Overview of the Wallace Earle Stegner miscellaneous papers

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Title: Wallace Earle Stegner miscellaneous papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1950
Collection Number: 52008
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 1 manuscript box (0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, notes, photographs, and copies of newspaper articles and trial transcripts, relating to the murder trial of labor organizer Joe Hill in 1914-1915. Used as research material for the historical novel by W. E. Stegner, The Preacher and the Slave (1950)
Creator: Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1952.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Wallace Earle Stegner miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

American novelist.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, notes, photographs, and copies of newspaper articles and trial transcripts, relating to the murder trial of labor organizer Joe Hill in 1914-1915. Used as research material for the historical novel by W. E. Stegner, The Preacher and the Slave (1950)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Labor movement -- United States
Radicalism -- United States
Industrial Workers of the World
Hill, Joe, 1879-1915

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