Willard Hougland was a writer, publisher, anthropologist, impresario, businessman and gourmet cook. He also ran a rare book store and art gallery in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. The collection contains correspondence, a short story, a poem, and signed typescript copies of materials presented for consideration to Willard Hougland while assistant to the director at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and as editor of the New Mexico number of the Southwest review.

Hougland was originally from Kansas City; became writer, publisher, anthropologist, impresario, businessman and gourmet cook; served as assistant to the director, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico; edited the New Mexico number of the Southwest Review, 1946; moved to California, where he ran a rare book store and art gallery in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County; died in 1958 in Monterey, California.

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