary of Red Line, mentions that he is sending the manuscript to a few select editors around town, etc | |
| From Bill Hamilton (from A.M. Heath) to Tim Schaffer | December 20, 1988 | A response to Red Line, talk of a deal, etc | |
| From Rebecca R. Castillo at W.W. Norton to Leigh Tillman | January 17, 1989 | Enclosed is the “fully executed copy of the contract for Charles Bowden’s Red Line as well as a check,” etc (documents attached) | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Elizabeth Darby Junkin | July 7, 1989 | Timothy heard about Buzzworm through Charles Bowden, including a galley for her consideration as an excerpt, etc (galley and Buzzworm article attached) | |
| From Bob Shacochis to Timothy Schaffer | July 8, 1989 | Includes Bob’s blurb for Chuck’s book | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Dick Vonier | July 24, 1989 | Sending, at the author’s request, a copy of the bound galleys, mentions that if he would like to excerpt the book in City Magazine to let him know, etc | |
| Copy of Red Line’s jacket cover | |||
| From Leigh Tillman to Scott Anderson | February 8, 1989 | Enclosed is that “consideration of the Uni Book of Holland, the revised manuscript of Red Line by Charles Bowden,” etc (manuscript not included here) | |
| From Timothy Schaffer to Harry Foster | October 4, 1988 | Description of Red Line, some handwritten editing within letter (?), total of 3 pages | |
| From Anne Dubuisson to Bill Hamilton | January 9, 1990 | Attached is a ‘mixed’ review from the Los Angeles Times (stapled to letter) | |
| From Gerald Howard to Bill Buford | November 10, 1989 | Regarding publishing Red Line in England, etc ** reply from Bill attached – says he wishes it weren’t so, but they had already looked into Red Line and had to turn it down, etc ***Gerald Howard’s business card with handwritten note – “first honest letter from Buford this year” | |
| From Andy McKillop to Bill Hamilton | October 2, 1989 | Is returning copies of Red Line and Mezcal, can’t make a deal/make an offer, etc | |
| From Jan Spauschus at Bertelsmann Publiching Group to Timothy Schaffer | September 20, 1989 | They can’t take up Red Line, saying that in the end they “were daunted by the fact that they find the book neither thriller nor literary memoir, but something in between” | |
| From Bill Hamilton at A.M. Heath to Timothy Schaffer | September 19, 1989 | In thanks for the jackets, lists people who have seen the book, etc | |
| From Leigh Tillman at Schaffner Agency to Sara Fisher | June 5, 1989 | 1 original, 1 copy | Includes Jim Harrison’s blurb – including his P.S. (see mention above) |
Letter from Dan Franklin at Martin, Secker, and Warburg to Bill Hamilton Attached note from Bill to Tim (“A very close shave!”) | Letter dated May 9, 1989 | Undecided about Red Line, but must say no, mentions Heinemann’s Coyotes – how it bombed, can’t take another chance, etc | |
| From Bill Hamilton to Tim Schaffner | April 4, 1989 | Regarding the note about Mike Fishwick and two typescripts, hopes he can get a sale for Tim soon | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Michael Fishwick | March 29, 1989 | Thanks Michael for the “enthusiastic letter about Charles Bowden,” refers to Bill Hamilton in the UK, tells Michael to call Bill, etc ** letter attached from Michael Fishwick to Timothy about meeting with Geral Howard while in NY and hearing about Charles Bowden, interested in status of the book, etc | |
| From David Godwin at Jonathan Cape Limited to Bill Hamilton | March 23, 1989 | Getting back to Bill about Red Line, doesn’t want to pursue it, mention “how many travel books seem to be appearing,” etc. | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Bill Hamilton | December 7, 1988 | Tim is “delighted to hear that you’d like to take on the Charles Bowden manuscript, Red Line,” details of plan and intentions, their excitement, etc ** letter from Bill attached, says send the manuscript a.s.a.p. and that he is “shocked that Gerry should want to buy anything as degenerate as this!” | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Sara Fisher at A.M. Heath | December 13, 1988 | Bringing to attention a new sale and new client, Charles Bowden, Red Line that he recently sold to Norton, specifics about Chuck, ** attached are “letters recently sent along with submissions to Mondadori and Maria Campbell Associates,” etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Sonny Mehta at Alfred Knopf | November 2, 1988 | Mentions manuscript sent with letter, description of Red Line, specifics about Chuck, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Bill Hamilton | November 28, 1988 | Mentions meeting with Bill in New York, that he has “begun shopping around a manuscript by a terrific new non-fiction writer from the Southwest named Charles Bowden,” specifics about Chuck, etc | |
| Letter from Gerald Howard to Chuck | January 5, 1990 | He’ll “bang out a long overdue communiqué on Red Line, your future, and related matters,” etc (2 page letter – in envelope) | |
| From Gerald Howard at W.W. Norton to Chuck | September 12, 1989 | Included is Red Line “in finished form,” other details, etc. | |
| From Gerald Howard at W.W. Norton to Chuck | April 19, 1989 | Included are galleys, also the copyedited manuscript, other details of publication, etc | |
| Letter from Anne Dubuisson to Chuck, included are the royaly statements for Red Line | No date on letter Royalty statement ‘to’ September 30, 1989 | In envelope | |
| From Gerald Howard to Chuck | February 14, 1989 | Included is copyedited manuscript of Red Line, other details, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Chuck | September 13, 1988 | 2 originals | Writes, “I am a literary agent in New York City, and I am writing you today to offer my representation of your future work,” admiration, details of his career, etc |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Gerald Howard | November 22, 1988 | He is “pleased to have come to terms for Charles Bowden’s Red Line and glad to hear the plan to publish this in the fall of ’89,” details the points of negotiation, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Gerry Howard | No date | Attached is “a little bit of publicity,” AZ Daily Star review included | |
| Letter from Udo Zindel to Ed Barber and Gerald Howard (handwritten editing in letter) | June 26, 1992 | Using Red Line and Desierto in their radio-portrait of the American author Charles Bowden, attached is the terms of agreement and a copy of the transcript of the radio program | |
Payment summary for Red Line (advance due on publication) With letter from Janine Steel to Jeannie Luciano | Letter date May 1, 1991 | ||
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Gerald Howard | May 18, 1989 | Attached is the first quote by Lucius Shepard, etc – quote and cover picture of Chuck attached | |
| Payment summary for Red Line | ‘to’ September 30, 1992 | ||
| From Timothy Schaffner to Chuck | September 13, 1988 | ||
| Letter from Chuck to Timothy Schaffner | September 27, 1988 | Agreeing that Timothy be his agent, other matters, etc ** attached is letter from Linda J. Clapp at Houghton Mifflin Company to Chuck mentioning that Ed Abbey just sent her Mezcal, her company’s interest in seeing more of Chuck’s work, etc | |
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Gerald Howard | November 2, 1988 | Sending Red Line to Howard, details of Red Line, etc | |
| Letter from Chuck to Timothy Schaffner (handwritten) | No date | Mentions sending books and reviews of Mezcal along with note, responds to idea of sending manuscript to Britain, etc | |
| “Noted on Desierto by Charles Bowden” | No date | 1 page | No signature/author – just notes |
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Bob Shacochis | May 16, 1989 | Sending a bound galley of Red Line, details about Chuck, asking for a blurb | |
| A handwritten photocopy of a blurb by Jim Harrison | |||
| Letter from Gerald Howard to Timothy Shaffner | June 7, 1989 | “an encouraging turndown from Bill Buford on Red Line,” and some thoughts on the process of selling the book | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Bob Shacochis | July 21, 1989 | A thanks for offering blurb, etc ** letter attached from Bob to Timothy w/ blurb included | |
| From Patricia Mulcahy at Little, Brown and Company to Chuck | October 11, 1988 | Mentions that Edward Abbey sent them a copy of Mezcal, that they think Abbey sent them the book because “he thinks [Chuck] deserves a publisher with more clout in the marketplace than the University of Arizona,” etc | |
| Letter from Emily Heckman at North Point Press to Edward Abbey | January 4, 1989 | Writes “last summer you wrote to Jack Shoemaker about a writer named Charles Bowden,” they are interested in his latest book, locate and tell him this for us, etc | |
| Letter from Gerald Howard to Chuck | December 28, 1988 | Edited manuscript sent with letter, goes through suggestions for Chuck to consider, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Dan Mazur | June 12, 1989 | Including a copy of Red Line for their consideration, details about Chuck and Red Line, etc | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Maria Matthiessen at Conde Nast Traveler | November 6, 1989 | Including a copy of Red Line for their consideration, details about Chuck and Red Line, etc | |
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Gerald Howard | May 2, 1989 | Lists potential readers/blurbers for Red Line, other thoughts, etc | |
| End folder | |||
| Arizona Daily Star, “Southwestern Books to Savor” | December 17, 1989 | Mention of Red Line | |
| 2 notebooks of notes from time writing Red Line | |||
| Red Line jacket photo of Chuck with his Rednecks for Social Responsibility cap |
1991 Desierto
| Box 1 (R) | |||
| Miscellaneous Reviews | The New York Times Book Review (9/91), Tucson Citizen (9/91), and The Arizona Republic (10/91) | 4 photocopies total | |
| Norton Book News (compilation of reviews on Desierto from Norton) | 5 originals | 1 business card w/ handwritten note from Gerald Howard, editor at Norton, two other miscellaneous copies of reviews w/ Gerald Howard’s initials | |
| Bound draft titled Desierto | 115 pages | Titled on 3rd page Desierto: The Fire also w/ subtitles for small sections (unlike the published version) | |
| Box 2 (R) | |||
| Next to Last Draft of Desierto – titled Desierto: Memories of the Future (the subtitle love, blood & the moon is crossed out) | 1990 | 212 pages | Some handwriting |
| Box 3 (ZZ) – Miscellaneous | |||
| 4 color slides of Frank Franklin’s angel oil painting in 9th Street house. Cover painting for Desierto. | 1991 | ||
| 1 5x7 of Chuck at the fiesta at Aduano Mexico in front of sign that says TIRO AL NEGRO. Chuck submitted this as the author photo for Desierto, but the publisher refused to use it. | 1991 | ||
| 2 color snapshots of three women and Merv Larson in Mexico. (Merv, a close friend of Chuck’s, was one of the original directors of the Desert Museum. He built a hotel on the site of the old hospital in Alamos. The woman on the left died that afternoon…In Desierto.) | 1991 | ||
| Letter from Elizabeth Morris | October 31, 1991 | After having read Desierto, a fan letter (in envelope) | |
| Letter from Bob Headley | November 6, 1991 | Mentions Dick Kirkpatrick, writing “in praise of Desierto,” etc | |
| Page of notes from Joe(?) regarding his reading of Desierto | No date | Handwritten notes as well | |
| Royalty statement from W.W. Norton & Company for Desierto: Memories of the Future | From October 1, 1991 to March 31, 1992 | ||
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner | March 27, 1989 | 2 pages | His thoughts on Desierto, criticism and praise, etc |
| Manila Folder w/ various reviews, mentions, etc | |||
| New York Times Book Review, “Our Home in the Desert” | January 12, 1992 | 2 photocopies | |
| Esquire, “Books of the Month” | July 1991 | 2 photocopies | |
| LA Times, “In Brief” | June 16, 1991 | 2 photocopies & 1 original | |
| Unknown source | 2 photocopies | A mention of Desierto – no date, no source | |
| Publishers Weekly | April 19, 1991 | 2 photocopies | |
| Kirkus Reviews | May 15, 1991 | 2 photocopies | |
| Outside, “Wild Talk” | October 1991 | 2 photocopies | |
| New York Times Book Review, New York Times, “Where the Ground Boils and Plants Lust for Blood” | September 22, 1991 | 2 photocopies & 1 original | |
| Santa Barbara News-Press, “Post-modern existence: Line drawn in the sand” | October 25, 1991 | 2 photocopies & 1 original | |
| The Arizona Republic, “’Desierto’: The future isn’t what it used to be” | November 10, 1991 | 2 photocopies & 1 original | |
| El Palacio | Winter 1991-1992 | 2 photocopies | |
| Morning Star Telegram, “’Easy’ computer manual functions as great aid” | July 22, 1991 | 1 photocopy | w/ note attached from Emma Lewis, editorial assistant at W.W. Norton & Company |
| Draft of a review by Christopher Merrill | No date | 2 typed pages | Some editing throughout |
| Transcript of the review by Minnesota Public Radio by Leonard Lang | Aired July 20, 1991 | 3 pages | |
| Clip of a review – unknown source and date | |||
| Original clip w/ picture of Chuck – unknown source and date | |||
| Original clip advertising for a ‘meet the author’ at the Associated Students at the University of Arizona (ASUA) Bookstore | |||
| 2 flyers for the ASUA Bookstore ‘meet the author’ | Chuck is scheduled for October 9 | ||
| Coyote’s Voice Books, a Tucson bookstore owned by John & Tanya Messina, Book signing flyer | Scheduled for September 6 | ||
| Unknown source, “Top Forty Hits: Summer of ‘92” | Summer 1992 | 1 photocopy | |
| Changing Hands: Best-Sellers | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Copy of the Arizona Republic Review “’Desierto’: The future isn’t what it used to be” | November 21, 1991 | Sent w/ note from Jennifer Powers at Schaffner Agency | |
| 2 reviews – 1 from LA Times and the other from GQ | June 18, 1991 | Sent w/ note from Timothy Schaffner | |
| Manila folder titled Business Correspondence | |||
| 42 items of various correspondence with the people at Schaffner Agency, the University of Arizona, and others (primarily w/ Schaffner Agency) | Includes royalty statements, advances, agreements, and other business Notable mention – a letter to Timothy Schaffner to Gerry (editor) w/ a letter by Chuck attached, Chuck’s letter regarding his finished manuscript, that it is time “to turn the manuscript over to you guys,” and a photocopy of a photo by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide titled “Mujer Angel” which Chuck thought perfectly sums up the book in visual terms | ||
| Issue of Zone: Southwest Art and Literature, w/ profile of Charles Bowden concerning Desierto, etc. – page 38 | Fall 1991 | 1 original | |
| 10 notebooks w/ notes on Desierto |
1992 The Sonoran Desert (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
| Box 1 (shared w/ Expansions Box 1) (YY) | |||
| 1 notebook | 1988 | Jack Dykinga and Chuck went to San Francisco to see about doing a book for Jack. It didn’t work out then, and these are the notes about how he wasted time. But eventually these ideas became The Sonoran Desert in 1992 | |
| Manila Folder titled “Correspondence” | |||
| Letter from Jennifer Powers at Schaffner Agency to Chuck | October 13, 1993 | “Check representing the Harry N. Abrams royalties for the title Sonoran Desert” | |
Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Robert Morton Attached are two letters
| February 18, 1991
| A letter of thanks for agreeing to publish The Sonoran Desert, other details of the deal, etc
| |
| From Jennifer at Schaffner Agency to Chuck | February 24, 1993 | Royalty statement from Harry N. Abrams attached, etc. | |
| From Jennifer Powers to Chuck | November 22, 1991 | Mentions an enclosed check representing the Harry N. Abrams balance of the advance due for The Sonoran Desert, also (attached) letter from Christine Liotta to Chuck referring to the payment (dated November 19, 1991) |
1992 Expansions (with photographs by William Lesch)
| Box 1 (shared with The Sonoran Desert Box 1) (YY) | |||
| In Manila Folder titled “Correspondence” | |||
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Gerald Howard | November 1, 1990 | Refers to “the collaborative project between Charles Bowden and William Lesch,” description of the idea for the book, details of Lesch’s photography, etc | |
| Letter from Gerald Howard to Timothy Schaffner | December 19, 1990 | Refers to Chuck’s text and Lesch’s photographs, writes they “are tremendous photos, but they’re just not in Norton’s taste range,” etc. | |
| 1 notebook - notes w/ Bill Lesch for piece Aperture magazine wouldn’t print on his strange acrylic photography |
1993 The Secret Forest (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
| Box 1 (M) | |||
| Bound draft titled The Secret Forest | 105 pages 1 bound copy | ||
| Draft titled The Secret Forest | 105 pages | w/ some notes/edits throughout | |
| Draft titled The Secret Forest | 105 pages and at end there are two parts both 34 pages | w/ some notes/edits throughout | |
| Arizona Daily Star | Sunday, December 19, 1993 | Review of Trust Me w/ picture showing Chuck and Dykinga when they “produced ‘The Secret Forest’” | 1 original |
| Alamos: El Bosque en Peligro de Extincion (Mexican Publication called Opinion) | November 1993 | 2 originals | About Alamos w/ an article about Chuck at end |
| Box 2 (YY) | |||
4 3x5 color snapshots 1 5x7 b&w 1 8x10 b&w | 1992 | Dykinga work prints for The Secret Forest. The woman lived with her family in the Sierra Madre and macaws nested in her house. Chuck said the Mexicans came in and killed the birds. | |
1 8x10 color copy of the Rio Cuchujaqui near Alamos 1 8x10 color copy of Candy Joe ** w/ letter from Jim Breighaupt to Chuck | Letter dated November 12, 2001 | Photos from the Federal Reserve near Alamos. Candy Joe lived there and sold phony artifacts. The letter is from Jim Brighaupt; he writes that he thought Chuck might enjoy the photos and “if not, they might make nice placemats,” and later writes “Time to read Sometimes a Great Notion,” etc. (in envelope) | |
| Summit Hut’s Desert Skies, excerpt from The Secret Forest (including photos) | Fall/Winter 1993 | 1 original | Dave Baker, the owner of Summit Hut (an outdoor sporting store), is an old friend of Chuck’s. They did extensive hiking and climbing together. |
| 2 notebooks with notes pertaining to The Secret Forest | |||
| Draft titled The Secret Forest: Sonora tropical | No date | 97 pages | “by Charles Bowden & Paul S. Martin” with a list of other authors (J.P.S. Brown, Cabeza de Vaca, Manuel Gil, Sor Juana, B. Traven, etc.) |
| The Secret Forest calendar | 1994 calendar | 2 originals | Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga, Text by Charles Bowden *Loose in storage box |
1993 Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions (with Michael Binstein)
| Box 1 (S) (box marked “First draft of Keating”) | |||
| “Savings & Loan Scandal” trading cards | Set of 36 cards, “The Keating Five” is #19 | ||
| Draft titled Welcome Home: Charlie Keating’s adventures in the American way of life | 547 pages | Footnotes and handwritten comments/edits throughout | |
| Box 2 (S) (box marked “’92 Original draft of Keating” | |||
| Draft titled Charlie: adventures in the American way of life | Title page dated “draft, 1992” | 418 pages | Footnotes |
| Box 3 (S) | |||
| Tucson Weekly w/ article titled “Billionaire Bandit” – an excerpt from Trust Me | July 14-20, 1993 | 1 original | |
| Phoenix magazine – interview with Chuck titled “Do We Really Know Charlie Keating?” | June 1993 | 2 photocopies | Dick Vonier, editor |
| Draft titled Charlie: adventures in the American way of life | Title page dated “draft, 1992” | 304 pages | Footnotes |
| Box 4 (T) | |||
| Proof titled Trust Me | Dated 3/4/93 | 416 pages | w/ some marks/editing throughout |
| Box 5 (BBB) | |||
| 2 photocopies copies of Keating’s prison photo from California | Dated April 16, 1992 | ||
| 2 photocopies copies of Charles Keating sitting at the head of his conference table with big smile | |||
| Review in Publishers Weekly of Trust Me | May 10, 1993 | 2 originals | A draft of the review sent from Random House |
| Published review in Publisher’s Weekly | May 10, 1993 | 1 original | |
| 2 4x6 prints of Michael Binstein | The photo used on the jacket cover for Trust Me | ||
| 2 4x6 prints of Charles Bowden | The photo used on the jacket cover for Trust Me | ||
| The Phoenix Gazette, “Keating: A Man Possessed” | June 27, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
The Phoenix Gazette, “Keating: Politicians Money man” | June 28, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| The Phoenix Gazette, “Keating’s life among the natives” | June 29, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| The Phoenix Gazette, “Keating’s true pals: Tongans” | June 30, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| The Phoenix Gazette, “Boss’s ways keep women off balance” | July 1, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| The Phoenix Gazette, “Tricky deals feed profits to Keating” | July 2, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| The Phoenix Gazette, “As deals end, a private man endures fall” | July 3, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| Tucson Weekly, “Billionaire Bandit” | July 14-July 20, 1993 | 1 original | Except from Trust Me |
| Phoenix magazine, “Charles Keating and the Missing Billions” | June 1993 | 2 originals | Except from Trust Me |
| Penthouse, “Charlie Keating’s Wild and Crazy World” | July 1993 | 1 original | Article by Charles Bowden and Michael Binstein |
| Letter from Charles V.H. Delfosse | September 29, 1993 | In appreciation of book, personal thoughts on Keating (in envelope) | |
| Box 6 (BBB) | |||
| Review in At Random: Books and Bookpeople from Random House, “Unlocking the door” | Spring 1993 | 1 original, pages 4-5 | |
| AZ Republic, “D.C. insider, desert poet dissect Keating,” & “Keating book digs deeper than scandal to find America” | July 26, 1993 | 2 photocopies, 1 original | |
| Summer Bookfest ’93, “Cheating with Keating” | 1993 | 1 photocopy | |
| New Times, “Way off Abbey’s Road” | August 4-10, 1993 | 1 original, page 26 | |
| Arizona Daily Star, advertisement for book | July 4, 1993 | 1 original | |
| AZ Daily Star, “Master of the Game” | July 25, 1993 | 1 original | |
| New York Times, advertisement for book | No date | 1 photocopy of very poor quality | |
| The Boston Globe, “The complex king of the S&L scandal” | June 30, 1993 | 2 photocopies | |
| Chicago Tribune, “Big-time swindling by a modern-day Citizen Kane” | July 22, 1993 | 2 faxed copies – computer format (prepublication) | |
| Letter from Richard ben Cramer, author of What It Takes and winner of a Pulitzer Prize | No date | 2 copies of letter of advance praise on paper with Schaffner letterhead | |
| Publishers Weekly, Forecasts | May 10, 1993 | 2 color photocopies, 1 original sent from Random House | |
| Kirkus Reviews | May 1, 1993 | 2 advance photocopies | |
| Upfront Advance Reviews | May 25, 1993 (date of fax) | 2 faxed copies | |
| Los Angeles Times Book Review | August 8, 1993 | 2 photocopies |
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| Los Angeles Times, Opinion Section, “Keating’s Wild Spending Kept Employees on Edge” | August 8, 1993 | 2 photocopies | |
| Box 7 (BBB) | |||
| 96 letters/correspondence – manila folder | Mostly from Schaffner Agency Inc – payment summaries, magazines wanting to use excerpts from Trust Me, communication with Chuck about the progress of publication and reviews, etc | ||
| Phoenix magazine, “I went to Charlie Keating’s Birthday Party” by Wendy White-Ring | June 1992 | 1 original | |
| Draft titled “Nowhere Man” (the excerpt used in Phoenix magazine June 1993) | 14 pages | w/ editing in type | |
| Color copy of Keating’s prison picture | Photo dated April 16, 1992 | 1 original | |
| 1 4x6 color snapshot of Charles Keating, his son, Chuck, and Dick Vonier | Late ‘80s | ||
| Manila folder w/ 2 articles relating to Keating | - The Cincinnati Enquire, 8/23/93 - The Cincinnati Enquire, 8/24/93 | Concerning the Lindner empire | |
| Manila folder titled “correspondence and miscellany” | |||
| Playboy article on Keating by Joe Morgenstern, “Profit Without Honor” | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Review in Tucson Citizen | January 18, 1992 | 1 photocopy | |
| Phoenix magazine, “My Dinner With Charlie” by Dick Vonier | June 1992 | 1 photocopy | Mentions Wendy White-Ring’s article in the same issue about going to Keating’s birthday party |
| Letter from Timothy Schaffner to Bob Vare | December 14, 1992 | Bob is interested in seeing manuscript of Trust Me, other details | |
| From Timothy Schaffner to Bill Hamilton | November 23, 1992 | Regarding publishing Trust Me in Britain, etc | |
| From Jennifer Powers at Schaffner Agency to David Rosenthal at Random House | March 9, 1992 | Attached article from Playboy w/ mention of Keating book | |
| 3 articles/reviews relating to Trust Me and notes between Jennifer and Timothy | No date | 1 photocopy of each article | |
| Draft titled “Keating Intro” and then more of a draft of a part of the book | Intro is 3 pages and the rest is 24 pages | ||
| 7 letters to Chuck and Michael regarding details of the book deal with Schaffner Agency - some copies of rejection letters, publishers uninterested, etc | |||
| 3 articles about Keating – | The New York Times, November 17, 1989 The New York Times, unknown date The New York Times, November 9, 1989 | ||
| The Phoenix Gazette, “Keating: A Man Possessed” | June 27, 1993 | 1 original | Excerpt from Trust Me |
| The Arizona Daily Star, “Master of the Game” | July 25, 1993 | 1 original | Review of the book |
| Proposal for book and draft of chapter | The Basic Idea (proposal) pages 1-6 All the Wild Horses (draft) pages 7-24 | ||
| Proposal for book and draft of chapters | The Basic Idea pages 1-5 Book titled Charlie: a man for our times All the Wild Horses pages 5-8 Chapter 1 pages 9-21 | ||
| Box 8 (CCC) - Notebooks | |||
| 4 small notebooks w/ notes on Keating | |||
| 1 large notebook and 1 small notebook on the writing of Trust Me | |||
| 1 notebook with financial notes on Keating | |||
| 1 notebook with Keating notes at hotel | |||
| 1 notebook with notes on Keating’s office with Keating | |||
| 1 notebook with Alamos notes | |||
| 1 notebook with notes on Keating and the trip to El Giereto | |||
| 1 notebook with notes from the evening Mary Martha and Chuck sat near Keating in Tomaso’s, an Italian restaurant in Scottsdale. | Tomaso’s is where Keating held “court” in the years before he went to prison. | ||
| 1 notebook with notes on the interview with Ernie Garcia for Keating and notes on earlier article for German GEO |
1995 Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
| Box 1 (Y) | |||
| Letter to Kate Manning from Chuck | 2 originals | **Kate is the daughter of the lawyer, Mike Manning, whom Chuck wrote an article about in G.Q. Nov ’96. The letter was sent with a copy of Blood Orchid | |
| Copy of the cover for Blood Orchid | 1 original | ||
| Envelope with changes made to paperback edition of Blood Orchid | Envelope dated 9/17/01 | ||
| Advanced Uncorrected Proof of Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History | Copyright 1995, tentative publication date April 1995 | 1 original | |
| Draft of Blood Orchid | Dated 1993 | 249 pages | |
| Box 2 (Y) | |||
| Draft titled Blood Orchid: Off the Road | Dated “draft, 1993” | 269 pages | Folder marked “Blood Orchid from Schaffan Agency” |
| Box 3 (Y) | |||
| Letter to Meg Clarke (Meg and her husband, Chris, were friends from Arivaca, AZ) | Dated 4/26/93 | 1 page | Sent with draft of Blood Orchid |
| Draft titled Blood Orchid | Dated 1994 | 276 pages | Footnotes |
| Envelope addressed to Meg Clarke, from Chuck | Dated April 26, 1993 | Empty, but it contained the following draft of Blood Orchid | |
| Draft titled Blood Orchid | 279 pages | ||
| Box 4 (EEE) | |||
| draft titled I’m In Love With Your Cruelty | 15 pages | Text by Charles Bowden, Photography by David Burckhalter | |
| Draft titled The End of the Road: leaving the West behind | 48 pages | ||
| Draft titled I’m In Love With Your Cruelty | 15 pages | Text by Charles Bowden, Photography by David Burckhalter | |
| 2 page draft, untitled | |||
| Draft titled Blood Orchid: off the road | 285 pages | ||
| Draft titled The Long Drunk: kill this bottle | 20 pages | ||
| Partial draft of Blood Orchid in FedEx envelope | Envelope dated 11/30/97 | Sent by Kathy Anderson | Pages 254 thru 279, w/ extensive editing throughout |
| Box 5 (EEE) | |||
| Letter from Cinco Puntos Press to Chuck | Dated January 31, 1994 | Attached is a 3 page document referred to in the letter as Sundance’s obit (obituary), letter mentions Sundance’s materials, that it has become something of a mess, etc. (in envelope) | |
| Card w/ wolf and stars from Sundance to Chuck | No date | To have a merry Christmas, other details, etc | |
| Card from Fred and Along (her name) to Chuck | No date | To have a merry Christmas, etc.. ** This is the woman who speaks of the long drunk of the Indians in Blood Orchid. Chuck was driving her somewhere, they started talking, etc. She and her husband supplied the wolves for the movie Dances With Wolves | |
| Arizona Republic article, titled “’Blood’ feud: Renegade Tucson writer attacks American myths” | September 18, 1995 | 1 original | w/ photo of Chuck in 9th Street living room |
| Letter from Tad Floidis at Random House, Inc. to Chuck/Timothy Schaffner | September 13, 1993 | Mentions an enclosed check for Blood Orchid, etc. | |
| Letter from Chuck to ‘Gentlemen’ at Random House Inc. | September 9, 1993 | A request for an advance on Blood Orchid (see letter above) | |
| 3 letters/photocopies of checks representing an advance from Random House | September 15, 1993 & July 11, 1991 | ||
| Letter from Michelle Humphrey at Anderson Literary Management to Chuck | May 10, 2007 | Royalty statements for Blues for Cannibals and Blood Orchid for the period ending December 2006 (statements included) (in envelope) | |
| Letter from Chuck to Kate Manning | No date | Regarding having read Blood Orchid, Chuck mentions her dad (Mike Manning), other details about Blood Orchid, etc (no envelope) | |
| A clear folder containing photographs (4 following items) pertaining to Blood Orchid – In Blood Orchid Chuck writes the story of his friend, Sundance, a Sioux from the Standing Rock Reservation in the Dakotas. On his death, Chuck pulled a horse trailer containing Sundance’s corpse from LA to Standing Rock for his funeral. | |||
| Group I – 6 4x6 color snapshots of Chuck and Sundance (alive) in Laughlin, Nevada | |||
| Group II – 8 4x6 color snapshots of Sundance’s coffin in horse trailer and abandoned bars and jails. Chuck had promised him to stop at all the bars Sundance loved and at the jails where he had been incarcerated between L.A. and Standing Rock. | |||
| Group III – 15 4x6 color snapshots of Sundance’s funeral and of Chuck at Standing Rock | |||
| 1 8x10 b&w of Sundance and the photographer Marc Gaede in downtown LA taken by Half Pint, a woman, April of ’91. Note in Chuck’s handwriting “prostrate to the bone” possibly referencing Sundance’s cancer. | |||
| Cassette tape w/ songs listened to while writing Blood Orchid | Tom Waits, Michelle Shocked, Chris Isaak, etc… | ||
| Box 6 (EEE) – Notebooks | |||
| 6 small notebooks w/ notes on Blood Orchid | |||
| 1 large notebook w/ notes on McCain testifying at the Keating trial in L.A. – ended up in Blood Orchid | |||
| 1 large notebook w/ notes when Chuck was still thinking about Lola but it became Blood Orchid | |||
| 1 small notebook w/ notes to self after having sold Blood Orchid and they wouldn’t publish it | |||
| 1 small notebook w/ notes on what became of Blood Orchid – ruminating on the road | |||
| 1 small notebook w/ notes when trying to figure out Blood Orchid – before he had written a word of it | |||
| 1 small notebook w/ notes trying to figure out what becomes of Blood Orchid | |||
| Video tape of Sundance on WBC News on 5/21/93 | |||
| Letter from Marc Gaede (cc: Barry Hirsch and Timothy McFlynn) to Chuck | December 27, 1993 | 1 page | Regarding using Sundance material in Blood Orchid, he writes “I have never granted you any permission whatsoever to use any Robert Sundance material in your book Blood Orchid. If you have thought otherwise by some misunderstanding, then let this letter correct the situation,” etc. (in envelope) |
| The funeral announcement for Robert Sundance | |||
| Note: Because of a foul-up at the publishers, no review copies of Blood Orchid were ever sent out – so it was, as Chuck put it, “Dead at birth.” However, someone from the Lannan Foundation heard an excerpt from it on the radio while driving to Chicago. As a result, Blood Orchid was nominated and won the Lannan Foundation Award for Non-fiction in 1996, which carried with it a $50,000 prize. |
1996 Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau (with photographs by Jack W. Dykinga)
| Box 1 (YY) | |||
| Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante: Examining Utah’s Newest National Monument, edited by Robert B. Keiter, Sarah B. George, and Joro Walker | Copyright 1998 | 1 original | |
| 3 notebooks with notes on Mt. Meadows massacre site in Southern Utah, etc – w/ M.M. |
1996 Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge (with photographs by Virgil Hancock)
| BOX T | |||
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Chihuahua: A Piece of the Picture | 67 pages | ||
| 3 notebooks w/ notes taken while in Chihuahua | |||
2 color 8x10 Virgil Hancock work prints for Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge, neither of which were used in the book. 1 color snapshot of Virgil, under gray cover, shooting Chihuahua | 1995 |
1998 Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future
| BOX L | |||
| Box 1 (L) | |||
| (early) Juarez page proofs | The page proofs for the photos w/ yellow sticky papers and notes throughout (different subtitle – “crossing the lines”) | ||
| (later) Juarez page proofs for cover | Only the cover, w/ the photographers’ names listed at bottom | ||
| Juarez page proofs | Dated 7/23/97 | Photographs and writing, some notes and yellow sticky paper throughout | |
| Hardcover page proofs | w/ notes | ||
| Box 2 (L) | |||
| Tape recording and typed transcript of interview w/ Chuck about book | Typed transcript dated 11/9/98 | ||
| First draft of Juarez | 75 pages | w/ footnotes, endnotes, and some handwritten notes | |
| Early Draft of Juarez – including Noam Chomsky’s preface and three chapter headings of Chuck’s | 62 pages | ||
| Draft titled Double Negative: making love in the laboratory of Juarez and kindred badlands | 177 pages | Note from Chuck at very beginning of draft explaining something of the stage the piece is in. Draft includes five chapter headings of Chuck’s | |
| Box 3 (XX) | |||
| 73 colored slides of photos submitted to Aperture for Juarez: Laboratory of our Future by the street photographers of Juarez, Mexico | 1997-1998 | ||
| Color photocopy of woman’s face – appears in book | |||
| Email from Julian Cardona to Chuck | February 9, 2001 | 2 originals | Regarding specific photos, the stories behind the photos |
| Houston Press, “See Juarez” | December 11-17, 1997 | 1 original | Includes excerpts and photographs from book |
| The New York Times, “Pictures of life and death at the edge of a new era” | July 6, 1997 | Photographs taken by the street photographers – many that appeared in the book | |
| Diverseworks Artscape, “Stories About Us: Photographs from Juarez” – a catalogue | 1998 | 1 original | |
| L’Humanite hebdo, article about the murders of women in Juarez by Thomes Cantaloube (letter from Thomes included) | Letter dated March 6, 2000 | 1 original | Letter to Chuck w/ Thomes’ business card |
| Following in Manila Folder titled “Reviews, etc” | |||
| USA Today, “Border is no barrier on Rio Grande” | December 3, 1999 | 1 original | An article on the border that mentions the book |
| El Paso Times, “Awards herald best of Southwest” | February 22, 1999 | 1 original | Lists Juarez among others |
| Arizona Daily Star, “Southern Arizona Authors” | July 5, 1998 | 1 original | Juarez listed w/ picture of book cover |
| The Connection, Book Review | August 1998 | 1 original | |
| The New York Times, on the web – “Images of an Economy Devouring the Poor” | March 22, 1998 | 1 printed copy – 5 pages | |
| Tucson Monthly, “Capturing Northern Mexico’s Spirit” | May 1998 | 1 original | |
| El Paso Daily, “Images depict a harsh reality” | May-June 1998 | 3 photocopies | |
| New Times, “The Reporter as Lyricist” | October 1997 | 2 copies printed from the internet – 5 pages | |
| El Paso Times, “Images depict harsh reality” | May 24, 1998 | 1 original | |
| Tucson Weekly, “Into Juarez” | March 19-25, 1998 | 1 original | |
| American Photo, photojournalism, “Life on the Borderline” | September/October 1998 | 2 photocopies | |
| Amazon.com – reader reviews | Printed out on July 8, 199 | 1 copy printed from internet | |
| Tucson Weekly, ad for book | March 19-25, 1998 | 1 original | |
| LA Times Bestsellers List, “The Twilight Zone” | May 24, 1998 | 2 copies printed from the internet – article is 7 pages long | |
| The Connection, ad for book | February 2001 | 1 original | |
| Following in Manila Folder titled “Emails” | |||
| Email from John M. Keller at the University of Missouri-Columbia – forwarded to Chuck, titled “A fan seeks your advice” | March 18, 2001 | 1 original | Inquiring about book, asking questions of Chuck, about the process, etc |
| Email from Melissa Harris at Aperture, the photo and magazine editor for Juarez | January 20, 1999 | 1 copy | Regarding ICP, etc |
| Page of notes from “friends” after reading Juarez | 1 page | Scribbled notes, etc…multiple handwriting | |
| Box 4 (XX) | |||
| 1 notebook w/ notes on desert tortoise, “Lightening,” and the dead girls in Juarez | |||
| 4x6 photo by Alfredo Carrillo Moreno titled “Transporte de Cargo International” | w/ title and photographer’s signature on back | ||
| 4x8 b&w photo by Alfredo Carrillo Moreno dated Nov. 1995 | w/ a note to Chuck on back and signed by photographer | ||
| 2 color photocopies of the mural in Juarez (the mural on the wall where the train goes through – appears in the book) | |||
| 17 snapshots of the crowd gathered around a crime scene | A gang killing in front of a store in Juarez – written about in book | ||
| 3x8 b&w photo by Manual Sajnz Titulo titled “El Iluminado” dated 1990 | Signed, titled, and dated on back of photo | ||
| Manila folder w/ letter to Chuck from J.B. (Jaime Bailleres) and 3 color slides and 1 color photocopy of the mural in Juarez | Note says “These are copies from original color slides. Hope you like it! (you can keep them)” | ||
| Large manila envelope containing 7 5x9 color photographs taken in Juarez | Includes shots at a strip club, a taco stand, and a family living in a colonias | ||
| Large white envelope containing 1 5x10 color photograph of a mansion in Juarez |
1999 Paul Dickerson 1961-1997
| This was written at the behest of Paul’s mother and Chuck’s good friend, Barbara Houlberg. Paul, an installation artist in New York City, committed suicide in 1996. |
2001 Eugene Richards 55 (with photographs by Eugene Richards)
| Box 1 (AAA) | |||
| The “Phaidon ‘55’ Series Guidelines” | 3 pages | Specifications and outline for the book | |
| Manila folder titled “Gene Richards” | |||
| Email from Melissa Harrison at Aperture to Chuck. (Chuck and Melissa became good friends while she was editing Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future, for Aperture. Eugene Richards is the only photographer who ever upset her enough to make her cry.) | March 21, 2000 | 1 page | Regarding the details of Chuck’s trip to New York |
| An artist’s statement by Eugene Richards | Fall, 1991 | 1 page | From Aperture, 129, fall, 1992, p. 9 |
| Email to Chuck w/ no sender | March 19, 2000 | 1 page | “Q&A from National Geographic fact sheet for prospective photographers” |
| Short essay from “Blink” about Danny Lyon and Eugene Richards | Printed page dated 3/19/00 | 1 page | |
| Email to Chuck w/ no sender – article titled “Color Killed Photojournalism” | Printed page dated 3/19/00 Article copyright 1994 | 3 pages | |
| Article titled “Rules aren’t neat on Crack Street” by Doreen Carvajal | Printed page dated 3/19/00 | 4 pages | |
| Article titled “Fifty years of Magnum” | Printed page dated 3/19/00 | 11 pages | (end of manila folder) |
| Manila folder titled “drafts” | |||
| 6 page draft of statements for each photograph and Gene Richard’s artist statement (1 page) | Editing throughout | ||
| Draft titled “Our Father, Who Art In Heaven, Set This House On Fire” | 14 pages | Editing throughout and footnotes Labeled #1 | |
| Draft titled “Our Father, Who Art In Heaven, Set This House On Fire” | 15 pages | Labeled #2 | |
| Manila folder titled “Page Proofs” | |||
| Page proofs for Eugene Richards 55 | Dated 6/9/00 | w/ yellow sticky papers throughout | |
| A pamphlet titled “55 launchparty” | |||
| Manila folder titled “Richards” | |||
| Essay titled “Colloque – Eugene Richards” | 5 pages | ||
| Fax from Eugene Richards to Chuck | 4/12/00 | 4 pages | “A few thoughts, observations, corrections” regarding the book |
