1. Norman Clyde Primary Sources, 1906-circa 2000
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A. Clyde Family Records and Photographs
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Photo Album, Winifred Bolster Clyde (photocopies), 1913-1919
Marriage License, Norman Clyde and Winifred Bolster Clyde, 1915
Death Certificate, Winifred Bolster Clyde, 1919
Daughters of the American Revolution Application, Clara Clyde Tomkies, circa 1930s
Death Certificate, Norman Clyde, 1972
Arthur H. Clyde Articles, circa 1915, 1971-1972
Ancestral Chart, Family Tree, and Family Signatures, undated
Thompson, Owen, Sketches Of The Ministers Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church Of North America From 1888 To 1930 "Sketches of the Ministers—Charles Clyde."
Genealogical Printout, William and Margaret Van Tyne Bolster, circa 2000s
Photographs of Norman Clyde, Winifred Bolster Clyde, and Family, undated
B. Correspondence of Norman Clyde
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Harwood, Aurelia, 1924
Nies, Nelson P., 1932
Starr, Mrs. Carmen, 1933
Thrall, Will H., 1937
Jukes, Thomas H., 1941
United States Army Air Force, 1942
Brower, David R., 1950
Eichorn, Jules, 1950-1961
Cragen, Dorothy, 1964-1965
Connable, Katherine G. "Polly," 1966-1968
Rower, James W., 1969
McKelvey, Sarah Clyde, 1971-1972
C. Articles by Norman Clyde
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Clyde, Norman. "The Mountain Brook." The Geneva Cabinet, October 1906
Clyde, Norman. "A Winter Sunrise." The Geneva Cabinet, February 1907 : 7.
Clyde, Norman. "May: A Reverie." The Geneva Cabinet, circa 1907 : 5.
Clyde, Norman. "College Recreation." The Geneva Cabinet, circa 1907 : 9.
Clyde, Norman. "Roughing it on the Great Lakes." The Geneva Cabinet, circa 1907 : 8-11.
Clyde, Norman. "The First Ascent of Mount Wilbur." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1924 : 2-6.
Clyde, Norman. "Ascent of Mount Merritt." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1925 : 165-167.
Clyde, Norman. "The First Ascent of Mount Russell." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1927 : 382-385.
Clyde, Norman. "Mountaineering in the Rockies." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1927 : 365-373.
Clyde, Norman. "Evolution Lake." National Motorist, January 1928 : 8.
Clyde, Norman. "'Close Ups' of Our High Sierra Part I." Touring Tropics, April 1928 : 28-30.
Clyde, Norman. "'Close Ups' of Our High Sierra Part II." Touring Tropics, May 1928 : 37-41.
Clyde, Norman. "'Close Ups' of Our High Sierra Part III." Touring Tropics, June 1928 : 46-48.
Clyde, Norman. "'Close Ups' of Our High Sierra Part IV." Touring Tropics, July 1928 : 42-44.
Clyde, Norman. "'Close Ups' of Our High Sierra Part V." Touring Tropics, August 1928 : 36-38.
Clyde, Norman. "Climbing the Sierra Nevada From Owens Valley." Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1928 : 31-35.
Clyde, Norman. "The Sierra Club Ascent of Mount Geikie." Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1929 : 20-24.
Clyde, Norman. "The Beartooth Mountains of Montana." American Alpine Journal, 1929-1932 : 174-181.
Clyde, Norman. "Climbing the North Face of the North Palisade." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1929-1932 : 31-35.
Clyde, Norman. "Sierra Club Ascents in the Canadian Rockies." American Alpine Journal, 1929-1932 : 7-15.
Clyde, Norman. "High-Low." Touring Tropics, 1930 : 30-31.
Clyde, Norman. "Difficult Peaks of the Sierra Nevada." American Alpine Journal, 1931 : 344-347.
Clyde, Norman. "Up the East Face of Whitney." Touring Tropics, December 1931 : 35-37.
Clyde, Norman. "Over the Crests of Southland Urban Mountains." Touring Tropics, April 1932 : 10+.
