Scope and Contents Here are 24 envelopes for 1998, April to December, basically daily journals with the 7 September entries mostly field notes about grouse hunting. There are also 42 envelopes for 1999, from February to December. 16 of them, from September grouse-hunting trips, are pretty extensive field notes. 3 October entries (and 1 in November) are from hikes up little creeks into the mountains, just ogling the landscape. Rest of envelopes are daily journals in very tiny and illegible script. White...

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Here are 48 envelopes dated from January 13 to December 29, 2000. Lots of daily journals; recounting of a nightmare; mountain hikes on July 4; Rio Grande fishing July 17 (and again on September 15); trip on July 23 to Lake Fork Peak on my 60th birthday with daughter Tania; 7 September trips grouse hunting. The last envelope is my draft of a stupid advertisement/blurb plugging my forthcoming novel The Voice of the Butterfly. White Manuscript Box.

Scope and Contents Here are 82 envelope diaries dated from January 4, 2001 to December 27, 2001. This was the year of my extended book tour for Voice of the Butterfly and An American Child Supreme, a tour detailed elsewhere in my JOURNAL/DIARY and MANUSCRIPT FILES. These envelopes contain daily journals, a few dreams, some To-Do lists, and many alpine hiking and grouse hunting field notes, including the original notes for my 9/11 hike to the top of Lake Fork Peak. 14 envelope field notes cover my alpine hikes...

Scope and Contents 67 envelope diaries dated from January 8, 2002 to August 30, 2002. This is the year I really started going nuts in the high country. Included here are some daily Taos journals, but a majority of the diaries are comprised of field notes from my mountain climbs, starting with 4 grueling hikes in April up avalanche chutes to the La Cal Basin West Ridge. The National Forest was closed due to fire danger in late June and early July, so I kept a few journals of hiking down to the Manby Hot Springs...

Scope and Contents 51 envelope diaries dated from September 1, 2002 to December 30, 2002. (This box also includes 27 envelope diaries dated from January 30, 2003 to September 30, 2003; 2 envelope diaries from 2004; and 9 envelope diaries from 2005.) Obviously, after 2002, I began recording my hiking field notes into a tape recorder. Many if not most of the 2002 envelopes record alpine hikes, although there are 9 or 10 diaries about grouse hunting up the Rio Chiquito, Pot Creek, or the Rio Grande del Rancho....

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Includes: 5 pages of notes on 1980 mesa photographs including aperature, shutter speed, lenses used on each picture. A couple of pages are written by Sylvia Landfair. Also: Notes for "The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn." Random notes from 1982, 1984. Notes about the mesa on September 30, 1984. And on a mesa stock pond October 2, 1984.

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Notes for my novel American Blood. Probably 1984.

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Mostly notes for my novel American Blood. Includes southern expressions of Sylvia Landfair used for the novel's character, Janine Tarr. Also: Some notes for "On The Mesa." And my scribbles planning a speech to the Sierra Club on March 4, 1985.

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Notes for my novel American Blood, and for non-fiction book "On The Mesa." Description of a stock pond September 1, 1984. Minutes of a meeting about a Carson Forest Plan on March 21, 1985.

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Notes for "On The Mesa." And many pages relating to December disciplinary action at private school, key points underlined in red. Also: Random colorful vocabulary and expressions to be used in the novel American Blood.

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Reflections for: On The Mesa. Slang lingo for American Blood. Water meeting discussion with Andrés Martínez. Interview about school disciplinary action, see #5 above. And other random stuff.

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Random notes. Plans for my 2nd wedding, September 13, 1985. List of people to invite. Debts for 1985. Not much info in this notebook.

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Jottings for novel American Blood. Some planning lists for "A Conversation with John Nichols," a week I spent holding a workshop at Ghost Ranch, July 22-29, 1985.

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Random to-do lists, addresses, busy work for 1985-1986. Not much information here.

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Notes relating to 2nd wedding, September 13, 1985. Christmas list 1985. A few American Blood scribbles. Not many pages.

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Notes about working on Pancho Villa mini-series ("Born to Attack") for CBS. Diary for March 21, 1986 and April 25, 1986. Cast for "The Wizard of Loneliness" film, shooting in Vermont in autumn of 1987. Notes about my visit to witness "Wizard" filming in Bristol, Vermont, December 1987 (See #14 below).

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4 pages of novel notes. Also: Observations from book tour for my novel American Blood in May 1987 (61 total pages) to the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Austin, Chicago. (See YELLOW MEAD NOTEBOOK, AMERICAN BLOOD BOOK TOUR, 1987-ONE and YELLOW STUART HALL NOTEBOOK, AMERICAN BLOOD BOOK TOUR, 1987-TWO in my JOURNAL/DIARY FILES.)

Scope and Contents My second wife and I traveled through Holland, France, and Spain in September-October 1987. (See EUROPE, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1987 in my JOURNAL/DIARY FILES.) This notebook has scribbles, addresses for Amsterdam; Holland; Paris; Port-Blanc (France). Addresses for traveling in France. Returning rent-a-car to Perpignon, France. Tossa de Mar in Spain. Alicante. Also: 5 pages on my "new" novel Democracy in Action (later Voice of the Butterfly). Back page: Info on my wife Juanita's dad's grave in...

Scope and Contents Brief notes of Europe trip article. 15 pages of thoughts for new novel Democracy in Action (later Voice of the Butterfly). 38 pages of thoughts for an article on the filming of my novel "The Wizard of Loneliness" in Bristol, Vermont, starting December 1, 1987. (See "WIZARD" FILM JOURNAL, DEC. 1-8, 1987 in my JOURNAL/DIARY FILES and my article "Snow Job" in Film Comment Magazine, October 1988.) Also in this notebook: Many pages with poems about Dancing on Rio Grande Boulders, Cats in Baskets,...

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This notebook has only a few pages of novel notes dated November 22, 1987.

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This notebook has about 45 pages of mostly novel notes related to Democracy in Action (later The Voice of the Butterfly).

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These are almost exclusively my field notes while grouse hunting on September 1, 5, 8, 14, 15, 16, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 27, 1996.

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These are almost exclusively my field notes while grouse hunting on September 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 17 and 19, 1997.

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This notebook has a few of my field notes from the fall of 2001 including a continuation of October 19, 2001 observations coming down off Lake Fork Peak. Not many pages.

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This book has only 6 pages of field notes about my trip on snowshoes up to Williams Lake on October 31, 2002. A cold trip.