| Letter from Eugene Richards to Chuck | No date | 1 page | Regarding his thoughts on the book, living in Brooklyn, etc. |
| Letter from Eugene Richards to Chuck | No date | 2 pages | Regarding an endorsement letter for Eugene’s film projects that Chuck will write, details about the Sonas Fountation, included is a page about how Eugene will use the grant (the letter Eugene sent to the foundation) |
| 1 notebook w/ notes for Eugene Richard’s book |
2002 Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from the Underground
| Box 1 (N) | |||
| Letter to David Rosenthal (the head of Random House) from Chuck & a reply from David | Email dated October 25, 2000 | 5 pages total | Discusses plans for Blues for Cannibals and Down by the River, etc. |
| 3rd Draft titled Mesquite: blues for cannibals | 480 pages | ||
| Box 2 (N) | |||
| Page proofs w/ corrections of Blues for Cannibals | Dated 8/28/01 | 294 pages | |
| Review copy of Blues for Cannibals (bound – with cover – in book form) | |||
| Box 3 (N) | |||
| MM’s edit of Blues for Cannibals: notes from underground | 340 pages | Edits throughout | |
| Box 4 (O) | |||
| Photocopy of Blues for Cannibals before author reviewed it. | 319 pages | Note on front - “The author ended up removing most of the commas added by the copy editor” – Comma removal done by MM | |
| Rough page proofs – after the author made corrections | Dated 8/28/01 | 294 pages | |
| Box 5 (O) | |||
| Master Proof – Second Pass for Blues for Cannibals | Dated October 11, 2001 | 294 pages | |
| Master Proof – First Pass for Blues for Cannibals | Dated August 28, 2001 | 294 pages | Notes and sticky paper throughout |
| Yellow note saying “original ms stolen (FedEx), so missing!” | |||
| Box 6 (O) | |||
| Mountain Gazette issue 85 | March/April 2002 | 2 originals | Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals |
| Tucson Weekly – volume 18, number 16 | June 20-June 26, 2002 | 2 originals | “Witness to the Execution: An Excerpt from Charles Bowden’s Blues for Cannibals” (about Michael Poland) |
| Page proofs for Tucson Weekly excerpt | Dated 6/17/02 | ||
| Box 7 (P) | |||
| Shade magazine | May 2002 | 2 originals | Interview titled “Mesquite Blues” about Blues for Cannibals w/ photos of Chuck |
| Draft of the preface “entrance wound” for Blues for Cannibals | 34 pages | w/ some markings | |
| Email exchange between Chuck and John M. Keller (fan) | Dated November 5, 2002 | ||
| Possible covers (front and back and in color) for Blues for Cannibals | |||
| Farrar, Straus, and Giroux catalogue | September 2002 to March 2003 | 1 original | w/ letter from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Piece on Blues for Cannibals on page 67 |
| Farrar, Straus, and Giroux catalogue | September 2001 to February 2002 | 1 original and 1 photocopy | 2 pieces on Bowden – one for Blood Orchid (paperback) and one for Blues for Cannibals (hardcover), pages 70-71 |
| Letter from Drew Signorr (fan) | September 20, 2002 | (in envelope) | |
| 1 notebook with notes for Blues for Cannibals | |||
| Royalty statement for period ending 6/2006 | 4 pages | ||
| 1 8x10 photo of Dick Vonier | Dick’s death is written about in Blues for Cannibals | ||
| Manila Folder titled “Reviews, etc” | |||
| Inside/Outside Southwest, “Blood Orchid & Blues for Cannibals” | June/July 2002 | 2 photocopies | |
| Inside Tucson Business | December 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| Arizona Daily Star, “A Book Full of Blues” | June 7, 2002 | 2 originals | w/ photo of Chuck on front |
| The New York Times Book Review, “Edginess” | May 19, 2002 | 1 photocopy, 1 original | |
| The Arizona Daily Star | May 5, 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| Holtzbrinck Publishers | April 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| Holtzbrinck Publishers | March 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| The Republic/Phoenix, “Bowden rejects order, embraces individual” | April 14, 2002 | 1 original | |
| CultureDose.com, “Sad, Beautiful Blues” | March 17, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| This Month’s BOOKVIEWS | March 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Atlanta’s Journal-Constitution, “Wringing the most out of life and following a most tortuous route” | April 7, 2002 | 1 printed copy, 1 photocopy | |
| Publisher’s Weekly (PWforecast) | February 4, 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| Kirkus Reviews | January 1, 2002 | 2 photocopies | |
| Los Angeles Times, “The Bombast Transcripts: Rants and Screeds of Rageboy” | March 3, 2002 | 1 photocopy, 1 printed copy | |
| The Oregonian, “Across the borderline, and back again” | March 31, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | March 3, 2002 | 2 printed copies | |
| The Chicago Tribune, “Soulful lamentations from a man who cares about life” | February 24, 2002 | 1 printed copy, 1 photocopy, 1 original | |
| San Francisco Chronicle, “Rage against the corruption of America” | March 10, 2002 | 1 photocopy, 1 printed copy | |
| San Diego Union-Tribune, “On the dark side of the man” | March 10, 2002 | 1 photocopy, 1 printed copy | |
| Esquire | April 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| Outside magazine | March 2002 | 2 photocopies | |
| Salon | March 13, 2002 | 2 printed copies | |
| BookSense.com | February 20, 2002 | 2 printed copies | |
| Booklist – Uncorrected Proof | February 1, 2002 | 1 original | |
| Email from Dave Breithaupt to Chuck | February 14, 2002 | 1 page | Regarding having read Blues for Cannibals, etc |
| Email from Steve Johnson, a photographer, to Roy Elson, an aid to Senator Carl Hagden of AZ | February 11, 2002 | 1 page | Mentions reading the book, etc |
| Essay titled “In Other Words” by Steve Johnson | See email above for draft of this piece – about reading Blues for Cannibals | ||
| Mountain Gazette 85 | February 14, 2002 (date of print) | Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals | |
| Tucson Weekly, “Witness to an Execution” | June 20-26, 2002 | Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals | |
| Box 8 (O) | |||
| Letter from Jeff Seroy from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux | Dated 12/22/00 | Saying that they’re “looking forward to publishing your new book,” etc. | |
| Emails from Becky Saletan to Chuck regarding her edit of Blues for Cannibals | Dated February 9, 2001 | 4 pages | General feedback and specific points |
| “Notes to batch 2” from Becky Saletan | 1 page | Feedback by page numbers | |
| “Notes to third (and final) batch” from Becky Saletan | 1 page | Feedback by page numbers | |
| Becky Saletan’s Edit of Blues for Cannibals: lessons of the mesquite draft | 421 pages | Becky’s comments, markings, and general edit throughout | |
| Box 9 (N) | |||
| Draft of Blues for Cannibals: lessons of the mesquite | Dated June 2000 | 421 pages | |
| Box 10 (P) | |||
| First draft titled Wood Against the Face: the mesquite manifesto | Pages not numbered | Some handwriting throughout | |
| Draft titled Wood Against the Face | 40 pages | Some handwriting throughout | |
| Draft titled Mesquite: Love after Midnight | 40 pages | ||
| Draft titled Mesquite: Love after Midnight | 40 pages | ||
| Draft of and notes for Blues for Cannibals – untitled | 201 pages | Pages of handwritten notes inserted throughout | |
| Draft of and notes – titled Ike and Lyndon: Presidential Artists for the End Time (but title is crossed out in pencil) | 136 pages | Pages of handwritten notes inserted throughout | |
| Partial draft of Blues for Cannibals | Pages 86 through 141 | Pages of handwritten notes inserted throughout | |
| Box 11 (P) | |||
| Early draft titled Mesquite: love after midnight | 253 pages | Footnotes and handwritten notes/editing throughout |
2002 Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
| Box 1 (A) | |||
| Draft titled Down by the River: drugs, money, murder, and family | Dated 8/27/01 | 580 pages | Some handwriting, markings, etc throughout |
| Box 2 (A) | |||
| Early draft – first page with the subtitle case is closed | 92 pages | ||
| Draft titled Down by the River: A Saga of Drugs, Money, Murder. And Family | 514 pages | Footnotes, picture taped to title page of people wearing masks | |
| 15 original photographs | K-mart where Bruno was killed, dead men in Juarez, women “demanding justice,” etc. | ||
| Photocopies of photographs | 4 pages | Of Bruno and family, the funeral, etc – noted in margin | |
| Christmas card from Sal & Suzie Martinez to Chuck and MM, also w/ a 2 page handwritten letter from Sal | Envelope dated November 29, 2000 | ||
| Box 3 (A) (box marked “Bruno/Copy of Page Proofs, May 15, 2002, Sent to New York) | |||
| Letter to Chuck from Dan Cuddy at Simon & Schuster | 1 page | Letter sent with the galleys for Down by the River, mentions deadline, etc | |
| Letter to Geoff Kloske from Dan Cuddy (Simon & Shuster) | Dated 5/1/02 | 1 page | Letter sent with “galleys for the author to review” |
| Galleys for Down by the River | Galleys dated 5/2/02 | 418 pages | Suggestions/editing throughout |
| Box 4 (B) (box marked “Bruno S&S Ed. Comments) | |||
| Letter titled “The First Hundred” | 1 page | General feedback on first hundred pages | |
| Draft titled Down by the River: drugs, money, murder. And family | 575 pages | Footnotes and handwritten comments/edits etc | |
| Box 5 (B) | |||
| Draft titled Down by the River: drugs, money, murder, and family | 594 pages | Footnotes | |
| Box 6 (B) | |||
| MM editing notes | 1 page | ||
| Draft titled El Nino: inside dope | 584 pages | Handwritten comments/edits throughout, footnotes | |
| Box 7 (C) | |||
| Draft titled Down by the River: drugs, money, murder. And family | Dated 9/03/01 | 579 pages | Footnotes |
| Box 8 (C) | |||
| Draft titled The Secret Life: a saga of drugs, money, murder. And family – marked as Second Revision | Dated 12/20/01 | 538 pages | Footnotes and handwritten comments/editing throughout |
| Box 9 (C) | |||
| Draft titled Down by the River: drugs, money, murder, and family | 589 pages | Footnotes | |
| Box 10 (D) (box marked “El Nino (Bruno) 2nd Draft, Finished June 2001) | |||
| Draft titled El Nino | 589 pages | Footnotes | |
| Box 11 (D) | |||
| First Draft, titled Notes on a Murder on the Border | 221 pages | (manila folder – labeled “Bruno – First Draft”) | |
| Draft titled El Nino | 463 pages | Footnotes | |
| Box 12 (D) | |||
| Draft titled The Secret Life: a saga of drugs, money, murder. And family. | Dated 1/01/02 | 509 pages | Footnotes and some handwritten comments/editing |
| Box 13 (E) (box marked “Down by the River, S&S, Original Manuscript) | |||
| Note to Chuck from Caroline at Simon & Shuster | Sent back with the original manuscript | ||
| Original manuscript titled Down by the River | 535 pages | Footnotes and comments/edits throughout | |
| Box 14 (E) (box marked “El Nino (Bruno) 3rd Draft, Finished July 2001) | |||
| Draft titled El Nino | 616 pages | Footnotes | |
| Box 15 (UU) | |||
| L.A. Times article titled “Killing but Many Victims” | Dated July 8, 2000 | 2 copies printed from computer | Folder noted “article in LA Times, 7 ½ Tornadoes” |
| Draft of article titled “Brotherly Love” | 37 pages | This piece on the Jordon family was rejected by Esquire | |
| Draft of article titled “El Nino” | 24 pages w/ footnotes | This was written for Esquire – early Down by the River, Late summer ’95 – not published | |
| The Atlantic Monthly - an article by Marc Cooper titled “Exodus: The ominous push and pull of the US-Mexico border” – mentions, quotes, & reviews Down by the River | May 2006 | 2 photocopies | |
| Simon & Schuster royalty statement for Down by the River | Period ending March, 2006 | Pages 53-61 | |
| Email between Chuck and Peter Landesman | March 12, 2007 | 1 page | Discussing Sal, details for the movie script, etc. |
| Draft titled Tuna Country: Living Without a Net | 29 pages | ||
| Piece with “Fax 212 741 1936” as heading | 2 pages | Describes Phil Jordon…how he wants to talk and will talk…and that Chuck is looking for a platform for the story | |
| Draft titled Brotherly Love | 37 pages | ||
| Email correspondence while in Marfa writing Down by the River | February 22-March 7, 2001 | 13 pages total – correspondence between Chuck and MM, Roy Elson, Peg Bowden, & Cousin Beryl | This is when Chuck’s sister, Peg, was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Mary Martha went to Oregon to help Peg through chemotherapy. Chuck’s cousin, Cheryl Beerman, came from California to stay at Chuck and Mary Martha’s house on 9th Street and look after Bo, Chuck’s mother who lived six blocks away on 6th Street. |
| Map of Laredo ripped from the Southwestern Bell phone book | |||
| The Family Gardens Inn business card – in Laredo, Texas | |||
| New York Times Book Review – Down by the River listed in Notable Books section | December 7, 2003 | 2 originals – book listed on page 72 | |
| Southwest Books of the Year | December 5-11, 2002 | 2 originals | Down by the River named Best Reading of the Year – page 1 |
| Fan letter from Carla Esden-Tempska | Dated 4/16/07 | 1 page | |
| University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism – a mention of the book, information about Juarez-area and situation, etc | Dated January 11, 2007 | 1 page | |
| Thank you card from Shirley Hall in Tucson | Chuck spoke to her book discussion group about Down by the River | ||
| Letter to Sal Martinez from Chuck | 4 pages | Regarding the holiday season, thoughts on Juarez and the Jordan family, etc | |
| Review of Down by the River in Southwestern American Literature | 1 photocopy | Handwritten notes on copy | |
| Essay titled “Marking the Border” by Kent Meyers (who recently won the 2005 Adult Mountains and Plains booksellers award in fiction for The Work of Wolves) | 11 pages | Essay is on Chuck’s writing of the border – Juarez and Down by the River, etc | |
| Fan letter from Jordon Fisher Smith after having read Down by the River | Dated July 28, 2005 | At the end of his Epic book tour, Rebecca Solnit told him to read Down by the River, expressing his appreciation of the book, etc. | |
| Letter from Marlene’s mom (Marlene is Chuck’s cousin) | Dated 8/4/04 | Included is an article from the Syracuse newspaper that her mom wanted Chuck to have – information related to that in Down by the River | |
| Dinner menu from Marfa – dinner prepared by another Lannan fellow who owns a restaurant in Seattle | Chuck stayed in a Lannan Foundation House in Marfa, Texas for 42 days while writing the first draft of Down by the River | ||
| Email from New York Times saying that they will be listing Down by the River as one of the notable books of 2003 | Dated December 3, 2003 | ||
| Envelope with pictures of Sal Martinez | 4 original copies and one page of 5 shots of color copies (many of these the same as the 4 originals) | ||
| New York Times Book Review - lists Down by the River under New and Noteworthy Paperbacks section | January 18, 2004 | 2 originals - page 24 | |
| Article in the Dallas Morning News mentioning Down by the River | June 13, 2005 | 1 original, 3 pages | Chuck is quoted throughout and Don Henry’s Contrabando is mentioned |
| Promotional cards for Charles Bowden’s reading and signing at Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah | Scheduled for July 21st | 7 copies | |
| Fan letter from Rudy Tucich | Dated June 14, 2006 | Mentions an enclosed CD by Sarah Vaughan, enjoyed Down by the River as well as the other books | |
| Letter to Sal from Chuck (Never sent – The prison officials put Sal into solitary confinement to protect him after the G.Q. article came out and later moved him to another prison. Correspondence between Sal and Chuck became difficult.) | Dated 1/4/04 | 4 pages | After Chuck’s mother died – he includes at the end of the letter a copy of the eulogy he read at the funeral |
| Box 16 (UU) – Miscellaneous | |||
| Letter from Patrick O’Day | Dated November 16, 2003 | 3 pages | Writes that he is “very impressed” with Chuck’s book and also knows the Calderoni family – spends the bulk of the letter discussing details of Chuck’s book and his own experiences |
| 2 pages of notes on Phil Jordon | Dates include June, 1995 & August 8, 1995 | Missing pages (beginning of first page cut off) | |
| List of phone numbers | Including Phil Jordon, DEA/Art Doty, and others | ||
| Early notes on Down by the River | Dates include late June, 1995 thru November 1, 1996 | 131 pages | In manila folder |
| Review by Buzzflash of Down by the River | Email dated February 8, 2006 | 1 page | Printed from an email sent to Chuck by Buzzflash |
| Letter from Richard L Ellison, P.C. | Dated July 13, 2005 | 2 pages | He’s lived in Texas, speaks of his own interest in the border and drugs, writes that the book “is one of the best written and most disturbing books [he’s] ever read” |
| Email from David Muse | May 1, 2003 | 1 page | Asking for the film and television rights for Down by the River |
| 3 4x6 color snapshots of Chuck with various members of the Jordan family | 1999-2001 | Notes on backs of each photo and an informative insert w/ photos | |
| Draft titled “Early One Morning” | 15 pages | About visiting Sal in prison, Chuck wrote it for G.Q. but never run | |
| Email to Terry Greene Sterling, an Arizona journalist, from Chuck – an explanation of the book | October 31, 2002 | 1 page | |
| Contract with Phil Jordan | September 3, 2002 | 3 pages | Signed w/ witness by Phil Jordon |
| Picture of the hardback cover art | Photocopied color copy | ||
| Letter from Irena Choi Stern from the Lukas Prize Project informing Chuck that Down by the River was awarded an Honorable Mention by the jurors of the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. | Dated April 1, 2003 | 4 pages total | Includes a list of other winners, details of prize, etc |
| 4 emails – 1 from Kim Sanders, 1 from Bridgette Jordan-Mincks, Phil’s daughter, and 2 from Victoria | June 12, June 13, and July 3, 2002 | All four emails are commenting on just having finished reading the book – Kim’s email mentions meeting with Phil | |
| Note from Caroline at Simon & Schuster regarding 2 copies of Down by the River | |||
| Best of Tucson by the Tucson Weekly – article titled “King of the Blues” | September 26-October 2, 2002 | 1 original, 1 photocopy | Article about Chuck, Down by the River is referred to as his next book |
| Harper’s magazine w/ half page spread for Down by the River | November 2002 | 2 photocopies | |
| NPR Interview w/ Alex Chadwick | November 1, 2002 | 2 copies of the transcript | Email from Alex Chadwick of Day by Day informing Mary Martha when the interview will run (dated October 31, 2002) |
| Arizona Republic profile titled “Writing life rich in color has own rewards” by Terry Greene Sterling | December 8, 2002 | 2 originals | |
| Email from Geoff at Simon & Schuster informing Chuck that he was a finalist for the Pen Award. | June 27, 2003 | 4 pages | |
| Letter from James A. Griffin | March 3, 2003 | 1 page | Expressing interest in doing a documentary/movie deal, etc 2 business cards included |
| Email from Etan Frankel | April 30, 2003 | 1 page | Inquiring as to the film and television rights to Down by the River |
| 1 color photocopied copy of paperback cover art for Down by the River | w/ note from Simon & Schuster | ||
| Draft of the afterword for Down by the River paperback edition – titled “dead man not talking” | 16 pages | Includes handwritten edits | |
| Final galleys of afterword for paperback edition | Letter attached from Caroline Bruce from Simon & Schuster dated 6/9/03 | ||
| Box 17 (UU) – notebooks | |||
| 18 notebooks on Down by the River | |||
| Box 18 (VV) – Miscellaneous | |||
| Airborne Express Envelope with pages for revision from Veronica (an email included & a letter, as well as the specific pages to be revised) | |||
| Email from Chuck to Phil | December 29, 2001 | Asks Phil to look into the identity of a man at a club in Juarez, regarding four men who danced with the wrong women at Hooligan’s nighclub, etc Includes article from the Borderland Archives, “Juarez, state police investigated in shooting death” | |
| Letter from Virginia, Phil Jordan’s sister, to Chuck w/ a copy of a letter to the Jordan family from Esther (a woman who used to work at J. Riggings | Envelope dated April 14, 2003 | Letter from Valencia mentions the copied letter, etc. The copied letter from Esther is in regard to having read Down by the River and her memories working with Bruno, etc. | |
| Envelope containing two documents relating to Thomas Whelan’s appointment to San Diego’s superior court | Envelope dated April 28, 2003 | Envelope’s return address is Lionel Vandeerlin of San Diego, CA | |
| Letter from Sal to Chuck | January 15, 2003 | 2 page handwritten letter | |
| Document from the Court of Appeals, Eighth District of Texas regarding Bruno’s supposed killer (described as a juvenile in this document) | February 27, 1997 | ||
| Envelope with note from Virginia to Chuck w/ a copy of an article about Lionel Forti (Phil Jordan’s grandfather) | Envelope dated March 30, 2001 | ||
| Email from Brigitte to Chuck | March 22, 2002 | Writes “They [the Jordan family] only see that his [Bruno’s] secret is out and that I’m the one who told you,” etc | |
| Email from Carmen Mendoza, the long-term girlfriend of Phil Jordan, to Chuck | April 2, 2002 | Regarding the book, the content of book, the information about Phil that she shared with Chuck, disappointment that Chuck would write about it, etc | |
| Medical Records and a Victim Impact Statement regarding Bruno’s death | No date | Attached is a note from Brigitte – the report details the cause, time, and other details of Bruno’s death | |
| Letter from Sal Martinez to Chuck | Only date available is that on letter from Sal – 12-4 | Envelope contains a card to Chuck and Mary Martha signed by Sal and Suzie, Also contains a handwritten letter dated 12-4 to Chuck from Sal | |
| Letter from Jim (JTG) to Chuck – 9 photographs included | Envelope dated October 2, 200? | Mentions meeting Chuck on the mountain, refers to Ray, the photographs enclosed were taken inside the Nogales, Sonora Prison around ’95, he writes “the fight scenes are gripping to me as I understand the hombre being carried out died,” (in reference to the 9 photographs), etc. (in envelope) | |
| Letter from Sal to Chuck | No date | Regarding his time in prison, specifics, goals/dreams he has when he gets out, etc (no envelope) | |
| Letter from Sal to Chuck | Letter dated May 24, envelope dated May 25, 2004 | Handwritten letter regarding his time in prison, the situation of the prison, his attempts to move, thoughts on his case, what he plans to do when he gets out, etc (in envelope) | |
| Christmas card from Sal to Chuck and Mary Martha | Envelope dated December 3, 2003 | Mentions Christmas, eggnog, etc. (in envelope) | |
| Large manila envelope from SGM (Suzie Martinez) to Chuck | Envelope dated May 26, 2004 | Contains an email exchange between Suzie and Gary Gius regarding a book contract for Sal and Suzie about his experience; the email includes the contract for the book, and pages from the draft. | |
| Email from Rick Russell, a Dallas lawyer – friend of Chuck’s, to Chuck | July 11, 2004 | Regarding the Blakely case, details of law, etc | |
| Email from Scott Carrier to Chuck | July 13, 2004 | Includes an article titled “Arizona border crackdown pushing immigrants to Texas, New Mexico” | |
| Letter from Virginia Castaneda to Chuck | Envelope dated July 11, 2003 | Includes her business card, letter regarding “the name of the county investigator, Jose Aguilar,” the investigator in Bruno’s case, etc. (in envelope) | |
| Manila envelope from Virginia Castaneda to Chuck | Envelope dated February 21, 2003 | A letter & an article, letter regarding the article, she writes “Maybe we can fight him back. (Charles Roberts),” article published in El Bridge February-March 2003 titled “Objection! Down by the River doesn’t hold up in court” (in envelope) *Charles Roberts wrote the article and was the criminal attorney involved in the Flores case (Bruno’s murderer) | |
| Email from Bobby Byrd to Chuck (referred to as ‘Dionisio’ in the email) | November 11, 2002 | Email titled “Letter to the Editor,” writes about Juarez, the people there, etc… | |
| Email from Suzie Martinez (Sal’s wife) to Chuck | January 5, 2003 | Regarding her visits to Sal in prison, their attempts to cut down his sentence, how they are doing, etc | |
| Email from Melissa (at Aperture) to Chuck | August 12, 2002 | Regarding Letizia’s translation, other business, etc | |
| Email from Julian Cardona to Chuck | January 3, 1904 (year is wrong) | Regarding the risk to Chuck’s career if he publishes the book, “untouchable things, are usually killing the authors,” etc During the writing of Down by the River, Chuck was informed there were contracts on his life put out by the drug cartel. Three people that Chuck interviewed were killed in one car “accident.” Chuck was determined that if he was killed, it would be in a two car accident. During the winter of ’96, when he came to see me in Chadron, Nebraska, he always carried a gun, and he had me put a block on my phone so no one could trace him to my home. When I moved to Tucson, there were loaded guns in all parts of the house as well as the truck. This continued for several years until the drug people who had put out the contracts were dead. I am informed that it is still dangerous for Chuck to be in Mexico – but he still goes anyway. – Mary Martha Miles, 2007 | |
| Letter from Sal Martinez to Chuck | October 24, 2002 | 5 handwritten pages | Regarding his time in prison, his activities, his plans when he gets out, etc (in envelope) |
| 1 page draft titled “Report from the Barbarian,” by Charles Bowden | |||
| Email from Dave L. Hardy (snake time) to Chuck | August 12, 2002 | Mentions Kelly’s leg, the snakes, etc. (Kelly Zamudio is the wife of herpetologist Harry Greene. She was bitten by a rattle snake and lost partial use of her left leg.) | |
| Email from Kim Sanders to Chuck | August 10, 2002 | Email describes his time in New York (which is also described in The Shadow in the City), he gets a room w/ a view of ground zero (world trade center), details about the deal, etc. | |
| Email from Joan Harvey to Chuck | August 29, 2002 | Mentions Chuck going to Australia, details about her life, what she is reading, includes a speech by Peter Carey, etc | |
| Large manila envelope w/ newspaper clips and letter from Mr. & Mrs. A. Jordan | Letter dated November 13, 2001 | Newspaper clips are described as “articles of the women that have been murdered in Juarez” | |
| Photocopies of Isabel Arvide’s Muerte en Juarez | No date | Note on manila envelope: Isabel Arvide is/was the mistress of a powerful Mexican general. She writes books and can get them published because of his connections, but then they get confiscated and burned. This is one of the few surviving copies. Phil’s aunt was a procuress of women for the Juarez Cartel. Isabel sketched out the aunt’s history for Chuck. | |
| Letter from Sal to Chuck | July 31, 2001 | 3 handwritten pages | Mentions being out of “protective custody, a diplomatic/administrative term meaning solitary confinement,” various books he’d read, comments on Chuck’s GQ article, etc…includes a photocopy of a USA Today cartoon w/ Louis Freeh sitting at his desk at the FBI w/ reports and evidence laying discarded and burned around him, spies looking out from the air vent and Freeh saying “I think my work here is done” (in envelope) |
| Letter from Phil Jordan to Chuck | Envelope dated June 7, 2000 | Contains an article titled “Cartel fugitive caught in El Paso” from the El Paso Times dated May 28, 2000 (in envelope) | |
| Email from Suzie Martinez (Sal’s wife) to Chuck | September 5, 2001 | Regarding her visit with Sal, details of his time in prison, etc
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| Photocopied photo of man | Page dated August 12, 2001 | Page labeled Roman Elizondo – The man who allegedly set up the kid to kill Bruno and drove the kid into the El Paso parking lot. Part of Juarez car thief ring. (M.M. dictated by Chuck) | |
| 2 page outline of Carrillo’s life and career | Facts, events, etc regarding Carrillo and the Jordan family entering the outline toward end | ||
| Letter from Sal Martinez to Chuck | Dated February 2, 2006 (2 febrero 2006 in letter) | 2 handwritten pages | Explains that he is a little paranoid of ‘The Man,’ describes his time in prison, his attempts and plans to try to cut down his sentence, etc (in envelope) |
| 12 pages of notes for Down by the River | Notes include the “four events [that] have made Amado Carrillo number one in Mexico,” the history of the outfit, the Carrillo family, Colleagues, the history of Carrillo base of operations, corruption, etc | ||
| Letter from Sal Martinez to Chuck | July 28, 2005 | 1 handwritten page | Writes that “it was good to hear your voice,” that he enjoyed Frog Mountain Blues, that “enclosed is the visitation request form,” details about visitation, etc (no visitation form enclosed) (in envelope) |
| Envelope from Sal to Chuck | Envelope dated August 12, 2005 | Envelope empty | |
| Email from Virginia Castaneda, Bruno’s sister, to Chuck | April 6, 2001 | Lists the trial dates | |
| The San Antonio Business Journal with the article titled “Torpedoed G-man unit rising like phoenix from its ashes” | December 14-20, 2001 | w/ handwritten notes/phone numbers, etc | |
Folded in the above – list title “I have written to:” of congressmen and others w/ date of letter sent and whether or not they have responded - the employment history of Steven E. Shelly (work in narcotics, investigation, etc.) - article titled “Our Drug-Plagued Mexican Border from Reader’s Digest January 1996 | The three items are folded in the newspaper listed above | ||
| Email exchange between Chuck and D.J. Paul | April-May 1999 | ||
| Draft titled “Silverado” | 55 pages | ||
| Two cassette tapes labeled Hector B. | Dated May 28, 1998 | ||
| Box 19 (VV) | |||
| Manila folder of information and details of Chuck’s publicity schedule for Down by the River | Exchanges between MM and Stacie, a list of book shops and other places where Chuck is scheduled to speak, interview with NPR, etc | ||
| Manila envelope titled “Reviews” | |||
| El Bridge, “Down by the River: An interview with Charles Bowden” | December 2002 – January 2003 | 1 photocopy | |
| Tucson Weekly, “Mexico Unveiled” | March 20-March 26, 2003 | 1 original | Down by the River is reviewed as fiction. Mary Martha called the editor & pointed out that the book is nonfiction. It’s the only time she has responded to a review. |
| Union Tribune, “Bad Neighbor Policy” | December 8, 2002 | 1 original | Yellow sticky note attached – to MM from Bill |
| Phoenix magazine | February 2003 | 1 original | |
| Washington Post, “Traffic” | January 26, 2003 | 2 printed copies | |
| New York Times Book Review, “Everyone has enemies here” | December 22, 2002 | 1 photocopy, 2 originals | |
| No known source (appears to be a magazine) | November 22, 2002 | 1 photocopy | |
| Rocky Mountain News, “Bowden’s gonzo drug tale” | November 8, 2002 | 1 original | |
| Minneapolis, MN (no other source available), “Drugs, murder, magical realism tangle in reporter’s prose” | January 28, 2004 (date on printed page) | 1 printed copy | |
| El Paso Times, “Book documents harsh reality of the drug underground and a family who tried to fight back” | November 17, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Kirkus Reviews | August 15, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Publishers Weekly | September 30, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Gritty real-life tale exposes drug corruption, murder” | December 22, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Maxim | Printed page dated January 1, 2004 | 2 printed copies | |
| The Austin Chronicle Books, “On the Border’s Edge” | November 29, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| The New Yorker | Issue of 2002-12-16 | 1 printed copy | |
| Men’s Journal | November 2002 | 2 photocopies | |
| Cultural Writing, “The Moral Panic Bureaucracy” | January 6, 2003 | 1 printed copy | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | May 11, 2003 | 1 original | |
| Maxim | December 2002 | 1 original | |
| Newsweek, “Borderland Madness” | January 13, 2003 | 2 originals | |
| Newsweek (Web Exclusive), “Drug Nation” | November 20, 2003 | 1 printed copy | Contained in an email to Phil, Chuck writes “I wrote the guy to correct the weapon used to kill Bruno,” and “this interview only exists on the internet. It remains to be seen if the print version of Newsweek will review the book – they are short of space for such things because of all the stories on the impending war with iraq.” (email dated January 1, 1904 – the true date on the email, although most likely 2004) |
| Plano Profile, “Phil Jordon: His career in law enforcement – Down by the River” | January 2003 | 1 original | |
| Email from PToomay (no other name given) to Chuck | January 29, 2003 | 1 printed copy – 2 pages | Writes about Chaco Canyon and other thoughts, etc |
| Email from Rebecca J. Davis to Chuck | November 14, 2002 | Includes a list of coming reviews, etc | |
| The New York Times, “Books for Summer Reading” | June 1, 2003 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Christian Science Monitor, “Blowing Smoke: The complexity of the drug war in a single murder” | December 25-26, 2002 | 1 original | |
| Letter from Anderson Grinberg Literary Management to Chuck | Envelope dated April 27, 2004 | Envelope contains the payment detail report for Charles Bowden | |
| Manila Folder titled “Lexis Nexis Reviews” | |||
| The Atlanta Journal and Constitution | January 5, 2003 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Sunday Oregonian | December 29, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Providence Journal-Bulletin | January 12, 2003 | 1 printed copy | |
| The New York Times | December 29, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Denver Post | December 22, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Chicago Tribune | December 8, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Christian Science Monitor | December 26, 2002 | 1 printed copy, 1 photocopy attached | |
| Email from Rebecca Saleton to Chuck | April 29, 2004 | Regarding the Lexis Nexis reviews | |
| Daily News (New York) | November 17, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Entertainment Weekly | November 22, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Associated Press State & Local Wire | February 20, 2003 | 1 printed copy | |
| Newsweek | January 13, 2003 | 1 printed copy | |
| Chicago Tribune | November 17, 2002 | 1 printed copy and 1 original | |
| El Paso Times | November 17, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| El Paso Times | December 9, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| The Providence Journal-Bulletin | December 29, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| El Paso Times | December 3, 2002 | 1 printed copy | |
| Loose Magazine Reviews (The entire magazine – no folder) | |||
| Phoenix magazine, excerpt from Down by the River | Top Doctors 2003 | 1 original | |
| Men’s Journal | November 2002 | 1 original | |
| Quote by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard, Everyman’s Library Edition, p. 206 | |||
| Box 20 (VV) – notebooks | |||
| 21 notebooks on Down by the River | Some include yellow sticky notes with specifics of where and when the notes were written |
| Down by the River Research | ||
| Box 21 (EE) | ||
| Various articles, etc. | ||
| Box 22 (FF) | ||
| Various articles, etc. | ||
| Box 23 (GG) | ||
| Various articles, etc. | ||
| Box 24 (HH) | ||
| Various articles, etc. | ||
| Box 25 (PPP) (the following folders and specific articles summarize the contents of the research) | ||
| Folder 1 – Articles on Mexican Press | ||
| Publisher in Mexico Found Guilty of Tax Fraud | 8/27/97 | Julia Preston |
| Beaten Mexico Reporter Blames Cops | 9/6/97 | Associated Press |
| Spy Network Stuns Mexicans | 4/13/98 | Molly Moore |
| Lusty New Newspapers Take on the Powerful in Mexico | 1/3/99 | Sam Dillon |
| Conflicts Muddy Mexican Probe of Journalist’s Death | 1/13/99 | Sam Dillon |
| Old Habits of Silence Die Hard in Mexico | 3/30/99 | Michael Christie |
| Folder 2 – Articles on Mexican Economy | ||
| The Law is the Last Sector to Change | 10/15/97 | Sergio Sarmiento |
| In Mexico, Most Unions Represent Government, Not Workers | 10/13/97 | Sam Dillon |
| Oil Prices Lead Mexico to Again Cut Its Budget | 3/25/98 | Julia Preston |
| Texas Monthly Editor Shot in Mexico | 4/20/98 | Michelle Ray Ortiz |
| Mexico City Hotel to Offer Anti-Crime Insurance | 5/8/98 | Reuters |
| Benefits of Free-Trade Pact Bypass Texas Border Towns | 6/23/98 | Sam Howe Verhovek |
| Crime is Unleashed but the D.A. is Undaunted | 8/6/98 | Sam Dillon |
| PJE Accuses Fortac Group of Kidnapping Youth | 8/7-13/98 | El Diario |
| Mexico Says It Won’t Discourage Immigrants to U.S. | 8/16/98 | Reuters |
| Mexico Says it has Kidnapper who Cut Wealthy Victims’ Ears | 8/19/98 | Anthony DePalma |
| Tortilla Rises: Must Belts Tighten? | 1/4/98 | Ginger Thompson |
| Rights Report on Mexico Says Widespread Abuses Continue | 1/15/99 | Julia Preston |
| Pope is Returning to Mexico with New Target: Capitalism | 1/22/99 | Alessandra Stanley |
| Two Banks to Plead Guilty in Money Laundering Case | 3/30/99 | Tim Golden |
| Mexico’s Silent Bolsa Could Boom Anew as Disco | 4/8/99 | Cesar Castruita |
| Mexico minister emerges from shadows as candidate | 4/17/99 | Michael Christie |
| Texas Cop Becomes Mexican Drug Lord | 4/17/99 | Niko Price |
| Drought Strangles Mexico’s North | 5/14/99 | Caroline Brothers |
| Mexico OKs Drug Suspect Extradition | 6/3/99 | Michelle Ray Ortiz |
| Mexican Drought Hurts Cattle, Crops | 6/6/99 | Niko Price |
| Analysis – Violence Major Issue in 2000 Mexican Voting | 6/9/99 | Michael Christie |
| Mystery Deepens in Mexican TV Host’s Murder | 6/11/99 | Dan Trotta |
| Armored Cars a Growth Industry in Mexico City | 6/12/99 | Elena Vega |
| IMF Lends Mexico $4.1 Bln, Sees Risks, Strengths | 7/7/99 | Janet Guttsman |
| Wads of Money Mark Mexico’s 2000 Election | 7/7/99 | Michael Christie |
| Security Center Stage as Mexico’s 2000 Poll Nears | 7/13/99 | Andrew Hearst |
| ‘Year of Hidalgo’ Nears, Mexicans Hang on to Purses | 8/23/99 | Richard Jacobsen |
| Mexico Murder Arrests Prompt Praise, Also Doubts | 8/28/99 | Michael Christie |
| Interview – Politician Hater Wins Glory in Politics | 8/30/99 | Rene Villegas |
| Third of Mexican Airplanes Unsafe Junk – Paper | 9/4/99 | Reuters |
| Mexico City Called Capital of C-Section Births | 9/28/99 | Reuters |
| Folder 3 – Amado Carrillo | ||
| Admired Mexican drug Traffickers Spawn Own Culture | 12/6/97 | Sam Quinones of the Arizona Daily Star |
| Ex-Mexican Prosecutor Held in N.J. | 8/27/99 | The Associated Press |
| Major Ariz. Pot Smiggler of ‘80s is Buried After Shooting in Mexico | 2/4/99 | Ignacio Ibarra of the Arizona Daily Star |
| Mexico: Late Drug Figure’s Doctor Reportedly Gets US Protection | 4/12/98 | Dick Evans |
| More Executions Stun Border While Anti-Drug Efforts Proposed | 10/12/98 | Anne Marie Mackler |
| Mexican Cartels Hiring: Green Berets Welcome | 9/7/97 | |
| 3 Die in Mexico Restaurant Shooting | 9/1/97 | Associated Press |
| Mexico Raids Home of Top Mexican Druglord | 4/24/97 | Miami Herald |
| Drug Trafficking Drains Optimism by Booming Border Economy | 7/6/98 | Tracey Eaton |
| A timeline (untitled, no author) of FBI and CIA activities between June ’77 and October ‘96 | ||
| Bodies Pile Up in Juarez Drug War | 8/26/97 | Jesse Katz |
| Folder with interviews (etc.) from Frontline’s series called Murder, Money, & Mexico: The rise and fall of the Salinas brothers | Pages dated 9/2,12,14,&15/97 | Interviews with Charles Intriago, Adolfo Aquilar Zinser, a reading by Michael Goodman, and related articles from Frontline |
| Folder 4 – Drug War Reports | 37 articles | |
| The Drug War’s hidden Economic Agenda | 1997 | Eric Blumenson & Eva Nilsen |
| Is Mexico a Narcodemocracy? | 8/13/95 | Javier Rodriguez H. |
| Drug Corruption Heading North: Some U.S. Agents Succumb to Lure of Traffickers’ Cash | 11/3/97 | William Branigin & John Ward Anderson |
| Presidential Visit: Patronizing Mexico Again | 5/13/97 | Andrew Reding |
| Folder 5 – Operation Casa Blanca | 2 articles | |
| 112 Nabbed in Money Launder Case | 5/18/98 | The Associated Press |
| Mexican Banks, Bankers Charged with Laundering Drug Profits | 5/19/98 | Don Van Natta |
| Folder 6 – Money Laundering | 2 articles | |
| House Panel Hears Gloomy News About Drugs and Mexico | 7/96 | Gannett News Service |
| Financial Crimes Enforcement Network: William F. Baity (Baity’s statement before the Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives) | 4/1/98 | Federal Document Clearing House |
| Folder 7 – Maps | 2 total | |
| Map of Mexico w/ notes | ||
| Map of Ciudad de Juarez | 1997 | |
| Folder 8 – Articles Miscellaneous | 8 articles | |
| Narco-Politics in Mexico | 7/10/95 | Andrew Reding (The Nation) |
| Lost in Mexico | 7/96 | Joel Simon, California Lawyer |
| The Next Mexican Revolution | Fall 96 | Andrew Reding, World Policy Journal |
| Folder 9 – Info on Juarez | 4 total | |
| The Clintons and the FBI, a primer | 8/17/96 | The Washington Times |
| Immigration Border Patrol & Investigation Activities: 1970 - 1991 | Copyright 1992-1995 | Times Inc. |
| Folder 10 – Corruption Miscellaneous | 4 total | |