Clyde, Norman. "Scrambles on Bear Creek Spire, Sierra Nevada." American Alpine Journal, 1933-1936 : 93-96.
Clyde, Norman. "The First Ascent of Mount Humphreys from the East." Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1936 : 48-53.
Clyde, Norman. "Marten Trapping in the Sierras." Fur-Fish-Game, January 1938
Clyde, Norman. "Skiing and Climbing in the Headwaters of Bishop Creek." Sierra Club Bulletin, April 1938 : 36-39.
Clyde, Norman. "Storms in the Sierra Nevada." Motor Land, January 1941 : 4+.
Clyde, Norman. "Climbs in the Palisades." Sierra Club Bulletin, June 1950 : 127-129.
Clyde, Norman. Newspaper Clippings, 1957-1965
Clyde, Norman. Close Ups of the High Sierra. Glendale, Calif.: La Siesta Press, 1962
Clyde, Norman. "Alone in the Sierra Nevada." Typescript, January 1966
Clyde, Norman. Norman Clyde of the Sierra Nevada: Rambles Through the Range of Light. San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1971
Clyde, Norman. "Mountain Area of Independence." (circa 1922). Rpt in Eastern California Museum, Spring/Summer 1993 : 1+.
Clyde, Norman. "Angling for Trout in the Gorges and Canyons of the Sierra Nevada." Typescript, undated
Clyde, Norman. "A Mountaineer's Route to the Summit of Mt. Whitney." American Alpine Journal, n.d. : 415-417.
Clyde, Norman. "My Colt Woodsman." Typescript, undated
Clyde, Norman. "New Expeditions." American Alpine Journal, n.d. : 395-401.
Clyde, Norman. "The Quest for an Army Plane Lost in the Sierra Nevada." Manuscript, undated
Clyde, Norman. "Sierra Nevada of California." American Alpine Journal, n.d. : 257-259.
Clyde, Norman. "Wintering in the Sierra Nevada." Typescript, undated
Hager, Anna Marie. Cumulative Index: Westways-Touring Tropics, 1909-1959 Los Angeles, Calif.: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1961
2. Research Files on Norman Clyde, 1910-2009
Scope and Content Note
A. Pavlik Research Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Bohn, Dave, 1997
Bolster, Walter R., 1997
Boutelle, Sara Holmes, 1992
Brown, Vida G., 1997-1999
Carson, David M., 1994-1997
Carson, Dr. James D., 1996
Collier, Bruce G., 2000
Dawson, Glen, 1993
DeDecker, Mary, 1992-1993
Eichorn, Jules, and Shirley Lyhne-Eichorn, 1993-1994, 1998, 2002
Evarts, John, 2003, 2005
Galic, Harv, 2005, 2008
Huntington Library — Peter J. Blodgett, 1996
Hurwich, Cecelia, 1993, 1996
Ingraham Jr., Robin, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2008
Kirker, Harold, 1992-1999
Klieforth, Dr. Harold, 1995
McKeever, Clara Tomkies, 1997
McKelvy, Marabelle, 1997
Millman, Mary, 1997
Rose, Eugene, 1996, 2007
Runte, Ph.D., Alfred, 1984-1998
Sargent, Shirley, 1996, 2000
Sharsmith, Dr. Carl, 1992-1993
Shuber, Lou, 1999
Smith, Deborah, 2008
Sydnor, Robert H., 2007
Waller, Ted, 1993, 1996
Watrous, Ted, 1995
Wheelock, Walt, 1993
Transcripts of Telephone Interviews and Correspondence with Dick Beach, Raffi Bedayn, Russell Huse, Norman Milleron, Jim Nichols, 1993, 1995, 2002
Anecdotes and Remembrances of Clyde in Response to Pavlik's Published Requests, 1993-1997
Inquiries, 1994-1997
Leads, 1993-2001
Obituaries, 1997, 1999, 2005-2006
B. Correspondence of Norman Clyde Family and Friends
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Blanchard, Sue to Sarah Clyde McKelvey, 1972
Bolster, Walter R., and Eastern California Museum, 1989-1990, 1996
