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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Paul Dayton Bailey papers
Creator:
Bailey, Paul
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0683
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1953
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.
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General Physical Description note: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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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.
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Biography
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.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Bailey's literary typescripts and holograph corrections of books about the American West and Mormons.
Organization and Arrangement
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).
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
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- West (U.S.) -- Archives.
Manuscripts for publication
West (U.S.) -- History.
Mormons -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Bailey, Paul, 1906-1987--Archives