| “final” draft of the narco sistema article | (email sent) 9/3/96 | Christopher Whalen |
| Where the Drug Lords Hold Court | 5/6-12/96 | Molly Moore & John Ward Anderson |
| Folder 11 – The Sinaloa Cowboys and Miscellaneous Drugs | 21 total | |
| Sinaloan Killer Linked by Police to 12 Slayings | 11/10/96 | Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic |
| Heroin River Floods U.S.: Multi-billion dollar flow of ‘China white’ | 10/9/96 | Michael Dorgan, Knight Ridder Newspapers |
| Folder 12 – Mexican Drug Clips | 20 total | |
| Urge PRD a un pacto contra narcopolitica | 2/17/97 | Reforma |
| ‘Buscan acusaciones lesionar a Mexico’ | 2/18/97 | Reforma |
| Folder 13 – Drug Violence | 27 total | |
| Mexican city in fear after 6 killed in public: Officials suspect ties to drugs | 8/5/97 | Douglas Holt, The Dallas Morning News |
| Perry Meets with Head of Mexican Military | 10/23/95 | Anthony DePalma |
| Folder 14 – Mexico Crime | 10 total | |
| Visitors to Mexico Warned on Crime | 5/1/98 | The Associated Press |
| Mexico City Cracks Down on Jails with Jacuzzis | 3/2/98 | Dan Trotta |
| Mexico Rape-Suicide Causes Fallout | 8/29/97 | Washington Post |
| Folder 15 – Bruno/Phil Material & Clips | 18 total | |
| Declinan declarer sobre El Super Raton | 7/4/96 | Diario de Juarez |
| Pamphlet – Phillip E. Jordan, Department of Justice, Senior Executive Service, etc. | Includes a photo of Phil and outlines his career accomplishments | |
| Folder 16 – Colosio/Cartels | 1 total | |
| Report Ties Drug Boss to Slain Mexican Presidential Candidate | 7/8/99 | Tracey Eaton, The Dallas Morning News |
| Folder 17 – NAFTA/Drugs | 1 total | |
| NAFTA Aided Drug Rings, Report Says | 5/11/98 | Tracey Eaton, The Dallas Morning News |
| Folder 18 – Juarez Reports | 9 total | |
| Illegals Hidden Under Waste | 4/25/98 | The Associated Press |
| Elite Mexican Police Recalled | 5/21/98 | John Rice |
| DEA Breaks Up Mexico Drug Cells in U.S. | 8/12/97 | Ronald J. Ostrow |
| Folder 19 – Juarez News/Fall/97 | 20 total | |
| One Mexican’s Daunting Task: To Fight Narcotics and Graft | 12/22/97 | Sam Dillon |
| Narco-Guerra: Juaez in Crisis? | 9/97 | Jeff Barnet |
| Mexico NewsPak | 12/1-14/97 | A Bi-Weekly News and Resource Update from the Documentation Exchange, Austin, TX |
| Folder 20 – Border Clips | 29 total | |
| Panama Changes Tune to ‘Yankee Don’t Go Home’ | No date | Larry Rohter |
| Port Shut When 60 Rush Lane | 1/12/96 | Harold Kitching |
| Drugs Surge From Mexico as US Hunts for Solution | 4/12/96 | Howard LaFranchi |
| Folder 21 – More Juarez Clips | 7 total | |
| Cambian plan de Parque Central | 11/7/95 | Jose Guaderrama, Frontera |
| Acusan a consulado de obsruir investigaciones | 2/29/96 | Patricia Giovane, Diario de Juarez |
| Folder 22 – Clips from Roy | 31 total | |
| Letter from Roy Elson. Roy was the Administrative Assistant to long-term senator, Carl Hayden. Roy was often referred to as the 51st senator in the 60’s and 70’s. | 2/26/97 | Regarding the articles (included in folder) that he is sending, mentions Chuck’s time in Mexico City |
| Drug Suspect Escaped in Mexico as Clinton Considered Its Status | 5/2/97 | New York Times |
| Granjenal’s Life Ebbs with Exodus | 8/3/97 | Los Angeles Times |
| Sonoran Chief is Accused in Drug Trafficking | 2/23/97 | The New York Times |
| Folder 23 – Magazines | 8 total | |
| The New Republic | 3/17/97 | |
| Quehacer Politico | 11 de enero de 1997 | w/ Amado Carrillo on cover |
| Proceso | 23 de febrero do 1997 | w/ Rebollo on cover |
| Folder 24 – Chomsky | 5 total | |
| Notes on NAFTA: The Masters of Mankind | 4/10/96 | Noam Chomsky |
| Self-Censorship and the Mexican Press | Fall 93 | Jeffery Stoub |
| Mexico’s New Press Boldness Stops at Leader’s Desk | 8/15/96 | Sam Dillon |
| Folder 25 – Bruno | 9 total | |
| Envelope from Virginia Jordan Castaneda to Chuck – includes 3 articles on Bruno’s case | Envelope dated 8/4/99 | Includes Virginia’s business card |
| Copy of a photograph of Jordon family | ||
| Copy of photograph of boy convicted of Bruno’s death | ||
| Folder 26 - Whalen and Others | 4 total | |
| Christopher Whalen Bibliography (has a private investigation company, is allegedly a former CIA agent) | Lists details of Whalen’s career and other activities | |
| Mexican Corruption Bogs Down U.S. Efforts | No date | Mike Gallagher |
| Folder 27 – Amado Carrillo and Bruno Jordan | 15 items | |
| Envelope from Virginia Jordan Castaneda containing handwritten note from Virginia, and 3 files from the Supreme Court of Texas on the trial of Bruno’s murderer | (envelope dated) 2/10/98 | Also an article regarding Phil Jordan from the Diario de Juarez |
| A copy of a poem about Bruno written by his brother, Tony Jordon. | ||
| More files on the case against Bruno’s murderer | ||
| Giovanna Heredia’s class report on her Uncle Bruno’s death | Dated 10/12/98 | Titled “A Special Touch” |
| Folder 28 – Pen-Link Report | 1 item | |
| Book of phone numbers tracked through Abriego Garcia’s phone by the DEA (The DEA put pin on his phone and these are all the numbers) | This was given to Chuck at 2 a.m. by El Brujo (see Down by the River) |
2005 Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover drug Warrior
| Box 1 (G) | |||
| Outline for book | 1 page | The only outline Chuck wrote for Shadow in the City | |
| Draft titled Street | Dated 2/04 | 322 pages | Original draft of Shadow in the City w/ MM’s handwritten editing |
| Box 2 (G) | |||
| Draft titled Street | Dated March 9, 2004 | 375 pages | Second Draft of Shadow in the City |
| Box 3 (G) | |||
| Draft titled A Shadow in the City: the confession | Not dated | 397 pages | A draft with no handwritten notes/editing |
| Box 4 (G) | |||
| (catalogue) Harcourt: Adult Hardcovers and Harvest Paperbacks | Spring-Summer 2005 | 1 copy | Advertisement for Shadow in the City on page 29 |
| Draft titled Man Underground | 29 pages | A few corrections in pen | |
| Draft titled Joey O’Shay | 28 pages | A few corrections in pen | |
| Draft titled The Underground Man | 26 pages | A few corrections in pen | |
| Draft titled The Underground Man | 26 pages | ||
| Note – the four drafts listed above are rewrites of the same section | |||
| Box 5 (H) | |||
| Envelope from Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah w/ invites for reading | 3 sticker invites and one larger flyer invite | Reading to be held on July 15th, 2005 | |
| Pictures from the reading at Ken Sanders Rare Books | 3 pages of thumbnail shots | ||
| Letter from Harcourt | 3/18/2005 | From David Hough, Managing Editor, Adult Books @ Harcourt | Letter was sent with a copy of the final page proof. David compliments the book and Chuck’s writing skill |
| Final Page Proof of Shadow in the City (hardcover) | 3/10/05 | 314 pages | w/ yellow paper marking certain parts and some markings in red marker |
| Box 6 (H) | |||
| Faxed copy of page proof (pages 310 – 325) of Shadow in the City to Lindsey Smith (from MM) | Fax sent on April 10, 2006 | Including the fax receipt, handwritten markings and yellow sticky paper expressing desired edits | |
| Email from MM’s account, between Lindsey and Sara from Harcourt & one to Chuck from MM | 4/05/2006 | 4 pages of email (one page of which is blank w/ handwritten note) | Discussing last minute changes to a section of Shadow in the City, also mentions waiting for “date line for the prologue (p. v) and dedication” |
| Letter to Chuck from Lindsey at Harcourt | March 30, 2006 | Sent with “first pass pages for the paperback” | |
| Page proof of Shadow in the City (paperback) | Dated 3/28/06 | 309 pages | |
| 3 new chapter drafts for Shadow in the City paperback – all titled “Last Call for Joey O’Shay” | 21, 14, & 18 pages consecutively | All with handwritten edits, comments, etc | |
| Notes on Shadow in the City | 2 pages, typed | ||
| Email between Kim and Chuck | Dated Nov. 3, 2005 | 1 page | Kim writes about a conversation w/ James Van Der Beek and the eulogy at Skipper’s funeral (Skipper is Kim’s son), Chuck writes about “going forward with this” and something about speaking with Van Der Beek regarding movie. |
| (catalogue) Harcourt: Adult Hardcovers and Harvest Paperbacks | Fall-Winter 2006 | ***Doesn’t list anything by Chuck…may be meaningless | |
| Box 7 (H) | |||
| Draft of A Shadow in the City: the confession | Dated October 12, 2004 (in Chuck’s handwriting) | 435 pages | Some handwritten editing on pages |
| Box 8 (H) | |||
Letter from Becky Saletan in response to April 4th draft (When Becky moved from Farrar Strauss, Giroux (North Point Press was her own imprint) she took Chuck with her to Harcourt.) | 7 pages | Includes chapter by chapter notes/comments by Becky | |
| Email between Becky and Chuck | Dated August 6, 2004 | 2 pages | Chuck responds to Becky’s chapter by chapter notes and some other thoughts about the book |
| Letter from Becky w/ more notes on draft | 4 pages | More chapter by chapter comments and general feedback | |
| Draft titled Street: kaddish for Joey O’Shay | 458 pages | (probably the draft that Becky was referencing – i.e. same box) | |
| Box 9 (I) | |||
| Draft titled All the Way Down: love, killing and other drugs | Dated (in Chuck’s handwriting) August 26, 2004 | 331 pages | **says “Part One” in handwriting, but seems to be a complete draft…i.e. 331 pages |
| Box 10 (I) | |||
| Draft titled A Shadow in the City: the confessions of an undercover drug warrior | Dated (in Chuck’s handwriting) October 16, 2004 | 340 pages | |
| Box 11 (I) (box marked “galley edit by Becky Saletan, Chuck, & MM – copy 1/31/05”) | |||
| Final Page Proof of A Shadow in the City | Dated 1/10/05 | 314 pages | |
| Letter from David Hough w/ the final page proof | Dated 1/13/05 | The letter is asking for Chuck’s final review of page proofs | |
| Email from David Hough to Chuck & MM | Dated February 12, 2005 | 3 pages | Page by page comments w/ handwritten approvals/disapprovals on the side |
| FedEx Receipt | Dated 1/31/05 | Priority overnight envelope to David Hough | |
| Guide to Editing Marks (i.e. “Guide to Marked Proofs”) | 1 page | ||
| Box 12 (I) | |||
| Draft titled Street: kaddish for Joey O’Shay | Dated (in Chuck’s handwriting) March 27, 2004 | 446 pages | |
| Box 13 (J) (‘hardback’ written on box) | |||
| Page proofs of A Shadow in the City | Dated 1/10/05 | 308 pages | Some handwritten notes throughout and one yellow sticky paper w/ note on page four of proof |
| Part of a page proof | Dated 1/6/05 | Pages 309-314 | |
| Part of a page proof | Dated 4/14/06 | Pages V, IV, and 310-330 | |
| Box 14 (J) | |||
| MM’s edit of A Shadow in the City: the confession of an undercover drug warrior | Dated 10/25/04 (on box) | 338 pages | Many yellow sticky papers with notes from MM |
| Kim File – emails | All dated late December 2003 | 6 pages | Emails between Chuck and Kim, and Chuck and D. Weyerman |
| Box 15 (J) | |||
| Email and Edited Draft originally titled All the Way Down: love, killing and the other drug (crossed out w/ A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior suggested by Saletan) | Email dated October 4, 2004 | 318 pages | Edited by Becky Saletan w/ penciled comments and marks, etc. Email includes comments by page number and general thoughts |
| Box 16 (WW) – Research Material | |||
| 4 research/interview notebooks | In manila envelope | ||
| 3 research/interview notebooks | In manila envelope | ||
| 4 interview tapes | In manila envelope | ||
| 3 interview tapes | In manila envelope | ||
| 3 interview tapes | In manila envelope | ||
| 2 music CD’s | The songs Kim’s son wrote about him | In manila envelope | |
| 1 video tape | Skipper – Chopper video Fire Academy | In manila envelope | |
| 1 video tape | On prostitution, narrated by Kim Sanders | In manila envelope | |
| 1 CD of Sanders photo | |||
| Man’s Search for Meaning | By Viktor E. Frankl | This is the book quoted throughout Shadow in the City | |
| Recollections (an autobiography) | By Viktor E. Frankl | ||
| When Life Calls Out to Us: The Life and Lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl | By Haddon Klingberg, Jr. | ||
| Photographs | 1 b&w, 2 colors (Xerox blow-up) of Kim Sanders 1 b&w Xerox copy of Joey O’Shay’s crew in frontier costumes | ||
| 3 photographs of Kim’s painting of the boy in the boat referred to in Book | |||
| Obituary memorial service pamphlet for Skipper Sanders (In March of 2006, Chuck wrote a new after word for Shadow in the City entitled “Last Call for Joey O’Shay” because Kim wanted his real name used after Skipper died.) | The handwritten poem, Where Angels Cry, written by Skipper’s brother (Joey Sanders) for the funeral mass. | ||
| Copy of Shadow in the City paperback w/ the after word referred to above | |||
| 129 emails – the majority are from Kim, some used in book | |||
| 2 letters from Kim | 1 includes a clip titled “Found in Arkansas Swamp: hope on wings” and the other contains a letter from Joey, Kim’s son. | ||
| 1 manila folder of newsprints including handwritten notes from Kim | |||
| Pile of general research for the book | |||
| Box 17 (XX) | |||
| Early untitled draft – a 95 page outline for Shadow in the City | |||
| Manila Folder titled “blurbs, emails” | |||
| Email from Jim Harrison to Rebecca Saletan | March 16, 2005 | 2 originals | Mentions making lunch for Chuck and Phil Caputo (a writer who also lives in Patagonia), includes a blurb for the book, etc |
| Email from William Langewiesche to Becky (Rebecca Saletan) | March 16, 2005 | 2 originals | Includes a blurb for the book (William is from The Atlantic monthly) |
| Email from Kim to Chuck | March 16, 2005 | Discusses his feelings about the book coming out, about the blurbs he’s seen, etc | |
| Draft of a review by David Cremean, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota | No date | 2 pages | |
| Draft titled Seven and a Half Tornadoes | No date | 70 pages | Early draft of first part of book, with editing throughout (MM’s handwriting) |
| In Manila Folder titled “Reviews, Miscellaneous” | |||
| Page of “Questions for Charles Bowden” | No date | Questions pertaining to Shadow in the City | |
| Summary of book, description of Chuck, # of pages, price of book, ISBN #, etc | No date | 1 page | |
| Salt Lake Tribune review of Shadow in the City, “One-man drug war; Charles Bowden sheds light on the shadowy life of an undercover cop” | Appeared in the July 10 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune | 3 pages | In an email send by EBoorstyn@harcourt.com |
| Letter from Liz Gately at Anderson Literary Management to Chuck | No date | Includes the royalty statements for The Shadow in the City | |
| Letter from Michelle Humphrey at Anderson Literary Management to Chuck | May 18, 2007 | Includes a royalty statement for The Shadow in the City (in envelope) | |
| Email from Kathleen Anderson, literary agent, to Chuck | May 17, 2007 | Regarding having received “fully-executed contracts and payment for Charles Bowden on Shadow in the City”, etc | |
| Review in the San Franciso Bay Guardian | In the October 26 edition | In an email from Evan Boorstyn at Harcourt | |
| Flight, rental car, and hotel reservation details | 2 pages | ‘Author Appearance’ noted throughout, Harcourt will be billed, Salt Lake City/Miami/Phoenix/Tucson | |
| Email from Kathy at Anderson Literary Management to Chuck | August 23, 2005 | 1 page | Regarding the submission list for the movie rights for Shadow in the City, etc |
| Email between Chuck and Kim | August 2, 2005 | 1 page | Kim mentions a painting he’s done for Chuck (it is hanging on Chuck’s office wall), both talk about reviews of the book, etc |
| Email from Evan Boorstyn to Chuck | August 1, 2005 | 2 pages | Includes an email from Mary Martha regarding Chuck’s speaking engagements with radio stations, NPR, and other things…also mentions the Texas Book Festival |
| Cover sheet is a fax cover sent to Evan Boorstyn from Mary Martha Miles | Fax dated July 29, 2005 | 5 pages following are a list of speaking engagements, etc | |
| Email from Evan Boorstyn to Kathy | August 1, 2005 | 3 pages | Includes a review from the Washington Post Book World |
| Email from Rebecca Saletan to Chuck | August 1, 2005 | 2 pages | Includes a “negative review…in the July 31 Miami Herald” |
| Email from Evan Boorstyn to Chuck | June 22, 2005 | 2 pages | Includes a review in the June 19 edition of the Salt Lake City Tribune |
| Email from Mark Halverson to Chuck | June 16, 2005 | 1 page | Refers to himself as “The Sacramento News and Review film critic who contacted you many moons ago,” wants to do a piece on Chuck, details, etc |
| Email from Rick Russell in Dallas to Chuck | June 14, 2005 | 1 page | Mentions reading the book, specifically page 292 (where Joey O’Shay is thinking of his dead little boy), that he headed down to homicide to “shake the hand of the man who’s finally free to take over that ricking of his little boy,” telling Chuck to let ‘him’ know certain things, his experience driving through Dallas, (somewhat confusing) |
| Email from Evan Boorstyn to Chuck | June 20, 2005 | 2 pages | Includes a “positive review in the June 15 issue of Library Journal” |
| Page titled “Questions for Charles Bowden” | 3 pages of questions and answers | Questions answered by Chuck | |
| First draft titled Night Moves (draft first chapter) | Dated May 2002 | 7 pages | Last page has outline of further chapters (titles, etc) |
| Email from Scott Carrier to Chuck | July 20, 2002 | Mentions Chuck’s interview with Senator John McCain, writes about Scott’s time in Afghanistan (writing from Gilgit) | |
| Draft titled Man Underground | No date | 28 pages | |
| Book proposal for Rebecca Saleton | March 2003 | 5 pages | |
| Draft titled Notes on a Man Underground | No date | 29 pages, then 186 thru 206 of a draft | |
| Draft titled The Black Notebook | No date | Roughly 50 pages (pages not numbered) | |
| In Manila Folder titled “Correspondence, Other Miscellany” | |||
| Email from Martha Jessup at the Lannan Foundation to Chuck | July 6, 2005 | 1 page | Thanking him for his acknowledgement in his book of the foundation, etc |
| 4 pages of edits for Shadow in the City | w/ yellow sticky papers, editing throughout, etc | ||
| Email from Kim Sanders to Chuck | July 5, 2005 | 1 page | Regarding his interview, mentions Martha (Kim’s wife), Alex, painting, etc |
| Email exchange between Kim and Chuck | July 8, 2005 | 2 pages | Kim thanks Chuck for the Don Henry message, other personal plans/details, mentions the NPR interview, etc 2 emails included from Don Henry to Chuck |
| Email from David to Rebecca Saleton sent to Chuck by Rebecca | April 5, 2005 | 1 page | Regarding the corrected proof (mentions 4 blank pages, which are in the published hardback at the end) |
| Memo from David Hough to Becky | March 18, 2005 | 1 page | Regarding the final page proof for Shadow in the City, offers thoughts on Chuck, etc |
| Email from Chuck to Chuck…the final add for book | Sent September 4, 2005 – dated on bottom of page January 5, 2004 | 3 pages | |
| Email from Kim to Chuck | October 30, 2004 | 1 page | In appreciation for Chuck’s book, etc |
| Email from Kim to Chuck | October 30, 2004 | 1 page | Says he has finished the book, “an amazing work,” other details and appreciation, etc |
| Email from Kim to Chuck | October 31, 2004 | 1 page | Mentions that he is going to the lake with his oldest son, he “feels more alive,” other personal details, etc |
| A film treatment for Shadow in the City sent to Otis Carney, an Arizona and Wyoming writer and rancher, and good friend of Chuck’s. | Dated November 10, 2004 | 2 pages | Otis sent the treatment to a film industry friend in Hollywood |
| Business info for Twin Palms Twelvetrees Press | 2 pages | ||
| 5 page proofs for the cover art of Shadow in the City | 5 different layouts | ||
| Email exchange between Kim and Chuck | March 9, 2005 | 2 pages | Includes an article in the Dallas Morning News titled “At border, police offer little comfort,” other details, etc |
| Cover page for a draft titled A Shadow in the City: a confession | |||
| 2 flyers for Chuck’s reading from A Shadow in the City at Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah | Scheduled for July 15 @ 7 p.m. | ||
| Salt Lake Tribune, Book Release, “Author to read from new book” | July 8, 2005 | 1 photocopied copy | Regarding the reading to be given at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City, Utah (with envelope) |
| Letter from Alex Chadwick to Chuck | June 28, 2005 | In envelope Regarding the PBS interview on Day to Day, the wine, etc – Alex came to 9th St. for the interview and dinner. | |
| Email from Rebecca Saleton to Chuck | January 15, 2005 | 8 pages | Line by line edit for A Shadow in the City |
| Page titled “Three Beginnings” | No date | 1 page | Through page numbers – a sort of outline/overview of A Shadow in the City |
| Card from Kim to Chuck | November 9, 2004 | Includes a photo of Kim when he was roughly 4 years old (in envelope) | |
| Letter to Sal Martinez from Chuck | No date | 4 pages | Mentions his time at the newspaper, etc |
2005 Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate (published by Ken Sanders)
| Box 1 (CC) | |||
| Broadside titled “Lies in the Desert” | Created for the opening of the new Salt Lake City Library, February 2003 Text © 2003 by Charles Bowden | 6 originals | In paper bag |
| Page proofs for Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate | No date | 8 pages | |
| Bowden on Book Collecting (an excerpt from Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate) | No date | 10 originals: 18/50, 19/50, 20/50, 21/50, 22/50, 26/50, 27/50, 28/50, 29/50, 30/50 | - Printed for Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, by Jason Davis in an edition of 50 copies. - Signed by Chuck. - Contained in glossy package with high-quality paper, etc. |
| Bowden on Book Collecting, Too (an excerpt from Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate) | No date | 10 originals: 19/50, 20/50, 21/50, 22/50, 26/50, 27/50, 28/50, 29/50, 31/50, 32/50 | - Printed for Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, by Jason Davis in an edition of 50 copies. - Signed by Chuck. - Contained in glossy package with high-quality paper, etc. |
| Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate | © 2005 | 8 originals | - Contained in glossy package with high-quality paper, etc. - Signed by Chuck, printed in an edition of 100 copies |
2006 Inferno (with photographs by Michael Berman) [I]
| Box 1 (Z) | |||
| Draft titled Inferno | Dated 11/20/00 | 90 pages | |
| Draft titled Inferno: nature under the influence | Dated 11/21/00 | 94 pages | |
| Draft titled Inferno: nature under the influence | Dated 11/27/00 | 101 pages | |
| Draft titled Inferno: nature under the influence | Dated 11/24/00 | 96 pages | |
| Draft titled Inferno | Dated 12/7/00 | 123 pages | w/ some footnotes |
| Draft titled Inferno | Dated 12/21/00 | 132 pages | w/ some footnotes |
| Box 2 (Z) | |||
| Draft titled Jerusalem Nights | 233 pages | ||
| Box 3 (Z) (box marked “Stone guitars – Moonrise in the Inferno, 7/10/02, first draft”) | |||
| Draft titled Moonrise in the Inferno: this highway is for strangers | 305 pages | ||
| Box 4 (Z) | |||
| Draft titled The Page He is Missing | 279 pages | Early draft of Inferno | |
| Box 5 (AA) | |||
| Draft titled Inferno | 133 pages | ||
| Page proofs for Inferno | 176 pages | ||
| Emails from Lynne Chapman at Texas University Press to MM and Chuck | Dated October 27, 2005 | 4 pages | |
| Letter from MM to Lynne discussing edits to manuscript | Dated July 8, 2005 | 1 page | As with Blues for Cannibals, Mary Martha insisted on the original punctuation in order to retain Chuck’s lyrical rhythms and she restored the manuscript to the original form. |
| Email between MM and Lynne discussing page proofs | Dated October 20, 2005 | 1 page | |
| Email from MM to Lynne discussing page proofs | Dated October 20, 2005 | 1 page | |
| Quotes for Berman catalogue for El Paso show – 11/05 to curator | 1 page | ||
| Box 6 (ZZ) | |||
| Draft titled Inferno – MM’s edit | 181 pages | Editing throughout | |
| Email between Richard and Chuck | Dated June 27, 2005 | 1 page | Discussing “a shrub…called rattlesnake foreskin” |
| Letter to Lynne from MM | Dated June 8, 2005 | 1 page | Discussing changes to manuscript, etc |
| Form for Checking Computer-Edited Manuscripts from the University of Texas Press | Dated in corner – (rev 5/17/00) | 1 page | Made out to Lynne Chapman and to be returned by 7/11/05 |
| Primary Style Sheet for Inferno by Charles Bowden | 5 pages | List of names, titles, and foreign words | |
| Letter from Kip Keller (the copyeditor for Inferno) to Chuck | Dated June 13, 2005 | 2 pages | Discussing general formatting and changes made to text in Inferno |
| Email between MM and David L. Hardy Sr. (David is an amateur herpetologist friend. See “Snaketime” magazine article) | Dated July 18, 2005 | 1 page | Discussing meeting with Chuck |
| Early draft (marked ’05) of Inferno | 133 pages w/ footnotes | ||
| Brown Envelope | |||
| Book Jackets for Inferno | Envelope dated March 15, 2006 | 5 original book jackets for Inferno | |
| Box 7 – (large manuscript box) | |||
| Inferno Mockup, UT Press | 2006 |
Prepublication Manuscripts:
Exodus (to be published by the University of Texas Press, Fall 2008)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Exodus/Exodo | 244 pages | Editing throughout | |
| Draft titled Exoduc/Exodo | 197 pages | Editing throughout | |
| Box 2 | |||
| Draft of Mother Jones excerpt from Exodus | 2 pages | Editing throughout | |
| Print out of a photo of waves breaking on the surf – from Steve Nelson | 1 page | Printed from Internet – dated 11/29/01 | |
| Letter about the This I Believe series – NPR, Jay Allison | 2 pages with instructions/guidelines for the This I Believe series | Noted that Chuck will send piece | |
| Proposal for Kiki Camerino book to Saleton titled “Dead Man Talking” | 4 pages | Editing throughout | |
| 2 drafts titled “Lost Mountain” | Folder dated 11/23/01 | First 23 pages w/ footnotes, Second 35 pages w/out footnotes | Noted “Mountain Gazette and Exodus (Claudia)” |
| Draft titled “Lost Mountain” | Folder dated 11/14/01 | 35 pages | Some editing throughout Noted “Claudia Exodus” |
| Draft titled The Secret Life: hard traveling past the future | 85 pages | This is early Sea Shepherd, an attempt at a book in the 80’s, but he also used pieces from it in Exodus and Café Blood | |
| Anonymous University of Texas Press reader for Exodus | 2 pages | ||
| Mother Jones article titled “Mother Jones Names Editor-In-Chief” – Clara Jeffery is mentioned as having edited Exodus | August 16, 2006 | 2 pages – printed from the Internet | |
| Box 3 – Sea Shepherd drafts, etc | |||
| Early draft (attempt at a book – also in Exodus and Café Blood) titled “The Secret Life: Hard traveling past the future” | 85 pages | ||
| Draft titled “Earth Force: Strategy for the Earth Warrior” by Captain Paul Watson, forward by David Foreman | No page numbers – roughly 120 pages | In a bag from Ms. Print, Printing & Graphics | |
| Book titled The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins | Copyright 1983 | By Stephen Leatherwood and Randall R. Reeves, Paintings by Larry Foster | |
| Book titled Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales & Seals | Copyright 1982 | By Paul Watson | |
| 7 notebooks with notes from Chuck’s time on the Sea Shephard |
Café Blood (to be published by Harcourt, Fall 2008)
| Box 1 | |||
| Snake piece draft | Dated 8/03 | 53 pages | |
| Snake Time draft | 62 pages | ||
| Draft titled Café Blood | 16 pages | w/ some handwritten notes and a pink sticky paper | |
| Draft titled Café Blood | 323 pages | ||
| MM’s edit of Café Blood | 296 pages | ||
| Box 2 (box marked “Original White Light 1996 (Café Blood)” | |||
| Disk in disk case titled White Light Backup | |||
| Draft titled White Light: Jack and the General and La Santa | 209 pages | MM’s edit | |
| Draft titled White Light: Jack and the General and La Santa | 224 pages | ||
| Draft of Snake Time – long version (untitled) | 62 pages | ||
| Draft of Snake Time – long version (untitled) | 62 pages | ||
| Box 3 | |||
| Draft titled Café Blood | Folder dated 1/02/01 | 328 pages | |
| Box 4 | |||
| First draft titled White Light: Jack and the General and La Santa | 224 pages | folder marked “White Light (Red Café)” | |
| Box 5 | |||
| 2 early drafts titled White Light: Jack and the General and La Santa | 209 pages | It appears that the 2 drafts are identical copies, but only one has a title page. | |
| Box 6 | |||
| Draft titled The Red Café | 253 pages (but some pages seem out of order or from a separate draft perhaps – pages 217-226 at end of draft, mostly bibliographical information) | ||
| Box 7 (box marked as third draft) | |||
| Draft titled Café Blood | 280 pages | ||
| Box 8 (box marked “Café Blood – Summer ’06 Marfa Drafts I) | Chuck spent 42 days at a Lannan Foundation house in Marfa, TX, summer of 2006, writing the first draft of Café Blood | ||
| Draft titled Café Blood | Dated 8/09/06 | 275 pages | (red folder) |
| Draft titled Café Blood | Dated 7/29/06 | 296 pages | Marked as “draft one” (yellow folder) |
| Box 9 (box marked “Café Blood – Summer ’06 Marfa Drafts II) | |||
| Draft w. subtitle “Part 2/The Room” – seems to be a part of a longer draft | Pages 158-247 | This is early draft that became part of Café Blood later. | |
| Draft titled Café Blood: Going Over Jordan | Dated August 18, 2006 | 290 pages | Draft marked “Last Marfa draft/MM’s edit” |
| Box 10 (box marked “Café Blood – Spring/Summer ’06) | |||
| Draft titled Café Blood: crossing all the lines | 306 pages | ||
| Box 11 | |||
| Draft titled White Light: Jack and the General and La Santa | Very early…perhaps ’89-’90(?) | 201 pages | *These early drafts of White Light were stalled around the time of Keating and then partially recovered for the more recent Café Blood |
| Early work on White Light – draft has no title | Pages 142 – 221 | ||
| Box 12 (box marked “Café Blood – Spring/Summer ‘06”) | |||
| Draft titled Café Blood: crossing all the lines | 306 pages | ||
| Draft titled Café Blood: crossing all the lines | 346 pages | Footnotes |
Trinity
| Box 1 | |||
| First partial draft titled Trinity | Began April 30, 2007 at 3:40 P.M. Partial draft June 14, 2007 at 6:00 A.M. | 315 pages |
Unpublished Manuscripts:
(These manuscripts will be retained by Bowden and entered into the archive after his death)
Rio de la Sangre: Love in the badlands (late 80’s, early 90’s)
| Box 1 | |||
| Rio de la Sangre: love in the badlands | 90 pages | ||
| Why I wrote this | 67 pages | Various subtitles throughout |
Go for Broke (bicycling) (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Go for Broke: A guide for bicyclists venturing into western Arizona | 182 pages | w/ handwritten comments and editing | |
| Box 2 | |||
| Draft titled Go for Broke: A guide for bicyclists venturing into western Arizona | 118 pages | w/ some handwritten editing |
Banjo (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Banjo | 155 pages | w/ handwritten notes/edits | |
| Draft titled Banjo | 155 pages | 1/ a few pages of handwritten notes at end |
Leave the Heart in the Kill (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Leave the Heart in the Kill | 12/77-1/78 | Roughly 105 pages – not all pages numbered | |
| Draft titled Leave the Heart in the Kill | 12/77-1/78 | Roughly 97 pages – not all pages numbered | Includes photocopied illustrations – older photographs |
| Draft titled Leave the Heart in the Kill | 12/77-1/78 | Roughly 103 pages – not all pages numbered | Includes photocopied illustrations – older photographs |
Fire in the Earth (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Fire in the Earth | No page numbers |
Lola: Dance to the Music (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Lola: dance to the music | 1990 | 188 pages | |
| Letters from publishers considering the publication of Lola | An envelope dated May 1991 | 9 letters total | Many are rejection letters |
| Map of the Rio Mayo Basin |
Unpublished Manuscript Box
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft of A Dog’s Life | 11 pages | An unpublished manuscript described by Chuck as a memoir about the dog that the coyotes ate. | |
| Draft of Learning Nothing, Forgetting Nothing | ’79-‘80 | 182 pages | |
| Draft of Learning Nothing, Forgetting Nothing | ’79-‘80 | 21 pages | |
| Box 2 | |||
| Untitled draft – some used elsewhere | 207 pages | ||
| Untitled draft – some used in Café Blood | 141 pages | ||
| Box 3 | |||
| Draft titled Blood Mountain, Bone Desert | 14 pages | Early ‘80s attempt at a book while at the Tucson Citizen, interested in prose as free verse | |
| Poetry written in 1968 when working at IBM and waiting to be drafted (1A) | |||
| Piece titled “The Decline of the American Hotdog” | 4 pages | ||
| Newberry research done in 1970 to reinvent how Native American history is written | Roughly 55 pages | Envelope addressed to Lew and Barabara Kreinberg and dated November 2, 1976 | |
| Interview with old vaquero smuggler titled “February/Febrero/uuwarik - smelling (deer mating): Luis Lopez” | 2 pages | (interview related to The Bog listed below) | |
| Draft titled The Bog: A Sudden & Sublime Bestiary | Pages unnumbered, but roughly 100 pages | The Bog is surrealistic – Chuck decided the Catholic priest, Father Kino was a pot head. Book never finished, though, because his computer crashed. | |
| Early draft of The Bog titled La Cienaga: A Sodden and Sublime Bestiary | 29 pages |
Meeting the Deadline (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled Meeting the Deadline | Envelope dated January 30, 1979 and he says he wrote the book between Dec 1978 – Jan 1979 | 103 pages, & some photocopied pictures | In Chuck’s words this is a book he wrote to invent a new way to write about family – it was a time before the newspaper when he sold his car and bought a bike, and wandered the west living off his Guggenheim award. Re: Guggenheim award – In his application letter he wrote “I want to know where mush melons come from” and he won. |
Their Hearts Weep (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Bound draft of Their Hearts Weep | No handwriting in pages/ No page numbers |
The Red Caddy (unpublished)
| Box 1 | |||
| Draft titled The Red Caddy: a driving and maintenance guide (A memoir about Edward Abbey) | 1994 | 1 draft in folder from Meg | |
| Draft titled The Red Caddy: a driving and maintenance guide | 1994 | 1 draft in box | |
| Letter from Ken Sanders Rare Books mentioning The Red Caddy |
Copies of Books published by Charles Bowden - Box 1 (SS) & Box 2 (TT)
Killing the Hidden Waters Box 1 (SS) | Copyright 1977 by the University of Texas Press, Austin & London | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 1981 by Charles Bowden and Lew Kreinberg | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Blue Desert Box 1 (SS) | Copyright 1986 The University of Arizona Press | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 paperback |
Frog Mountain Blues Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 1987 The University of Arizona Press | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 paperback |
Mezcal Box 1 (SS) | Copyright 1988 The University of Arizona Press | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Red Line Box 1 (SS) | Copyright 1989 W.W. Norton Company, New York & London | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Desierto: Memories of the Future Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 1991 W.W. Norton Company, New York & London | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Expansions Box 1 (SS) | Photographs by William Lesch Preface by William Lesch Essay by Charles Bowden Copyright 1992 Treville Co., Ltd. | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover in plastic |
The Sonoran Desert Box 1 (SS) | Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga Text by Charles Bowden Copyright 1992 Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
The Secret Forest Box 1 (SS) | Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga Text by Charles Bowden Copyright 1993 University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque | Signed by Charles Bowden and Jack Dykinga | 1 paperback |
Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions Box 2 (TT) | By Michael Binstein and Charles Bowden Copyright 1993 Random House, New York | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcopy |
Charles Bowden: A Bibliography Box 2 (TT) | Published by Vinegar Tom Press in Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 8, 1994, in an edition of 50 numbered copies which are signed by Charles Bowden and Louis A. Hieb. | This is copy 18/50 Signed by Charles Bowden and Louis A. Hieb | 1 gloss dust jacketed paperback |
Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 1995 Random House, New York | Both copies signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover and 1 uncorrected proof |
Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau Box 1 (SS) | Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga Text by Charles Bowden Copyright 1996 Harry N. Abrams, Inc | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Chihuahua: Pictures From the Edge Box 1 (SS) | Photographs by Virgil Hancock Test by Charles Bowden Copyright 1996 Published in cooperation with the University of Arizona Southwest Center and The University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 paperback |
Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future Box 2 (TT) | by Charles Bowden, Preface by Noam Chomsky, Afterward by Eduardo Galeano, Photographs by Javier Aguilar, Jamie Bailleres, Gabriel Cardona, Julian Cardona, Alfredo Carrillo, Raul Lodoza, Jamie Murrieta, Miguel Perea, Margarita Reyes, Ernesto Rodriguez, Manuel Saenz, Lucio Soria Espino, Aurelio Suarez Nunez Copyright 1998 Aperture | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
The Sierra Pinacate Box 1 (SS) | By Julian D. Hayden Photographs by Jack Dykinga With Essays by Charles Bowden & Bernard L. Fontana Copyright 1998 The University of Arizona Press | Essay by Charles Bowden titled “Going to the Black Rock” Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Paul Dickerson, 1961-1997 Box 1 (SS) | Copyright 1999 American Fine Art Co., New York | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover |
Charles Bowden: A Descriptive Bibliography 1962-2000 Box 1 (SS) | Compiled by W. E. Bartholomew Copyright 2001 by W.E. Bartholomew | *Regarding the hardcover: Of this first edition, 26 copies, specially bound, have been signed and lettered by Charles Bowden. This is copy 05. *Regarding paperback: wrapped in cellophane | 1 hardcover and 1 paperback
|
Eugene Richards 55 Box 1 (SS) | Photographs by Eugene Richards Text by Charles Bowden Copyright 2001 Phaidon Press Limited | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 paperback |
Blues for Cannibals Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 2002 North Point Press | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 hardcover and 1 advance reader’s edition |
Down by the River Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 2002 Simon & Shuster | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 advance uncorrected copy |
Credo: Ground Zero Box 2 (TT) | Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture ~ Keepsake #2 Delivered December 3, 2002 Copyright 2003 | Number 99 of 100 Copies – Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 paperback |
Verbatim: A Conversation with Charles Bowden Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 2004 Mona Mort Sylph Publications | This is copy 05 of 10 numbered copies. Signed by Charles Bowden and Mona Mort | 1 hardcover contained in a matching collector’s box |
Shadow in the City Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 2005 Harcourt Books | Signed by Charles Bowden. Marked by Chuck with sticky tabs for public readings. | 1 hardcover |
Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate Box 2 (TT) | Copyright 2005 Ken Sanders Rare Books | Printed for Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah by Jason Davis as verdant press in an edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. There are an additional 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by the author | 1 hardcover - Signed by Charles Bowden and Ken Sanders - 2/2 Publisher’s Presentation Copies |
Inferno Box 2 (TT) | Photographs by Michael Berman Text by Charles Bowden Copyright 2006 University of Texas Press | Signed by Michael Berman and Charles Bowden
| 1 hardcover |
Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine with article titled “Charles Bowden: A Checklist of First Editions” Box 2 (TT) | May, 2006 – Volume 16, Number 5 | Signed by Charles Bowden | 1 original |
Miscellaneous Copies of Books with Contributions from Charles Bowden
(NOTE: THIS IS A SMALL SAMPLING OF THE INTRODUCTIONS, EPILOGUES, CATALOGUES, QUOTES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ETC. WRITTEN BY OR REGARDING CHUCK. THERE ARE PROBABLY HUNDREDS MORE, BUT THESE ARE ALL I HAVE. - MM)
Box 1 (TTT)
| Introductions and Epilogues written by Chuck Bowden: | |||
| Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The life and Legacy of Edward Abbey by James Bishop, Jr. | Simon and Schuster, 1995 | 1 paperback
| Epilogue by Chuck
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Contrabando by Don Henry Ford, Jr.