Miles, M.C. to Sarah Clyde McKelvey, undated
Millman, Mary to Sarah Clyde McKelvey, 1973-1974
Millman, Mary to Mrs. William Kocher, 1974
Slater, Michael R. to Mrs. Maribel McKelvy, 1993
Thompson, Miss Winifred and Kathy Jackson, 1950
Tomkies, Clara Clyde to Sallie [no last name], undated
Voge, Hervey H. to Francis P. Farquhar, 1939
White, John R. to Walter L. Huber, 1932
C. Pavlik Research at Institutions
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Article Citations, undated
Bancroft Library — Book Inscriptions to Norman Clyde by C.S. Clifton, 1945, 1959, 1962
Bancroft Library — Notes on the Francis P. Farquhar Papers, undated
Bancroft Library — Notes on the Norman Clyde Papers, 1994
Bancroft Library - Transcriptions of Articles by Norman Clyde, undated
Bancroft Library — Transcript of Interview from Mountaineering, undated
California Alpine Club Registers, circa 1930s
Eastern California Museum — Correspondence and Photocopies of Clyde Photographs, 2005
Eastern California Museum — Notes on the Norman Clyde File, undated
Geneva College Bulletin , 1910-1911, 1995
Geneva College Magazine , 2000
Grand Teton National Park - Record of Early Ascent, 1926
Grand Teton National Park - Mountaineering Index, 2002
Grand Teton National Park - Museum Correspondence, 2003
Halloween Incident Oral History, Omie Mairs and Mary Millman, 1974
Los Angeles Public Library — Card Catalog, 1930, 1937, 1941
Newspaper Clippings on Norman Clyde, 1927-2009
Newspaper Clipping on Smoke Blanchard, 1985
Norman Clyde Ascent Lists, undated
Norman Clyde Oral History, Norman Milleron and Dennis Fansler, 1977
Photographs of Norman Clyde, undated
Research Notes - Locations, 1985-2006
Research on Awards Given to Norman Clyde, 1996
Sierra Club Bulletin. "The Saga of the Registers." Typescript, undated
Sierra Club Committee on Mountain Registers Minutes, 1933
Sierra Club Committee on Mountain Registers, "Mountain Records of the Sierra Nevada," 1937
Sierra Club Mountaineering Committee Minutes, 1974
Sierra Club Oral History Series, Glen Dawson, 1975-1977, 1980
Slides of the Sierra Nevada, 1998, 1999, 2000
Yosemite Research Library — Correspondence, Jim Snyder, Linda Eade, 1984-2008
3. Subject Files and Secondary Sources on Norman Clyde, 1923-2009
Scope and Content Note
A. Background Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
Artists in California, 1986
Mountain Peaks, 2008
Mountaineering, 1993-1997, 2004
Natural History, 1996
Women Climbers, 1985
B. Norman Clyde Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
Caricaturist of Norman Clyde, Sheridan Anderson, 1973, 2004
Catalog of Categories in Norman Clyde's Articles, Mary Millman, undated
Rettenbachers, Recovery of Galic, Harv. Appendix B: Articles About Norman Clyde in Los Angeles Times, with comments, 2006
Galic, Harv. Biographical Notes on Norman Clyde, undated
Galic, Harv. " Lonely Grave in the Sierra." Anna and Conrad Rettenbacher, Stanford, 2005
Walter A. Starr, Jr., Recovery of "Notes and Correspondence: The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr." Sierra Club Bulletin, June 1934 : 81-85.
Starr, Walter A., Jr. Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region. San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1934
Miller, Tom. "First on the Most: An Interview with Norman Clyde." Climbing, May-June 1972 3-6.
