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Title: Paul Dayton Bailey Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1953
Collection number: 683
Creator: Bailey, Paul Dayton, 1906-
Extent:
3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary 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.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
[Identification of item], Paul Dayton Bailey Papers (Collection 683). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Collection consists of Bailey's literary typescripts and holograph corrections of books about the American West and Mormons.
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).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bailey, Paul Dayton, 1906- --Archives.
Authors, American--West (U.S.)--Archival resources.
Mormons--West (U.S.)--History.
West (U.S.)--History.
Manuscripts for publication.