Finding Aid for the Paul Dayton Bailey Papers LSC.0683

Finding aid prepared by Yvonne Schroeder, August 1960; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2002.
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Contributing Institution: 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.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
General Physical Description note: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[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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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 994622743606533 

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:
  1. Typescripts: Deliver me from Eva, and Jacob Hamblin, Buckskin Apostle (Box 1).
  2. Typescript: For This My Glory (Box 2)
  3. 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:
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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

box 1

Deliver me from Eva. June 1, 1944.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections. Incomplete manuscript. 156 leaves.

General note

Note at top reads original draft, June 1, 1944.
box 1

Deliver me from Eva.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with some holograph leaves, corrections. Incomplete manuscript. 155 leaves.
box 1

Deliver me from Eva.

General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon) with occasional corrections. 201 leaves.
box 1

Jacob Hamblin, Buckskin Apostle. n.p. 1947

General Physical Description note: Typescript (some carbon) with holograph corrections. 549 leaves.

General note

Published by the Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, 1948 [Limited edition].
box 2

For This My Glory []. c. 1940

General Physical Description note: Typescript with occasional holograph leaves, extensive holograph corrections. 526 leaves. In 3 envelopes.

General note

Original title: Hell's Serenade.
Published by Lyman House, Los Angeles [c. 1940].
box 2

For This My Glory.

General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon) with holograph corrections. Final copy. 540 leaves.
box 3

Walkara, Hawk of the Mountains. n.p. n.d.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with some holograph leaves, some carbon, corrections. 164 leaves.

General note

Published by the Westernlore Press, Los Angeles [1954].
box 3

Sam Brannan and the California Mormons. Los Angeles 1943

General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon) with holograph corrections.

General note

Published by the Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, 1943.
box 3

Also: Second copy.

General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon). 173 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Includes one illustration.
box 3

Sam Brannan and the California Mormons. n.p. n.d.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with illustrations. 269 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Publisher's copy. Revised and rewritten. Includes bibliography.

General note

Published by the Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, 1953 [enlarged edition].