Sierra Club Oral History Series, Francis P. Farquhar, 1974
Robert C. Pavlik Correspondence, 1993, 2000
Transcript of Interview, undated
Transcriptions of Letters and Articles, undated
Women Climbers, Katherine G. "Polly" Connable, Cecila Hurwich, Freda Walbrecht, 1959-2008
C. Secondary Sources on Norman Clyde
Scope and Content Note
"Activities of Members." American Alpine Journal, n.d. : 209.
Blanchard, W.E. Smoke. "Norman Clyde." Typescript, July 1980
Blevins, Winfred. "A Mountaineer's Mountaineer." Westways, (1974). Rpt. in Backpacker, n.d. : 42+.
Blevins, Winfred. "A Mountaineer's Vision." Westways , October 1974 : 48+.
Bohn, Dave. "Francis Farquhar at 84 Speaks of the Sierra Club Then and Now." Sierra Club Bulletin, June 1972 : 8-14.
Bradley, Dorothy H., and George Shochat. Sierra Club Bulletin, 1893-1949: Fifty-Seven-Year Index. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1952
Dawson, Ernest. "Climbing the Grand Teton." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1927 : 354-365.
Dawson, Glen. "Mountaineering Notes: Mountain-Climbing on the 1931 Outing." Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1932 : 113-115.
Dawson, Michael. "My Father's Mount Whitney." Westways, April 1998 : 72.
Falk, Burton A. "Norman Clyde-Giant of the Sierra." Summit, May-June, 1989 : 26-29.
Farquhar, Francis P. History of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: UC Press, 1965
Farquhar, Francis P. "Mountaineering Notes: First Ascent of Mount Lyell-1871." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1926 : 302-307.
Fertig, Fred. "Norman Clyde, Mountaineer." Out West, 1967 : 36-38.
Gilliam, Harold. "Old Man of the Mountains." San Francisco Chronicle, August 1961 : 3.
Grinnell, H.A. Annie Montague Alexander. Berkeley, Calif.: James J. Gillick & Co., 1958
Grinnell, Joseph, Joseph S. Dixon, and Jean M. Linsdale. Fur-Bearing Mammals of California. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1937
Hamilton, Andrew. "California's Old Man of the Mountains." Reader's Digest, October 1963 : 168C-168J.
Hattam, Jennifer. "First on Top." Sierra Magazine, May-June 2001
"He Climbs A Mountain A Day During 36 Days of Hiking, Establishing World's Record." Press Release, circa 1923
Heter, Dell. "Norman Clyde." Typescript, 2009
Hillsbery, Kief. "Clyde's Tale: Cross Country Skiing in the Sierra." Santa Barbara News and Review, November 1985
Huber, Walter L. "The Sierra Club in the Land of the Athabaska." Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1929 : 1-21.
Ingraham, Jr., Robin. "Norman Clyde." Typescript, 1988
Ingraham, Jr., Robin. "Norman Clyde." Climbing, December 1988 : 95-96.
Ingraham, Jr., Robin. "Ghosts in the Clouds: History of Mountaineering Registers in the Sierra Nevada." RobinIngraham.com. 2008. http://www.robiningraham.com.
Johnson, Francis C. "Hurry! A Man Is Lost." National Motorist, November 1934 : 4+.
Jukes, Thomas H. "In Memoriam: Norman Clyde, 1885-1972." American Alpine Journal, 1973
Kruska, Dennis. Twenty-Five Letters from Norman Clyde 1923-1964. Los Angeles, Calif.: Dawson's Book Shop, 1998
Lauria, Don. "Norman Clyde's Favorite Norman Clyde Story." Typescript, circa 2009
Meyer, L. Bruce. "High Trip Mountaineering-1941." Sierra Club Bulletin, August 1942 : 125-127.
Moyer, Wendell W. "The Beekeeper of McElvoy Canyon." Eastern California Museum, Spring 1994 : 1+.
Moynier, John. "Sierra Six-Pack." Rock & Ice, n.d. : 66-75.
"Norman Clyde 1885-1972." Summit, November 1973
"Norman Clyde Dead at Age 87." Summit, January 1973 : 27.
