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BOOK TOUR FOR AMERICAN BLOOD, APRIL-MAY 1987

 File — Box: 172, slide-box: 10

Scope and Contents

  1. 1. Book tour, Leadville, CO, April 1987. Photos of all the quaint houses in Leadville. (20 slides)
  2. 2. Book tour, Leadville, CO, April 1987. Houses. Overview of town. Trip north to "town for sale." (20 slides)
  3. 3. Book tour, Aspen, CO, April-May 1987. Juana and JTN. Gary McElroy, Wayne Ewing (filmmaker). Red caboose. White rocks. (19 slides)
  4. 4. Book tour, Aspen and Ft. Collins, May 1, 1987. Pop and Jackie (C. Springs). Juana at Ft. Collins airport with tiny planes in BG between her upraised arms. (18 slides)
  5. 5. Book tour, Ft. Collins, CO. May 1987. John and Juana in field of yellow flowers near airport. (19 slides)
  6. 6. Book tour, Ft. Collins, CO. May 1987. Juana and JTN with Jaques Rieux at his Stone Lion bookstore. (18 slides)
  7. 7. Book tour, Ft. Collins, CO. May 1987. Portraits of John Mattingly, farmer and great novelist, during an invterview. (20 slides)
  8. 8. Book tour, Denver, CO. May 1987. Lou Palmer and his wife, my stepmother Brownie. Their S. Garfield St. yard. Tattered Cover bookstore. Writer Dan O'Brien ("Buffalo on the Broken Heart," "Rites of Autumn"). Harvey Kalmeyer, old Taos friend. Peter Boyles, KNUS radio. (19 slides)
  9. 9. Book tour, Denver, CO. May 1987. Tom Auer, editor and publisher at Bloomsbury Review. Phipps Mansion. Brownie with her corgis in Garfield St. back yard. (20 slides)
  10. 10. Book tour, Denver, CO. May 1987. Brownie's house and yard, husband Lou. Botannical Gardens. Lou, Juana, Brownie. (20 slides)
  11. 11. Book tour, San Francisco and Bay Area, CA. May 1987. Juana, JTN, San Francisco buildings. Marlena Speiler, our peppy media escort. (20 slides)
  12. 12. Book tour, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA. May 1987. Juana, JTN, Marlena Speiler, my old house area on 2019 Durant Ave., Berkeley (we lived there 1950-1951). (20 slides)
  13. 13. Book tour, Berkeley, CA. May 1987. Friends Arthur Blaustein, Cori Field, Tessa Martínez at Cody's Bookstore. Juanita buys sandals. (Many letters to and from Arthur Blaustein can be found in my correspondence files, Box 145, Folders 73-74, and Box 146, Folders 1-7.) (20 slides)
  14. 14. Book tour, Bay Area, Palo Alto, Stanford campus. May 1987. Paul Skenazy (interviewer) (Our correspondence in Box 159, Folder 72.) Bill Kiely (Stanford Law School). Juana, Marlena Speiler, JTN. (20 slides)
  15. 15. Book tour, Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park. May 1987. Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. Juana's friend Cathy. Marlena Speiler. Juana at 2019 Durant Ave. in Berkeley (my old house now replaced by apt. building). (18 slides)

Dates

  • APRIL-MAY 1987

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

ME AND JUANITA TRAVELED TOGETHER AND HAD MANY ADVENTURES. 15 SLEEVES. This Box 10 has photos from Leadville, Aspen, Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. And from San Francisco and Bay area, Palo Alto, Menlo Park in Califas.

NOTE: I KEPT DETAILED JOURNALS DURING THIS BOOK TOUR. THE JOURNALS AND OTHER INFO ABOUT THE BOOK TOUR CAN BE FOUND IN ARCHIVAL BOX 136, FOLDERS 30, 31, 32, AND 33. THOSE JOURNALS HELP TO EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING PICTURES IN THIS BOX AND THE FOLLOWING TWO BOXES.

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