| Harper, 2005 | 1 paperback
| Introduction written by Chuck (The original hardback was published by Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso.) Letter to Chuck from the editor of Cinco Puntos Press Article from the San Antonio Express about Chuck’s and Don Henry’s appearance at the Texas Book Festival in Austin by Don Henry. Don Henry contacted Chuck after he read Down by the River. He had just come out of the federal penitentiary where he served five years for smuggling marijuana. Chuck encouraged his writing and he, MM, and Chuck’s good friend, Molly Molloy, a college librarian at Las Cruces New Mexico, worked with the first drafts of his manuscripts. Chuck helped him to get it published. |
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
| Penguin Classics, 2006 | 1 paperback | Introduction written by Chuck Chuck wrote about Kesey for the LA Times following Kesey’s death. His family was touched by what Chuck wrote and asked for Chuck to do the introduction when Sometimes a Great Notion was re-issued. |
Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou
| Nation Books, 2006
| 1 paperback | Introduction written by Chuck. Chuck wrote about Gary Webb in Esquire because he was so disgusted by how Webb was treated by the press after he wrote “Dark Alliance”. He was happy to do this introduction. |
There is This Place: Essays, Poetry and Art by Joseph Birkett
| Mojo Press, 2004 | 1 paperback, inscribed to Chuck from author and the original manuscript of the introduction
| Introduction written by Chuck. Joseph is a writer and artist who was raised in Arivaca. He is the son of Maggie Milinovitch, publisher of the Arivaca newspaper. She had this book privately printed for Joseph’s birthday and asked Chuck to do the introduction. Chuck has encouraged Joseph in his writing. |
Twenty Nine Palms by Deane Stillman
| 1 paperback | Preface written by Chuck. Original draft of Preface for the 2007 paperback edition. | |
| Books in which Chuck is quoted or acknowledged: | |||
| The Great Southwest by Charles McCarry, Photographed by George F. Mobley | National Geographic Society, 1980 | 1 hardback | Chuck is quoted on page 17 and referred to as a ‘young scholar’. |
| The Place Where Souls are Born: A Journey to the Southwest by Thomas Keneally | Hodder & Stoughton, 1992 | 1 hardback | Chuck is quoted in the text and listed in the acknowledgements |
| Slim and Serene: Lebanese secrets from Mona’s kitchen by Mona Mart | Sadie and Company Tucson, 2005 | 1 paperback | A long blurb by Chuck on the back cover. Mona is a science writer. She did an interview with Chuck which was published in book form by Walt Bartholomew, Chuck’s bibliographer. |
| Books about Chuck: | |||
Bowman’s Line by Brian Andrew Laird
| St. Martin’s Press, 1995 | 1 hardback | This and the entry below are two novels in which Chuck is the fictionalized hero. They are based, loosely, on Chuck’s experience as a newspaper reporter. |
| To Bury the Dead by Brian Andrew Laird | St. Martin’s Press, 1997 | 1 hardback | |
Sunshot: peril and wonder in the Gran Desierto by Bill Broyles, photographs by Michael P. Berman.
| University of Arizona press 2006 | 1 paperback | Bill Broyles and Chuck hiked together for twenty years in the southwest deserts. In the chapter entitled “Bowden”, Bill tells about one of those hikes as well as giving insights into Chuck. |
| Catalogue copy by Chuck for artists’ gallery shows: | |||
Heidi Hesse: Exporting Liberty
| MOCA/ Museum of Contemporary Art/Tucson, AZ | 2 copies Original draft 2005
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Alice Leora Briggs Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues
| Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art/ Utah | 2 copies 2006
| (Chuck and Alice are doing a book to be published in 2009 by the University of Texas Press) |
| Book catalogues in which Chuck is listed: | |||
| Nature Writing, Ken Lopez | Ken Lopez, Bookseller | Introduction by Barry Lopez | |
| Native American Literature | Ken Lopez, Bookseller | Introduction by Duane Niatum |
MAGAZINES
CITY MAGAZINE – Chuck explained it as a monthly magazine covering life and politics for Southern Arizona which he and Richard Vonier created. Vonier had been Chuck’s editor at the Tucson Citizen newspaper prior to starting the magazine.
| City Magazine, Box 1 (NN) | Articles by Chuck Listed Below | |
| Prototype/Winter 1986 | 2 originals | |
| November/December 1986 | “Soul of the City” | 2 originals |
| January 1987 | “Staying Put” | 2 originals |
| February 1987 | “The Heat Treatment” | 2 originals |
| March 1987 | “Catalina State Park for Sale?” | 2 originals |
| April 1987 | “Frog Mountain Blues” | 2 originals |
| May 1987 | “Tucson Days and Nights” | 2 originals |
| June 1987 | “Ed Abbey: How to Get Outta Town” (written by Ed Abbey) | 2 originals |
| July 1987 | 2 originals | |
| August 1987 | 1 original | |
| September 1987 | “El Nacho” | 2 originals |
| October 1987 | “Meet Mr. Clout” | 2 originals |
| November 1987 | Books: “McPaper & the Quetzal” | 2 originals |
| December 1987 | 1 original | |
| January 1988 | 2 originals | |
| February 1988 | “Tucson: A House on Fire” | 2 originals |
| March 1988 | “Sam Steiger: Fifty Ways to leave your Governor” | 1 original |
| April 1988 | 1 original | |
| May 1988 | 1 original | |
| June 1988 | “Badlands” | 1 original |
| July 1988 | 1 original | |
| August 1988 | “Charles Keating” | 1 original |
| September 1988 | 1 original | |
| October 1988 | “Goldwater” – no loose copy | |
| November 1988 | “After the Gold Rush” | 1 original |
| December 1988 | Books: “Why We Were in Vietnam” & Arts: “Requiem for a Heavy Date” | 1 original |
| January 1989 | “How the UA Took Mt. Graham” | 1 original |
| February 1989 | “’Treacherous’ Current” | 2 originals |
| March 1989 | “Baja Hideaway” & Books: “The Secret Life of David Yetman” | 1 original |
| Folder 1 – Business Correspondence | ||
| Letter to Chuck and Laura Greenberg from Intergroup about insurance coverage of City Magazine | Dated August 15, 1989 | 1 page |
| Memo to City Magazine Shareholders from William G. Rowe – concerns Roe’s decision to shut down City Magazine – this is after Chuck had already resigned as editor | Dated August 15, 1989 | 3 pages |
| Envelope containing a note from Cynthia, a copy of Chuck’s payment to Intergroup (insurance) to serve as a receipt, and a copy of a letter and enrollment form that Cynthia had sent to Debbie (the mother of Chuck’s son, Jesse) concerning a problem with insurance coverage Debbie had experienced at the Thomas Davis Clinic when Jesse was ill. The copy of the note to Debbie specifies that Jesse is listed as being covered under Chuck’s policy. | Envelope dated April 5, 1989 Notes dated April 4, 1989 | 3 pages in envelope |
Notice to the stockholders of First City Publications from William G. Roe, President – announcing a special meeting on September 20, 1989 concerning “the sale or other disposition of the property and assets of the corporation…” etc Attached: Board of Directors Recommendations to the Shareholders of City Magazine (6 recommendations listed) | Dated August 28, 1989 | 2 pages |
Funeral notice for Glenton Godfrey Sykes *w/ Chuck’s handwritten notes on possible names for a magazine. Including “Tequila Sunrise, Mezcal, Margaritaville, Straight Shot, Tequila Times, The Rag of SA”…etc. | Memorial service to be held on August 2, 1985 (died July 30, 1985) | |
| Piece by Chuck titled “Writing for City Magazine: A Few Tips” – begins with a quote from Neal Cassidy to Jack Kerouac, January 7, 1948, then explains what kind of writing City Magazine expects from its writers (“We print stories, things that are alive” “We have no interest in someone’s thoughts on the Mid-East; we are curious about someone’s week in Beirut” “Avoid careful distancing that journalism schools drum into its inmates” “We are very loose on matters of style. We have a keen ear for voices.” “We don’t print hatchet jobs, we print people, living, breathing, flawed, beautiful, ugly people.” “In this business, when you know it all, you are finished.”), and ends with a quote from the Preface to The Hundred Views of Fuji. | 4 pages | |
| First City Publications, Inc. Balance Sheet & Statement of Income (Loss) | For the 10 months ending October 31, 1988 | 5 pages |
| First City Publications, Inc. Balance Sheet & Statement of Income (Loss) | For the 9 months ending September 30, 1988 | 5 pages |
| First City Publications, Inc. Balance Sheet & Statement of Income (Loss) | For the 8 months ending August 31, 1988 | 5 pages |
| First City Publications, Inc. Balance Sheet & Statement of Income (Loss) | For the 7 months ending July 31, 1988 | 5 pages |
| Draft of 1989 Budget – itemizes salaries, taxes, circulation costs, advertising costs, employee mileage, production costs, editorial costs, etc. | Dated January 1, 1989 | 5 pages |
| b/w photograph of City Magazine staff w/ Izzy (magazine’s mascot) | ||
| Note from Jean to Chuck – mentions “the magazine’s demise” and her regret that it is over | No date | |
| Envelope with a note from Cynthia with “a list of the payments I sent to the Court for Jesse for your records” and a Change of Obligor’s Employment or Right to Receive Entitlements form naming Chuck as the employee and concerning the Child Support Unit at the Superior Court | Envelope dated February 28, 1989 Employment Termination Date on form – February 15, 1989 | 2 pages (note and form) |
| 1st Draft of 1988 Budget – itemizes G&A, Non Recurring, Non-Cash Items, Circulation, Advertising, etc. | Dated May 5, 1988 | 6 pages |
| Arizona Daily Star article titled “City Magazine publisher, editor resign” (page two – section B) | February 21, 1989 | 1 original |
| Letter from William G. Walker from the Law Offices of Stompoly & Stroud, P.C. to William R. Roe, c/o city Magazine – informing Roe that William G. Walker has been “retained to represent Richard S. Vonier and Charles Bowden in connection with their interest in First City Publications, Inc., and its ownership and management of City Magazine”…“agreements…with Vonier and Bowden have been breached, resulting in serious monetary damage,” etc. | Dated March 3, 1989 | 1 page |
| Envelope with two forms for Intergroup of Arizona, Inc. – one has ‘Change Notice’ checked and the other one has ‘New Enrollment’ checked and lists Jesse as a dependant. | Envelope dated March 3, 1989 from City Magazine ‘Change Notice’ checked – dated February 15, 1989 ‘New Enrollment’ checked – dated March 1, 1989
| 1 copy of each – pink forms |
| Envelope containing a memo from Lind R. Wagganer from Intergroup to Richard Diffenderfer, Stella Branning Joseph, Barbara Smith Darby, Charles Bowden, and Laura Greenberg – the memo reads “effective September 30, 1989 there is no longer a City Magazine group at Intergroup,” and goes on to discuss coverage alternatives, etc. | Dated September 28, 1989 | 1 page |
| The Desert Leaf, “A Column of Opinion: City Magazine” by Arthur Jacobson – discusses the end of City Magazine and his opinion as to why City Magazine had to end, what City Magazine meant to the community, etc. | Dated September 1989 | 3 originals |
| Folder 2 – Business Correspondence | ||
| 3 envelopes from Malone & Mailander dated April 16, 1985; March 11, 1986; & April 17 1986 | The envelopes contain information regarding Chuck’s Aunt’s estate – When his aunt died, she left $3000 to each of her nieces and nephews. Chuck used the $3000 to start City Magazine, running the prototype/Winter 1986 pamphlets and then taking a mortgage out on his house for the rest of the costs. | |
| A pamphlet from the memorial service for Dick S. Vonier | 6 pages included in pamphlet with writings by Dick | |
| Letter to the City Magazine Staff from Alice and Bill Roe and Belle and Doug Koppinger | Dated January 23, 1989 | In regret that “our joint resources – particularly financial are insufficient for the immediate future” |
| Folder 3 – Magazine Covers | ||
| Manila Envelope containing promotional magazine covers for advertising | For the issue coming out in November | 9 copies |
| Folder 4 - City Magazine Notebooks | ||
| 2 notebooks on Mt. Graham story | One made with Udall’s staff on Mt. Graham and the other made about Mt. Graham while in D.C. | |
| 1 notebook on the ’88 piece on Mt. Graham | Notes on Udall and his staff | |
| 1 notebook on interview of Paris Carriger, a man on death row for the murder of Mr. Shaw. | Joint interview with Laura Greenberg…In the interview Carriger admitted to a prior murder that took place during another burglary and this upset his lawyer, Bob Hirsh. Two stories in City Magazine. | |
| 1 notebook on interview with Ed Robson Sr., a Tucson and Phoenix developer – Mid 80’s | ||
| 1 notebook with notes to self on what will be published in City Magazine | ||
| 1 notebook with notes to self on City Magazine stories | ||
| 1 notebook from the Spring of 1987 – early notes on Nacho story | ||
| City Magazine staff photo w/ Chuck and Dick Vonier (and Iggy the Iguana) |
Magazines Box 2 (HHH)
Magazine Articles, December ‘77 – June ’94
| Outside | December 1977 | Excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters | 1 original | |
| Tracking the 21st Century, Tucson Public Library | June 1982 | “Walk” | 2 originals | |
| Tracking the 21st Century, Tucson Public Library | July 1982 | “Power” | 1 original | |
| Bicycling | July 1982 | “Triple Threat” | 1 original | |
| Arizona Highways | November 1982 | “Ramsey Canyon: A visit to an unspoiled land” | No copy | |
| Coyote | December 1982 | “Power” | 2 originals | |
| Coyote | January 1983 | “New Tools of the Tucson Basin” | 1 original | |
| Tracking the 21st Century, Tucson Public Library | January 1983 | “New Tools of the Tucson Basin” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | October 1983 | “Cabeza Prieta: Arizona’s Outback” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | March 1984 | “Bringing Back the Bighorns” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | July 1984 | “Audubon in Arizona” | 2 originals | |
| The Texas Humanist | July/August 1984 | “A Desert Tale: Cherishing the Hidden Waters” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | September 1984 | “Grand Canyon Trek: A Personal Journey through a Vertical World” | 2 originals | 1 notebook from the trek through the Canyon w/ Dykinga, (4 fan letters total) letter from Ruth K. Stoll dated September 1 1984, letter from Terry L. Whetstone dated October 9, 1984, letter from Helen & Boyd Dalzell dated September 18, 1984, letter from Madeline Ann Falk dated September 21, 1984 |
| Arizona Highways | November 1984 | “The Sierra Pinacate” | 2 originals | A commissioned writer’s report dated March 9, 1984 from Arizona Highways regarding the article titled “Pinacates,” 2 copies of a rejection letter regarding the manuscript titled “Pinacates” from American West dated May 23, 1984 |
| Arizona Highways | June 1985 | “The Annual Almost Across Arizona: Bicycle Tour” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Inc. | Fall & Winter 1985-86 | “Power in Arizona” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | September 1985 | “The Santa Catalinas: Tucson’s Nearby Wilderness” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | November 1985 | “Sun, Silence, Bighorns” | 2 originals | |
| People weekly | June 16, 1986 | “In His Own Words” (America’s H20 Binge) | 2 originals | Fan letter from Julia S. Breveleri dated June 18, 1986; a fan letter from Joan Beaulieu dated June 9, 1986; a letter from Sharp Addington dated June 16, 1986 |
| Los Angeles Times Magazine | August 10, 1986 | “Blazing Trails” (in Sunday Reading section) | 2 originals | |
| Defenders | Sept/Oct 1986 | “Miracle on the San Pedro” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | November 1987 | “The Plateau, The Rim Country, and the Basin and the Range” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | January 1988 | “A Canyon Called Paria” | 2 originals (both wrapped in plastic, unopened) | |
| Buzzworm | Autumn 1989 | “Love Among the Lion Killers” | 2 originals | 1 notebook on Harley Shaw/mountain lions, 2 letters – one dated June 6, 1989 from Tom Lyon, the other dated December 4, 1989 from James Ferry |
| Phoenix | October 1989 | excerpt from Red Line | 2 originals | |
| Smart | March/April 1990 | “The Nowhere Man” (Keating) | 2 originals | Also 2 photocopies |
| Buzzworm | March/April 1990 | “Dave Foreman!” | 1 original | |
| Buzzworm | Sept/Oct 1990 | “Turtle Made the World” | 2 originals | |
| Details | December 1990 | “High-Seas Avenger” | 2 originals | Letter to Paolo Gentiloni confirming the agreement to publish the article in La Nuova Ecologia, as well as a rough page proof of the article in German |
| Phoenix magazine | January 1991 | “Pacific Ram – Declaring War on Drift Nets” | 1 original | 1 photocopied copy, three page draft w/ editing |
| Phoenix magazine | March 1991 | “La Virgen and the Drug Lord” | 1 original | |
| Buzzworm | Mar/Apr 1991 | “At Sea with the Shepard: A shooting script” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | August 1991 | “Mountain Lying Down: Rediscovering the Kaibab Plateau” | 1 original | |
| Phoenix magazine | October 1991 | “Will the Wolf Dance in Arizona Again?” | 2 originals | |
| Buzzworm | Nov/Dec 1991 | “Reinventing the West” | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | December 1991 | “An Invitation to the Desert” | 1 original | |
| Wildlife Conservation | Jan/Feb 1992 | “Lonesome Lobo” | 1 original | 1 notebook with notes on reintroducing the wolf |
| Buzzworm | Sept/Oct 1992 | “Children of the Sun” | 2 originals | |
| Bellona Magasin | November 1992 | “Sea Sheperds” | 2 originals | Including a letter from Anders Lyche to Jennifer Powers dated 3/17/92, payment records from A.M. Heath, a Schaffner agency |
| Phoenix magazine | June 1993 | “Charles Keating and the Missing Billions” | 1 original | |
| Penthouse | July 1993 | “Charlie Keating’s Wild and Crazy World” | 2 advanced originals | |
| Arizona Highways | January 1994 | “Mohawk Dunes. Our Legacy of Sand Remains a World Apart” | No Copies | Original article contributed to Geo and Geo-Special-Argentinien June 1994 (below) |
| Geo | June 1994 | “Am Fallschrim ins Inferno” | No Copies | 3 notebooks on smoke jumper story |
| Geo-Special-Argentinien | June 1994 | “Anden-Patroulle – Im Reich des Kondors” | No Copies | 2 notebooks on story on Argentina |
Magazines Box 3 (III)
Magazine Articles Sept/Oct ’94 – April ‘97
| Nature Conservancy | Sept/Oct 1994 | “Desert Dreams” (Pinacate) | 2 originals | 2 fan letters |
| Merian | August 1995 | “Im Spinnennetz Der Schonheit” | 1 original | |
| Harper’s | September 1995 | “Laughter, Gunfire, and Forgetting: An Elusive Tale of the Mexican Drug War” | 2 originals | 1 color photocopied copy, 4 notebooks on the murder at San Carlos/his home/the almost wedding in Alamos, etc. Approximately 40 snapshots relating to the article (story included) – Group I: El Guero’s ‘false’ wedding in Alamos, Sonora which went on for five days. Group II: The hotel beachfront property (across the street from the actual hotel) in San Carlos where he was gunned down. Group III: The Guero’s grave in the Alamos cemetery (some of the photos have explanations on back) |
| The Arizona Republic | November 26, 1995 | “Death of the Sea of Cortez” | 1 original | 1 notebook from time spent in San Carlos, Mexico with Art Strong |
| La Onda | April 1996 | “La Muerte del Mar de Cortes” (Death of the Sea of Cortez) | 1 original | |
| G.Q. | November 1996 | “Honest to a Fault” (Manning) | 2 originals | 1 draft titled “Desert Colonic: The Guv & the Bulldog” – 18 pages, letter dated April 16, 2002 to Chuck from Mike Manning when his marriage ended, 2 notebooks on Mike Manning |
| Harper’s | December 1996 | “While You Were Sleeping: In Juarez, Photographers Expose the Violent Realities of Free Trade” (Won the Sidney Hillman Award) | 2 originals | 11 letters to the editor, Mexican reprint in Proceso Magazine, August 1999 (1 original copy and 1 photocopy), 1 draft w/ footnotes, 2 copies of prints of mural, 1 early draft w/ footnotes titled “While You Were Sleeping” (23 pages), articles for research by Carlos Vigueras, early draft w/ footnotes titled “While You Were Sleeping” (27 pages), draft titled “While You Were Sleeping” w/ footnotes (27 pages), photocopied copy of “While You Were Sleeping” stamp-dated October 14, 1996, an article titled “The Lurid Business of the Romanticized Border” and an article titled “There’s No Quick-Fix For Drug Abuse” both of which make reference to Chuck’s article “While You Were Sleeping,”a copy of The Texas Observer (June 6, 1997) with an article regarding the murders, violence, and drugs in Juarez, a letter to Chuck from Isabel Nanton, a teacher, in appreciation of the article, 3 notebooks from time in Juarez |
| G.Q. | April 1997 | “The Killer Across the River” (Amado Carrillo) | 2 originals | Norwegian Esquire reprint (2 copies) July 1997 “Za rekou bydli zabijak” , Punch magazine reprint (1 copy) May 24, 1997 “Amado Carrillo Fuentes: the richest man on Earth”, 1 draft w/ footnotes, Mexican Ephemera, Daily Outrage article about Amado Carrillo referring to Chuck’s article in G.Q., 7 articles of research for the Carrillo article, 4 articles denouncing Chuck’s article as untrue, early draft titled “Riding the Tiger” w/ footnotes (45 pages), early draft titled “Riding the Tiger” w/ footnotes (49 pages), 5 newspaper clips on drugs and drug use (etc) all dated 7/96, three notebooks titled “Mexico City I, II, & III” dated February ’97 (these are the first notes Chuck made for the story; he was staying in Mexico City in a hotel reportedly owned by Carrillo), early draft w/ footnotes titled “Riding the Tiger” (40 pages) - - note: Chuck sent this early draft to G.Q. in ’96 but they didn’t believe him. Then in January ’97, discovered that Mexico’s drug czar was on Carrillo’s payroll, so finally believed and published. |
Magazines Box 4 (JJJ)
Magazine Articles October ‘97-December ‘98
| Esquire | October 1997 | “Chuy Carrillo is Dead and Living Somewhere Far, Far Away” | 2 originals | Letter of appreciation and an appeal for help from Gabriel Bedoya (sent in c/o Esquire), 2 drafts (“A Simple Death at the Beach: the false wedding and the maid-of-honor” & “death in the afternoon”), 28 page draft of article, untitled 30 page draft, 14 page early draft titled “A Member of the Wedding”, draft titled “Listen motherfucker, this is about Don Chuy, and he’s a muy malo hombre, and man did he move good shit and now he is nowhere to be found” 29 pages w/ typed comments to Chuck by editor, manila folder with 2 notebooks and many documents relating to the story, a second manila folder with draft of letter sent by Bridgette Jordan to Janet Reno, a picture of Janet Reno, material on Operation Phantom (conflict with DEA/Carrillo’s notes), copy of a letter from the head of the DEA to Jesus Carrillo, and other documents and notes concerning the story, a third manila folder with 5 letters from Abed Munoz.
- This story was written for Esquire right after David Granger took over as editor-in-chief |
| Tucson Monthly | November 1997 | “The King Without a Face” | 2 photocopies | |
| Aperture | Winter 1998 | “Blind in the Sun” | 1 original | 2 letters to the editor |
| Esquire | March 1998 | “Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night” | 2 originals | Draft titled “Keeping up with the Jones” 22 pages w/ footnotes, Texas Department of Public Safety Narcotics Service Town Hall Meeting handbook w/ pamphlets, etc inside, manila folder containing documents from Plano, newspaper articles, and other research material, second manila folder containing 3 notebooks, articles and other material concerning drug use, Plano, TX, etc. 1 notebook from Plano of the coach |
| Esquire | April 1998 | “We Are Hit” (Dallas JFK Museum) | 1 original | |
| G.Q. | April 1998 | “Crapshoot Nation” | 1 original | 1 galley, An original manuscript (1996) of gambling piece for G.Q., 2 notebooks on Las Vegas/Casino story |
| Harper’s | August 1998 | “Torch Song: At the Peripheries of Violence and Desire” | 2 originals This article was nominated for the National Magazine Award | Original draft and short draft both titled “Torch song: in the forest of the night”, 1 draft w/o subtitle, handwritten note from Clara at Harper’s, Edit by Clara, 1 galley with different subtitle (the uneasy union of sex and crime), 19 letters to the editor, 1 letter to MM in praise of article, letter announcing “Torch Song” as chosen for 1999 Best American Essays, letter and email about using “Torch Song” in Vanderbilt University Press Literary Anthology (spring 2008) |
| Arizona Daily Star | August 1998 | Guest Comment by Bowden “An Arizonan who came out of the ground returns to it” (regarding Chris Clarke, a longtime Arizona rancher friend. Chuck wrote Trust Me and Blood Orchid while living at Clarke ranch. – MM) | 2 originals | Funeral notice, 2 funeral pamphlets, 1 computer print out of the September 1997 issue of Connection with “Arivaca Yesterday and Today” by Chris Clarke, Bowden’s handwritten notes, 5 drafts of Bowden’s guest comment |
| New Times Weekly | August 27-September 2, 1998 | “The Narc and the Smuggler in the Land of Plenty” | 2 photocopies | 1 galley, next to last draft titled “Crossing all the Lines: Arturo Carrillo’s Dope Papers”
Chuck wrote this after Art’s death as a tribute to him. The payment went to Art’s son and daughter. – MM |
| Esquire | September 1998 | “The Pariah” (Gary Webb) | 2 originals | November ’98 issue of Esquire w/ letter to editor (about “The Pariah”), 1 internet research article, 1 fan letter (postcard), b/w photo of Hector, letter from Mark Warren about his edit of story and an attached draft with footnotes, 1 draft w/ footnotes titled “The Company We Keep” sent to New York on 5/29/98, 2 more drafts titled “The Company We Keep”, 3 page proofs, 1 galley, article from ThiemeWorks titled “Lisa Pease Described Gary Webb’s Memorial Service” describes a display put up by his kids with their “favorite magazine article, “The Pariah,” by Charles Bowden.” (December 23, 2004), 2 notebooks on his early time with Webb, manila folder with a letter dated August 26, 1998 from M. Rothmiller describing his similar experience as that of Webb’s, 4 pamphlets from The Mayo Group on drug use and private investigations, 1 notebook w/ notes for the article, an email dated February 25, 1998 from Gary Webb to Chuck, 19 articles of research
Chuck was disgusted with the national press & the way Webb was treated. He wrote this to try to help Webb re-establish himself and to be able to write for the mainstream press again. – MM |
| Geo special | December 1998 | “Die Patriarchen der Wuste” (on saguaros) | 1 original | 1 draft titled “Saguaros” edited by MM, 2 notebooks on Peruvian Shepherd in Colorodo (Basque story) |
Magazines Box 5 (KKK)
Magazine Articles December ’98- February ‘01
| The Connection (Arivaca) | December 1998 | “Importance of Being Nowhere” | 1 original | 1 draft dated Dec. ‘98
The Connection, a small monthly newspaper out of Arivaca, was begun by 2 of Chuck’s friends, Maggie Milinovitch & Meg Keoppen in the 70’s. Maggie’s son, Joseph Birkett, came on as editor in the late 90’s and bought it in 2006. – MM |
| Esquire | February 1999 | “America: Houston and Ramiro” | 1 original | Final draft w/ footnotes titled “Bumfuzzled in Austin”, 1 draft w/ footnotes titled “Going to the Tower”, 1 untitled draft w/ footnotes, 1 page proof, 1 copy of Henry McCoy’s own account |
| Esquire | July 1999 | “By Midnight” from the section titled “My Day: The Story of April 20, 1999, an essay in seven parts” (essays about Littleton shooting) (Bowden is #6) | 2 originals | MM writes “Chuck and I were on the way to Santa Fe and we stopped for the night. I turned on the T.V. to hear the news. My niece, Amanda Gordon Dunn, went to H.S. in Littleton” |
| Esquire | August 1999 | “Being Max Cleland” | 1 original | 2 drafts titled “The Man Who Met The Lone Ranger”, 2 page proofs, 2 galleys, 1 letter to Max Cleland (from Bowden), 5 letters from Max Cleland, 3 news paper articles about Cleland, email from Roy to Chuck discussing Cleland’s phone number and general contacts – dated March 26, 1999, autographed professional photograph of Max Cleland with original U.S. Senate envelope, 1 notebook labeled “Washington D.C. April 13th, Tuesday” on first page
The editor refused to print the part about Cleland’s constant struggle not to commit suicide. – MM |
| AZ Star? | Abbey? (empty file folder) | |||
| Talk | September 1999 | “I Wanna Dance with the Strawberry Girl” | 1 original | First draft w/ penned notes, 1 invitation to launch party, 2 drafts w/ footnotes titled “I Wanna Dance with the Strawberry Girl, 1 untitled draft w/ penned notes, 1 random draft, 1 draft titled “Strawberry Girl” w/ penned notes, 1 page proof, 1 article of research titled “Rape and Murder Stalk Women in Northern Mexico”, emails between Danielle Matoon (editor) and Bowden w/ an attached edited draft, receipt for fax to Julian 3 notebooks from Juarez early May, 1999 3 page proofs for “I Want to Dance with a Strawberry Girl” – handwritten notes throughout
Manila folder: letter from Bill Vourvoulias at Talk magazine to Chuck regarding the enclosed interview notes and newspaper clips that Chuck provided Talk during the preparation of his piece, color copy of “While You Were Sleeping,” 34 articles for research of the disappearances in Juarez (many of the articles are highlighted or include handwritten notes), one page of notes
Tina Brown insisted on having Chuck in the premiere issue. She “borrowed” Chuck from Esquire. Her husband was on the Pulitzer committee which originally awarded Chuck the Prize. – MM |
| The Connection (Arivaca) | October 1999 | “Out of the Boardwalk with Chris Clarke” | 2 originals | 2 pamphlets to honor Clarke, 2 related articles from Connection |
| Teamster | October 1999 | “The NAFTA Trucker: Crossing the Line” (about Mexican truckers) | 1 original | Letter from Don Owens of Teamsters, ‘Guest’ badge from the 23rd AFL-CIO Biennial Convention 1999, first draft, 1 other draft, the February 3, 1983 Tucson Citizen with Chuck’s article, “Hazards of strike join cash flow, fatigue as problems for truckers,” 10 articles for research, manila envelope containing receipts for Chuck’s stay in Juarez/El Paso on 9/12-14/99, 1 notebook of notes for story
Because the Teamsters don’t usually ask outside writers to contribute – Chuck had to be declared a “reader” in order to receive payment. – MM |
| Esquire | December 1999 | “Leave Something Behind” from the section The Life List (Chuck is #62) | 1 original | 3 copies of Sonoran Desert National Park, a citizen’s proposal, 2 drafts titled “Last Call”, and first draft dated 9/4/99, manila folder containing newspaper articles about the park, emails between Bill Broyles and Chuck, and other relevant documents |
| Harper’s | March 2000 | “Ike and Lyndon” | 2 originals | 2 postcards from fans, 1 40 page draft w/ footnotes, 1 67 page draft, 3 page proofs showing cuts made to make new layout, 1 notebook on Ike Morgan
MM & Bo, Chuck’s mother, bought an original painting by Ike of Lyndon Johnson for Chuck’s July 2000 birthday – Bo was completely flummoxed by it, but happy to buy something Chuck would like even if she didn’t. – MM |
| Star Editorial | March 2000 | “Ask yourself…Do we need El Con?” | 1 original | |
| Esquire | April 2000 | “Climbing Finger Rock” by Jim Boyer (Intro and Preface written by Bowden) | 1 original | AZ Daily Star article, original piece by Boyer w/ Bowden’s intro and preface, 1 page proof
Jim got into “rotten” rock and fell to his death. Chuck had a long-standing friendship with his sister, Diane and their parents. – MM |
| Aperture | Spring 2000 | “Camera of Dirt” (profile of Julian Cardona) | 1 original | 1 reprint in the Bridge Review, 1 draft, reprint in the Bridge Review Spring 2001 (1 copy), 14 early shots of Julian’s to appear with the article “Camera of Dirt”
Julian Cardona was the lead photographer for Juarez: Laboratory of the Future and the photographer for Exodus from the UT Press, as well as being Chuck’s dear friend. – MM |
| Esquire | August 2000 | “The Bone Garden of Desire” | 3 originals | First draft, 5 drafts with footnotes, 1 edit by Esquire, 1 page proof, 3 letters |
| Tucson Weekly | August 2000 | “NAFTA Shave” (Book Review) | 2 originals | |
| Aperture | Summer 2000 | “Blue Mist” | 1 original | 2 galleys, 1 fan letter, 1 letter from editor w/ edited draft |
| Arizona Republic | February 2001 | “On the Timeless Impulse to Scar Arizona” | 1 original, 2 photocopies | 1 letter from AZ Republic (Chuck Kelly) |
Magazines Box 6 (LLL)
Magazine Articles from March ‘01 – Spring ‘03
| Mountain Gazette | March 2001 | “Flat Mountain” | 1 original | 4 drafts
The woman in the piece was an old friend of Bo’s from Tucson and Bo brought her over to the 9th St. house for Thanksgiving. Chuck and I gave her the Dorthea Lange print that day. Her family returned it to us after her death. – MM |
| G.Q. | June 2001 | “Our Man in Mexico” | 2 originals | First draft w/ footnotes (“7 and a half Tornadoes”), 2nd and 3rd drafts w/ footnotes, 4 drafts of “Blue Sundays”, 1 proof, 1 email copy |
| Mountain Gazette | September 2001 | “The Late, Great Mexican Revolution” | 1 original | Julian Cardona’s photos |
| Wildflower magazine | Winter 2001 | “Leave Something Behind” | 2 originals | |
| High Country News | September 2001 | Reprint of “Importance of Being Nowhere” from the Arivaca Connection. | 1 original | 1 fan letter |
| G.Q. | May 2002 | “How to Deal with Pain” (on kidney stones) | 2 originals | 1 letter from G.Q. |
| Harper’s | June 2002 | “Teachings of Don Fernando” | 2 originals | 1st draft “The Bell”, draft 2002 “The Teachings of Don Victor”, 2 drafts “A Man of His Word”, 1 draft “Dead Reckoning”, 2 later drafts, 1 Harper’s edit and letter from John, 1 page proof
A very dangerous story. – MM |
| G.Q. | June 2002 | “Caught in the Dream of Enron” | 2 originals | Page proofs |
| Metrotimes (Detroit) | September 2002 | “Reflections on 9/11” | 1 original | 1 draft, 1 notebook dated 9/11 |
| Aperture – 50th Anniversary | Spring 2002 | “The Other Life of Photographs” | 1 original | 1 draft edited by MM, page proofs dated 11/30/01 |
| Orion | Spring 2002 | “Love” (about Julian Cardona) | 2 originals | |
| G.Q. | November 2002 | “I was Lying” (about John McCain) | 1 original | 2 drafts w/ attached letters from G.Q., first version, 2 drafts, miscellaneous email, 1 galley |
| Arizona Highways | January 2003 | “Desert Wilderness” (Cabeza Prieta) | 2 photocopies | 1 galley |
| G.Q. | February 2003 | “Bombs over Paradise” | 2 originals | Page proofs; manila folder containing articles and other research materials on Bali; 5 page draft of “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” a talk Chuck gave after his trip to Bali. |
| The Connection (Arivaca) | February 2003 | “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” | 1 original | |
Mother Jones
(Chuck’s Harper’s editor, Clara, moved to Mother Jones and he began writing for them. He also was interested in Mother Jones receiving a large Lannan Grant. – MM) | March/April 2003 | “Outback Nightmares & Refugee Dreams” (Australian Refugee Breakdown) | 2 originals | 1 draft w/ footnotes “Dingo Nightmares, Refugee Dreams”, galleys, various emails from Chuck while on assignment, response to project censored nomination, review in the Dallas Morning News |
| Various articles relating to Aspen Fire in Catalina Mountains | June 2003 | AZ Daily Star editorial by Bowden – “No more fear” | 1 original of each, plus an internet print-out of interview | The AZ Republic – “Fire was inevitable, author says” (i.e. interview with Bowden), Tucson Weekly “Up in Smoke” (no direct reference to Bowden) |
| The Land Report | Spring 2003 | Reprint of “Importance of Being Nowhere” | 1 original | 1 letter from the Land Report |
Magazines Box 7 (MMM)
Magazine Articles 7/03-10/04
| Mother Jones | July 2003 | (Charlie Kernaghan was) “An Army of One” | 2 originals | First draft, 1 other draft, page proofs, letter from Charlie Kernaghan dated June 24, 2003 after he read the article (2 copies) |
| Wild Earth | Summer/Fall 2003 | “Snaketime” (part of the magazine’s theme, “Facing the Serpent”) | 2 originals | 1 edit by editor; 1 galley; 2 letters of thanks from magazine; 54 page untitled draft; photograph of Chuck at snake site; 11 articles for research; 12 emails to Chuck from David L. Hardy Sr. detailing his research with the snakes; 1 notebook from Chuck’s time at the snake site with Dave Hardy in Portal, AZ; 1 poster of Arizona rattlesnake, a gift from Dave Hardy (Box WWW) |
| Aperture | Fall 2003 | “Come and Get It: last meals and the people who eat them” | 2 originals | 1 draft |
| Aperture | Winter 2003 | “Roger Ballen’s World” | 2 originals | 3 page draft in email form (email dated January 9, 2003) and titled “life in the mines”, email from Roger Ballen responding to Chuck’s article dated October 27, 2003 |
| G.Q. | November 2003 | “The Lord of the Drug Ring” (Calderoni) | 2 originals | 2 drafts and 1 partial draft, page proofs, galley, Best American Crime Stories page proofs and letter from editor |
| Mother Jones | November/December 2003 | “Little Big Man” (Dennis Kucinich) | 2 originals | 3 drafts w/ footnotes (titled “Invisible Man”), the third draft, 2 campaign buttons, 1 edit by Mother Jones (Clara), page proofs.
