NEW MEXICO REVIEW, SCRAPBOOK, 1970-1972
File — Box: 119, Folder: 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
John Nichols' papers document a wide range of history and culture and personal connections in New Mexico (and elsewhere) over the last 55 years. This all-inclusive collection contains almost every draft of every manuscript Nichols has written, and every piece of correspondence that he has sent and received since the late 1950s. The collection not only documents the creation and evolution of his literary works, but precisely documents the literary process. His correspondence, speeches, and artwork chronicle contemporary political and social issues and shed light not only on John Nichols, but also illuminate the perspectives of a large array of contemporary literary, political, and everyday figures and issues in New Mexico and around the globe.
Activities, 1970-2008: These files include speeches, political organizing, trips, magazine articles, and many other projects and activities undertaken by Nichols.
Articles, 1969-2007: Contain various newspaper and magazine articles about John Nichols and his books.
Artwork, 1969-2004: Sketchbooks, drawings and cartoons by John Nichols. Significant works including a complete set of pen and ink calavera drawings, artists proofs, and etchings of calaveras done to illustrate The Magic Journey; published and unpublished political cartoons, mostly done during the 1970s for Albuquerque's alternative newspaper, Seer's Catalogue, and illustrations and cartoons done for Hamilton College's track & field newsletter The Good Scout.
Book Reviews, 1965-2007: Published reviews of John Nichols' books.
Book/Film Contracts, 1964-2012: Xerox copies of some of the main contracts Nichols has signed for book publishing, film options, and screen-writing assignments. With a few magazine and journal and audio recording pufferies thrown in.
Book/Movie/Agent Correspondence, 1963-2007: This consists of files of correspondence between Nichols and agents, editors, publishers, producers, directors, production people, and others involved with his professional life of writing books and screenplays.
Correspondence 1950s-1960s, 1950-2012: This series contains letters from Nichols' teenage years, while at Hamilton College, and then living in New York City until 1969. Later correspondence is often included, the criteria being that the letter exchanges began in the 1950s or 1960s.
Envelope Diaries, 1998-2002: Envelope diaries and field observations played a huge role in creating Nichols' literature. He kept a record of hikes on the backs of envelopes and carefully typed up these transcripts afterwards. Once he began carrying a little tape recorder that was the end of the envelope diary field notes.
Eulogies, 1980-2007: Written by John Nichols for some of his departed friends.
Fan Letters, 1969-2011: Consist mainly of letters to Nichols, mostly from strangers, commenting on his books or other projects, and of carbons of some of his typed replies to these letters from strangers.
General Correspondence, 1970-2012
Jouranl/Diary Ephemera, 1955-1966: Ephemera connected to Nichols' life between age 15-26, during prep school and college and a few years after college.
Journal/Diary Files, 1956-2007: Nichols has kept journals off and on since age fifteen.
Manuscripts, 1957-2012: This series contains nearly every draft of every title that John Nichols wrote between 1957 and 2012. Notable titles include "The Sterile Cuckoo" and the New Mexico Trilogy: "The Milagro Beanfield War," "The Magic Journey," and "The Nirvana Blues."
Memorabilia, 1968-1997: Hermes Rocket typewriter used to type Milagro, and Olympia typewriter used to type manuscripts from 1974 until 1997, when Nichols finally began using the computer.
Miscellaneous Carbons, 1964-2009: These are carbon copies of business and personal letters, typed by Nichols and not matched up with correspondence files elsewhere.
Novel Notes, 1961-2006: Notes that Nichols scribbled in notebooks and on the backs of envelopes. He often wrote dozens of variations on a theme in notebooks trying to get a handle, find a starting point.
Phone Messages, 1987-2007
Photographs, 1955-2013: This is a cross-section of photographs of Nichols, his family and friends, lots of photographs related to publicity for his books, or hiking mesas and climbing mountains.
Photography Workshops in Taos, 1988-1998: Nichols' friend sponsored the Owens Valley Photography Workshops (begun in 1975) for many years. The workshops catered to serious, and usually large-format, photographers in the mold of Ansel Adams and others of his ilk. Nichols guest lectured at the workshop for 10 summers, beginning in 1988.
