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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Harry A. Brandt Manuscripts
Creator:
Brandt, Harry Alonzo
Identifier/Call Number: MS.671
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1954-1973
Abstract: This is a collection of manuscripts, plays, and poems regarding pioneer experiences in the Southwest, written by Harry A.
Brandt between 1954 and 1968.
Language of Material:
English
.
This is a collection of manuscripts, plays, and poems regarding pioneer experiences in the Southwest, written by Harry A.
Brandt between 1954 and 1968. Titles include
Last of the Pioneers,
The Narrow Land,
Garden of the Giants,
Five Southwestern Plays, and
The Southwestern Troubadour. The manuscript for
The Southwestern Troubadour also includes a letter to the editor of October House in New York, dated 1973.
Harry A. Brandt Manuscripts, 1954-1973, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.671; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
Processed by Library staff after 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 November
7, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Donation from Harry A. Brandt, 1986 July 10.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Biographical Note for Harry Alonzo Brandt
Harry Alonzo Brandt was born on 1885 February 5 in Shelby County, Iowa, and died in Pasadena, California in September 1974.
Harry Alonzo Brandt, eldest son of Christian Jacob and Sarah Flora (Yoder) Brandt, "was the first young man called to the
ministry by the Covina Church." He was a student at Bethany Bible School, Chicago, Illinois. There he met Mary Ellen Daggett,
whom he later married October 4, 1917 in Covert Osborne County, Kansas. They moved to Elgin, Illinois and later, back to California
for his brother Jesse's wedding to Kathryn Bomberger. Harry was asked to return to Elgin, by The Church of the Brethren, where
he and his wife Mary lived again for some time. (From The Narrow Land)
Harry Alonzo Brandt wrote the book
The Narrow Land: An Interpretation of the Life and Destiny of Pioneers... The first of three related presentations of Southwestern history, the two others being;
Five Southwestern Plays and
The Southwestern Troubadour.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
The Southwestern Troubadour Five Southwestern Plays Last of the PioneersFrontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New.
The Narrow Land
Garden of the Giants
Southwest, New -- Poetry
Manuscripts
Plays
Poetry
Poets -- United States