Chuck attended a fund-raiser for Kucinich in California. It was held in the home of the actor who played the farmer in Babe – one of Chuck’s favorite movies. - MM |
| G.Q. | December 2003 | “General Electric” (Wesley Clark) | 2 originals | 1 email from Andy Ward regarding Jim Ward’s input, 1 draft titled “Looking for Mr. Four Star”, 1 galley, 1 page proof |
| Mountain Gazette | January 2004 | “Craps” (Pete Carney) | 1 original | Email from Pete Carney’s mother, a photo of Pete Carney and his wife Jane in their home on the Carney ranch north of Wilcox, AZ, and a photo of Pete Carney playing his bass fiddle in their home |
| G.Q. | February 2004 | “Best Filling Station in the World” (short review, pg. 125) | 2 originals | |
| Arizona Highways | April 2004 | “Crossing Arizona on Back Roads” | 2 originals | The pitch for story, email from AZ Highways about good response to story by readers, first draft, another draft, 1 hand written letter, 4 published letters in AZ Highways September 2004, 1 notebook from Jack Dykinga & Chuck’s trip on the back roads of AZ |
| Arizona Daily Star | September 2004 | “No More Fear: Vote as if it matters because it does” (opinion page) | 1 original | |
| Connection | October 2004 | “This Time it Matters” (reprint of speech) | 1 original | |
| G.Q. | October 2004 | “Coming to my Senses” (Marcella Hazan) | 2 originals | Page proofs, galley, (*This article was originally written several years earlier when Chuck was under contract w/ Esquire. This editor worked at Esquire at the time and remembered it as outstanding despite the fact Esquire had killed the story, so he brought it back.), letter dated October 27, 2004 from Victor Hazan after having read the article in G.Q. (2 copies), folder of correspondence and travel details from MM and Chuck’s time in Italy, 4 notebooks while in Venice at Marcella’s last class |
Magazines Box 8 (NNN)
Magazine Articles 11/04-Unpublished Articles
| G.Q. | November 2004 | “Reading List for the President” | 2 originals | 1 draft |
| G.Q. | December 2004 | “Wino” (Sean Thackery) | 2 originals | 1 Thackery Wine card, 1 draft, G.Q. edit, 1 Thackery galley, email correspondence between Sean Thackery and Chuck: Chuck’s dated November 6, 2004 and Sean’s dated December 9, 2004 |
| Mountain Gazette | June 2005 | “The Hunger of the Ticking Watch in the Empty Room” | 1 original | 1 draft |
| G.Q. | November 2005 | “Looting and Profiteering in Louisiana” | 2 originals | 1 draft, handwritten notes
Two days after Katrina hit, Chuck drove straight through from Tucson to Lafayette, met “Biker Bob” Guilbeau, and they drove into New Orleans, armed, in Bob’s BMW. - MM |
| Arizona Highways | December 2005 | “Lessons from Camp” | 1 original | 2 galleys, 1 draft |
| Arizona Highways | January 2006 | “The Zen Garden of Four Deserts Sighs and Bleeds and Blooms” | 2 originals | 2 proofs, 1 reprint in AZ Daily Star (12/25/05) |
| Arizona Highways | April 2006 | “Apaches’ Language of the Land” | 1 original | 1 draft, 2 proofs |
| Mother Jones | May/June 2006 | “Born into Cellblocks” (Mexican children in Mexican prisons) | 2 originals | |
| G.Q. | May 2006 | “The Architect of Taste” (Bonesman) | 2 originals | 1 G.Q. edit |
| Mountain Gazette | July 2006 | “Night Flight” (Otis Carney) | 2 originals | 1 draft - written about writer/rancher friend who died in January 2006. |
| Teamster magazine | August 2006 | “The NAFTA Trucker Holding the Line” | 2 originals | Draft titled “Mexican Truckers” 9 pages with editing |
| Mother Jones | October 2006 | “Exodus” Won 2nd place in the 2006 John Barlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism | 2 originals | 2 drafts, page proofs, 1 letter, emails from Mother Jones, 1 proof for the anthology 2006 |
| High Desert Journal | Spring 2007 | “Under a Dry Moon” | 1 original | Galleys (3 pages) |
| National Geographic | May 2007 | “Our Walls, Ourselves” | 2 originals | Draft dated 9/06 w/ editing (11 pages), galleys for article |
| Arizona Highways | June 2007 | “Point of View” (Grand Canyon) | 2 originals | Email from Randy Summerlin regarding Chuck’s article – dated 3/21/07 2 drafts within emails dated January 9 & 12, 2007, an additional draft w/ editing throughout (4 pages), and 2 other drafts 5 pages each |
| Unpublished Articles | ||||
| 1 notebook with interview notes for “Love Story” – Mrs. Hiewett in Prison/Story never run | ||||
| Notebook papers on Col. James Hiett and his coke addict wife – never printed | ||||
| 3 notebooks with notes on the Venezuela story for G.Q. – President Chavez – Never printed |
Magazines Box 9 (OOO)
Research for Magazine Articles, Etc.
| Michael Poland Execution | - Used for story in Aperture “Blue Mist” and in Blues for Cannibals | |
| Notebooks | 2 small, 2 large w/ notes throughout | |
| Various Newspaper Articles documenting the case and leading up to execution | ||
| FedEx envelope from the office of the Federal Public Defender | Contains copies of documents relating to Michael Poland’s case, etc. | |
| Multiple manila envelopes of correspondence | ||
| Multiple emails | ||
| Other miscellaneous material | ||
| Early Draft of Michael Poland Story | (written by Chuck) | |
| Global Mining Research Materials | - Was going to be written for G.Q. but no story came from it | |
| Multiple articles relating to global mining, etc | ||
| Sea Shepherd Research | ||
| Various articles relating to whales, the Sea Shepherd, etc | ||
| 8 slides of Aqua Girl (Lisa Webber), 2 letters from Lisa | 1 letter contains the obituary notice for James Weber | |
| Draft of Sea Shepherd | 40 pages | |
| Various business correspondence concerning the publication of “High Seas Avenger” | Most dated February 1991 | |
| Godfrey Sykes Research Materials | ||
| Letters, articles, etc |
MISCELLANEOUS RESEARCH NOTEBOOKS
| Box 1 (QQQ) | |
| Early 90’s - 1 notebook | Notes on Sassabee, AZ – Illegal Immigration & Drugs |
| Mid 80’s – 1 notebook | Notes made in mid 80’s when with Rick Glinski in San Manuel, AZ netting and banding gray hawks. |
| ’90-’91 – 1 notebook | Sinaloa & Culiacan, To Malverde’s shrine w/ Art Strong and a cocaine dealer (Malverde is the Catholic “Saint” for narco-traficantes) |
| Late 80’s – 1 notebook | Notes of a rider Laine Larson (Merv Larson’s son) shot of river in Nayarit where all the villages had been destroyed to protect drug growers. |
| ’96 – 1 notebook | Notes for a book on Zion/Bryce parks in Utah – book didn’t happen |
| ’83 – 1 notebook | Notes at Marelas, Mexico |
| 1 notebook | Research notes from books on Devil’s Road (El Camino Diablo) |
| ‘90-’91 – 1 notebook | Earth First! trial in Prescott, AZ |
| Early 90’s – 1 notebook | Notes on Rocky Mountains of Colorado |
| 80’s – 1 notebook | Notes made on overheard conversation between 2 businessmen |
| 1 notebook | Notes on AZ Governor, Coan Meechan and Rose Mofford – 1998, Phoenix impeachment, not used |
| ’93-’94 – 1 notebook | Notes made while living in Arivaca on Clarke ranch |
| 1 notebook | Interview with newspaper publisher in Hermosillo, Mexico (Drugs, etc.) |
| Late 80’s – 1 notebook | The Yuma book – notes for book never written |
| 1996 – 1 notebook | El Paso & Juarez – Murrah Building bombing site – Oklahoma City |
| August 25 – 1 notebook | Notes on an effort Bill and Chuck made to walk the Camino del Diablo (Devil’s Highway across Southern Arizona) Bill broke down at Los Vidrios and they failed. |
| 1988 – 1 notebook | Trip to Central Baja |
| 1988-1989 – 1 notebook | Notes in Alamos, Sonora for book – never published |
| 1989 – 1 notebook | Notes on Alamos, Sonora |
| 1 notebook | Notes/interview with Alamos Mexican man about a drug murder |
| 80’s – 1 notebook | Ride along with Tucson cops – “Just a night in hell” 7/07 |
| 1 notebook | El Paso – drugs |
| In folder titled “Notes to self on future writing, etc.” | |
| 1 notebook | On normality and Keating |
| 80’s – 1 notebook | On books planned to write |
| 1989 – 1 notebook | Notes to “myself” |
| 1997 – 1 notebook | In New York – notes to self about what to write next - (Then wrote Down by the River) |
| February 1989 – 1 notebook | Had 4 weeks in front of him – decisions and what to do with those 4 weeks |
| Late 80’s – 1 notebook | On books Chuck planned to write |
| Mid 80’s – 1 notebook | To self listing books will write |
| In Green File Folder | |
| Loose pages from notebooks with notes to self, addresses/telephone numbers, and messages for Chuck | |
| Miscellaneous receipts, etc. | |
| Box 2 (QQQ) | |
| 17 miscellaneous notebooks |
NEWSPAPERS
NEWSPAPERS Box 1/2 (II)
| Tucson Citizen articles | (The articles listed do not encompass the total collection – rather, they are partial-listed to offer a glimpse of the breadth of reporting, etc.) |
| 1981 | |
| October 19, 1981 | “Society’s outsiders find a little room to breathe” |
| October 26, 1981 | “Tucson’s Communist Party is alive, struggling” |
| October 29, 1981 | “The best beef tamale in Tucson” |
| October 30, 1981 | “Entering the combat zones of lotteries, commercials” |
| October 31, 1981 | “Inflation: A tarnish on the golden years” |
| November 11, 1981 | “Falwellians cheerfully concerned” |
| November 17, 1981 | “Bookshop’s a cause, not a business” |
| November 27, 1981 | “Villa’s aftermath: Sounds of silence” |
| November 28, 1981 | “The old Spanish priests of Santa Cruz parish” |
| December 3, 1981 | “USS Arizona survivors’ memories take on lives of their own at 40” |
| December 7, 1981 | “Papago is author of his life story” |
| December 17, 1981 | “She helps hospitalized kids learn that playing in the best medicine” |
| December 22, 1981 | “These cubs are boys of steel” |
| December 28, 1981 | “His bird ‘trophies’ are only identifications” |
| 1982 | |
| February 15, 1982 | “Loss of U.S. aid leaves a gap: Papagos seek self-help revival” |
| February 20, 1982 | “A graveyard for America’s aged eagles” |
| March 15, 1982 | “He’s haunted by robber’s death” |
| April 10, 1982 | “A long-distance run through a crumbling world” |
| June 26, 1982 | “Don’t get too close to the children’s shrine” |
| September 25, 1982 | “The Pinacates sizzle, and a mystery blooms” |
| October 14, 1982 | “Pusch Ridge: Timeless place’s time is running out” |
| December 2, 1982 | “Their stories breathe new life into history” |
| December 18, 1982 | “A few days in San Blas” |
| 1983 | |
| February 3, 1983 | “Strike comes into sharp focus when viewed from the cab of a truck” |
| April 7, 1983 | Using Our Children for Sex: “We can’t afford to block out the ugly nightmare anymore” & “A mother fights through her anger and agony to change the system” |
| April 16, 1983 | “A walk across Tucson” |
| June 23, 1983 | “The elk are there – if you know where to look” |
| June 25, 1983 | “The ultimate bottle deposit – a life” |
| July 2, 1983 | “Where the bottom line is food” |
| July 4, 1983 | “America the Beautiful in a gleaming diesel” |
| July 23, 1983 | “Miracle Mile Strip: Where the law of the land meets the law of supply and demand” |
| July 30, 1983 | “The blistering desert merges reality and legend” |
| August 5, 1983 | “Ajo strikers count on unity, but see cracks” |
| August 8, 1983 | “Ajo talks and waits for acts” |
| August 13, 1983 | “Hoover Dam: A success story that few remember” |
| August 19, 1983 | “One thing in common: Sadness - The view from both sides of the picket line” |
| August 22, 1983 | “The trek that can last for eternity” (used in Blue, titled “Blue Desert”) |
| August 27, 1983 | “The Navajos’ new shepherd: Peterson Zah” |
| September 5, 1983 | “Finally he’s held – but in arms of the law” |
| September 13, 1983 | “One day, from a place out of our world” |
| September 15, 1983 | “Strike melts in Ajo, but the venom will stay awhile” |
| October 19, 1983 | “The desert hides mystery of missing aliens” |
| October 29, 1983 | “Shrines mark where death hitched a ride” |
| November 28, 1983 | “Chavez brings help, hope to striking miners” |
| December 3, 1983 | “A night at Kino: Ms. Celery, Tolstoy and the chest cracker” |
| 1984 | |
| January 21, 1984 | “Tlachichuca” |
| January 31, 1984 | “Earth First! wants more wild people, not just wilderness areas” |
| March 31, 1984 | “Incest: One of mankind’s ancient taboos,” also “When they came back, three squad cars were in front of the house” |
| April 6, 1984 | “Leaving the Night Behind” (section titled “Rape”) |
| May 5, 1984 | “Immigrants’ dream is becoming our nightmare” |
| May 16, 1984 | “PD fires up Ajo smelter: 71 workers newly hired; town still divided” |
| May 26, 1984 | “Adventures in the shell trade,” also “The past is fine, but the present sells” |
| May 28, 1984 | “Ajo’s Ache: Change, strike wiping our revered memories” |
| June 7, 1984 | “The whole ball game ended at 6 p.m. in a desert tree” |
| June 30, 1984 | “Running from the stone age to the welfare state” |
| July 2, 1984 | “No one sang ‘Happy Birthday’ at this party: Flares mark year of copper strikes” |
| September 25, 1984 | “Atwood was 10-year problem for state of California” |
| October 27, 1984 | “Pedaling the psyche into Deep Spin” |
| November 27, 1984 | “Maud’s is Clifton’s: Rebuilt café is landmark again, despite flood, strike” |
| Tucson Citizen with no date | “In court, you are what you wear” “Hang in there,, Chavez urges PD strikers” “Papago disenchantment with water bill spreading” “Fire essential to health of forests in the mountains – but when, how?” “Tucson’s ‘chill’ in June irks this finicky native” “Out-of-work, out-of-luck ex-trucker becomes a ‘situations wanted’ ad” “Produce still moving north from Nogales: Trucker’s strike obstacle course, not a cause” “Sequins are a square peg in a round-hole Western bar” “Tucson put life into novelist, who gladly returned the favor” |
| Manila Folder: Various Articles from the Tucson Citizen | Incomplete articles and random photocopies of articles |
| More Recent Articles by or about Chuck | January 8, 1985 – “What has Tucson become?” February 13, 1987 – “The past Succumbed: Between the Gadsden Purchase and statehood, the last American frontier was vanquished” July 7, 2002 – Letter from Chuck’s Barber from 11 years old to 55 years old June 9, 2002 – Flower Photos taken in Bowden/Miles Backyard June 2003 – Articles about Aspen Fire in Catalina Mountains |
| Tucson Citizen Correspondence/Editorials | ||
| Donald H. Wriston | August 24, 1983 | In response to Chuck’s article on the miners’ strike, a personal letter regarding Donald’s fear that “the end is near. The union lost but hopefully we can put back the pieces enough to salvage what little union we have left,” and goes on to say that “It seems to me that you really care. I felt a compassion in you when we met. For this I thank you my friend. And I thank you for letting me sing my song as secretly as possible,” Chuck writes of Donald – “I would sit with Donald in his trailer and at one point he whips a sawed off shotgun out of a cupboard and waves it at me. He was a boilermaker (princes of the craft unions), was against the strike (poor timing) but totally in favor it the union and thus fully supported the strike. He was a very intelligent man fighting a very big alcohol problem. But then many of the miners took thermos of vodka to the pit in order to maintain in the boredom of the work.” “I disguised his identity--Ajo is not big and the union guys are even a smaller pool. Incidentally, after the story, and after I got his kind note, I was back there for a story and suddenly was hassled by a herd of union guys for the way the press was covering the strike. He was standing at the back of this little mob in the street and mouthing the same sentiments as the rest of the men. Basically, the union was losing and so, a reporter such as myself, was distorting the strike, etc. I never acknowledged we knew each other, nor did he. The price of survival in a copper strike.” (in envelope) |
| Dave Foreman (of Earth First!) | March 13, 1984 | He writes, “Paul Hirt just sent me a copy of your article. Good job. It’s probably the best thing written on EF!” (postcard) |
| Tony Lopez | March 15, 1984 | A program facilitator on child abuse for prison inmates in AZ writing in appreciation of Chuck’s “well written and informative articles on child abuse and migration issues” (in envelope) |
| Frank & Ruth Pope | April 9, 1984 | Mentions that they are “neighbors, yet strangers,” a letter in appreciation of Chuck’s “topic of Rape in the Citizen,” also writes at the end of the letter to “excuse arthritic penmanship” (in envelope) |
| Willie (sp?) Murphy | April 9, 1984 | In appreciation of Chuck’s article on rape (in envelope) |
| Carol Allerhiy (sp?) | April 11, 1984 | In appreciation of Chuck’s article on rape in the Friday, April 6, 1984 edition of the Tucson Citizen, also mention that she has been “through this horrible experience” and she “can’t tell [Chuck] how well [he] expressed so many of the feelings [she] has felt and still feel” (type of postcard) |
| Jean Sherman | April 16, 1984 | Appreciation after having read Chuck’s articles on rape and incest (in envelope) |
| An “Appreciative Reader” (no name given) | April 17, 1984 | In appreciation of “the rape article that was in the Friday April 6th edition of the Tucson Citizen,” also mentions his own somewhat relative experience of being violated (being robbed) (in envelope) |
| Barbara LeWall, Pima County Attorney | April 23, 1984 | Regarding Chuck’s writing ability, especially in the April 6, 1984 report on rape (in envelope) |
| Fred Gagner | April 28, 1984 | In regard to Chuck’s story “Sequins,” Suggests that Chuck compile them into a book (in envelope) |
| Will Carbo | June 6, 1984 | Regarding Chuck’s article “about DWI, on the Papago Preservation, Chief Goodnight, etc” (no envelope) |
| Bob Mong from the Dallas Morning News | June 7, 1984 | In appreciation of Chuck’s stories – w/ a show of interest in hiring Chuck (in envelope) |
| Linda Howell | July 2, 1984 | Regarding his writing ability and sharing a poem written by her kids’ great-grandmother, a Cherokee (in envelope) |
| Julian Hayden | July 13, 1984 | Regarding Chuck’s “article on Celeya” and his “piece on the sterile zone” (in envelope) |
| Rachel Martindale to Chuck | July 14, 1984 | Regarding the article about “the old and new Indian which appeared….on June 30.” (in envelope) |
| Beulah Hall | October 14, 1984 | Shares Chuck’s view on the people of Tucson – their responsibility to the environment, etc (in envelope) |
| Melinda Melcher | October 17, 1984 | In response to reading an article by Chuck in the Citizen, showing appreciation (in envelope) |
| Dana Peti | November 26, 1984 | Interest in Chuck and suggests that Chuck does an article on suicidal people (in envelope) |
| Marjorie Fenton (Community Relations Committee, Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona) | December 5, 1984 | In appreciation of Chuck’s story he wrote on “Dora,” etc. (in envelope) |
| Editorials | ||
| TV Dinner by Jeff Smith (two copies) | Winter Olympics a dud on home screen | Writes of the poor coverage of the XIV Winter Olympics and refers to “Charles ‘Chuck’ Bowden whose main misfortune in life is that he was not born a Papago Indian,” and that Chuck “confessed to me that he actually bought a new color TV set to watch the Winter Olympics,” etc |
| Carol McCarthy | Bowden’s a pleasure | Refers to Chuck’s article on Mt. Lemmon and expresses hope that Chuck will remain “crazy over Tucson and Arizona” |
| Thomas L. Fisher, psychologist | Get the story | Refers to Chuck’s Oct. 26 article “A child molester walks away a free man,” Fisher’s opinion was referred to in Chuck’s article, ends with the message to Chuck that he “did fine – as far as you went – but, dig a little deeper next time.” |
| Art Faulkner of Lakewood, Colorado | Thanks, Charles Bowden | Refers to Chuck’s “article Oct. 4 about the Tucson reunion of the U.S.S. South Dakota”, Faulkner was one of the crew members, etc. |
| Brad Mason | No beauty | Refers to Chuck’s “piece: ‘Shrines where death hitched a ride’…was a nice prose-journey,” etc, but he went too far, the shrines are “just pathetic statements of a life or lives lost” |
| Paul S. Martin | Armory Park | Refers to “Charles Bowden’s excellent article on savagery in Armory Park (Citizen, Oct. 13)…Bowden writes as if the situation is hopeless. It is not.” Etc. |
| Mary C. Stofft | Question of judgment | Refers to Chuck’s “Sept. 26 article” on the disappearance of Vicki Lynn Hoskinson, writes of Chuck’s article that “a summary with less graphic detail would have served the purpose,” etc. |
| Gabriel O. Manasse, M.D. | For the record | Regarding “the article by Charles Bowden about the salute to hospitalized veterans that took place at the Tucson VA Medical Center on Feb 14,” to “correct some inaccuracies and misleading inferences,” and ends with the statement “the Tucson veteran population actually has attained a high quality Medical Center earned by their sacrifices, and maintained by the support of the citizens of this country and our political leaders” (2 copies) |
| James V. DeCiancio | Didn’t like story | Regarding “the article by Charles Bowden (June 1) covering the rosary ceremony for Charles J. Battaglia,” he wonders “what could’ve happened to the Tucson Citizen…Sensationalism and morbid interests were not indulged in by the Citizen of old,” goes on to specify the Citizen’s “poor taste,” and that the article expressed “in innuendo the lack of integrity of a religion adhered to by a large percentage of the world’s populace,” wants an apology |
| Debbie Jones | Thanks for story | Regarding Chuck’s time and effort spent “to talk to the friends and relatives of Curt Rierson…Bowden helped us with our grief” |
| Patrick Cavanaugh | Worthy message | Refers to “The trek that can last for eternity,” in appreciation of the article and in hope that “the dangers of that particular stretch of border land is known and understood and the migrants stop dying in their desperate effort to better themselves” |
| Wendy C. Dungan | Wasting police time | In appreciation of Chuck’s “sensitive, finely crafted depiction of the auction held by Safari Club International (Citizen, Feb 22),” explains how the police showed up during the auction, having been called, and her discomfort with the situation, etc. |
| E.D. Balceris | The silent sin | Congratulates the Citizen and Chuck on the article “Using our children for sex” (April 7), “it took courage,” etc |
| Albert J. Fox | Two beutiful ones | Writing “in praise” of Chuck’s article “Papago is author of his life story” and Marguerite Bantlin’s article “A day for remembering,” writes that he is “proud of [Tucson’s] culture, its past and (for the most part) its appreciation of its minorities” |
| Grady A. Rounsaville | Let Bowden be | Refers to Chuck’s article “The music of the Siberian Huskies” and the letter to the editor by Jean Gorby, writes that Chuck “writes for the simple as well as the elite,” to leave him alone, etc |
| Frederick A. Johnsen, publisher Bomber Books and Echelon Magazine Tacoma, Wash. | ‘Florid’ Prose | In reference to Chuck’s article “A graveyard for America’s aged eagles” (Feb. 20), criticizes Chuck’s “use of excessive metaphors and florid descriptions,” writes that Chuck “is unaware of the incredible appeal historic aviation holds for people everywhere,” etc |
Patrick Cavanaugh (dated August 29, 1983 and signed Bo Bowden, Chuck’s mom) | Worthy message | Refers to Chuck’s article “A trek that can last an eternity,” expresses that the article “displayed an ambitious and successful effort in journalism,” etc. |
| Name Withheld | Another view | In regard to Chuck’s article in Weekender on prostitution, writes that “for 10 years I was a prostitute,” expresses what society could do in response to prostitution, ends with “the politicians of this country prostitute the American people more than a woman on any street ever has!” |
| Robert S. Kenyan, Tombstone | Tombstone will survive | Critical of Chuck’s article “Just another Sunday afternoon in Tombstone” (April 19), Chuck “is to be congratulated for accepting such a demeaning assignment,” writes that Tombstone “has survived more than the journalistic diatribe of the likes of Bowden and will continue to do so,” etc |
| Donald J. Egan | They were mules | Regarding Chuck’s article “On a whale-watching trip a memory surfaces,” writes that the article “had a number of insulting inaccuracies,” and ends with the thought that “maybe Bowden will grow up to know what he’s being fed” |
| Dan Thrapp | Like, metaphors | In response to the Citizen’s announcement “that Charles Bowden had won several awards in the Best of Gannett competition (Nov. 1),” writes that “some of us here in the English department at the University of Arizona were surprised, especially by the…evaluation of Bowden’s style,” goes on to criticize Chuck’s use of analogy and metaphor, etc |
| Jessie Schriber (a response to the editorial listed above) | ‘Mind your metaphors’ | Regarding Dan Thrapp’s “Nov. 18 letter on staff writer Charles Bowden,” disagrees with Thrapp’s assessment, and hopes “Charles Bowden keeps writing just like he always has, and let Dan Thrapp mind his own metaphors or whatever else they do in the University of Arizona English Department” |
Jean Gorby - also the original letter (in envelope) sent to the editor dated February 22, 1984 with the original poem by Jean Gorby that appeared in the Citizen and a photocopy of Chuck’s article “They’re making it: Couple’s Italian restaurant is in old American tradition” (Feb 21, 1984) | Charles. Bowden. | A poem about Chuck, refers to “all those awards,” and noodles “made from scratch” |
| Lewis D. Williams | title is missing – incomplete clip | Regarding the Pulitzer Prize, writes that “Charles Bowden is an excellent writer,” criticizes Robert R. McCormick’s “contention…that the Pulitzers were political and therefore of no real significance” |
NEWSPAPERS Box 2/2 (JJ)
| Section titled “USA Today (editorials)” | |
| 1984 | |
| May 16, 1984 | “Don’t fence us in – or belt us in, either” |
| June 12, 1984 | “Walking across a desert of death” |
| June 25, 1984 | “Forget about Canada; look south instead” |
| September 24, 1984 | “Bring preppy diplomats home” |
| 1985 | |
| September 12, 1985 | “Don Francisco must be stopped” |
| September 24, 1985 | “It’s a nice place to visit, but – “ |
| October 2, 1985 | “Westerners appreciate good rain” |
| October 28, 1985 | “When terror knocks at the door” |
| 1986 | |
| September 2, 1986 | “We will fight them on the deserts” |
| October 22, 1986 | “Fantasies build an Adobe Wall” |
| October 30, 1986 | “Rockets, cities, and folks like me” |
| November 19, 1986 | “Even in anger, I could not leave” |
| December 2, 1986 | “I’m too busy driving to worry” |
| 1987 | |
| April 14, 1987 | “I’m just a fool for blue sky” |
| 1988 | |
| December 30, 1988 | “Who says athletes need ethics?” |
| March 17, 1988 | “Report from the front: What war?” |
| May 2, 1988 | “No law can hold back the immigrant tide” |
| June 14, 1988 | “Life doesn’t come with a no-risk guarantee” |
| July 1, 1988 | “Don’t let spoilsports ruin our holidays” |
| September 13, 1988 | “5 p.m. is too early for football” |
| 1989 | |
| January 31, 1989 | “You’re just gonna love the music” |
| March 8, 1989 | “For the driver, the grind goes on” |
| April 20, 1989 | “Talk about what we don’t talk about” |
| May 11, 1989 | “Panic at the thought of peace” |
| June 12, 1989 | “Let’s end the tyranny of neckties” |
| 1990 | |
| January 16, 1990 | “Ban disposable diapers to cleaners up the mess” |
| Section titled “USA Today with no date” | |
| Manila folder titled “Drafts of editorials” |
| Manila folder titled “USA Today correspondence” | ||
| No name specified (mailed from Ft. Worth, TX) | May 17, 1984 | Includes a photocopy of USA Today editorial titled “Don’t fence us in – or belt us in, either,” letter says “There is a large group of people who would like to know how you accomplish suck feats in the state of Arizona and not feel the heat of the state’s infamous highway patrol,” which refers to Chuck’s statement that he drives “30,000 miles a year, much of the time careening at Benzedrine speeds…” (in envelope) |
| Professor Daniel McDonald at the University of South Alabama | December 14, 1984 | Regarding Daniel McDonald’s “fifth edition of [his] textbook The Language of Argument for Harper & Row,” asks for permission to use Chuck’s essay “Any 16-year-old knows fast is fun,” which appeared in USA Today on December 4 (in envelope) |
| Sue Turchan | June 12, 1989 | In response to Chuck’s piece in USA Today titled “Let’s End the Tyranny of Neckties,” Sue asks for an apology, is upset about Chuck’s criticism of IRS employees, original article included (no envelope) Also, a copy of a reply to Sue’s letter from Peter S. Prichard from USA Today (dated June 26, 1989) , he writes “Mr. Bowden’s column appeared on a page that is clearly labeled Opinion, and his thoughts are his own…perhaps he will write to you personally,” etc. (no envelope) |
| John Shope from Century 21 | August 13, 1984 (8:15 a.m.) | In regard to Chuck’s piece in USA Today on 6/12/84 “Walking Across a Desert of Death,” writes that “this is some real tragic stuff! I agree with you 100%,” Includes a highlight copy of the USA Today article (in envelope) |
| Jane Ann Angle | January 12, 1990 | In appreciation of Chuck’s piece in USA Today on school dress codes, etc (no envelope) |
| Joan Morrison | January 23, 1990 | Regarding Chuck’s article on American Pit Bull Terriers, contests some of the facts Chuck used in his article, ends with “next time you feel the urge to spout forth your idea of facts, it might be a good idea…” etc. (no envelope) |
| Section titled “USA Today Editorials” | ||
| Gene E. Cronk, director of Tucson’s water department | Water conservation is necessary | In response to Chuck’s article “Beat the Peak quackery,” he writes “I personally believe [Chuck’s] opinion is totally indefensible,” disagrees with Chuck’s proposed ‘solutions’ and writes that “our friend [Chuck] is not only not being a good conservationist, but he’s not being a good neighbor,” etc |
| E.O. Dye (2 originals) | Going dry with style | Critical of Cronk’s article (above), he writes that he felt that “Mr. Bowden’s article was more philosophically whimsical and tongue-in-cheek than a formal attack on the Beat the Peak program,” etc |
| G.L. Bernstein & M.P. Sullivan (2 originals) | False security | Critical of Conk’s article, they write that Cronk “missed the point of Charles Bowden’s attack on the Beat the Peak program,” and that he “dismisses Bowden’s very real concerns by accusing him of merely raising the ‘old bugaboo’ of growth control,” etc |
| Fred A. Giammona | City Growth | Regarding Chuck’s article “Beat the Peak quackery” (Aug. 2), writes that Chuck’s article “calls attention to some issues that are very important,” but that he “was dismayed at [Chuck’s] suggested sarcastic non-solution.” |
| Berk Inskeep | Watt fun | In regard to Chuck’s article on August 23, writes that Chuck “could convince James Watt, while attending the Santa Cruz Area Recreational fandango, to enjoy one of Tucson’s favorite pastimes – namely, Santa Cruz (River) water skiing” |
| Section titled “Arizona Daily Star articles” | |
| 1973 | |
| February 15, 1973 (first article ever published in a newspaper) | “God’s Little Acre: An Ongoing Dream” |
| 1981 | |
| August 2, 1981 | “Beat the Peak quackery” |
| August 23, 1981 | “Death of the Santa Cruz calls for a celebration” |
| August 30, 1981 | “Our sullied land: ‘Sagebrush rebels’ have changed the terrain enough already” |
| September 6, 1981 | “A way of life, and death for thousands of animals” |
| September 15, 1981 | “Take a closer look at James Watt; you may know someone like him” |
| 1987 | |
| April 5, 1987 | “At home on the Front Range” |
| 1989 | |
| July 23, 1989 | “Along the Abbey Road” |
| Sections titled “Miscellaneous Articles for Research” |
| Folder titled “Miscellaneous Articles written by Chuck but with no known source – many are copies” |
| Section titled “Miscellaneous Articles” | |
| 2 Los Angeles Times Book Reviews, November 1988 & May 1988 | 1 original of each |
| The Chicago Tribune, February 1982 | 1 original |
| Sunland Park News, December 1995 | 2 originals |
| A brochure – “Notes on Transplanting Mexican Elderberry” | 1 original |
| San Francisco Examiner, August 11, 1987 – “Sunbelt on Last Legs” | 2 photocopies |
| San Francisco Examiner, August 11, 1987 – “Dreams to Dust” | 1 photocopy (extra copy filed in photographs) |
| San Francisco Examiner, August 10, 1987 – “Land of Lost Souls” | 2 photocopies |
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT CHUCK
| Box 1 | |||
| Arizona Daily Star, article titled “Writer Bowden a Serious Part of People Magazine”- by Ed Seversen | June 15, 1986 | 2 originals | |
| Los Angeles Times, article titled “Environmentalist Charles Bowden Chipping Away at ‘Cement Heads’” – by Bob Sipchen | January 3, 1988 | 1 original, 2 photocopies | The original section in the newspaper includes a related article titled “The New Naturalists” and another article titled “Novelist Edward Abbey Would Still Love to Tear Down Tucson City Hall” |
| Arizona Daily Star, article titled “Environmental Battles Remain, Audience Told” – by John F. Rawlinson (having to do with Earth Day celebrations) | April 22, 1990 | 1 original | Article mentions Chuck’s speech and has a picture of him at the podium |
| Tucson Citizen, article titled “The Greening of Tucson” – by Josh Jennings | April 21, 1990 | 1 original | A picture and quote of Chuck at top of article and he is quoted throughout |
| Arizona Daily Star, article titled “Water Warriors Tangle in Backgammon Battla” – by Laura Stone | No date | 1 original | |
| Tucson Citizen, article titled “The I-10 Wasteland: Nothing from Something” – by Lawrence W. Cheek | February 4, 1982 | 1 original | |
| The Territorial, article titled “Tucson Writers’ Conference to Blend Creative Minds” – by Janet Wooddancer | December 18, 1986 | 1 original | |
| Arizona Daily Star, article titled “The Prose Pros” | September 11, 1988 | 2 originals | |
| Tucson Citizen, article titled “Editor Takes Hike – Through Desert” – by Kathleen Allen | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Examiner, article titled “Examiner’s Next Writer, Photographer in Residence: Charles Bowden and Jack Dykinga collaborate on series, ‘After the Gold Rush’” | August 9, 1987 | 1 original and 1 photocopy | Shows photo with Chuck and Jack – also, a note attached to the original copy that says “In Residence? Does this mean we’ll have to stop meeting nights at Se Fue?” |
| Tucson Weekly, article titled “King of the Blues: Charles Bowden, Writer” – by Renee Downing | September 26-October 2, 2002 | 1 original | An interview with Chuck |
| Picture titled “They Meet Again” of UA anthropologists, Julian Hayden, and Chuck | No date | 1 original | Describes Chuck as the City Magazine editor and mentions the publication of Julian’s monograph, “The Vikita Ceremony of the Papago” |
| Newtimes.com, article titled “The Reporter As Lyricist” – by Barry Graham | October 23-29, 1997 | 1 printed copy | Letter attached from Roy Elson to Meg Keoppen Clarke mentioning the Newtimes profile and other things |
| The Arizona Republic, article titled “Fire was inevitable, author says” – by Connie Sexton | June 21, 2003 | 1 original | Article regarding the Aspen Fire, based on an interview with Chuck, picture of Chuck in his 9 St. living room |
| Short article in the Tucson Citizen titled “Citizen staff writer Bowden was finalist for RFK award” | April 26, 1984 | ||
| Unknown magazine article titled “Natural Causes: Nature writers’ pens become their swords” - by Will Nixon | No date | 1 original (only the pages of the article), 1 photocopy | |
| Article in Phoenix magazine titled “Zen and the Art of Muskmelon Marketing” – by Richard Vonier (Vonier was Chuck’s good friend; they started City Magazine together) | No date | 1 photocopy w/ highlighting | |
| Article in New Times titled “Way Off Abbey’s Road” – by Dave Walker | August 4-10, 1993 | 2 photocopies | |
| Article in The Arizona Daily Star titled “The prolific Charles Bowden is non-stop writing, talking and living” – by Ed Severson | November 16, 1986 | 1 original | |
| Article in New Times titled “Lifestyle for Starving Lifers” – by Christine Tschopp Contained in an envelope addressed to Chuck and from Arizona Game & Fish Department dated July 1, 1986 | June 25-July 1, 1986 | 1 original | |
| Article in Opinion (newspaper from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico) titled “Charles Bowden, Senor Amigo” – by Jose Luis Hernandez Salas (newspaper’s publisher) | August 31, 1994 | 1 original, 7 photocopies | Also a 2 page translation of the article. |
| Article in the New York Post titled “Writers’ block at GQ after Esquire raids” – by Cal Fussman | July 16, 1997 | 1 original | |
| Letter with blurb by Bob Shacochis | July 24, 1989 | ||
| Article in The Arizona Republic titled “Writer casts literary hero in adventure tale” – by Dave Walker | November 26, 1995 | 1 original | |
| Article in The Arizona Republic titled “’Blood’ Feud” – by Paul Brinkley-Rogers | September 18, 1995 | 1 original |
ANTHOLOGIES
| Box 1/3 (KK) | |||
| Old Southwest/New Southwest, Essays on a Region and Its Literature | 1987, University of Arizona Press Judy Nolte Lensink, editor | “Useless Deserts & Other Goals” | 2 paperbacks (one in original cellophane)
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On Nature’s Terms: Contemporary Voices
| 1992, Texas A&M University Press Thomas Lyon, Peter Stine, editors | “Love Among the Lion Killers”
| 1 paper back 1 hardback
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| Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn | 1993, University of Arizona Press Gary Paul Nabham, editor | “The Heat Treatment”
| 2 paperbacks 1 hardback
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| Open Spaces City Places: Contemporary Writers on the Changing Southwest | 1994, University of Arizona Press Judy Nolte Temple, editor | “Dead Minds from Live Places”
| 1 hardback
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| Seasons of the Coyote: The Legend and Lore of an American Icon | 1994, Tehabi Books Philip Harrison, editor | “Peace without Honor” | 2 paperbacks (one in original cellophane)
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| Discovered Country: Tourism and Survival in the American West | 1994, Stone Ladder Press Scott Norris, editor | “A Wave of the Hand” | 1 paperback
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| War Against the Wolf: America’s Campaign to Exterminate the Wolf | 1995, Voyageur Press Rick McIntyre, editor | “1992: Lonesome Lobo” | 1 hardback Inscribed to Chuck from McIntyre |
| Voices in the Desert | 1995, Tehabi Books Lawrence W. Cheek, editor | “Wedding the Forbidden Land”—From Desierto | 1 hardback
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| Thin Air | 1995/96, Northern Arizona University William Tyree, editor | “Just Say the Word: the place we live”
| 1 paperback |
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
| 1996, Columbia University Mike McGregor, editor | “Love in the Badlands”
| 2 paperbacks
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| The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disappearing Line | 1996, Cinco Puntos Press Bobby Byrd, Susannah Mississippi Byrd | “Blue” excerpt from Blue Desert with a new postscript about Kathy Dannreuther, his second wife | 1 paperback
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Terra Nova/Nature and Culture/ Volume 1 Number 1
| 1996, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press David Rothenberg, editor | From Blood Orchid
| 2 paperbacks