Pocket Notebooks, 1980-2010: Things to do, lists, notes for novels, field notes when hiking, random thoughts, and so forth.
Publications, 1959-2007: Magazines and newspapers containing articles by or about Nichols. This includes prep school and college literary magazines, the Hamilton Spectator and New Mexico Review.
Request Letters, 1970-2012: Mostly letters from people asking John Nichols to "do stuff," like read their books, blurb their books, find them a publisher, come and speak to their class, do a workshop, contribute books for their benefit auction, etc.
Royalty Statements,1965-2011
Screenplays, 1965-2004: Includes screenplays, drafts, and edited drafts of screenplays written by Nichols, or written by others as adaptations of Nichols' works. Notable titles include "Missing" and "The Milagro Beanfield War."
Slides, 1960-2000: Most of the slides were taken between 1973 and 1995, primarily in and around Nichols' Taos home, in Taos proper, or around the immediate Taos valley and western mesas, or on some of the small streams southeast of Taos or in the mountains of Taos County.
Videos 1984-2013: This is a collection of videos include interviews or documentariesJohn Nichols has done I've done or documentaries I've done, or have been included in.
Activities, 1970-2008: These files include speeches, political organizing, trips, magazine articles, and many other projects and activities undertaken by Nichols.
Articles, 1969-2007: Contain various newspaper and magazine articles about John Nichols and his books.
Artwork, 1969-2004: Sketchbooks, drawings and cartoons by John Nichols. Significant works including a complete set of pen and ink calavera drawings, artists proofs, and etchings of calaveras done to illustrate The Magic Journey; published and unpublished political cartoons, mostly done during the 1970s for Albuquerque's alternative newspaper, Seer's Catalogue, and illustrations and cartoons done for Hamilton College's track & field newsletter The Good Scout.
Book Reviews, 1965-2007: Published reviews of John Nichols' books.
Book/Film Contracts, 1964-2012: Xerox copies of some of the main contracts Nichols has signed for book publishing, film options, and screen-writing assignments. With a few magazine and journal and audio recording pufferies thrown in.
Book/Movie/Agent Correspondence, 1963-2007: This consists of files of correspondence between Nichols and agents, editors, publishers, producers, directors, production people, and others involved with his professional life of writing books and screenplays.
Correspondence 1950s-1960s, 1950-2012: This series contains letters from Nichols' teenage years, while at Hamilton College, and then living in New York City until 1969. Later correspondence is often included, the criteria being that the letter exchanges began in the 1950s or 1960s.
Envelope Diaries, 1998-2002: Envelope diaries and field observations played a huge role in creating Nichols' literature. He kept a record of hikes on the backs of envelopes and carefully typed up these transcripts afterwards. Once he began carrying a little tape recorder that was the end of the envelope diary field notes.
Eulogies, 1980-2007: Written by John Nichols for some of his departed friends.
Fan Letters, 1969-2011: Consist mainly of letters to Nichols, mostly from strangers, commenting on his books or other projects, and of carbons of some of his typed replies to these letters from strangers.
General Correspondence, 1970-2012
Jouranl/Diary Ephemera, 1955-1966: Ephemera connected to Nichols' life between age 15-26, during prep school and college and a few years after college.
Journal/Diary Files, 1956-2007: Nichols has kept journals off and on since age fifteen.
Manuscripts, 1957-2012: This series contains nearly every draft of every title that John Nichols wrote between 1957 and 2012. Notable titles include "The Sterile Cuckoo" and the New Mexico Trilogy: "The Milagro Beanfield War," "The Magic Journey," and "The Nirvana Blues."
Memorabilia, 1968-1997: Hermes Rocket typewriter used to type Milagro, and Olympia typewriter used to type manuscripts from 1974 until 1997, when Nichols finally began using the computer.
Miscellaneous Carbons, 1964-2009: These are carbon copies of business and personal letters, typed by Nichols and not matched up with correspondence files elsewhere.