"Old Man of the Sierra." Time, June 1960
Pavlik, Robert C. Introduction. "The Mountains of the Yosemite Region." By Norman Clyde. Yosemite Association, Winter 1997
Rev. of Norman Clyde of the Sierra Nevada: Rambles Through the Range of Light, by Norman Clyde, Sierra Club Bulletin, September 1972
Robinson, Doug. A Night On the Ground, A Day in the Open. La Crescenta, Calif.: Mountain N'Air Books, 1996
Roper, Steve and Allen Steck. Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1979
Rose, Gene. High Odyssey. Fresno, Calif.: Panorama West Books, 1987
Rowell, Galen. Rev. of Norman Clyde of the Sierra Nevada, by Norman Clyde, American Alpine Journal, 1972-1973 : 220-221.
"Sierra Nevada of California." American Alpine Journal, n.d. : 414.
"Ski Mountaineering in Southern California." American Alpine Journal, n.d. : 330.
Smith, William E. "Norman Clyde Last of the Mountain Men." Fortnight, June-July 1957 : 16-18.
Wheelock, Walt. "Norman Asa Clyde." Southern Sierran, February 1973
Wheelock, Walt. "Norman Clyde: Biography." Typescript, 1962
Whittemore, Lowell. "Up Mount Whitehorn." Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1929 : 25-27.
Wilson, Neill C. "A Prodigious Climber of Mountains." National Motorist, April 1928 : 11+
4. Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer Book Files, 1984-2009
Scope and Content Note
A. Publisher Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Center for American Places, Randall Jones, George F. Thompson, 1997-2003
Eastern California Museum, Roberta L. Harlan, 2008
Heyday Books, Lisa Manwill, Malcolm Margolin, Gayle Wattawa, 2002, 2006-2008
Heyday Books and Yosemite Association, Agreement, 2008
Kirker, Harold, 1984-1997
Kirker, Harold, 1998-2008
Klieforth, Dr. Harold, 1995-1997, 2000-2001
Krakauer, Jon, 1999
Permission to Publish Forms, 2002-2007
University of California Press, 1997
Yosemite Association, Steven P. Medley, Holly Warner, 1993, 1996-1997, 2004-2006
B. Book Drafts
Scope and Content Note
Book Notes, 1995
Book Proposal, The Search for Norman Clyde, 1995
Chapter Outline, 1996
Proposed Outline, The Search for Norman Clyde, 1996
Draft of Introduction and Chapters 1-6, circa 1996
Book Proposal, The Search for Norman Clyde, 1997
Proposed Outline, The Search for Norman Clyde, 1997
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: The Pack That Walked Like a Man, Edited by Bruce Pavlik, 1998
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: The Pack That Walked Like a Man, 1998
Reader Notes, Norman Clyde: The Pack That Walked Like a Man, 1999
Draft of Introduction, 1999
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: The Pack That Walked Like a Man, 1999
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada, 2001
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada, 2001
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada, 2005
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada, April 2008
Draft of Manuscript, Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada, June 2008
Draft of Introduction, undated
C. Book Elements
Scope and Content Note
Acknowledgement and Dedication, 2008
Ascent Lists, Norman Clyde, 2008
Bibliography, 2008
Forward by Steve Roper, undated
Maps, 2001, 2006
Photographs and Caption Notes, 2008
Photographs - Proof Sheet and Negatives, circa 2007
Timeline, 2008
D. Book Marketing and Outreach
Scope and Content Note
Book Notices, 2008
Book Signings and Readings, 2009
Correspondence, 2008-2009
"Legendary Sierra Mountain Man Sighted In Arroyo Grande!" Perspectives, 2000
Pavlik, Robert C. "The Search for Norman Clyde." Proposal for California Historical Society, 1994
Pavlik, Robert C. Rev. of Nation Park Ranger, by Charles R. Farabee Jr., Protecting Paradise, by Shirley Sargent, and A Woman in the Great Outdoors, by Melody Webb. CSPRA Wave, January-February 2004