Louis Kraft Collection (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 2021-07-02-unprocessed
Scope and Contents
Collection is unprocessed. Researcher must sign unprocessed collection use form. Ask reference staff for additional information.
Dates
- 1940s - 2010s
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Louis Kraft is an independent writer of fiction and non-fiction about the Old West. He was born in 1947 in New York and has made his home in Southern California. He graduated as a theater major in 1969 from California State University, Northridge. After many years acting he turned his interest to writing. He has written extensively on George Armstrong Custer, Indian Agent Edward W. Wynkoop, Cheyennes, Apaches, and Geronimo. His works include The Final Showdown (fiction), Gatewood and Geronimo, Custer and the Cheyenne, Custer and His Times, and a two-act play "An Evening with Ned Wynkoop," and Lt. Charles Gatewood and His Apache Wars Memoir." He is a member of the Western History Association and Western Writers of America. He has also written numerous articles on baseball.
Extent
26 Cubic Feet (Boxes contain materials pertaining to Louis Kraft's work and contain photographic materials, movie posters, manuscripts and research notes on Native Americans, Western and Maritime Hollywood movies, and Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Collection also contains personal family materials.)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
B-3/7B and B-2 Flat files
Separated Materials
Movie posters have been placed in flat files. Some photographic materials (daguerrotype) have been transfered to Pictorial Collections.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the
- Status
- In Progress
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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