Novel Notes, 1961-2006: Notes that Nichols scribbled in notebooks and on the backs of envelopes. He often wrote dozens of variations on a theme in notebooks trying to get a handle, find a starting point.
Phone Messages, 1987-2007
Photographs, 1955-2013: This is a cross-section of photographs of Nichols, his family and friends, lots of photographs related to publicity for his books, or hiking mesas and climbing mountains.
Photography Workshops in Taos, 1988-1998: Nichols' friend sponsored the Owens Valley Photography Workshops (begun in 1975) for many years. The workshops catered to serious, and usually large-format, photographers in the mold of Ansel Adams and others of his ilk. Nichols guest lectured at the workshop for 10 summers, beginning in 1988.
Pocket Notebooks, 1980-2010: Things to do, lists, notes for novels, field notes when hiking, random thoughts, and so forth.
Publications, 1959-2007: Magazines and newspapers containing articles by or about Nichols. This includes prep school and college literary magazines, the Hamilton Spectator and New Mexico Review.
Request Letters, 1970-2012: Mostly letters from people asking John Nichols to "do stuff," like read their books, blurb their books, find them a publisher, come and speak to their class, do a workshop, contribute books for their benefit auction, etc.
Royalty Statements,1965-2011
Screenplays, 1965-2004: Includes screenplays, drafts, and edited drafts of screenplays written by Nichols, or written by others as adaptations of Nichols' works. Notable titles include "Missing" and "The Milagro Beanfield War."
Slides, 1960-2000: Most of the slides were taken between 1973 and 1995, primarily in and around Nichols' Taos home, in Taos proper, or around the immediate Taos valley and western mesas, or on some of the small streams southeast of Taos or in the mountains of Taos County.
Videos 1984-2013: This is a collection of videos include interviews or documentariesJohn Nichols has done I've done or documentaries I've done, or have been included in.
Dates
- 1970-1972
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research, however, researchers must sign consent form prior to gaining access to materials. Calavera drawings, proofs, and etchings as well as "little diaries" (Boxes 14, 125, 126, 129, 142) are housed in high security and may require up to 24 hours for retrieval. Enlarged photocopies and typed transcriptions of "little diaries" in Box 142 are located in Box 184.
Extent
From the Collection: 184 boxes (172 cu. ft.)
General
I published articles in this investigative journal from May 1970 through November 1972. I was the co-editor of the last three issues with Rini Templeton, trying to keep the paper alive. I practically wrote half the paper in those final months. Never got paid a penny, but the Review was the only organ that would publish me, and I learned so much about the north. Too, I was able to keep thinking of myself as a writer during a really difficult time. I published a few cartoons and a fair amount of photographs also. The review was started by Ed Schwartz, passed on to Em Hall and Jim Bensfield, who basically let it become a collective, just to keep it going. I loved all the people connected to the review, and the paper itself saved my life. My articles about Indian Camp Dam and other related stories led directly to Milagro and The Magic Journey, and most other stuff I've written since.
A SCRAPBOOK THAT INCLUDES MOST OF THE ARTICLES I PUBLISHED IN THE NEW MEXICO REVIEW IS INCLUDED WITH THIS COLLECTION.
Here is a complete list of articles I published in the New Mexico Review.
A SCRAPBOOK THAT INCLUDES MOST OF THE ARTICLES I PUBLISHED IN THE NEW MEXICO REVIEW IS INCLUDED WITH THIS COLLECTION.
Here is a complete list of articles I published in the New Mexico Review.
- MAY, 1970: "A Man With A Previous Record." About Jose Cisneros's struggle with the Questa Moly Mine.
- JUNE-JULY, 1970 - Three Poems: "Souvenirs," " Hero," "Duke."
- AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1970 - "Lawrence Martinez - And Don't You Forget Eat." Rascist education in America as seen in an adobe ruin in Costilla.
- AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1970 - "Human Relations in Taos." Chicanno-Hippy war in Taos.
- OCTOBER, 1970 - "Rejecting Fate At Los Alamos." Part One. History of the bombing of Hiroshima.
