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Title: Eugene Manlove Rhodes Papers
Dates: 1892-1955
Collection Number: mssRhodes papers
Creator:
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, 1869-1934
Extent:
Approximately 2,270 items in 13 boxes
Repository: The Huntington Library,
Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts
Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The collection contains the literary
and personal papers of Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869-1934), a California novelist and short-story writer known as the "cowboy
chronicler."
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities.
The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the
researcher.
[Identification of item]. Eugene Manlove Rhodes Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of William Henry Hutchinson in May 1951 and February
1954. Addenda was transferred to the Manuscripts Department by M. Bliss on
February 3, 1969. Some of the addenda was a gift of Mrs. Henry S. A. Alexander in
1953.
Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869-1934) was a novelist and short-story writer known as the
“cowboy chronicler.” He was born in Tecumseh, Nebraska, but moved with his parents
to New Mexico in 1881. Although mainly self-educated as a young man, Rhodes attended
the University of the Pacific in California from 1888, although financial
difficulties forced him to withdraw by 1890. He had begun publishing anonymous
pieces in the school newspaper, and from 1910-1934 published seven novels and a
number of short stories. Rhodes’ novels include Good men and true (1910), West is
west (1917), Copper streak trail (1922) and Beyond the desert (1934), and of his
several novelettes, Paso por aqui (1926) has been singled out as his masterpiece.He
married Mary Louisa Davison Purple in 1899 and lived in California and New York
before returning to New Mexico in 1926. For a time Rhodes lived in a house at White
Mountain given to him by Albert Bacon Fall. By 1930 the Rhodes had moved to Pacific
Beach, California, due to Eugene’s failing health. He died in 1934 and was buried in
the San Andres Mountains.
The collection contains literary manuscripts, family papers, business papers,
correspondence, clippings and photographs by or related to Eugene Manlove Rhodes.
Some manuscripts are on microfilm reels, and portions of the correspondence are
photostatic copies. Significant correspondents include Witter Bynner, Bernard
DeVoto, Albert Bacon Fall, Houghton Mifflin Company, Rupert Hughes, Stuart N. Lake,
Conrad Richter, Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett and William Allen White. The
addenda consists of correspondence from Eugene Rhodes and May Davison Rhodes to
Rhoda Williams Marshall, Harold D. Carew, and Gordon Young, among others.
Arrangement
The collection consists of 11 boxes. Contents are arranged alphabetically by
author unless otherwise noted.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Bynner, Witter,
1881-1968.
De Voto, Bernard
Augustine, 1897-1955.
Fall, Albert B. (Albert
Bacon), 1861-1944.
Hughes, Rupert,
1872-1956.
Lake, Stuart
N.
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove,
1868-1934.
Richter, Conrad,
1890-1968.
Starrett, Charles
Vincent Emerson, 1886-.
White, William Allen,
1868-1944.
Houghton Mifflin
Company.
American literature--New
Mexico.
Authors, American--20th
century--Correspondence.
Authors, American--20th
century--Manuscripts.
Authors, American--West
(U.S.)--Archives.
Western stories.
Family papers--West (U.S.)--20th
century.
Letters (correspondence)--West
(U.S.)--19th century.
Letters (correspondence)--West
(U.S.)--20th century.
Manuscripts--West (U.S.)--20th
century.
Photographs--West(U.S)--20th
century.