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| Terra Nova/Borderline/ Volume 2 Number 2 | 1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press David Rothenberg, editor | “Tuna Country”
| 2 paperbacks Photos by Doug DuBois
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The Grand Adventure: Readers Choose Their Favorite Books on Arizona
| 1998, Arizona Humanities Council Marcia Melton, Jeaneete Daane | Blue Desert, Frog Mountain Blues and Red Line listed under Natural History
| 1 paperback
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| The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature | 1999, Oxford University Press Thomas J. Lyon, editor | Afterword from Frog Mountain Blues
| 1 paperback
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| Box 2/3 (LL) | |||
| The Best American Essays 1999 | 1999, Houghton Mifflin Company Edward Hoagland, Robert Atwan, editors | “Torch Song” from Harper’s | 1 hardback 1 paperback |
| The Best American Essays 1999 | Japanese Language Edition | “Torch Song” | 1 paperback |
| The Best American Essays of the Century | 2000, Houghton Mifflin Co. Joyce Carol Oates, editor | Blood Orchid and Blue Desert listed under Notable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction | 1 paperback
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| The Best American Essays | 2001, Houghton Mifflin Company Kathleen Norris, Robert Atwan, editors | “The Bone Garden of Desire” from Esquire | 2 paperbacks |
| Getting Over the Color Green; Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest | 2001, University of Arizona Press Scott Slovic, editor | From Desierto: Memories of the Future | 1 paperback Letter from Slovic
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| Writing, Reading, and Research | 2001, Allyn and Bacon Richard Veit, Christopher Gould, John Clifford, editors | “Leave Something Behind” | 1 paperback
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| River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative | 2001, Ashland University Joe Mackall, Dan Lehman, editors | “Coming to my Senses” (Early Inferno) | 2 paperbacks
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| Busted: Stone cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington’s War on Drugs | 2002, Nation Books Mike Gray, editor | “Teachings of Don Fernando: A life and Death in the Narcotics Trade” from Harper’s, 2002 | 2 paperbacks
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| Best American Crime Writing | 2002, Vintage Press Otto Penzler, Nicholas Pilleggi, Thomas Cook, editors
| “Our Man in Mexico” from GQ | 1 paperback Invitation to publication party in New York
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| When in Doubt Go Higher, Mountain Gazette Anthology | 2002, Mountain Sports Press John Fayhee, editor | “Flat Mountain” | 2 paperbacks
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| These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union | 2003, Nation Books (The Nation) John Leonard, editor | “Arizona” | 2 hardbacks
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| Box 3/3 (MM) | |||
American Rebels
| 2003, Nation Books Jack Newfield, editor | “Howard T. Odum” | 1 paperback
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Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera
| 2003, Cinco Puntos Press Luis Crosthwaite, John By, Bobby Byrd, editors | “Camera of Dirt” from Aperture 2000 & Excerpt from Blood Orchid
| 2 paperbacks
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Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth
| 2004, Four Walls Eight Windows Press Susan Zakin, editor | Excerpt from Blue Desert
| 2 paperbacks
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| Best American Crime Writing | 2004, Vintage Press Otto Penzler, Thomas Cook, editors
| “Lord of the Drug Ring” from GQ | 1 uncorrected proof 1 paperback 1 hardback Letter from Edward Kastenmeier of Vintage Books |
| Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible | 2004, Free Press Peter Manseau, Jeff Sharlet, editors | “Isaiah” | 2 paperbacks
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| Rio Grande | 2004, University of Texas Press at Austin Jan Reid, editor
| Excerpt from Down by the River
| 1 hardback Inscribed to Charles from Jan
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| Natur und Kultur | 2004 Austrian Ecological Journal
| “Snaketime” from Wild Earth Journal | 1 paperback 2 bound articles
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| Re Mix: reading and composing culture | 2006, Bedford/St. Martin’s Catherine G. Latterell, editor | “Last Meals and the People Who Eat Them” from Aperture | 1 paperback Celia A. Shapiro, photographer
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| An Anthology for Creative Writers: A Garden of Forking Paths | 2007, Pearson/Prentice Hall Beth Anstandig, Eric Killough, editors | “Tortoises” from Blue Desert | 1 paperback
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| Dry Borders: Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert | 2007, University of Utah Press Stephen Felger, Bill Broyles, editors | “Last Call: Leaving Something Behind” from 1999 Esquire | 2 paperbacks (one in original cellophane) Includes 1984 photos of Chuck taken by Broyles |
| Anthologies Miscellaneous | |||
| Box 1 (FFF) | |||
| Letter from Allyson Carter, Acquiring Editor at the University of Arizona Press | October 6, 2006 | Including 3 reader reviews | Letter regarding the reviews of Bill Broyles, John Annerino, and Charles Bowden’s proposal for The Devil’s Highway: A Deadly Trail Through Haunting Beauty, the letter shows interest with some reservations toward the book for publication (in envelope) |
| A review by Charles Bowden of Gathering in the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan | No date – printed in Vol. XXI, No 3, Western American Literature | 2 reprints | |
| Draft of “Isaiah: Kill the Buddha” titled “Ground Zero” | October 2001 | 17 pages | |
| Draft of “Isaiah: Kill the Buddha” titled “Isaiah” | No date | 16 pages | |
| Galleys for “Arizona” | Dated 8/4/03 | Pages 21-28 | Galleys contain editing throughout Includes a letter (no date) from Ruth at Nation Books to Chuck regarding the essay to be published in These United States |
| Articles on Arizona, border crossings, the economy, etc | Mostly from January 2004 | 25 articles | Research articles for the article “Arizona” |
| Letter from John Leonard at The Nation to Chuck | August 2002 | 1 page | Asking Chuck for an article on Arizona, details of the publication and the pay, etc. |
| Draft of “Howard T. Odum” | No date | 5 pages | Editing throughout |
| Articles of research for the Odum essay | Printed pages dated 2/23/03 | 5 articles | |
| Page proofs for “Our Man in Mexico” in Best American Crime Writing | Page proofs dated 2/26/02 | Pages 27-44 | Including letter from Otto Penzler to Chuck regarding the page proofs, etc. Dated February 28, 2002 |
| Arizona Daily Star, Books | September 15, 2002 | 2 originals | A review of Best American Crime Writing |
CORRESPONDENCE
| BOX 1 (DDD) - Email Correspondence & Various Letters | ||
| Richard Grant – Chuck writes “In the early, nineties I did a story on smoke jumpers in Montana and ran into Richard who was covering it for a British publication. The rest is food, talk and wine.” | January 14, 2005 to July 11, 2007 | 117 exchanges (many articles and links to articles throughout) |
| Rick Russell: Friend, high dollar Dallas criminal lawyer, yellow dog democrat | From February 14, 2006 to June 5, 2007 | 79 exchanges |
| Alice Leora Briggs – Chuck writes “Alice Leora Briggs blindmailed me a disk of images with a note. I looked at her drawings and immediately wrote her and said yes. This became Dreamland.” | From December 16, 2005 to June 7, 2007 | 187 exchanges Dreamland to be published by the University of Texas, 2008. |
| Scott Carrier – Chuck writes “Scott Carrier dropped into my life in the mid nineties. He was in Tucson doing a radio story. Later he came by with a bottle of red wine.” | From December 31. 2005 to July 17, 2007 | 148 exchanges |
| Michael Berman – Chuck writes “Michael Berman showed up one day at my house with some black and white photographs of the desert. They were the best and most honest I had ever seen. So we did Inferno together.” | From June 8, 2006 to July 5, 2007 | 103 exchanges |
| Pete Landesman – Chuck writes “Peter Landesmann called me when he needed help in a story on global sex trafficking--one eventually published in the New York Times, denounced by the press, and of course, a story all too true. Some years later, he single handedly got Down by the River optioned.” | August 18, 2006 to June 28, 2007 | 22 exchanges Landesman is the screenplay writer for the Down by the River movie. |
| Julian Cardona (early emails) – Juarez photographer, friend of Chuck and MM’s | September 4, 2000 to November 6, 2000 | 9 emails and 1 page of handwritten notes (Chuck’s handwriting) |
| Jim Harrison – Jim first blurbed Chuck in 1989 – Mezcal. Chuck writes “I bumped into Jim Harrison at some kind of meeting at Jackson Hole around 1990, one cooked up by Terry Tempest Williams and Barry Lopez. Then we went our separate ways until a dead Mexican girl broke the calm of one his walks in southern Arizona.” | March 28, 2004 to July 5, 2007 | 36 exchanges Chuck spent 6 months (April through October of 2007) writing Trinity in Jim and Linda’s house in Patagonia, Arizona, which they kindly lent him. |
| Jim Harrison’s Written Correspondence | ||
| Gerald Howard’s business card w/ handwritten note – he writes, “A long quote just in from Jim Harrison. He’s a good name to have. Hurrah.” | No date | Attached is a copy of the handwritten quote of Jim’s on Red Line…he writes at the end “P.S. I’ve got about 30 galleys on my cabinet but I couldn’t resist this one.” (no envelope) |
| Letter from Jim Harrison | May 2, 2001 | He can “imagine you and MM criss-crossing between Oklahoma and Portland. How unpleasant.” (Chuck’s sister in Oregon was diagnosed with cancer, and MM’s mother in Oklahoma was having multiple surgeries for heart disease.) Mentions his drive home through New Mexico, that he wrote Scott Carrier, etc (in envelope) |
| Letter from Jim Harrison | February 20, 2001 | Returned from a trip in Veracruz, other comments, etc (in envelope) |
| Letter from Jim Harrison | January 2002 | Mentions his work, the mineral and gem show in Tucson, getting out to Tucson eventually, etc (no envelope) |
| Letter from Jim Harrison | March 22, 2002 | Mentions his memoir, having Chuck and MM out for lunch, etc (in envelope) |
| Letter from Jim Harrison | January 2003 | Invites Chuck for lunch or something similar, mentions going to Portal to walk, etc. |
| Elaine Clarke – Produced at the NPR station in Salt Lake City | April 16, 2006 to June 6, 2007 | 54 exchanges |
| Mark Bryant – Mark wanted Chuck to work for Men’s Journal – Chuck agreed – but Mark was fired | September 5 & September 9, 2000 | 2 exchanges |
| Joan Harvey – an heiress to a meat packing fortune out of Chicago, her grandmother was a psychoanalyst, correspondence includes some photocopies of Joan’s work and also included is her original letter to Chuck (dated March 5, 1999) in which she mentions the article (Torch Song) in the August ’99 issue of Harper’s as the impetus for her letter to Chuck | March 5, 1999 to December 20, 2005 | 48 emails & letters from Joan |
| Laura Greenburg – worked at City Magazine with Chuck, she also became involved in the Gretzler case, etc. | 21 pages of email correspondence – most regarding Gretzler and the Michael Poland execution | |
| Miscellaneous Email Correspondence | ||
| Email from Kim Sanders | December 6, 2005 | Regarding his cough, his wife, Martha, being sick also, etc. (This email should be with Shadow in the City material, but was found later in the archiving process) |
Email from Keith Yearman, Assistant Professor of Geography, College of DuPage (also a reply from Mary Martha attached) | August 8, 2005 | Regarding Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future being out-of-print, that he had been using the book in his classes, asking for copies of the book for his seminars, etc. |
| Email from Scott Carrier with a comment by Tom Gordon | May 25, 2005 | The comment by Tom Gordon was sent to Marketplace, his comment explains how much he enjoyed the piece with Chuck that he heard on Marketplace (2 copies of the email included) |
| Email from Allison Bacha | August 29, 2006 | She writes that “we discussed your talk in class yesterday, and the kids just gushed about how much they appreciate your honesty and candor. They took it as a sign of respect.” Also includes the results of an anonymous survey given to her students regarding drug use and the like. |
| Email from Kathleen Anderson | April 11, 2005 | She writes, “I taught Blues for Cannibals to my graduate literary journalism and religion class today,” etc. |
| Email from Kathleen Anderson (also replies from Mary Martha) | April 26, 2006 | Regarding “a representative collection of Chuck’s clips for The New Yorker,” attached is a list of Chuck’s pieces. |
Email from Andy Ward (also replies from Mary Martha) | December 20, 2005 | Emails regarding Chuck’s trip to Venezuela for the story on Chavez for G.Q. that was never published. |
| Email from Melissa | October 4, 1999 | Regarding Letizia, mentions that she’s seen the first layouts for Chuck’s piece with Julian, etc. |
| Business Correspondence | ||
| Georgia of the Los Angeles Times | No date | Response to Chuck’s decision to become one of their regular contributors, thanks for “doing the piece on Abbey,” etc (no envelope) |
| Mark Warren, Esquire Editor | No date | Postcard type note, regarding the Austin files, etc. (no envelope) |
| Letter written by Chuck about Bobby Byrd to the Lannan Foundation | No date | About Bobby Byrd, Chuck’s time with him |
| The Arizona Historical Society | April 9, 1984 | An invitation to two events by The Mexican Heritage Project of the Arizona Heritage Center (type of postcard) |
| Joan Tapper of the National Geographic Society | January 23, 1985 | Regarding the clippings Chuck sent them of the Kino Missions story, they are “looking for someone whose writing had a different style and tone” |
| Eric Newman, Managing Editor at The Globe Pequot Press | February 28, 1986 | Writing in thanks for Chuck’s “prompt response to [his] request for travel-writing clips and other materials and for [Chuck’s] interest in writing for The Globe Pequot Press,” and goes on to write that they have hired another writer “for the project [they] discussed,” etc. (in envelope) |
| USA Today | March 3, 1986 | Regarding a change in policy for payment for stories – in Chuck’s handwriting a note, “Signed and Returned 3/13/86” (no envelope) |
| Chris Downum (letter addressed to Julian Hayden) | May 12, 1986 | Regarding the State Parks Bill. Chuck and Julian were involved in an effort to get protection for petroglyphs on Picacho Peak, west of I-10 (no envelope) |
| Sam Steiger – former Arizona Congressman and aid to governor, convicted of extortion for making a call to an employee saying that he must vote the right way or he’ll be fired. His twin sons solicited Chuck, saying “don’t tell our dad we’re coming to you or he’ll kill us,” Chuck wrote a letter – the Reinstein letter that Sam Striger refers to – the judge read Chuck’s letter out loud in court. The charge was dropped on appeal. | April 26, 1988 | He writes “The Reinstein letter you sent was as classy as you are – Thanks” (no envelope) |
| Leigh Tillman at Schaffner Agency to Gerald Howard at W.W. Norton & Company | December 19, 1988 | Regarding City Magazine article on Barry Goldwater |
| Thomas J. Lyon from Western American literature quarterly journal | May 30, 1989 | Regarding Witness magazine, a special issue on nature and nature writing, asking if Chuck would be interested in contributing (no envelope) |
| Timothy Schaffner at Schaffner Agency to Karen Schoemer at Spin | January 17, 1990 | Mentions the article “I’m In Love With Your Cruelty,” other details about Spin’s interest in Chuck, etc |
| Mr. Courtney White | June 27, 1990 | Inquiring as to whether Chuck would be interested in contributing to his photography project, included is a photograph of Mr. White w/ son (no envelope) |
| Mr. Courtney White | February 23, 1990 | In thanks for Chuck’s “prompt reply,” speaks of details of project, etc (no envelope) |
| Gunnar Brune | June 13, 1991 | Asking if Chuck would “swap a copy of Killing the Hidden Waters for [a copy of his book,] Springs of Texas” Included is a sheet w/ a description of his book, etc (in envelope) |
| Debra T. Short at the Association of Students at the University of Arizona (ASUA) Bookstore | July 18, 1991 | Asking if Chuck would agree to do a booksigning to promote Desierto, etc. (in envelope) |
| Ray Ring | August 5, 1991 | Requesting to have lunch with Chuck, details of his life, information regarding his book, etc (in envelope) |
| Max Vargas at Random House | March 7, 1994 | Federal Express envelope containing correspondence relating to Marc Gaede’s involvement with Sundance’s family in trying to keep Blood Orchid from being published. 4 letters total. |
| Shaffner Agency, Inc. | October 6, 1994 | Statement of payment for Desierto and others (in envelope) |
| The Program Committee for Arizona Book Publishing Association | December 6, 1994 | Letter in thanks for Chuck “agreeing to be part of our 1995 Tucson Book Publishing Association conference,” includes a draft of the program “which gives more details about the program,” etc. (the draft included) (in envelope) |
Lewis H. Lapham from Harper’s magazine
*Lapham had fired Chuck’s editor, Clara J., and Chuck had followed her to Mother Jones; “My loyalty is to people – not magazines.” | May 6, 2003 | Regarding the omission of Chuck’s name on the list of contributors (in Harper’s) beginning with the June ’03 issue, sites that “the difficulty is simply one of space” and that “Should it occur to [Chuck] to once again write for the magazine,” the he would “gladly…restore [Chuck’s] name to the list of contributors” (in envelope) |
| Invitation from G.Q. | October 5, 2004 | Invitation to the G.Q. Men of the Year Party (in envelope) |
| Drew (sp?) | December 28, 2005 | Regarding the blurb Chuck gave for Drew’s book This Gloryland, a letter of appreciation and other details. (no envelope) |
| Tom Zoellner | May 22, 2006 | Regarding “the strength of [Chuck’s] endorsement of this book [The Heartless Stone: a journey through the world of diamonds, deceit, and desire by Tom Zoellner],” invites Chuck to his reading at Antigone Bookstore, etc. (no envelope) |
| Teresa Rodriguez | January 12, 2007 | In appreciation for Chuck’s blurb for their book, The Daughters of Juarez, and for Chuck’s work in general (in envelope) |
| Letters from Readers | ||
| Sandra Mante | No date | Regarding Blood Orchid, mentions A Shadow in the City, is requesting his autograph, etc. (no envelope) |
| Natalie Sudman | No date | Mentions meeting him at a booksigning at Coyote’s Voice, wants to meet, etc. (no envelope) |
| Tim Elsey | No date | Regarding having read Blood Orchid, writes of other books by Chuck, personal sentiments, etc. (in envelope) |
| Jon Krakauer | November 7 (no year) | In thanks for Chuck’s “kind words [he] provided for the jacket of Into the Wild, mentions Chuck’s article in Harper’s, etc. Krakauer used a quote from Blood Orchid to begin a chapter of Into Thin Air. (no envelope) |
| Sticum (sp?) Jones | No date | Mentions his disappointment to learn that Chuck no longer works for City Magazine, invites Chuck out to Texas, etc (no envelope – letter appears incomplete) |
| Jim Evans | No date | Letter begins “You pride yourself, publicly, on being moral and honest, and yet you are dishonest, immoral, and unethical in your private life,” etc. No specific event or person mentioned. “A copy of this letter is also being sent to Ruth Fecych, Random House Books.” Ruth was Chuck’s editor for Blood Orchid. (in envelope) |
| Patty Duncan | November 8, 1988 | Writes that Chuck’s writing “has a bittersweet quality that I enjoy, but I sometimes wish that the observations weren’t so keen,” explains that she is taking Dick Kirkpatrick’s Southwest literature class at Mesa Community College, and that they met the last time Chuck gave a speech there, also mentions Chuck’s interest in her husband’s job to “pick-up used artillery, darts, etc. at the Gila Bend gunnery range and dispose of it” (in envelope) |
| Patty Duncan | November 16, 1988 | Mentions a letter Chuck wrote her, her cancer, reading Chuck’s books, etc (in envelope) |
| Patty Sasseen | March 9, 1989 | Described as “a fan letter, of sorts,” goes on to explain why and how she is taken by Chuck’s work, but also critical of Chuck’s “expressed need to wallow in the violent sewers of our time,” etc. (in envelope) |
| Laurie | April 1989 | 12 page handwritten letter appreciating Chuck’s work, etc (in envelope) |
| Edward Hessler | July 13, 1989 | In appreciation of Chuck’s writing, specifically Street Signs Chicago, Killing the Hidden Waters, and Frog Mountain Blues (no envelope) |
| Patty Lase (sp?) | October 26, 1989 | In appreciation of Chuck’s writing, she writes “I love your unity – how you say things – more than what you say,” etc. (no envelope) |
| A. (no other name provided) | December 14, 1989 | A letter of inquiry, expressing her own thoughts and experiences, etc. (no envelope) |
| Roxanne Mari Johnson | November 12, 1991 | In appreciation of Blue Desert, Red Line, and others. (in envelope) |
| Stephen Shapiro | December 26, 1991 | In appreciation of Blue Desert, Red Line, Desierto, and others. (in envelope) |
| John Walker | October 25, 1994 | Regarding Chuck’s “piece in High Country,” that he “couldn’t agree more,” etc. (in envelope) |
| A teacher and her class from the Tucson Unified School District | November 2, 1994 | The teacher writes “The book Stellaluna is a real favorite of my students,” “Thank you very much from me and all my students,” the card has a drawing on the front by Andres (a student) and the students have signed the inside of the card. (no envelope) |
| Eric Hodak | January 3, 1995 | Having read The Sonoran Desert, he is impressed with it, details about his own photography projects, etc (postcard) |
| Richard F. Quis | January 9, 1995 | Regarding having read Trust Me, he “understand[s] the challenges and [he is] hoping [he] could hook up with Michael Manning on his next assignment”, etc. (no envelope) |
| Todd Mooney | September 27, 1995 | Regarding his experience with mountain lions in the Catalinas, mentions having read Frog Mountain Blues and Blue Desert, etc (no envelope) |
| Jak | November 20, 1995 | Regarding Blood Orchid, includes a sheet with the definition of a ‘meme,’ etc. (in envelope) |
| Anthony Hendricks | May 9, 1996 | He “read [Chuck’s] tribute copy of Black Sun. Thought [he’d] share [his] tribute poem,” etc. Included is his tribute poem titled “A Tribute to Edward Abbey” (in envelope) |
| Dennis A. Hosack, Ph.D., Conservation Biologist for Defenders of Wildlife | September 25, 1996 | He “read Blue Desert in a matter of days and loved every word of it,” he would like Chuck to sign a copy of Blue Desert for his newborn son, etc. (in envelope with business card) |
| Tilly Lavenas at The Greenville News | April 12, 1997 | Regarding the article on the maquiladoras, “yours was unequivocally the best,” mentions the “book on Keating,” etc. (in envelope) |
| Personal Correspondence | ||
| Randy Udall | April 16, 1984 | Mentions trip to Glen Canyon Damn, etc (in envelope) |
| Bil Gilbert | August 20, 1986 | Regarding Chuck’s writing, includes similar comments from other people – positive reactions (in envelope) |
| Jo Laughlin | October 8, 1986 | Regarding the land, etc. – difficult handwriting to read (no envelope) |
| Richard Sassaman | May 4, 1988 | Details Richard’s trip and other things (no envelope) |
| Dorothy Jacobsen | January 4, 1990 | Contains a funeral notice in memory of Alvina Schaaf Alvina was a shirt tail relation of Bo’s. She lived at Geronimo’s Hotel (a junkie hotel – cheap), but she was a millionaire from her Iowa farmland. If she had the choice between a diamond ring or a milk cow, she’d choose the milk cow. (in envelope) |
| Patty Duncan | June 30, 1990 | Describes what is going on in her life, her relationships, her children, and mentions that she is reading Red Line, her views on the book and her views on Chuck’s writing, also includes an article titled “Out Where the Sense of Place is a Sense of Motion” by Wallace Stegner and a quote from Still Life of a Woodpecker by Tom Robbins (in envelope) |
| Richard Miller | October 1, 1990 | Mentions that Lisa wanted him to send Chuck his books, “unfortunately, Snail is the only one of which I have extra copies,” etc. (in large envelope) |
| John Walker | November 29, 1990 | Regarding “the untimely demise of Tucson Magazine,” and his enjoyment of Red Line, etc (in envelope) |
| Cassandra | April 9, 1991 | She’s writing while parked on a mesa, thoughts about Chuck, details of her life, etc (no envelope) |
| Lisa Webber | April 15, 1991 | She writes “I’m still with Paul and the gang and you are still searching for truth and beauty or something like that,” etc. (in envelope) *Lisa Webber is Aqua Girl in Café Blood, the night before they left on the Sea Shepard, she fought three cops off of Big Indian and they had to get her out of jail – they left port the next morning. |
| Jack Miles at Claremont McKenna College | May 24, 1991 | Regarding John Nicholas, that John should be recognized, for Chuck to check out his work, etc. (in envelope) |
| Cheyenne Sierra Weil (Chuck’s niece) | June 10, 1991 | Tells of her plans to go to Germany and then on to college, included is a “belated” graduation announcement, etc Letter addressed to Uncle Chuck Envelope addressed to “(Charles Bowden) c/o Mimi Bowden (in envelope) |
| John Nichols | June 27, 1991 | A letter to “Terry and Chris (and all the other participants in THE DINNER PARTY),” a “belated thank you,” mentions details of the party, people such as Jim Harrison, Simon Ortiz, Dan Gerber, Barry Lopez, etc… (in envelope) |
| Lisa Webber | October 3, 1991 | Mentions going to Europe with her dad, writes that her “husband died when the boat he was fishing on went down on a rocky shore off of Atka, on the Aleutian chain,” etc. (in envelope) *Aqua Girl in Café Blood (she came up with the name Aqua Girl) |
| Ellen Meloy | October 17, 1991 | Writes “I’m not sure whether to take credit or blame for keeping you out of Outside’s exploitation tours of the Southwest,” mentions that Chuck’s piece was “funny,” goes on to tell about her own writing and river rafting on the Colorado, etc. (in envelope) |
| Ellen Meloy | June 25, 1992 | Writes “thanks for the time on the phone for my Outside article,” that she likes the way Chuck thinks and writes, and “if you ever want a river trip in Utah, let me know,” etc. Included is a copy of Ellen Meloy’s article “Communique From the Vortex of Gravity” Northern Lights, Winter 1991 (in envelope) |
| Roy Elson | January 25, 1993 | Writes “Here’s a couple of snapshots of you and Gloria,” etc. Two snapshots of Chuck and Gloria included (in envelope) |
| Britt Lee | September 22, 1995 | 5 pages typed, mentions that she isn’t “going to badger you again about the Abbey movie. Rather, I’m going to give you an explanation, an apology, and a thank you,” writes about meeting Lou, about the Abbey Lives luncheon, etc. Also included is a handwritten letter dated September 27, 1995 (in envelope) |
| Kevin McGowin | November 14, 1995 | Large envelope w/ letter from Kevin to Chuck – mentions having read Blood Orchid, their telephone conversations, personal details of his life, etc Included are Kevin McGowin’s own pieces of writing: Bogus Pastimes (signed by Kevin to Chuck), “Blake’s Non-Textual Vision and the Center of Self,” “Where I Am,” “Floatin’ Down the River, In the New Age Summertime” (in envelope) |
| Clyde Collins | November 27, 1995 | Regarding Clyde’s own writing, his experience in the desert, etc. (in envelope) |
| Cassandra | January 24, 1998 | Regarding her feelings toward Chuck, mentions “Ms. Nebraska” (Mary Martha), is happy for Chuck, etc. (in envelope) |
| Lisa Webber (Aqua Girl) | November 3, 1999 | Mentions the gang’s plan taking them to L.A. for a while, she’ll spend Christmas at home, she’s painting the ship, etc (in envelope) |
| Roy Elson | February 24, 2000 | A note from Roy and a clip from when he was defeated in Senate (in envelope) |
| Jeff Hillard | August 24, 2000 | Regarding experiences in Provincetown, Chuck’s articles, etc (in envelope) |
| David Bretthaupt | February 17, 2002 | Sent from Ohio before David went to prison. Pamphlet included regarding “how best to hunt [crows] for sport” (in envelope) |
| No date | ||
| Byrd Baylor – a friend from Arivaca, author of many children’s books, she receives around 400 letters a month from children around the world. She was also a columnist for City Magazine | A poem by Byrd Baylor in honor of the winter solstice, handwritten note mentioning Julian and she writes “I doubt that many of your readers would know what I’m talking about” (no envelope) | |
| Rona M. Levein | Rona came to AZ from New York and never left (letter references her time in New York as “a former life”) and is the drum majorette in photo. (no envelope) | |
| Tom Sheridan, historian at the University of Arizona. He is married to the head of the University of Arizona Press. Chuck considers him to be a fine historian. | Regarding reading Chuck’s book (does not specify which book) (no envelope) | |
| Patty (She is a friend of Dick’s, corresponded with Chuck, she works for Lockhead, her kids are in special education, etc) | Mentions her visit with Chuck and MM, writes about her kids’ health and improvement, as well as her personal health, etc. (no envelope) | |
| Mark | A Bahti Indian Arts card, congratulates Chuck on “receiving yet more formal recognition” (no envelope) | |
| Ivan & Indiana Nelson (Tucson writer) | Thanking Chuck and MM for the “Thanksgiving feast” (postcard) | |
| Unopened Letters | ||
| Sun Life Annuity, Service Center | No date | |
| Sun Life, Service Center | No date | |
| Bank of Boston (no return address) | No date | |
| Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corporation | September 6, 1994 | |
| Tucson Presidio Trust for Historic Preservation | September 13, 1994 | |
| Elizabeth Shaw, Editorial and Publishing Services | September 26, 1994 | |
| National Home Life | October 6, 1994 | Addressed to Chuck |
| National Home Life | October 6, 1994 | Addressed to Kathleen Dannreuther, Chuck’s second wife. |
| Arizona Department of Revenue | November 14, 1994 | |
| Arizona Department of Revenue | December 13, 1994 | |
| First Interstate Bank | December 16, 1994 | |
| National Home Life | January 6, 1995 | Addressed to Kathleen Dannreuther, Chuck’s second wife. |
| National Home Life | January 6, 1995 | Addressed to Chuck |
NOTE: There are more letters to come, but they can not be included until after the women’s deaths. - MM
| Box 2 (CCC) – In box marked Letters to Kreinberg/Houlberg | ||
| Barbara Houlberg | ||
| 51 letters from Chuck to Barbara | Roughly from the early 70’s to the early 90’s | Many are typed, handwritten, include pieces of others’ writing, Chuck’s writing, recipes and other miscellaneous oddities **note – these offer great insight into many relevant moments in Chuck’s life: when he was fired from the Tucson Citizen, how he felt about being a reporter, his fever that lasted for months in his late 20s, his dog, his wife Zada, his research and thoughts while writing Killing the Hidden Waters, and so on. |
| Letter from Paul Dickerson to Chuck | Dated July 3, 1989 | Expresses thanks for the book, mentions spending time upstate in New York, etc |
| 8 letters from Barbara to Chuck | Few have dates – latest is September 8, 2003 and earliest is June 1, 1984 | Includes letters, but also pieces of Barbara’s writing, an article, etc. |
SPEECHES
| Box 1 (BB) | |||
| Graduation Speech given at Prescott College | 1 draft titled “Confessions of a Fallen Historian” | 16 pages | |
| Lawrence Clark Powell Address: Memorial Lecture for Tucson-Pima Public Library – delivered in Tucson on December 3, 2002 | 3 drafts, 2 drafts titled “Credo: Ground Zero” & 1 draft untitled | 2 titled drafts – 1st draft for speech is 19 pages and 2nd draft (the edit for the book) is 20 pages – untitled draft is 2 pages and the original | 2 flyers and 1 poster promoting speech (by the Southwest Literature Project) |
| Keepsake #2 (Powell Address) | 2 bound copies | by Southwest Literature Project & Tucson-Pima Public Library | |
| Salt Lake City Library Opening | Chuck read Arivaca newspaper piece | An email from Scott Carrier that includes a review of the library’s opening from the Salt Lake Tribune – email dated February 17, 2003. | 2 postcard size flyers and one paper size flyer. |
| Sonoran Desert National Park Project Speech (speech given in Tucson) | 1 draft titled “Snake Oil, Flesh, and Bones” | 15 pages, thoroughly edited | A cover page and 1 flyer for Chuck’s visit |
| Scottsdale Center for the Arts Speech (in Arizona) | 1 draft titled “The Bad, the Ugly and Us” | 9 pages, edited | 1 brochure titled “Virgil Hancock: New Ruins, Old Boneyards” – August 30 – November 2, 1997 |
| Speech for Arizona City Planners (in Tucson) | 1 draft untitled | 2 pages, lightly edited | |
| Speech delivered for Chuck by Dick Kirkpatrick at the University of Arizona (Chuck was in Dallas) | 1 draft untitled and copied into an email to Ann Wendland | 3 pages | Also a card from Ann Wendland thanking Chuck for his participation in the Abbey event |
| Folder of Selections to be Read Out loud | Chunks of his own writing and some quotes from others | ||
| Research articles for the speech given at the museum in Prescott, AZ | Speech given on March 23, 2000 | ||
| Folder of Earth Day Speech Research Material | Multiple newspaper articles | ||
| Draft of the speech given for the 10th anniversary of Abbey’s death | 4 page w/ footnotes | Also, an article titled “The Famous Mr. Ed” in the Star in March ’99 promoting the event (“Celebration in the Garden”) | Given at the Prescott Botanical Gardens |
| Draft of speech given for radio station KSAZ on park – titled “Pima County Board of Supervisors 6/6/00” | 2 pages with editing | Also an award celebrating Chuck as the “Star of the Day” and two separate invitations sent to Chuck informing him that he’d been chosen as their “Star of the Day” (KTUC Newsradio) (envelope dated Oct 4, 1983) |
| Box 2 (BB) | |||
| “Changing Places,” 2006 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference (Glendale, AZ on 6/15/06) | 1 draft of speech – 15 pages | 2 emails from MM to Amber Stefanchik, 4 emails from Kathryn Leonard discussing the accommodations and other details for the speech | Also, a flyer listing the speakers for the event and Mapquest directions to the Glendale Gaslight Inn |
| Talk for Men’s luncheon (in Tucson) | December 1, 2005 | 1 page draft | |
| Southwest Literature Project – reception in Tucson honoring Richard Shelton and Katie Lee – Chuck gave introduction for Katie Lee | December 8, 2005 | 1 page draft of introduction | Also, a flyer for the event |
| Black Hills State University Speech- South Dakota in April 2005 | 1 email from Chuck to Dave Cremean and 4 emails from Dave to MM and Chuck | Noted – Tim Steckline introduced Chuck | |
| South Dakota Speech | 12 page draft (untitled) | 1 article of research titled “Mexican mother, child found in gas tank” | |
| South Dakota Readings | 4 separate drafts | Titled “Early One Morning” (15 pages), “A Visit to the Country” (8 pages), “Night Flight” (11 pages), and “The Hunger of the Ticking Watch in the Empty Room” (22 pages) | |
| Border Book Festival – 4/06 | Email dated January 30, 2006 | 1 email to MM and Michael with the details of the book festival and Michael and Chuck’s part in it. | |
| Arizona Library Conference – in Tucson on 12/02/04 | (all material contained in an envelope labeled: Charles Bowden, Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family, Thursday 1:30-2:30pm, Canyon Suite 2) | 1 draft of speech – 5 pages | Also, the Official Program for the 2004 AZLA Conference, various brochures and maps, a letter from The Program Committee to the Speaker, 2 emails from Sarah Herlache to Chuck |
| Board of Supervisors, Gates Pass Speech – Tucson in April 2000 | 1 draft of speech – 2 pages | ||
| Arizona Criminal Attorney Speech – 9/21/02 | 1 draft of speech – 10 pages | ||
| Museum Association of Arizona Speech – (Prescott, AZ in 3/2000) | 1 draft of speech – 11 pages | Also, letter from Jim Harrison dated late January, 2001 discussing the “bereavement” speech, etc. A Museums and the Land brochure (18th Annual Meeting, March 22-25, 2000), and two other brochures from museum. A Museum Association of Arizona Speaker Tag Letter from Richard Sims (museum director) to Chuck, dated January 24, 2000 | |
| Architecture School Speech – at the University of Arizona on February 1, 2002 | 2 drafts – draft 1, 16 pages and draft 2, 13 pages | ||
| Yavapai College Speech in Prescott, AZ | Letter from Susan Lang to Chuck discussing plans for the summer conference and the workshop. Email from Chuck to Susan discussing his ideas for workshop, etc. 2 emails from Susan to Chuck discussing details, etc. 1 page of notes outlining Chuck’s workshop and general time there. | Also, 10 brochures from Yavapai College in manila envelope, dated June 4, 1999. (mentioned in the letter from Susan)
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| Reading at Singing Winds Bookstore north of Benson, AZ | 1 draft – 8 pages | Also an email from Mother Jones, subject “Even/Odd Day” – dated November 20, 1999 | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, LA & LA Public Library present Racing Toward the Millennium – Los Angeles, California in 1999 | Letter from Richard Koshalek inviting Chuck to the literary series dated May 5 1997 and w/ their current season’s brochure, 2 emails to Chuck from Louise Steinman dated March 31 & April 3 1998, 2 copies of letter from Paul Moore dated August 27, 1997, letter from MM to Louise Steinman dated September 24, 1997, and letter from Toby Dell thanking Chuck for his participation in the literary series dated January 23, 1998 | 5 brochures for the literary series | |
| Southern Utah Wilderness Utah Alliance Speech | Thank you card from Amy of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance dated March 21, 2000 Thank you letter from Mike Matz of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance dated March 21, 2000 | ||
| Arizona planning Association - Speech on Sense of Place – in Tucson on September 12-15, 2001 | 2 brochures for the conference | *note – tore them a new asshole | |
| Salt Lake city Public Library’s Gala Celebration – February 2003 | Letter from Nancy Tessman discussing details of the event dated January 4, 2002 Letter from Nancy Tessman asking Chuck to consider speaking at the event dated October 5, 2001 | ||
| Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West lecture series – January 29, 2002 | Brochure detailing the speakers, including Chuck. | ||
| Email to Chuck from Jeanne with The League of Women Voters | Dated September 7, 2000 | Email discusses the plan and details for the event where Chuck would speak. | |
| Email from Kevin McFadden of the Virginia Festival of the Book to MM | Dated December 12, 2006 | Asking for a b/w photo of Chuck | |
| Thank you cards titled “You are Awesome” from Walter Douglas Elementary School | Both dated 2/24/03 | Signed by all the students w/ picture of Chuck speaking to them on front | |