- NOVEMBER, 1970 - "Hiroshima Day." Part Two. Present day account of protests Aug. 6, 1970 at los Alamos the night before Tania my daughter was born; "Maria's Encounter With the Taos Police." Police racism against indigenous people.
- DECEMBER, 1970 - "Going To School in Espanola and Taos." Right wingers sabotage progressive social studies programs.
- JANUARY, 1971 - "The Blue Lake Blues." Taos Pueblo's fight for the return of its land.
- MARCH-APRIL, 1971 - "How The Indian Feels."
- MAY, 1971 - "The People, Yes." Welfare demonstration in Santa Fe with people from Penasco.
- JUNE-JULY, 1971 - "Lieutenant William Calley, Meet Kit Carson of Taos." History of US atrocity and genocide.
- AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1971 - Felipe Mares. Long article in a series on police killings in New Mexico. Felipe Mares killing wound up in The Magic Journey.
- OCTOBER, 1971 - "The Indian Camp Dam: Requiem For A Way of Life." First article on Indian Camp Dam struggle, the Taos anti-conservancy fight.
- NOVEMBER, 1971 - "Reies Lopez Tijerina: A Man Like The Northern Weather." Charismatic leader returns from jail and speaks in Espanola.
- DECEMBER, 1971 - "The Miracle is Energy: Aftermath of a Women's Art Exhibit." Bea Mandelman, and women artists in Taos; "Taos Politics: Conservancy Hearing Reset For Feb. 15."
- JANUARY, 1972 - "Taos Politics: The Plot Thickens in Conservancy Hearings."
- FEBRUARY, 1972 - "Taos Politics: New Date For Conservancy Hearing;" "A Man Who Used To Race Horses." Story of Sculptor Ralph Suazo of Taos Pueblo.
- MARCH, 1972 - "Ted Drennan in Taos." Undercover agent- provacateur who killed two Black Berets in Albuquerque.
- APRIL-MAY, 1972 - "Indian Camp Dam: The Mystery Welded To Reality." Excellently researched article on history of Conservancy depradations in the SW.
- JUNE, 1972 - "A Butterfly Bomb In Taos." Balloon Day in Taos. An innocent commercial prommotion on the plaza that somehow reminds me of the carnage in Vietnam.
- JULY, 1972 - "No Comment From Bloom." More conservancy stuff.
- SEPTEMBER, 1972 - "Stealing Water The 'Right Way.'" Andrés Martínez (Andres Martinez) and other Canon farmers fight for water stolen by the Valle Escondido 8 miles up Taos Canyon; "Whatever Happened To Billy The Kid?" Great Western Sugar scandals, and development of Cochiti Pueblo; "Rural Schools: Going Down Angry;" "A Town Changes Its Name." Celebration as Los Ojos changes its name from Parkview; "Ships That Pass In The Night." (This, and following articles are kind of wiseapple fillers.); "Politics New Mexico Style;" "Convention Violence;" "King Endorses McGovern;" "Adios, Montana and Wyoming?;" "To Bee or Not To Bee;" "No Posey Pluckers;" "Meanwhile, On The Other Side of The World;" "All's Moot That Ends Moot;" "Quotations From Chairman Dave;" "Jane Fonda in Hanoi;" "What Is It?"
- OCTOBER, 1972 - "INDIAN CAMP DAM: The Hunting Of The Snark;" "George McGovern in Espanola: Still A Human Being;" "Of Mice and Jet Fighters, Buzz Saws and Dead Roadrunners;" "A Blot on The Nation;" "La Clinica de la Gente;" "What About The Indians?"
- NOVEMBER, 1972 - "Indian Camp Dam - No, But Maybe;" "Every Five Days A Hiroshima Bomb is Dropped on Vietnam;" "A Tinkertoy Approach To Politics;" "New Mexico Jails: Not Even A Rat Can Stand Them;" "Accidents Will Happen;" "Better Dead Than Waterbed;" "Boettcher's Sprytron;" "People Against Pete."
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451