Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Jack D. Forbes Papers,
- Dates:
- 1960-1963
- Creators:
- Forbes, Jack D.
- Abstract:
- Jack D. Forbes (1934- ) wrote many books, including Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard (1960), The Indian in America's Past (1964), and Warriors of the Colorado: the Yumas of the Quechan Nation and Their Neighbors (1965). The collection consists of published and unpublished manuscripts concerning the history of the Apache, Navajo, and Yuma Indians.
- Extent:
- 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Jack D. Forbes Papers (Collection 825). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of published and unpublished manuscripts concerning the history of the Apache, Navajo, and Yuma Indians. Includes a typescript with holograph corrections and a draft of Forbes's book titled, Apache, Navaho and Spaniard : a History of the Southern Athapaskans and Their Relations With the Spanish Empire, 1540-1698. Also contains a typescript with holograph corrections of A history of the Yuma Indians and Yuma-Land to 1821, later published as Warriors of the Colorado: the Yumas of the Quechan Nation and Their Neighbors (1965).
- Biographical / historical:
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Jack D. Forbes was born January 7, 1934 in Long Beach, California; AA, Glendale College, 1953; BA (1955), MA (1956), Ph.D (1959), Univ. of Southern Calif.; lecturer (1956-59), University of Southern California; instructor, Citrus College (1959-60); associate professor of history, San Fernando Valley State College (1960-64); associate professor of history and director of Center for Western North American Studies, University of Nevada, Reno (1964-67); research program director, Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, Berkeley, California (1967-69); professor of Native American studies, University oc California Davis from 1969; wrote many books, including Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard (1960), The Indian in America's Past (1964), and Warriors of the Colorado: the Yumas of the Quechan Nation and Their Neighbors (1965).
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Jack Forbes, 1963.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2002
- Date Encoded:
- Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, September 2001 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Alight Tsai and Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Jack D. Forbes Papers (Collection 825). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988