Finding aid to The Truth about Pocahontas: A Love Story, manuscript by Paul M. Bryan MS.233

Liza Posas and Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 September 10
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org


Contributing Institution: Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: The Truth about Pocahontas: A Love Story, manuscript by Paul M. Bryan
Creator: Bryan, Paul M.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.233
Physical Description: 0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1942
Abstract: Paul M. Bryan (1872 December 13 - 1944 August 4) worked with the U. S. Geological Survey in the Southwest in the early 1910s before becoming a screenwriter in New York and Los Angeles. This manuscript is a story Paul M. Bryan worked on from 1920-circa 1942 entitled The Truth About Pocahontas: A Love Story. Bryan submitted the story to several motion picture companies, but it was never used. Paul M. Bryan was the father of Bruce Bryan, long-time editor of Masterkey and Director Emeritus of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.
Language of Material: English .

Biographical Note

Paul M. Bryan was born on 1872 December 13 in Sylvania, Georgia. He worked as a clerk with the United States Land Office in 1910, and lived in Washington, D. C., with his wife Ethel and sons Leslie B. (later known as Bruce) and Hughes. Bryan got work with the U. S. Geological Survey, and the family moved west. The Bryans lived in Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico, sometimes on American Indian Reservations. In the 1910s the family moved to Los Angeles, California and Bryan started writing scenarios and screenplays for the motion picture industry. Paul M. Bryan wrote at least 13 films and was the father of Bruce Bryan, long-time editor of Masterkey and Director Emeritus of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.
Paul M. Bryan started working on a scenario for a movie called The Truth About Pocahontas: A Love Story in the 1920s and finished the final version no later than 1942. Bryan submitted the story to several motion picture companies, but it was never used. Paul M. Bryan died in Los Angeles on 1944 August 4.
Sources: United States Federal Census, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940.

Acquisition

Donation by Bruce Bryan, 1960 July 23.

Processing History

Biographical note created by Bruce Bryan, 1974 March 21. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 September 10 made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).

Preferred Citation

The Truth About Pocahontas: A Love Story by Paul M. Bryan, circa 1942, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.233; [folder number] [folder title][date].

Scope and Contents

Manuscript collection consists of a screenplay entitled "The Truth about Pocahontas: A Love Story", which is a historical romance based on the lives of Pocahontas and John Smith.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Truth About Pocahontas: A Love Story
Indians in mass media
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Drama
Indian women -- Drama
Powhatan Indians -- Drama
Screenplays
Pocahontas