| Flyer for the University of Arizona’s “land ethic~aesthetic research” lecture series | Spring 2002 | Chuck is listed to speak on 2/1/02 |
| Box 3 (BB) | |||
| Folder 1 – Texas Book Festival Material | |||
| Email from Colleen Hobbs to the Book Festival Authors (including Chuck) | Dated October 2, 2003 | 1 page | Notes made in pen on email |
| Airline Ticket | Dated November 3, 2007 | ||
| Texas Book Festival postcard sent to Chuck & 2 Texas Book Festival pamphlets | |||
| Email from Jolie McCoy to MM | Dated November 4, 2003 | 1 page | Thanks MM for the support and suggests places to go while in Austin |
| Email from Dave Hamrick to Chuck | Dated November 3, 2003 | 1 page | Mentions that he will be their driver, etc - - also, w/ notes written in pen on page |
| Erin’s phone number, maps for the festival, details for the festival, a list of panel moderators for the festival, a schedule for the events, an Author’s Schedule, a Parking Pass (2003 Author), an Audio Recording Consent form (not filed out), & an invitation to a publication party for Lone Star Literature | |||
| Texas Book Festival Author Confirmation, Panel Discussion – for Charles Bowden | Scheduled for Saturday, November 8 from 12:15-1:30 | 1 page (green) | Panel title: The Border On Its Own Terms |
| “A confirmation of your reading/panel and signing time” sent by Cyndi Hughes to the Texas Book Festival Authors | Dated September 25, 2003 | 2 pages | |
| A document titled “For Panel Participants”, another Audio Redording Consent Form (not filled out), an Author’s Schedule, and a reservation form | |||
| Email from Mary Margaret Farabee (chairman) to Chuck | Dated July 30, 2003 | 1 page | Writing to ask Chuck if he’d participate in the Texas book Festival |
| Email from Mary Margaret Farabee to Chuck and Chuck’s reply to the above email | Dated July 31, 2003 (Chuck’s email dated the 30th) | 2 pages | Chuck says he’ll have to think about the offer (if he has the time, etc) and mentions Don Henry Ford Jr. – Mary Margaret replies that she’ll consider Don Henry and that she is not taking Chuck’s email as a negative response, plus goes over more ‘enticements’ – handwritten on email is “I said yes” |
| Texas Book Festival catalogue | Dated November 6-9, 2003 | ||
| Folder 2 – Texas Book Festival Material | |||
| Menu for the Texas Book Festival Gala | Dated October 28, 2005 | ||
| Email between Douglas Shuga and MM | Dated August 2, 2006 | 1 page | Sending a photo of Chuck to Douglas |
| Letter to Chuck from the Texas Book Festival directors, chairs, and committee | Dated July 15, 2005 | 1 page | Inviting Chuck to be a featured author in the 2005 festival |
| Letter to Chuck from Clay Smith, literary director | Dated July 15, 2005 | 2 pages | Details the plans for the festival |
| 2005 Texas Book Festival Brochure (10th Anniversary Edition) | |||
| 2005 Texas Book Festival Program & Event Guide | |||
| Leather Texas Book Festival bookmark | |||
| Folder 3 – Miscellaneous Speech Material | |||
| 1 notebook on how to get the Park in Southern Arizona | |||
| 1 notebook for the speech for Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance | |||
| 2 drafts of the Pancho Villa State Park Speech – 1 draft 3 pages handwritten and 1 draft 3 pages typed w/ editing | |||
| Letter from Sun Sounds of Arizona | Dated February 16, 1990 | Thanking Chuck for his participation | |
| Envelope with clips from Sims Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, AZ | Envelope dated April 4, 2000 | Includes 2 clips – 1 titled “Museums explore their role” (picture of Chuck speaking at the museum) and the other clip titled “Coda for Martin Luther King, Jr.” Sticky notes attached to each clip, signed R.S. | |
| Letter from Lynn Galvin of Cochise College regarding the writers conference | Dated May 2, 1988 | Thanking Chuck for “participating on the Editors’ Panel” | |
| Sonoran Desert Park Broadside | Titled “The Heart of the Matter” | ||
| 14 page draft of speech given at the convocation speech at Chadrin, Nebraska in 1997 |
MEDIA of or about Chuck
Media Box 1 (GGG)
VHS Video Tapes Bowden Interviews | |
| Books and Co. | |
| Crime, Inc. | |
| Larry King Live | July 6, 1999 |
The Border, Part 2 KDUH (Tucson PBS station) | September 1999 |
| Amigos Del Mar De Cortez | |
| Frontline/Drugs | |
| Maquilla | January 2000 |
| Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness | |
| Crime and Punishment/Ted Koppel | |
| El Camino/Tidal Bore/Canoe Trip KDUH | April 1, 1989 |
| Today Show Interview | March 28, 1997 |
| Miscellaneous VHS Video Tapes | |
| Bowden Beerman Reunion | October 2000 |
| Lincoln Savings Main Event/Keating | |
| Lincoln Savings Main Event II/Keating | |
| Keating | |
| “The War at Home” – Anti-war film including Madison, Wisconsin riots. Chuck was on campus at the time. | |
| Video of Max Cleland interview after Chuck’s Esquire article ran | |
| Barrio Historico: A Walk through Time | |
| Guns, Drugs & CIA Frontline | May 17, 1988 |
| Frontline: Murder on the Rio San Juan | 2000 |
| Sea Shepherd | |
| Ashland, OR | August 1997 |
| Jesse, Chuck’s son, Don Greene (History Professor and reader for UT Press for Killing the Hidden Waters. Don’s first wife had heart disease and while they were in Tucson waiting for a new heart for her, which never materialized, Don stayed in Chuck’s mother’s home. Eventually Don became the Dean of Liberal Arts at Chadron State College in Nebraska. He invited Chuck to be the convocation speaker and he introduced Chuck to MM while Chuck was on the Chadron campus.) | |
| Dateline, Kathie Lee/Maquila. – Research for Charlie Kernighan. | June 4, 1996 |
| “Mickey Mouse goes to Haiti” – Research for Charlie Kernighan | |
| “Zoned for Slavery” – Research for Kernighan article | |
| “Anesthesia & Surgical Techniques for Radiotelemetry in Rattlesnakes” – Research for Rattlesnake article | |
| “Black-tailed Rattlesnakes” – Research for snake article. | |
CD’S Bowden Radio Interviews | |
Interviews conducted by Scott Carrier and aired on various PBS programs:
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Interviews conducted by Doug Fabrizio for Radio West:
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Miscellaneous
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DVD’s Bowden Film Interviews | |
| 2005 Film by Steve Hise with note. | |
| Steve Hise Videos from 2001-2004 | |
| Video made at reading in Salt Lake City at Ken Sander’s Rare Book Store. (Ken is an old friend of Chuck’s and he was a close friend of Abbey’s.) | |
| Drowning River by ML Lincoln | |
| DVD of photos of Bowden Family |
AUDIO TAPES of or belonging to CHUCK
CASSETTES: BOX 1/1 (QQ)
| Loose Tapes |
| Martin Prechtel, “Grief & Praise” (copy) |
| Bowden (Gorden) 9/97 (copy) |
| Jimbo’s Country Music with Children singing and my Country friends just for you./Weldon’s Rap (copy) |
Letter to Michelle From Bruno (copy) |
Sean Gordon (2) Oct/96 (copy) |
| Tony J/4/16/97 (copy) |
| Sean Gordon (1) (copy) |
| Tony Jordon Oct/96 (copy) |
| Tony J 4/16/97 (copy) |
| Greg Brown – Further In/Dream Café (copy) |
| Teach-In on Economic Globalization and the Role of the World Trade Organization: Part 1 (original) |
| Teach-In on Economic Globalization and the Role of the World Trade Organization: Part 2 (original) |
| Ray Wylie Hubbard (copy) |
| Energy Efficient and Anti-Resonance Cassette Mechanism (copy) |
| El Breve Espacio (original) |
| Faure Requiem/Another version, not as good (copy) |
| Battle Mountain (In response to the Gulf War)/The Neighborhood (copy) |
| Robert Kyr & Others/Piano works of interest (copy) |
| Carlos & Bridgette – 7/26/97 (copy) |
| Tim Shaffer (copy) |
| Gary Webb – 4/25/98 (copy) |
| Tape – Charlie (copy) |
| Solo Quena 7 (copy) |
| Miles Davis – Workin’ With the Miles Davis Quitet (copy) |
| Writing Music (copy) |
| Gypsy Kings (Este Mundo), Miscellaneous (copy) |
| Se Vende esta Banda (original) |
| “Compositions” by Jeff Rice (copy) |
| Katie Lee & Ed Stabler “His Knibbs & the Badger” (original) |
| Katie Lee “Colorado River Songs” |
| Lola Beltran con banda (original)1989 |
| Zoar (copy) 1991 |
| Illapu – Para Seguir Viendo (copy) |
| Milton 10/19/72 (copy) |
| John Cale – Fragments of a Rainy Season (copy) |
| Belly Dance Music/Awawda Shankar (copy) – Chuck’s former lover, Sandy Lanham, is a belly dancer as well as an environmental pilot. She won the Macarthur Genius Award in 2005. |
| Eagles – Hell Freezes Over (original) 1994 |
| Sueno I (copy) |
| Zen Bones by Alan Watts (copy) |
| This American Life – 3/1/96 (original) |
| Katie Lee “Fenced!” (original) |
| The Alarm – Eye of the Hurricane – The Cult – Love (copy) |
| Carridos Prohibidos (original) 1991 |
| Mercedes Sosa (copy) |
| Banda R-15 (original) |
| Chip – 3/12/92 |
| Newsweek – June 28, 1993 (original) |
| Interview: Mike Binstein – 7/11/93 (on WLW-AM Cincinnati) (copy) |
| Sueno II (copy) |
| Lucky Dube: Taxman 1997 (copy) |
| Sing along with J.F.K./Tom Lehrer: That wasn’t the you that was (copy – no case) |
| Special Selections – Jan ’89 (copy – no case) |
| Madman across the water – Elton John/September Morning – Neil Diamond (copy – no case) |
| Cassette Case 1 | ||
| Drawer 1 | ||
| Bob Dylan | Infidels | (original) 1983 |
| The Rolling Stones | Love ya live | (copy) |
| Naturally 5 | JJ Cale | (copy) |
| Cohen/Cream/White/Dylan | (copy) | |
Leonard Cohen/White Cohen/Cream | (copy) | |
| Kitty Wells | Dust on the Bible | (original) 1992 |
| Tracy Chapman | Crossroads – RY Cooder | (copy) |
| Townes Van Zandt | Live | (copy) |
| Blues Brothers | (copy) | |
| Beatles | White Album | (copy) |
| Bobby Bare | Biggest Hits | (original) 1982 |
| Tsa’ne Dos’e | Moon Spirits | (original) 1993 |
| Jack Kornfield | Meditations of the Heart | (original) 1994 |
| Drawer 2 | ||
| Peterson Birds | Side 1: 197-241, Side 2: 241-276 | (copy) |
| New Mexico Museum of Natural History | Wolves and Humans | (Original) 1990 |
| Written on case: A: Gregorian Chants, B: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Side A: Mixed: Gypsy Kings, Basia, Manhattan Transfer, Tracy Chapman; Side B: Ethereal Stall: from Hearts of Space – Radio – Tapes | (copy) | |
| Al Di Miola | (copy) | |
| The Moore family Sings Gospel | (original) | |
| Larry Welk – The Early Years | The Bootleg Tapes – Dates, Personnel, and Whereabouts of Recording are Unknown | (copy) |
| Bob Dylan | Biograph | (copy) |
| Cuarteto “Tesoro” De Alamos sonora | (original) | |
| Eagles | Live & Selections From | (copy) |
| Farina | Best of/Memories | (copy) |
| Fasten Your Seatbelt | (copy) | |
| For Iggy from Staff – Katy Lee | (copy) | |
| Gu-Achi fiddlers | Old time O’odham Fiddle Music | (original) 1988 |
| Drawer 3 | ||
| Van Morrison | Too Long in Exile | (copy) |
| Duncan Stitt | Arizona Sky | (original) 1988 |
| Pretenders | (copy) | |
| Dated 3/17/92 | (copy) | |
| Papago Raiders | Papago Chicken Scratch | (original) 1982 |
| Peterson | Bird Calls | (copy) |
| Perdido | To Win in the Third | (copy) |
| Kim – dated 3/18/92 | (copy) | |
| Rolling Stones | (copy) | |
| Linda Ronstadt | What’s New | (original) 1983 |
| Sex Pistols | Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols | (original) 1977 |
| The Fugs | Golden Filth | (copy) |
| Cassette Case 2 | ||
| Drawer 1 | ||
| Dire Straits | Communique | (original) 1976 |
| Duncan Stitt | Arizona Sky | (original) 1988 |
| John Reed | Insurgent Mexico – read by Frank Muller (tape one) | (copy) |
| Tom Watts & Melissa Etheridge | Tom Watts – Rain Dogs | (copy) |
| Willie Nelson | Highwayman/Duets | (copy) |
| Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde | (original) 1986 |
| Drew Signor | Songwriter/Singer Acoustical Guitarist | (original) 1988 |
| Chip 1 & 2 | (copy) | |
| Doors/Dylan/Band | (copy) | |
| John Reed | Insurgent Mexico (tape 5) | (copy) |
| Gypsy Kings/Hearts of Space | (copy) | |
| Linda | Mas Caucioues | (copy) |
| Richard’s Highway Mix | (copy) | |
| Drawer 2 | ||
| Aretha Franklin | Sweet Bitter Love | (original) 1982 |
| Linda Ronstadt II | (copy) | |
Linda B Jim | (copy) | |
| Nouveau Flamingo & Seth Austin “Desert Winds” | (copy) | |
| Bruce Springstein, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emy Lou Harris | (copy) | |
| Roy Orboson, Dire Straits, Enigma | (copy) | |
| Captain Beefheart | (copy) | |
| Paul Winter | Common Ground | (original) 1978 |
| John Reed | Insurgent Mexico (tape 3) | (copy) |
| John Reed | Insurgent Mexico (tape 4) | (copy) |
| Charles Parker Byrd | The Savage Recordings | (copy) |
| Grandes Corridos con Los Cadets de Durrango | (original) | |
| Drawer 3 | ||
| Chip – 3/12/92 | (copy) | |
| Jimbo – (A & B) | (copy) | |
| Nancy Griffith | Other Voices, Other Books | (copy) |
| Musica Tarahumar En Estereo | 38 Melodias diferentes | (original) |
| Los Lobos | How Will the Wolf Survive? | (original) 1984 |
| Flying Cowboys – Rickie Lee Jones/The Subdudes | (copy) | |
| Kim – 3/19/92 | (copy) | |
| Chris’s Mex – The Harder They Come – Rege | (copy) | |
| Chip 4 | (copy) | |
| Pettit | The Time Machine | (copy) |
| Inkkuyol/The Land of the Incas/Original Soundtrack from the Mission | (copy) | |
| Nucanchi Nan | Huasha Huasha | (original) |
| Dueto Los Jilgueros del Pico Real | (original) |
CASSETTES: BOX 2/2 (RR)
| Floppy Disk Container |
| Three Tapes without titles |
| Pettit, “The Time Machine” |
| Alex Villa on Gangs |
| John Carpenter on Casas Grandes |
| INS Agent Framed |
| Cornelio Reyna/Gango #2 |
| Javier Solis/Total “ y Cambias |
| Border Series – Keating/Antelope |
| Floppy Disks |
.d2/ART (Historical) Smuggling Speech |
| Blank |
| Blank |
| .D2 – Stripe Tail |
.d2/ART Quotes – dedicate disclaimer |
.D2/ART Preface – Epic |
.d2/ART Rene #1 |
.d2/ART Intro’s Kevin – Ken |
.d2/ART Intro to Pete Pershing Killer Narc – |
.d2/ART Juan Diego Part #2 |
.d2/ART Nacho- Rip off’s – Juan Diego Part #1 |
.d2/ART Lichi #2 |
.d2/ART Lichi Part I |
.d2/ART “Pete” |
.d2/COPS Poncho #1 |
.d2/ART Chico’s Guad-Story |
.d2/ART Bio-Intro |
| .D2/Pancho |
| .d2/Barber |
.d2/NARCO #1 The Other City Panchos Barbershop |
.d2/ART John Carpenter |
.d2/ART 3-90 About Leopoldo |
.d2/ART Corridos |
3894 words .D2/GAYALLEY |
| .d2/ART Hispanic Books Inter. |
| Other Items |
| Olympus Camera in box |
| Video Camera – Brownie Target |
| Magnetic Tape: Side I Beermann Seminar 9/21/68 |
ALBUMS Belonging to CHUCK
| Artist | album title | year |
| LP Albums Box ½ (OO) | ||
| Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks | 1974 |
| Leonard Cohen | Songs of Leonard Cohen | |
| Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash at San Quentin | |
| The Fugs | 1966 | |
| Billie Holliday | Billie Holiday’s Greatest Hits | |
| Richie Havens | Mixed Bag | |
| Warren Zevon | 1976 | |
| Tomita | Pictures at an Exhibition | 1975 |
| Townes Van Zandt | Flyin’ Shoes | 1978 |
| Virgil Thomson & Leopold Stokowski | Suite from ‘The River’ & The Plow that Broke the Plains | |
| Dire Straits | 1978 | |
| G.W.W. | The John Birch Society Blues | |
| Carly Simon | The Best of Carly Simon | 1975 |
| Buffy Sainte-Marie | She Used to Wanna be a Ballerina | |
| Jesse Winchester | Learn to Love it | 1974 |
| Randy Newman | Little Criminals | 1977 |
| Peter, Paul, and Mary | In the Wind | 1963 |
| Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison | |
| Eddie Murphy | Comedian | 1983 |
Beethoven, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Neville Marriner | Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 “Grosse Fuge,” Op. 133 | |
| Jean-Pierre Rampal, The German Rococo Flute (Rene Leibowitz conducting the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra) | Gluck Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major, Telemann Suite in A Minor for Flute and Strings | |
| Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor | Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Dvorak/Romance | 1968/75 |
| Julian Olevsky, violin; Julius Rudel/Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Opus 21 Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2, Opus 22 | 1974 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Chamber Orchestra of the Saar; Karl Ristenpart, conductor | Brandenburg Concertos | |
| The Beatles | The Beatles (The White Album) | |
| (2 copies) The Beatles | 1962-1966 | 1973 |
Vladimir Horowitz, New York Philharmonic, Eugene Ormandy, conductor | Rachmaninoff, Concerto No. 3 | Recorded live at Carnegie Hall January 8, 1978 |
Beethoven, Joseph Szigeti, violin; British Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Bruno Walter | Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 | Recorded in 1935 & 1944 |
| Carpenters | Goodbye to Love/Crystal Lullaby | 1972 |
| Eva Pendleton Henderson | Jal & Prairie Knight | |
| Janis Ian | Between the Lines | 1975 |
Bach, Andres Segovia | The Genius of Andres Segovia: A Bach Recital | |
| Multiple Artists | The Original Movie Soundtrack: Saturday Night Fever | 1977 |
| Heart | Little Queen | 1977 |
| Tim Buckley | Happy Sad | |
| Multiple Artists | Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture Flashdance | 1983 |
| Sandy Bull | Fantasias | |
| Bob Dylan | Biograph | 1965 |
| Bob Dylan | Nashville Skyline | |
| Peter, Paul, and Mary | The Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary: (Ten) Years Together | 1970 |
Bruch & Mozart, New Symphony Orchestra of London; Malcolm Sargent, conductor | Bruch: Concerto in G Minor Mozart: Concerto in D Major | 1963 |
Tchaikovsky, Glinka, & Borodin, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Karel Ancerl, conductor | ‘1812’ Overture & Capriccio Italian/Tchaikovsky Overture, Ruslan and Ludmila/Glinka In the Steppes of Central Asia/Borodin | 1977 |
| The Beatles | Abbey Road | |
| The Beatles | Beatles ‘65 | |
| Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life | 1976 |
| Rolling Stones | Made in the Shade | 1975 |
| Paul Simon | Still Crazy after all these Years | 1975 |
Ravi Shankar; Alla Rakha, Tabla | Sound of the Sitar | |
| Townes Van Zandt | Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas | 1977 |
| Vivaldi | Diverse Concertos and Sonatas | 1977 |
Beethoven, The Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Bruno Walter, conductor | Symphony No. 6 | 1976 |
| Big Joe Williams | Big Joe Williams at Folk City | |
| Linda Ronstadt | Get Closer | 1982 |
| Linda Ronstadt | Living in the USA | 1978 |
| LP Albums Box 2/2 (PP) | ||
| (2 copies) The Rolling Stones | Hot Rocks 1964-1971 | |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | (produced by Andy Warhol) | |
| Pointer Sisters | Special Things | 1980 |
Beethoven, Wiener Philharmoniker; Karl Bohm, conductor | Symphonie NR. 9 Symphonie NR. 8 | 1970/72 & 1974 |
| The Band | Stage Fright | |
Bach, Karl Richter, conductor (an der Orgel der Jagersborg-Kirche bei Kopenhagen) | Toccata und Fuge d-moll, BWV 565 Triosonate Nr. 2 c-moll, BMV 526 Praludium und Fuge D-dur, BMV 532 Fantasie und Fuge g-moll, BMV 542 | 1965 |
Bach, Leopold Stokowski, conductor | Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor; Komm, susser Tod; Bourree; Sarabande; Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott; Shepherd’s Song; Fugue in G Minor | |
| Amazing Rhythm Aces | Stacked Deck | 1975 |
Paganini & Mendelssohn, Eugene Fodor; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Peter Maag, conductor | Paganini: Concerto No. 1 in D Mendelssohn: Concerto in E Minor | 1976 |
| The Doobie Brothers | Minute by Minute | 1978 |
Beethoven, Alicia de Larrocha; The Los Angeles Philharmonic; Zubin Mehta, conductor | Piano Concerto, No. 5, “Emperor” | 1979 |
| Michael Cooney | Or: “The Cheese Stands Alone” | 1968 |
Aaron Copland, New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor | The Copeland Album | |
| Odetta | Odetta at Town Hall | |
| Linda Ronstadt | Simple Dreams | 1977 |
| Linda ronstadt | Hasten Down the Wind | 1976 |
| Bob Dylan | John Wesley Harding | |
| The Fugs | The Fugs First Album | 1965 |
| Rolling Stones | Let it Bleed | |
Beethoven, The Istomin/Stern/Rose Trio | Beethoven’s Archduke Trio | |
| Aretha Franklin | You | 1975 |
| The Rolling Stones | Love You Live | 1977 |
| Bob Dylan/The Band | Before the Flood | 1974 |
| (Jay Taylor) Lloyd Baron | Arizona: Has anybody ever seen it all? & Imagine Arizona | |
| Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited | |
| Bob Dylan | Bringing it all Back Home | |
| The Beatles | Revolver | |
| The Beatles | Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 |
| The Beatles | Hey Jude (Apple) | |
| Reunion of Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, Alan Dawson, and Jack Six | We’re All together Again for the First Time | 1973 |
Smetana & Dvorak, The Guarneri Quartet | Smetana: String Quartet in E Minor Dvorak: String Quartet in A-Flat, Op. 105 | 1966 |
| Bob Dylan | Desire | 1975 |
| Bob Dylan/Soundtrack | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | 1973 |
| Bob Dylan | New Morning | 1970 |
| Bob Dylan | The Times They Are A-Changin’ | |
| Bob Dylan | Self Portrait | |
| Donovan | Sunshine Superman | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Green River | |
Virgil Thompson, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor | Virgil Thompson: music for the films | 1976 |
Greig & Rachmaninoff, Arthur Rubinstein, conductor | Two Great Romantic Favorites, Greig: Piano Concerto Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | 1973 |
| Janis Joplin | Joplin in Concert | 1972 |
| Janis Joplin | I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! | |
| Janis Joplin | Pearl | |
| Various Artists | Music from the Soundtrack Easy Rider | |
Philadelphia Orchestra; Ormandy, conductor New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor | Selections from 2001 Space Odyssey | |
| The Moody Blues with The London Festival Orchestra, conducted by Peter Knight | Days of Future Passed | 1967 |
Rachmaninoff, New York Philharmonic; Gary Graffman, Leonard Bernstein | Rachmaninoff: Second Piano Concerto & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | |
Bach, Glenn Gould, piano | Bach: The Goldberg Variations | |
| Various Artists | Original Sound Track Recording of Cabaret | 1972 |
| Cat Stevens | Cat Stevens Greatest Hits | 1972 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet | Gone with the Wind and Time Out | |
Beethoven, Wiener Philharmoniker; Karl Bohm, conductor | Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 5 | |
| The Beatles | 1967-1970 | |
| Richard & Mimi Farina | Reflections in a Crystal World | |
| Chuck Wagon and the Wheels | Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer | |
| Randy Newman | Sail Away | |
| Bob Dylan | Hard Rain | 1976 |
| Linda Ronstadt | Heart Like a Wheel | 1974 |
| R. Carlos Nakai | Sundance Season | 1988 |
| Mike Oldfield | Tubular Bells | 1973 |
| Neil Young with Crazy Horse | Everybody Known This is Nowhere | |
| Country Joe & The Fish | Electric Music for the Mind and Body | |
| Country Joe & The Fish | I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Willy and the Poor Boys | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Bayou Country | |
| Willie Nelson | The Sound in your Mind | 1976 |
| The Band | The Band | |
| The Band | Cahoots | |
Beethoven, Wiener Philharmoniker/Vienna Philharmonic; Karl Bohm, conductor | Beethoven, Ouverture: Die Geschopfe des Prometheus/The Creatures of Prometheus | 1972 |
| (2 copies) Linda Ronstadt | Prisoner in Disguise | 1975 |
| John Prine | John Prine | 1971 |
| Luciano Pavarotti | The Great Pavarotti | 1977 |
Rossini, I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor | Rossini: Variations for Clarinett and Small Orchestra, Serenade for Small Orchestra | 1976 |
Strauss & Respighi, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Rudolph Kempe & Antal Dorati, conductors | Strauss: Don Juan & Salome’s Dance Respighi: Pines of Rome | 1976 |
| Berlin | Pleasure Victim | 1982 |
Vivaldi, Toulouse Chamber Orchestra; Louis Auriacombe, conductor | Vivaldi: five concertos – for four violins, soprano recorder, two tumpets, mandolin, & two mandolins |
AWARDS
| Partial List of Awards | |
| Guggenheim Fellow in Economics | 1979 |
| Woodrow Wilson Fellow | 1966 |
| Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for “While You Were Sleeping” in Harper’s magazine | May 1997 |
| Lannan Foundation Award in Non-Fiction for Blood Orchid | 1996 |
International Center for Photography – New York City: Infinity Award for Best Photography Book – Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future (Clara Jefferies, at that time Chuck’s editor at Harper’s, introduced Chuck. She was not used to public speaking and was a wreck after the awards, so Chuck shepherded her downstairs to another part of the hotel, to a bar, despite the fact that Tina Brown, her husband, and others wanted to talk with him and were upset that he ‘disappeared’. I always thought this was a true reflection of Chuck’s character. The ‘important’ people always take a backseat to the people Chuck feels are important. MM | 1998 |
| Border Regional Library Association – El Paso: Southwest Book Award – Juarez: Laboratory of Our Future | 1998 |
| Best American Essays 1999 – “Torch Song” in Harper’s magazine | 1999 |
| Best American Essays 2000 – “Bone Garden of Desire” in Esquire | 2000 |
| Best American Crime Writing 2001 – “Our Man in Mexico” (Sal Martinez) in G.Q. | 2001 |
| Nominated for National Magazine Award for “Our Man in Mexico” | 2001 |
| Arizona Highways’ Silver Writing Excellence Award for “Cabeza Prieta” | 2003 |
| Lannan Foundation Fellowship - $50,000 | 2002 |
| Lannan Foundation Fellowship - $50,000 | 2003 |
| Arizona Highways’ Gold Writing Excellence Award for “Crossing Arizona” | 2004 |
| Border Region Library Association Southwest Book Award for Inferno | 2007 |
| Finalist for the Orion Book of the Year Award for Inferno | 2007 |
| 2nd place in the John Barlow-Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism (Mother Jones, for whom Chuck had helped secure a major grant from the Lannan Foundation in order to do in-depth investigative reporting, swept the awards. (Chuck was paid minimally for his piece because he felt he had a conflict of interest.) | 2006 |
| Box 1 (BB) | |||
| List of Chuck’s awards – also included above | |||
| Pulitzer Prize Nomination | |||
| Letter from Robert L. Bartley | Dated April 19, 1984 | 2 originals | He writes that “those of us on the feature writing jury….had picked your pieces as the best of those we’d read,” etc… |
| Tucson Citizen article titled “If Pulitzer juries had prevailed, Citizen and Star would have won” | April 18, 1984 | 1 original | |
| Tucson Citizen article titled “Citizen’s Charles Bowden picked by Pulitzer jury for top features” | No date | 2 originals | |
| Article titled “Citizen staff writer Bowden was finalist for RFK award” | No date | 1 original and 1 photocopy | |
| Editorial titled “A Prize?” | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Article titled “Arizona newsman came close” | No date | 1 original | |
| Gannett Award | |||
| A Gannett “Well Done” award given “For a story on the survivors of the attack on U.S.S. Arizona and Pearl Harbor Day” | December 1981 | Also a letter to Gerald Garcia from Phil Currie regarding the award | |
| The Best of Gannett 1983 catalogue listing Chuck as first place for the Outstanding Achievement Award by a Writer and the Feature Writing Award | 1983, 2 copies of catalogue | The catalogue includes two excerpts of his work | A Gannet business card and a flyer titled “The Pursuit of Excellence” – Best of Gannet 1983 |
| The Gannetteer magazine | December 1983, 2 copies | Chuck nominated Outstanding Achievement by a Writer and has an article on page 6 titled “The Big Stories Don’t Wait for You” | |
| Gannett Wire Watch circulation – Gannett Year-end Meetings: Quotes from the Low and the Mighty – | Week of December 18, 1983 | Tucson Citizen office Memorandum saying saying that some of the content is Bowden’s | |
| Speech for Gannett prize titled “A Little Bit More Rope” | Not dated, 2 copies | 1 page | |
| A Best of Gannett document stating “Charles Bowden, Tucson Citizen, First Place, Investigative/In-Depth Reporting: Local, 1983, For a series, “Using Our Children For Sex” | |||
| Chuck’s series “Using Our Children For Sex” compiled and stamped in an award type fashion by Gannett Newspaper | Dated April 7, 1983 – 2 copies in original envelopes | * Seems to be something that the award ceremony might hand out to the guests | |
| Folder of Newspaper Articles All Relating to Chuck’s Gannett Awards and Related Awards | Including an envelope that Bo – Chuck’s mother – kept with clippings of similar articles | ||
| Letter from Community Foundation for Southern Arizona regarding Chuck’s nomination for the 2003 Arizona Arts Award | Dated March 27, 2003 |
| Box 2 (CC) | |||
Lannan Literary Award – 1996 Galeano Award Presentation Speech – 1999 | |||
| The 1996 Lannan Literary Award Catalogue listing Chuck as the recipient of the award in nonfiction | |||
| Press Release from Lannan announcing the 1996 Lannan Literary Award nominations | Dated October 1, 1996 | 4 pages | |
| Tucson Citizen article announcing Chuck’s Lannan Literary Award | Dated October 3, 1996 | ||
| 1999 Lannan Foundation, Galeano Award Presentation for the Cultural Freedom Award – April 21, 1999 | Transcript of each speech given, including Chuck’s. Chuck is a member of the Cultural Freedom Nomination Committee for the Foundation. | ||
| Note from Laurie Betlach to Chuck and MM dated 4/28/99 | Note sent with 1) a transcript of Galeano’s acceptance speech, and 2) a NYT article dated April 11, 1999 about Galeano and his award. | ||
| Brochure for the event awarding Galeano his prize, titled “Readings and Conversations” | 4 copies | Dated April 22, 1999 | |
| Letter to the board at the Lannan Foundation from Chuck dated March 25, 1999 | 2 pages | Discussing Chuck’s support of Galeano…that he can “think of no better candidate,” etc | |
| Note from Carol Cheek dated March 19, 1999 w/ attached material | A typed biography of Galeano and photocopies of articles on Galeano | ||
| A letter by Carolyn Forche, addressed to the members of the board of directors at the Lannan Foundation (galley-like format) | 2 pages – dated March 30, 1999 | ||
| Other miscellaneous correspondence w/ Lannan Foundation | 1) post card from Andy and Patrick dated September 15, 2000, 2) email from Patrick dated September 2, 2000, 3) letter of thanks for staying in Marfa house from Chuck to Martha Jessup dated March 12, 2004, - also a draft of the letter dated the day before, the 11th | ||
| Invitation to the 2001 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom (awarded to Mahmoud Darwish) | Envelope dated March 6, 2002 | ||
| Letter from Lannan Foundation awarding Chuck the Lannan Literary Fellowship | Dated December 5, 2002 | Note written on letter – “Letter sent December 30, 2002” (perhaps Chuck’s letter of acceptance?) | |
| Invitation to the Lannan Foundation presentation and conversation: Defending Cultural Freedom | |||
| Lannan Foundation Memorandum – detailing some of the guidelines for nomination process for the 2000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom | Dated November 3, 1999 – 3 pages | ||
| Lannan Foundation Memorandum – detailing “the most recent nominations for the Prize for Cultural Freedom” | Dated October 20, 1999 – 4 pages | (Chuck is listed as nominating Letizia Battaglia) | |
| Lannan Foundation Memorandum – detailing the (revised) nominations for the 2000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom | Dated November 12, 1999 – 2 pages, plus fax page | (Chuck is still listed as nominating Letizia Battaglia) | |
| Email from Chuck to Patrick at the Lannan Foundation discussing Chuck’s ideas for nominees for the Prize for Cultural Freedom | Dated October 20, 1999 – 2 pages | Chuck mentions Letizia Battaglia and Jane Goodall | |
| Invitation to the Lannan Foundation’s presentation of the 2000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom | Envelope dated October 5, 2000 | ||
| List of the “Nominations for the 2000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom” | 1 page | Chuck is listed as nominating Jane Goodall | |
| Lannan Foundation Memorandum – detailing information on candidates for the Prize for Cultural Freedom | Dated November 19, 1999 – 6 pages | ||
| Letter to Claudia Andujar from Janet Voorhees, the Executive Director of Programs for the Lannan Foundation | Dated August 30, 2000 – 1 page | Letter informs Claudia that she has been chosen to receive the 2000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom | |
| Lannon Foundation Memorandum – detailing new nominations, etc, and including a copy of a note from Galeano | Dated October 22, 1999 – 3 pages, and fax page | ||
| Draft of Chuck’s speech regarding Battaglia | 4 pages | ||
| Draft of speech regarding Basta | 3 pages | ||
| Agenda for the Prize for Cultural Freedom meeting | Dated February 5, 2000 | ||
| ICP 1999 Infinity Award | |||
| News Release listing the 1999 Infinity Award Winners | Chuck is listed under “Publication, Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future” | ||
| Letter to Chuck from Anna Winand from the International Center for Photography | Dated March 8, 1999 | ||
| News Release discussing the 1999 Infinity Award Winners | |||
| Letter to Chuck from Willis Hartshorn discussing details of the awards presentation | Dated January 21, 1999 | ||
| Brochure for the “Fifteenth Annual Infinity Awards” at the International Center for Photography | |||
| The Lukas Prize Project | |||
| Invitation to the Fifth Annual Conference on Nonfiction Writing & Awards Ceremony | May 8, 2003 | Chuck is listed as a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize | |
| Miscellaneous Awards | |||
| An award certificate from the Arizona Press Club award for Commentary/Analysis, Small Non-Dailies, Third Place – Charles Bowden, Tucson Monthly – 1997 | |||
| The Southwest Book Award, given by the Border Regional Library Association for Chuck and Virgil Hancock’s book, Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge | Award dated March 7, 1998 | ||
| The Southwest Book Award, given by the Border Regional Library Association to Chuck for Inferno | Award dated March 3, 2007 | Also has a letter to Chuck from Lisa Weber, co-chair of the BRLA Southwest Book Awards (letter dated March 6, 2007) | |
| 2007 Orion Book Award – an article announcing the finalists for the Orion Book Award – Inferno is listed as one of the finalists | Dated April 21, 2007 – 2 copies of article | ||
| More Gannett Material and Other Miscellaneous | |||
| Letter from John C. Quinn of Gannett | Dated February 17, 1984 | Writes that he heard that Chuck came very close to finalist in the Ernie Pyle competition, congratulations, etc | |
| Letter from Phil Currie of Gannett | Dated September 14, 1982 | Writes that he heard that Chuck is “back on the Tucson team,” glad to know Chuck’s working for the Tucson Citizen again, etc | |
| Letter from Phil Currie of Gannett | Dated April 18, 1984 | In congratulations of Chuck’s “near-miss” with the Pulitzer Prize | |
| Letter from Phil Currie of Gannett | Dated December 20, 1983 | In congratulations for the Best of Gannett 1983 awards | |
| Letter from Phil Currie to Andy Zipser | Dated January 4, 1983 | Recommending Chuck to be cited for the Arizona Press Club’s Newsperson of the Year award | |
| Letter from Phil Currie to Gerald Garcia (included is an award certificate in Chuck’s name) | Dated September 28, 1983 | Sending Chuck’s certificates and a check “marking his excellent showing in the August Well Done contest” The award certificate specifies “For the coverage of strikers in Arizona copper-mining communities and for a special report, ‘The Trek That Can Last an Eternity’” | |
| Letter from Jack B. Tinsley to Gerald Garcia | Dated April 17, 1984 | In congratulations to Chuck “for being a finalist in feature writing for the 1984 Pulitzers” | |
| Letter from Phil Currie to Gerald Garcia (included is an award certificate in Chuck’s name) | Dated June 22, 1983 | In congratulations to Chuck for his “recent success in the April Well Done contest” The award certificate specifies “For reports on sexual abuse of children” | |
| May Well Done award certificate | May 1982 | Specifies “For an article about an historic ranch used by conservationists trying to save an obscure minnow from extinction” | |
| September Well Done award certificate | September 1983 | Specifies “For a story about a community where many native American Indians face violence, alcoholism and sometimes death” | |
| Arizona Press Club second place certificate for “Any Newspaper Feature Writing: Long Form” | Dated 1982 | ||
| The Best of Gannett 1983 catalogue | |||
| Envelope from the Pulitzer Prizes containing pamphlet of “The Pulitzer Prizes 1984, Journalism” | Envelope dated September 25, 1984 | Lists Chuck as finalist in Feature Writing category | |
| Letter from Robert L. Bartley of the Wall Street Journal | Dated April 19, 1984 | Regarding the Pulitzer Prize, that he and others on the comity “had picked your pieces as the best of those we’d read,” sending this “small consolation…” of admiration, etc | |
| Letter from Michael I. Sovern of Columbia University | Dated April 16, 1984 | Regarding the Pulitzer Prize, that Chuck’s pieces “were among the jury’s nominees, a rare distinction,” a congratulations, etc | |
| Letter from Henry Koffler of the University of Arizona | Dated May 31, 1989 | In congratulations for winning first-place for business reporting in the latest Arizona Press Club competition | |
| Letter from Sue M. Vogelsinger of Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards | Dated April 18, 1984 | Informing Chuck that his piece “The Trek That Can Last For Eternity” was a finalist in the RFK Journalism Awards, also handwritten notes attached of a committee member’s response to Chuck’s article | |
| Email from Melissa at Aperture about Letizia | Regarding her views of Letizia’a work – Chuck nominated Letizia for the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedoms | ||
| Community Foundation of Southern Arizona – Chuck was nominated for a $25,000 award, a room was set up displaying his work for the judges to assess, he did not win the award | 3 items: - letter from Barbara regarding meeting Chuck and Mary Martha, etc (dated April 29, 2003 - Three display labels – “Where I hail from,” “What I do,” “Where I’m heading” - map of the room showing the locations of the details of the display. Friends from Virginia who served on the Buenas Aires Wildlife Refuge Friends board of directors with Chuck, Janine Higgins, and Bill Easten, constructed two 4’x8’ back drops and helped Mary Martha set up the display. |
PHOTOGRAPHS
(Approximately 300 including some slides)
(Each ‘set’ listed below is in a separate plastic folder with its typed explanation. Most of the photos also have notes on the back. Explanation and notes by Mary Martha.)
| Box 1 (large manuscript box) | |
| November 1, 1912 | |
| 1 8x10 photo by Claussen of the Beerman-Stockman Wedding in Germantown, Iowa. The bride (6 foot tall) is pregnant and this picture is taken on her parent’s farm outside of town. She is Chuck’s maternal grandmother, the mother of his mother, Berdina Beerman Bowden. | |
| 1950’s | |
| 1 4x6 b&w of Mary Blythe (Chuck’s hair dresser from the time he was 12) and her sister in front of the infamous Caverns bar in Nogales | |
| 1947 to late ‘50’s | |
9 b&w snapshots of Chuck from age 18 months to about fifteen years old. There are three Bowden siblings, the children of Berdina and Jude: George the oldest, Peg (Margaret) the middle child and Chuck, their youngest child.
