Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Bailey, Paul
- Abstract:
- Paul Dayton Bailey (1906-1987) was a publisher, editor, and author who chronicled the Mormon Church and the American West and established Westernlore Press in 1941. The collection consists of Bailey's literary typescripts and holograph corrections of books about the American West and Mormons.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes) and 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Paul Dayton Bailey Papers (Collection 683). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of Bailey's literary typescripts and holograph corrections of books about the American West and Mormons.
- Biographical / historical:
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Bailey was born in 1906 in American Fork, Utah; publisher, editor, and author, he was a prolific chronicler of the Mormon Church and the American West; established Westernlore Press in 1941, under which he published his Polygamy Was Better Than Monotony (1972) and Holy Smoke, a dissertation on the Utah War (1978), and several biographies; other presses published his For This My Glory: a Story of a Mormon Life (c. 1940), An Unnatural History of Death Valley: With Reflections on the Valley's Varmints (1978), and Virgins, Vandals, and Visionaries (1978); died in Claremont, California on October 26, 1987.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Yvonne Schroeder, August 1960.
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- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Typescripts: Deliver me from Eva, and Jacob Hamblin, Buckskin Apostle (Box 1).
- Typescript: For This My Glory (Box 2)
- Typescripts: Walkara, Hawk of the Mountains, and Sam Brannan and the California Mormons (Box 3).
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Paul Dayton Bailey Papers (Collection 683). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988