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| 1964 | |
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| Unknown dates | |
| 1 8x10 b&w of Julian Hayden and Ray Turner. These men were both famous ‘desert rats”. Julian did major archeological dating for over 60 years. Ray authored what Chuck considers to be one of the most important books ever printed about Arizona, The Changing Mile by the University of Arizona Press. | |
| 1 8x10 b&w taken by Julian Hayden in the 1930’s. It is a photo of a skinned coyote taken at the San Xavier mission south of Tucson, AZ. It was used to bewitch someone. | |
| Late 60’s | |
| 1 8x10 b&w of a porch in Mississippi when Chuck was there registering people to vote. | |
| 1969 | |
| 1 8x10 b&w photo of Chuck in the library at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he was doing his masters and doctoral work. (One could smoke in libraries then.) | |
| 1970 | |
| 1 5x7 b&w photo of Chuck, his first wife, Zada, and their Newfoundland dog, Job. Taken on the porch of their farmhouse in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. | |
1970’s Through 90’s
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Kreinberg, Houlberg, Dickinson: · 2 3x5 color snapshots of Barbara’s installation art of clothes hanging at the Chicago Art Institute · 1 3x5 color snapshot of Paul in his studio · 1 5x7 b&w of Barbara in her slip with explanation on the back · 7 slides of Chuck taken when Barbara was visiting him with Lew in Tucson · 1 12x11 b&w of Chuck and Lew and Raggedy Ann on the beach in Michigan. Barbara took the picture in the 70’s as part of a series of art work in which she was replacing herself with the doll.
Chuck met Lew Kreinberg in graduate school at Madison Wisconsin. He was married to Barbara Houlberg and she had a son from an earlier marriage, Paul Dickerson. Chuck and Lew collaborated on Street Signs of Chicago. Barbara was an artist. Paul became an artist and he committed suicide in the mid 90’s. | |
| 1980’s | |
| 4 b&w contact sheets of photos taken by Bill Broyles on a trip he and Chuck took through the Cabeza Prieta. Includes the photos of the weapons markers of the Air Force. | |
| 1980’s | |
| 20 color snapshots taken by Kathy Dannreuther, Chuck’s second wife, while hiking in the Chirachua mountains of eastern Arizona. | |
| 1980’s | |
| 1 8x10 b&w of a blonde woman holding a glass of wine. This is an example of the women who met Chuck at parties for City Magazine and also currently at book signings who are enamored of him. In this case, this woman was at the Ventana Canyon resort in Tucson with her rich boyfriend, and she gave him her hotel key. (He told MM, that he didn’t use it.) | |
| 1980’s | |
| 1 8x12 color of Chuck in canoe. Bill Broyles and Chuck on canoe trip from Needles to Yuma | |
| unknown date—probably 80’s | |
| Kodak negatives of Chuck driving. | |
| 1980’s? | |
| 1 b&w contact sheet on piñata maker. All taken by Bill Broyles | |
| 1980’s | |
| 1 8x10 b&w of Mexican wolf pup at the Tucson Desert Museum for story. | |
| 1980’s | |
| 4 8x10 b&w photos of wishing shrine on Tohona O’odham Reservation south of Tucson for story. | |
| Unknown date—probably in 80’s | |
| 1 12x8 color of a homeless man on skid row in Yuma, AZ. Bill Broyles took the photo so Chuck would know who his readers are. | |
| 1980’s | |
| 4 b&w contact sheets of photos taken by Bill Broyles on a trip he and Chuck took through the Cabeza Prieta. Includes the photos of the weapons markers of the Air Force. | |
| 1980’s | |
12 5x7 color mounted photos sent to Chuck by Tim Elsey from the Photo Center in Orange, CA. and an accompanying letter. This is an example of the hundreds of unsolicited photos Chuck has received over the years. | |
| 1981-1983 | |
Promotional photos of Chuck for the Tucson Citizen | |
| 1983 | |
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| 1983 | |
August 22, 1983 story for Tucson Citizen. Taken on June 21. (Longest day of the year.) Chuck walked across the southern Arizona desert from below the Mexican border to Tacna, Airzona on Interstate 10 to report on what the illegal crossers experienced. Bill Broyles traveled with him. In this photo they are within five miles of Tacna and Chuck is in bad shape. They went into a bar in Tacna owned by a Basque. Chuck was completely dehydrated. He lay on the floor and drank beer for 7 hours before he could urinate. The story is also used in Blue Desert. | |
| 1983 | |
This was Chuck’s first encounter with Earth First! Founder Dave Foreman is in dark vest. It was at Lake Powell, a protest of the dam. Secretary of the Interior James Watt was there.
The day after the protest Jack, Foreman and Chuck went down into the Dive of Buckskin in the Grand Canyon and were attacked by an enraged owl. See owl in photos. | |
| 1984 | |
In March of 1984 the Colorado River flooded and became navigable down to the Sea of Cortez. This had not happened since 1939 with the building of Hoover Dam and hasn’t happened since then. Chuck and Bill decided that it was probably the only time it would happen in their lifetime. In a trip that Chuck describes as ‘brutal’, he and Bill Broyles did the trip in a canoe. The photos were taken by Roberson when they put in at Yuma AZ and the 5x7’s are taken by Bill out on the mud flats. | |
| Mid 80’s | |
They were on the Seri land illegally and they were with a Mexican man who was hunting illegally. The man tried to sell them his daughter.
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| Mid 80’s | |
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| 1985 | |
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| 1985 | |
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| 1986 | |
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| 1986-1988 | |
Promotional Spot
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| 1987 | |
Chuck walked across the Salton Sea in the summer for the San Francisco Examiner. They paid him $10,000. He did this because the mother of his child, Debbie Niwa, did not have health insurance and she had a caesarean section for the delivery of Jesse Bowden Niwa, Chuck’s son. Chuck did the walk in order to pay the hospital bill. When Chuck and Jack Dykinga came in off the desert, this woman, Gloria, was on the edge of town giving blow jobs to men who pulled over in their pickup trucks. She was 23 years old. | |
| 1989 | |
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| Box 2 (CCC) | |
| 1989-1990 | |
Living in Alamos, Sonora Writing Secret Forest & Desierto
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| 1990’s | |
These are miscellaneous photos: the b&W is a mash photo that came in the mail with the woman’s telephone and address. The house is in Sonora and Chuck took the picture because he liked the airplane door gate. The man at the piano is Vernon Wang who went to high school with Chuck. | |
| 1990’s | |
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| 1990’s | |
Babbitt and his staff left before the end of the trip. He was supposed to make sure a boat was waiting for the rest of the group at the bottom of the canyon when they arrived, but this wasn’t done. After a while, when they realized the only way out was back up and they didn’t have food, stamina, etc., people were panicked, running around and stamping SOS’s in the snow, etc. Chuck sat to the side, reading a book. When he finally saw a plane overhead, he calmly pulled a small reflector/mirror out of his backpack and signaled a plane at 30,000 feet. They were rescued several hours later. (I’ve heard this story from Chuck and two of the people on the trip. MM) | |
| 1990 | |
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| 1992 | |
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| 1992 | |
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| 1993-1994 | |
Living in Arivaca, AZ Writing White Light, Blood Orchid, Stone Canyons, Chihuahua Chuck lived at the ranch (south of Arivaca on the Ruby Road) owned by his friend, Chris Clarke. Chris was married to Meg Keoppen and they lived on Meg’s place down by the cienega outside of Arivaca as Meg gardens and the ranch has never had a good well. The ranch house, which Chris, who was a fine carpenter, had built, was all solar. Chuck set up hummingbird stations and had hundreds of hummingbirds. He used the ranch in Inferno. (Sex scenes involved a woman from New York who was in publishing.)
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| 1998 | |
4 4x6 color snapshots of Chuck and Mary Martha in Italy. Esquire sent Chuck to Marcella Hazans’ cooking school in Venice for the last class she gave there. They never ran the story but when Andy Ward moved to GQ, he remembered it as “the best cooking story he’d ever read” and GQ ran it.
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| 1998-2002 | |
3 4x6 color snapshots
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| 1998-2003 | |
6 4x6 color snapshots all taken at 9th Street house in Tucson.
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| 1999 | |
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| Early 2000’s | |
(Most of the photos are identified on the back by MM) | |
| 1999 & 2003 | |
2 4x6 color snapshots.
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| October 2000 | |
4 4x6 color snapshots of the Bowden-Beerman Reunion held in Tucson in October 2000. (Bo had had a stroke earlier in the year and the reunion was moved from Oregon to Tucson as Bo was the oldest relative.) 40 relatives came from around the states. The dinner was held at the Flandrau House at the Arizona Inn on October 7, 2000. · Bo and her three children, George, Peg and Chuck on the patio of the Flandrau House. · MM on the patio · Jesse playing with yoyo on the patio · Chuck toasting his mother at the dinner in Flandrau House | |
| 2001 | |
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the first three drafts of Down by the River the first draft of Blues for Cannibals the first draft of Jerusalem Nights (early Inferno) | |
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2 color 8x10s
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OTHER WRITERS MISCELLANEOUS
| Box 1 (FFF) – Ed Abbey | |||
| Letter asking permission to re-use Chuck’s Ed Abbey tribute as the forward in a reprint of Abbey’s Black Sun – Also included, a copy of the tribute | January 15, 2003 | Letter 1 page, the tribute pages 161-168 | |
| Article titled “With Abbey’s Death, City Lost More of it’s Soul” | Tucson newspaper (either Citizen or Star) and no date | 2 photocopies | |
| Tucson Weekly “A Celebration of Edward Abbey” | April 5-11, 1989 | 1 original and 1 photocopy | The article includes a short section by Chuck on Abbey’s death |
| Folder Ed | |||
| Letter from Ed Hessler to Chuck | Dated October 13, 1989 | Mentions the farewell to Ed Abbey in Buzzworm and says it helped him with the loss of the guy almost all of us counted on, thanks Chuck, etc. | |
| Letter from Kathy Collmer to Chuck | Dated April 17, 1989 | Expresses sympathy over Ed’s death, wants to offer a donation to Ed’s family and asks for their mailing address, etc | |
| Tallahassee Democrat – 2 articles: one on Ed Abbey and one on Tucson w/ Chuck, both written by Bob Sipchen | Dated January 10, 1988 | 1 original | Articles titled “Edward Abbey battles civilization with army of words” & “Author believes Tucson can control the ‘cement heads’” (author referred to is Chuck) |
| Los Angeles Times article written by Bob Sipchen | No date | 1 photocopy | Titled “In Desert Solitude, Faithful Pay Tribute to the Abbey Myth” |
| Letter from Gloria Somer from the Smithsonian Magazine to Chuck | Dated April 11, 1985 | Regarding Chuck’s proposal for their consideration of Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, a rejection of their interest, also an attached form titled “Writer’s Guidelines” (for Chuck’s information) | |
| Letter from William C. Norman to Chuck | Dated March 22, 1989 | Regarding Abbey, about his appreciation of Abbey, that he wants to write “the things I wanted to say to him [Abbey],” but that now he can’t, so he’s writing to Chuck, etc. (forwarded to Chuck’s home address from City Magazine’s address) | |
| 2 cassette tapes of Ed Abbey’s memorial | Speakers listed according to cassette’s sides | ||
| Clip from Tucson Weekly, April 1989 | 1 original | Titled “A Celebration of the Life and Work of Edward Abbey” – Including a tribute by Chuck | |
| Clip from the Tucson Citizen March 19, 1989 | 1 original | Titled “With Abbey’s Death, City Lost More of Its Soul” – by Charles Bowden | |
Letter to Ed Abbey from Emily Heckman of North Point Press Handwritten note on letter “Dear Chuck – F.Y.I. Ed” | Dated January 4, 1989 | Expressing interest in Chuck’s work, but without his address – asks Ed to contact Chuck for them (no envelope) | |
| Letter from Mark Gaede to Chuck | Dated April 12, 1989 | Regarding a project that began before Ed’s death and continued on after his death – a compilation to which Chuck would contribute, writes of Ed, Ed’s wife, etc. (no envelope) | |
| Letter from James Bishop to Chuck (in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico) | June 29, 1991 | Includes an edited draft titled “Intro draft for Bowden’s review 5/24/91” (7 pages). James Bishop writes “I think this is on target – what say, coyote!” Also included is a photocopy of an article by James Bishop titled “Far from the crowd, but not in the Air Force” in the Arizona Republic. (in envelope) | |
The 1992 Edward Abbey Western Wilderness Calendar ***The two calendars are not in the Ed Abbey manuscript box. Rather they are loose in the larger box. | 2 calendars – both in plastic wrap | The calendar features the writings of: Edward Abbey, Douglas Peacock, Terry Tempest Williams, and Charles Bowden (excerpts from Blue Desert and Mezcal) |
| Box 2 (Y) – Ken Kesey & Other Miscellaneous | |||
| LA Times Book Review of Ken Kesey, titled “Prophet in His Own Country” | Dated November 3, 1991 | 1 photocopy | 1 copy obtained from internet, and 1 draft sent by Mark Warren in an email to Chuck dated July 17, 1998 |
| CommonDreams.org Newscenter article on Kesey’s death w/ mention of Chuck | Dated November 10, 2001 | 1 copy printed from Internet | |
| Draft of the LA Times Book Review titled “Robert Kirsh Award Winner, 1991” | No date | 8 pages | |
| The LA Times Book Reviw of Ken Kesey, titled “Prophet in his own country” | November 3, 1991 | 2 originals | |
| Postcard from Jack Miles, Book Editor at The Los Angeles Times | July 29, 1991 | Writes “Kesey it is,” mentions Chuck’s check from the Times, “The essay…was a joy to read and will appear in the Book Review on the first Sunday in November,” etc | |
| Draft of the preface for Don Henry’s Contrabando – titled “The Adobe M.B.A.” | 15 pages with editing throughout | ||
| Draft of the preface for Don Henry’s Contrabando – titled “Done Deal” | 15 pages | ||
| 3 drafts of the Introduction to Art’s book – all titled “About Arturo Carrillo Strong” | Each draft 7 pages | Also, a page with two quotes from Abbey’s The Fool’s Progress – Chuck said the quotes would be something you hang on your office wall | |
| 2 drafts of an introduction for The Collected Works of John Reed | No date | Both drafts include pages 2 thru 6 | Robert A. Rosenstone’s intro is in the actual reprint of The Collected Works of John Reed. |
| Life Support: Christian Compassion and the Terminally Ill by Dorothea Marvin Nyberg – w/ an epilogue written by Chuck, taken from an editorial he wrote in USA Today | Book published in 1988 | Also, the original USA Today with Chuck’s editorial titled “Watching Death Become Reality” – October 6, 1986 | Also, a letter from Dorothea to Chuck dated 1/19/88 thanking him for allowing her to use his column as her epilogue – and a sort of flyer about Dorothea and her books and a form to order her book, Life Support |
MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS
| Box 1 | |||
| “Lies in the Desert” by Charles Bowden – A broadside for the opening of the new Salt Lake City Library, February 2003 | Published by Ken Sanders Rare Books, Illustration by Eddington and Makov | ||
| “Why I Wrote This” by Charles Bowden - A handwritten excerpt published as Broadside Number 1 by Sylph Publications, Tucson, Arizona in January 2002 | *”Why I Wrote This” is excerpted from “Corrida in Black Velvet” in Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge | In original blue envelope, signed in pencil and win stained, picture of Chuck’s office, an edition of fifty copies | |
| The funeral handout for Richard S. Vonier (partner with Chuck on City Magazine) | |||
| Miscellaneous poem written by Chuck | |||
| Draft of Into Thin Air: The Everest Tragedy by Jon Krakauer | Manuscript dates 1996 | Krakauer sent Chuck the draft in ’96 before the book was published asking for his opinion – Chuck said he had to write it as an exorcism. Krakauer used a quote from Blood Orchid. | |
| Lawrence Clark Powell Correspondence (Powell was a highly acclaimed librarian at the University of Arizona; the library at UCLA was named in his honor.) | Envelope dated July 16, 1982 | A letter, a note, and a copy of Powell’s 1985 commencement address given at St. Gregory High School in Tucson, Arizona | The letter includes 2 pages of photocopied material |
| Caliche Gardens – Spring 2007 – 2 drafts both titled “High Noon at Caliche Gardens” | Both drafts 3 pages | *Written for 9th St. neighborhood community garden web site. Jane Goodall came for the dedication and specifically asked to meet Chuck. (Her non-profit had been located in Tucson for years and she knew and admired his writing.) MM says, “That day was one of the only times I’ve ever seen Chuck ‘Star-struck’.” | |
| Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine | May, 2006 – 2 copies | Article titled “Collecting Charles Bowden” | |
| Color computer print of Chuck in Ciudad Chihuahua with note scribbled at bottom | Chuck said this was something of a joke. A friend of his made a copy of the picture of Chuck and then wrote below the photo, “Aqui es mi escritor, Carlito – scribbling, scribbling, scribbling. Of course, if he fails at his task, I will shoot him.” Signed General Francisco Villa | ||
| Page from a magazine with a notice for Paul Dickerson’s exhibition | |||
| Manila envelope labeled “Chuck’s Backup Discs” | Contains 2 discs | ||
| Draft of speech on drugs given at a conference | 2 pages | ||
| Draft titled “Useless Deserts and Other Goals” | 5 pages |
| Box 2 | |||
| Manila folder w/ Correspondence/Business Agreements w/ various publications | 1989-90 | Publications of correspondence include: Arizona Highways, Buzzworm, National Parks and Conservation Association, Sierra, The University of Arizona Press, Marc Gaede, Chaco Press, and Trips | |
| Arizona Daily Star – 1 copy | February 15, 1973 | Article by Chuck titled “God’s Little Acre: An Ongoing Dream” | This is the first article Chuck ever had printed in the newspaper |
| Letter from Della – the woman from article above | March 15, 1973 | Letter of thanks/appreciation | |
| Chuck’s Answers to a Publisher’s Questionnaire | 2 pages | He says that he was pissed off at the questionnaires so he answered them like this…etc. never sent him a questionnaire again… | |
| The New Treasure of the Sierra Madre by Alex Shoumatoff | 59 pages | Sent to Chuck from Alex because Alex had read some of Chuck’s work and thought he’d be interested in his own work | |
| Picture of Don Henry Ford taken by Julian Cardona | 1 copy of a photograph | Was to be used in G.Q. article about Don Henry. Not published. (Eventually became cover for Contrabando paperback) | |
| Folder of Julian Hayden’s work and his father’s memoir | Envelope for letter dated September 15, 1985 | Some of Julian’s published work, a letter from Julian to Chuck, and the memoir written by his father | |
| Folder of Julian Hayden’s notes when he went to Kino Bay – on the Seri Indians | Dated 8/30/89 |
| Box 3 | |||
| Article in the Tucson Weekly titled “Alan Harrington (1918-1997)” – pieces written as tribute by his friends | July 3-July 9, 1997 | 1 original | Chuck’s piece is on page 16 |
| Article in Westways (Southern California’s Lifestyle Magazine) titled “Book Smart” – by Davis Dutton | November/December 2006 | 1 original | Article on Lawrence Clark Powell |
| Article titled “Cajeme, and the Mexico of His Time” – by Frank M. Hillary | No date | 1 photocopy w/ stamp by Coyote’s Voice Books | |
| Draft titled “Love” (written by Chuck) | No date | 2 pages | |
| Untitled draft of the piece Chuck wrote for the Metro Times on 9/11 | No date | 2 pages | |
| Notes for speech on writing given in Phoenix and a Mapquest map to the location of speech | No date | Notes are 2 pages | Includes the headings Writing Notes, The Lead, & The Opening Scene |
| Frog Mountain Blues promotional button | In envelope dated October 23, 2000 | ||
| Floater for Julian Cardona’s “Madona” photo | May 2005 | 2 pages | |
| Article in the Green Valley News & Sun titled “UA Press celebrates Southwestern writing and photography” | July 23, 2006 | 1 original | |
| Tucson Citizen article titled “huge fire in Santa Catalinas reshaped Summerhaven” | August 15, 2006 | 1 printed copy (of article on web) | Mentions Chuck’s earlier article in the Citizen on the fire |
| Southwest BookViews – article on the Killing the Hidden Waters reprint | Summer 2005 | 1 photocopy | |
| Farrar, Straus, & Giroux catalogue | March to August 2001 | 1 original | |
| Essay titled “Take It To the Limit, but Don’t Take It Easy: Charles Bowden and the Artifice of Borders” by David Cremean | Read at the 2003 Western Literature Association Conference, October, Houston, Texas | 10 pages | |
| Isle – mention of Killing the Hidden Waters (the reprint) | No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Draft of “Obsession” for G.Q. | September 2003 | 1 page | |
| Tucson Weekly ad titled “We, Tucson’s artists and arts professions, urge you to Vote!” | October 28-Novermber 3, 2004 | 2 originals | Chuck is the first on the list |
| Tucson Suggragettes flyer signed to Chuck by the girls | |||
| J.P.S. Brown’s application for a Guggenheim fellowship and relevant correspondence with Chuck | Includes Joe Brown’s supplementary statement and a receipt from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for Chuck’s confidential statement concerning J.P.S. Brown Also 3 email exchanges between J.P.S. Brown and Chuck | ||
| Draft of the intro to Sometimes a Great Notion | 9 pages | Page proofs for the intro and 1 letter of correspondence included. | |
| Cassette tape titled “Charles Bowden S.L.C” | July 2004 | Of Chuck speaking in Salt Lake City, Utah at Ken Sanders Rare Books | |
| Cassette tape titled “Side A: Park Proposal Story – NPR’s Living on Earth” and “Side B: 1. Strafing, 2. Coyotes, 3. Ants/Tapping Beetles, 4. Blowing Sand, 5. Broad-tailed Hummingbird, 6. Bats, 7. Why thunder rolls” | No date | Wrapped in a letter from Jeff | |
| Cassette tape titled “Charles Bowden at Westerners, Tucson” | 4/26/88 | w/ note to Mary Martha from Bill | |
| Cassette tape titled “Running After Antelope and Other Stories” by Scott Carrier | No date | ||
| Cassette tape titled “Need We Say More? Chuck” | No date | w/ note from Barbara |
(Early Years)
| Box 4 | |||
| Paper titled “Granfalloon & Wrang-Wrang” | 32 pages, plus bibliography | A seminar paper written during time at Madison about the Mississippi Riots | |
| Packet titled “Mississippi Summer Project: Running Summary of Incidents” | Brief descriptions of assaults and other actions toward blacks and volunteers in various areas in the south. Dates begin June 16 and run through August 26 | ||
| The Book of the Buffalo by Joe Ribar | No page numbers, photocopy of book | Also, w/ a b/w photograph of an overturned windmill in desert scrub | |
| A copy of Critical Teaching: Elegies to the Multiversity or Clarion for the Carion | Chuck said it was from his time at Madison in the 60’s | ||
| 2 Field Reports written in Mississippi | First dated April 4-9, 1969, Second dated June 9-23, 1969 | Also, a letter from DeVere Hinckley dated 8-19-68 (1 page and no addressee) | |
| The following were found in one folder (from Chuck’s graduate days at Wisconsin University, Madison) | |||
| Organizer’s Manual for Beloit Wisconsin – prepared as a part of the Organizer’s Research Seminar at the University of Wisconsin | Spring 1968 | By Mark Dworkin and Chris George, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 1968 | An “informational manual for radical organizers in Beloit” |
| University Placement Services: Problems in Policy and Practice | December 4, 1967 | By Roland Liebert | Noted in pen ‘Doc. 59’ – 16 pages |
| An Outline History of Vietnam | Copyright applied for in 1968 | By Adam Schesch | 42 pages |
| The History of the New Left, 1960-1968 | By James O’Brien | 32 pages | |
| Don’t Mourn, Don’t Mourn, Organize, Organize: SDS Guide to Community Organizing | May 1968 | Published by The Movement Press, printed by Students for a Democratic Society | 36 pages |
| The Tibetan Stroboscope | 1968 | By D.A. Levy | |
| Profit Motive 101: U Power Elite | Reprinted in 1969 from The Daily Cardinal | By James Rowen | |
| Exploitation or Aid? – US-Brazil Economic Relations: A Case Study of American Imperialism | Originally published Novemeber 16, 1963 in The Nation | By Andre Gunder Frank | Pages 318-323 |
| Guideline on Soliciting and Administering Extramural Support: Contract, Grant, and Gift-Supported Research, Training, Construction, Conferences, Institutes, Etc. | November 1, 1965 | The University of Wisconsin | |
| Dunce Cages, Hickory Sticks, and Public Evaluation: The Structure of Academic Authoritarianism | By Michael A. Fala, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin | ||
| The Kronstadt Commune – Solidarity Pamphlet No 27 | Novemeber 1967 | By Ida Mett | 54 pages |
| Towards a Revolutionary Socialist Labor Strategy for SDS | By Al Greene | ||
| The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37: How Industrial Unionism was Won | By Walter Linder | Pages 91-122 | |
| The Red Papers | 30 pages | ||
| Intercontinental Press | April 28, 1969 | Pages 402-424 |
| BOX 5 – Storage box with items organized by folder | |||
| Folder 1: Sonoran Heritage, Tucson Public Library | |||
| “Clothing and Costume” | Labeled Envelope #1 | A learning packet for group and individual study | |
| “Clothing and Costume” | Labeled Envelope #2 | A learning packet for group and individual study | |
| Folder 2: Berdina Bowden, Chuck’s Mother | |||
| Article titled “Speaker gives insight on media,” includes a photo of Chuck | No source, no date | 2 originals | 1 copy has a note to Berdina from Oscar (sp?) regarding the clip and that “Chuck did a great job,” etc |
| Certificate to Berdina “Bo” Bowden from the City of Tucson for her “outstanding contribution to Casa de los Ninos and the children of our community” | Dated April 17, 1997 | Signed by George Miller, mayor | |
| Manila envelope w/ 3 copies of an article about Casa de los Ninos w/ photo of Bo holding a young child. | Article dated January 18, 1991 | ||
| “The Rincon Rap” (a newsletter for The Rincon Market) | October 1990 | Includes an article about Bo’s time as an employee, mentions her job making fresh-squeezed orange juice and her duties at the salad bar, also mentions that Bo is originally from Chicago, and the “one of her own children, Chuck Bowden, formerly of the Citizen and editor of the now defunct City Magazine, Bo has done her part too in raising a special family.” | |
| Folder 3: Chuck’s Ephemera kept by Bo | |||
| Chuck’s report card and letter from the dean of the College of Liberal Arts | Report card dated ‘start semester’ 2/66 Letter dated June 24, 1966 | Letter congratulates Chuck for carrying “18 units with an average of 1.2222,” and for earning “a place on the Dean’s Honor Role” (in envelope) | |
| Newspaper article titled “Four UA Students Win National Fellowships” | No source or date available | Chuck and two other students were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowships, 2 pictures of Chuck shown ‘speaking’ with the other two winners | |
| Certificate for Charles Clyde Bowden regarding his membership in Phi Beta Kappa | Dated January 11, 1967 | In original envelope sent to Mrs. George Bowden | |
| Mansfield Junior High School 1958 Year Book – “Tower” | 1958 | Signed by classmates and teachers, etc An interesting example: “To the boy who understands my life – Joel Darius & Tony Baceski & Bryan T. Young” | |
| 2 photocopies of “The Golden Years” | A poem about the golden years, included in ephemera of Bo’s | ||
| Folder 4: Essay on Photography | |||
| Essay titled “The Practice of Photojournalism in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico” by Graciela Manjarrez Cuellar | 76 pages | Given to Chuck by Graciela | |
| Essay titled “Practica Del Fotoperiodismo En Ciudad Juarez” (the same essay as above only in Spanish) by Graciela Manjarrez Cuellar | No page numbers | Notes throughout | |
| Folder 5: Earl Miller Clippings | |||
| 3 page draft titled “Maybe the War Is Really Over” describing Earl Miller and his clippings (editing throughout) | Describes how Earl Miller has “Over the past forty years…clipped, pasted and bound an incredible array of tunnels without light, marches without succor, and leaders with bullets in their brains.” | ||
| Letter from Donald M. Powell, Associate University Librarian at the University of Arizona to Chuck regarding the clippings | April 10, 1973 | Writes “I have consulted with several members of our staff and with members of the History Department about the Earl Miller collection of clippings…you brought to my attention…For budget reasons…we have concluded not to pursue the matter futher.” ** w/ letter is the list of clippings in Earl Miller’s collection – 5 pages: the clippings listed include The Hitler War, The Japanese War, The Civil Rights Act, Marches, Astronauts, Roosevelt, and many more. | |
| Folder 6: Crows | |||
| Letter from Bil Gilbert to Chuck | No date | Regarding the clips about crows (below), writes that Chuck is “henceforth entitled to unlimited use of the athletic and contemplative facilities of the Society which are found throughout, at least, this world,” the letter is a parody of secret society, a society for those who love crows or who are enamored of them, etc. | |
| Clip titled “Honor Thy Enigmas” | A few different articles regarding crows and crow behavior, etc | ||
| Clip titled “Crows deserve a better break” | |||
| Poem titled “Gethsemane” | About crows | ||
| Folder 7: Paperwork for Mexico | |||
| Various business cards | |||
| Customs papers | |||
| Handwritten notes | |||
| Folder 8: Miscellaneous Correspondence | |||
| Letters regarding articles never written | 4 letters | ||
| Personal letters w/ no clear addressee | 5 letters | ||
| Other miscellaneous correspondence | |||
| Folder 9: Miscellaneous Research Articles | |||
| America’s Secret Nuclear War Plans by Gar Smith | Earth Island Journal, Winter 1990 | 1 original | |
| Mexican Drug Leaders Guilty in the Killing of a U.S. Agent (regarding Camarena’s murder – Down by the River) | The New York Times, No date | 1 photocopy | |
| Mark Twain Journal | Edited by Cyril Clemens, Winter 1967-1968 | 1 original (a notebook type format) | |
| Ajo Man Collects Antiques | Arizona Republic, August 23, 1962 | 1 photocopy | |
| “Bilingual Press spotlights Hispanic literary community” | From the Tribune (Mesa, Tempe, & Chandler, AZ), no date | 1 photocopy | w/ notes in pencil |
| “The Velvet Hangover” in Readings in Harper’s magazine | October 1990 | 1 photocopy | w/ note written to Chuck, no signature |
| “White House Snow Jobs” by Ernest Volkman | Penthouse, January 2001 | 1 original | An article regarding drug trafficking and the U.S. Government |
| “China’s Honey Melons Are Highly Prized and Fetch Up to $20 in Hong Kong” | The Wall Street Journal, July 30, 1979 | 1 photocopy | With nearly illegible note in pen to Chuck |
| “Coffee with a Conscience” | The Arizona Dialy Star, December 8, 1999 | 1 original | The article is about the Gadsden coffee shop in Arivaca, owned by Tom Shook. |
| Folder 10: Music Receipts ’89-‘90 | |||
| 7 receipts for various cd’s/cassettes | |||
| Folder 11: Mount Lemmon Shuttle | |||
| 5 articles regarding an attempt to get a shuttle to go up to Mt. Lemmon | Including the “Mount Lemmon Shuttle Study” – roughly 56 pages | ||
| Folder 12: Marc Gaede Material | |||
| The Great West: Essay and Quotations by A. B. Guthrie Jr. | No date | 1 photocopy of the article | Pages 1 thru 13 |
| Lists of towns, states, and national parks, rivers, lakes, petroglyphs, and the like - also a list of writers on the Southwest | No date | 3 pages | Marc Gaede’s handwritten notes throughout |
| Letter from Marc Gaede to Chuck | Dated April 14, 1989 | 1 (small) page | Regarding an attached copy of the “first check to Ed for Clarke’s files,…a second payment for Clarke,…[and a] third check…for your effort – although not requested, certainly deserved.” |
| Draft of “Abbey’s Girl” by Marc Gaede | No date | 1 page | w/ handwritten note by Marc Gaede to Chuck |
| “The true grit of A. B. Guthrie” A Tribute by Ed Abbey | Chicago Sun-Times, October 30, 1988 | 1 photocopy | |
| “Death of Writer Edward Abbey” | Los Angeles Times, no date | 1 photocopy | Handwriting – “For Chuck Bowden” |
| Letter from Clarke Abbey to Chuck | Envelope dated May 1, 1989 | Includes an edited draft of the book review of Big Sky, Fair Land: The Environmental Essays of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. – review written by Edward Abbey (draft of above ‘tribute’ in the Chicago-Sun Times) (in envelope) | |
| Folder 13: Chip Wischer/Keating | |||
| A Telefax Transmittal from The Kimball Agency to Laura Greenburg at Phoenix magazine – The telefax regarding Kimberli Anne Wischer | June 26, 1995 | 5 pages | |
| Article in The Arizona Republic titled “2 of Keating’s former associates commit suicide” | July 25, 1995 | 1 original | |
| Article in The Phoenix Gazette titled “Suicides end latest S&L scandal chapter” | July 24, 1995 | 1 original | |
| Article in The Arizona Republic titled “Gary Driggs stands tall despite S&L fall” | July 29, 1995 | 1 original | |
| Folder 14: Reports on Mexico | |||
| Essay titled “Report on the Mexican Economic Crisis,” presented by Senator Alfonse D’Amato | June 29, 1995 | 54 pages | |
| Group of papers titled “Chronology of the Mexican Economic Crisis: Documents” | June 29, 1995 | 658 pages (front and back) | |
| Folder 15: The Sonoran Park Project | |||
| An Ecological Analysis of Conservation Priorities in the Sonoran Desert Ecoregion | April 2000 | 1 original | |
| State of the Desert Biome: Uniqueness, Biodiversity, Threats and the Adequacy of Protection in the Sonoran Bioregion | 1999 | 1 original | |
| Maps of Southern Arizona – showing U.S. National Monuments, National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, etc. | 7 9x12 maps printed from a computer | ||
| Maps of Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Mexico/Baja region – showing Nation Monuments, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, etc. | 5 10x20 maps printed from a computer | ||
| Letter to Robert Morton from Jack Dykinga | February 1, 2000 | Regarding the Sonoran Desert Nation Park book project | |
| The Sonoran Desert National Park – a citizen’s proposal | |||
| Maps of Southern Arizona – showing U.S. National Monuments, National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, etc. | 8 9x12 maps printed from a computer | ||
| Letter to ‘Secretary’ from Chuck | No date | 3 pages | Regarding the Sonoran Desert National Park |
| Biological Resources of the Proposed Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona | December 2000 | 1 original | |
| Mexico-United States Sonoran Desert Binational Peace Park (a proposal) | No date | 1 original | |
| Folder 16: More Recent Items, Misfiled Items | * These items were found later in the process of archiving, thus are not filed with their respective categories. | ||
| Draft of the review Chuck wrote of Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin | No date | 1 page | |
| Copy of the Chuck Bowden/Keating Excerpt Interview for Phoenix Magazine | No date | 14 pages | |
| Article titled “Latest Poison control Info” by Dr. Lslie Boyer | July 27, 2000 | 10 pages | Rattlesnake research |
| Letter and emails pertaining to the 2007 Orion Book Award that Chuck received for Inferno | Letter dated May 10, 2007 | 10 pages total (including emails and the article sent out by The Orion Society announcing the winners of the Book Award | |
| Arizona Highways letter of congratulations and the 2005 IRMA Award of Merit for Chuck’s essay “Lessons from Camp” | Award dated September 12, 2006 (Deluth, Minnesota) | Letter of congratulations form Arizona Highways dated October 4, 2006 | |
| 2 cassette tapes sent to Mary Martha from Roy Elson | Both are titled “NPR Interviews – Bowden 11/1/02” In Priority Mail envelope | ||
| Page proofs for the Mona Mort interview with Chuck | |||
| Folder 17: Past Speaking Engagements | * This folder is similar to one above – the items appeared toward the end of the filing process, so are misfiled here. | ||
| Various correspondence regarding speeches | 18 letters total | ||
| A CD from the Virginia Book Festival | March 2007 | Inferno | |
| Flyers from the Sonoran Desert National Park Medicine Show | “A visit with Charles Bowden and Jack Dykinga” | ||
| 3 envelopes with photos of the speakers and guests at the Sonoran Desert National Park Medicine Show | Envelope marked I – 15 snapshots, II – 8 snapshots, and III – 6 snapshots | ||
| Folder 18: Leather Tooling by Chuck | |||
| 1 piece w/ flowers, signed by Chuck | Chuck did most of his leather tooling when he was 12. | ||
| In Poster Tube: Arizona Rattlesnake Poster | Given to Chuck by Dave Hardy and Harry Green | ||
| Storage Box UUU | |||
| Sea Shepherd Jacket and pirate flag | |||
| Camping stove | Used on many of Chuck’s walks in the desert | ||
| Large Manila Envelope Box WWW | |||
| Down by the River Publicity Poster |
GRANTS
| Box 1 (CC) | |||
| The Sonoran Desert National Park Project Proposal – intending “to create a 5000 square mile Sonoran Desert National Park in southwestern Arizona.” | Date of application – January 25, 2000 | 9 pages, and a letter from Chuck | Includes a letter of support from Chuck, Board Member of the Sonoran Desert National Park Project |
| Sonoran Desert National Park catalogue titled “a citizens’ proposal” | 2 originals | Text by Charles Bowden, Designed by Bill Benoit of Simpson and Convent | |
| Visual Presentation for Nomination of $25,000, Community Foundation Award – excerpts from Chuck’s books on heavy paper and an email to Bill from MM | Email dated April 10, 2003 | Email 3 pages, and excerpts 6 pages | The Sonoran Desert, Down by the River, Juarez, Blue Desert, Blood Orchid, & Lawrence Clark Powell Lecture excerpts, plus 3 labels for photographs from books |
| Arizona Heritage Fund: A Proposal by the Arizona Heritage Alliance | No date | Proposal is 3 pages and Survey Highlights is 3 pages | The purpose of the fund is “to provide resources to protect out natural and cultural heritage for future generations…” etc. |
| Sikes Act: Habitat Improvement Program | No date | 2 pages | Concerns about the growth in population and its affect on the parks of Arizona |
| Article of research for grants | Scientific American, February 1999 | 2 pages | Article titled “Ravens in Winter: A Zoological Detective Story” |
| Article titled “Dunes of the Gran Desierto Sand-Sea, Sonora, Mexico”- research for grants | Received October 22, 1985, Revised April 30, 1986 | ||
| Project Proposal for the National Endowment for the Humanities titled “Working Paper/Talking Point: NEH GrantL Cultural Pluralism” – and rejection letter from NEH | Draft of proposal dated December 6, 1976 and letter dated December 30, 1977 – but stamped January 1978 | Draft 71 pages, letter 4 pages | Draft has editing throughout and letter explains the reasons why proposal was not recommended for funding by NEH |
| Box 2 (CC) | |||
| Proposal to produce 15 half hour radio programs on American Indian law | 61 pages | Editing throughout | |
| Folder w/ radio scripts during Chuck’s time with NPR (early ‘70s) | Titles and number of pages are as follows: Dawes Act, 18 pages; Tuscaroras, 17 pages; John Collier, 16 pages; Worcester Vs. Georgia. 18 pages; Who Are the Poncas?, 22 pages; Crow Dog, 20 pages; Sweet Medicine, 16 pages; Crazy Dog Wishing To Die, 16 pages; Kiowa, 17 pages; The Case of James Vann, 21 pages; plus bibliographies for all and photocopied bibliographies | ||
| Script for PBS titled “Zodiac Ridge” – Filmed for 2 days for Neil Lehrer on Zodiac Ridge | Late ‘80s | 2 pages | Never run – too fierce |
PERSONAL MEMOIRS by FRIENDS
Mary Martha has solicited, and is in the process of collecting, personal memoirs and release forms from several of Chuck’s friends. These will be sent for the archive at a later date.
BOOK REVIEWS BY BOWDEN
| Box 1 (AA) | |||
| Orion, book review of Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane | September/October 2006 | 2 copies | Review can be found on page 75 |
| The Bloomsbury Review, book review titled “In the Shadow of Falcons”: a review of The Peregrine by John Baker | May/June 1987 | 1 copy and 1 photocopied copy | Review can be found on page 19 |
FINANCIAL
Box 1 (DD)
Receipts for Taxes 1988 thru 1994
1990 expenditure records
Tax Records and filings
(includes all trips for magazines and books, trip mileage, etc.)
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
All of Chuck’s financial records will eventually be part of the archives as will all monthly calendars and the menu book of meals Chuck prepares for guests.
BOOK NEGATIVES
Long, Tall BOX VVV
Blue Desert Book Negative, University of Arizona Press
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