When Redford came to my Taos house in July 1980 to talk about Milagro, at the end or our discussions the girls were desperate to have their picture taken with him. He was a good sport. He said, "I knew I couldn't get out of here without my picture being taken." The full color photo has Holly Bachman, Tania Nichols, Veronica Baca, and Redford. (From original slides in my transparencies archives, in Slide Box 16, sleeve 8.)

1 large color photo of my pal, Em Hall, taking a break on the Pecos River during a day of fly casting. (See in my slide archives several slides of this moment in Slide Box 21, Sleeve 6.)

Sylvia was my girlfriend from 1980 off and on until 1985. 3 color photos in this folder. Me and Sylvia at Jack and Kath Loeffler's house, playing guitar, photo by Karl Kernberger. Self-portrait of me, Sylvia, and her bulldog, Bubba. And picture of Sylvia with a trout on the Rio Grande. See her photos in LBDA. (Also many pictures of Sylvia in my slide archives, in Slide Box 21.)

2 large B&W photos of me receiving plaque for "John Nichols Day" at Western NM University; and of me and Sylvia Landfair in a group photo with Sigma Tau Delta students at WNMU. I drove down there with Sylvia, a really fun trip. My speech was, "Out of the Melting Pot, and Into the Fire Next Time," about racism in America.

35 B&W self-portraits of JTN for Nirvana Blues on a contact sheet. And the negative strips for these photos. Three prints of proposed pictures, including one of a photo used on the jacket. I kept my mouth shut because I was missing my front teeth! My upper jaw was infected so I couldn't wear my bridge. Also includes some passport images I had made from these prints.

This is a color print made from a slide of mine, of me stripped to the waist with wheelbarrow of chopped wood. It was used as back jacket photo for LBDA, taken autumn 1981. Folder includes the color negative for print. Book was published in 1982.

This folder contains 1 B&W contact sheet of 20 author photos I took of my friend, Doug Terry, for his novel, The Last Texas Hero, published by Doubleday in 1982. A good novel. I probably took these pictures of Doug in Taos in 1981. Folder includes my B&W negatives of the shoot. Also one tattered color photo of Doug and his wife Nancy's wedding in Arroyo Seco, I forget what year.

13 lousy color snapshots of the event in Pueblo that somebody up there sent to me. Mostly me just schmoozing with the crowd afterwards on May 3, 1982.

Another of my favortie all-time pictures. Taken of me by my buddy, Mike Kimmel, on the Little Rio Grande in Taos, I think around 1982. Of maybe the tiniest trout I ever caught. And one of the happiest smiles ever caught on film. 2 color photos and 2 color negatives. 1 of the color negatives is of Mike yowling on the Little Rio Grande. Portrait of me was used on the cover of Dancing on the Stones.

2 color snapshots of me with Gov. King getting the award in Santa Fe, 1981. See my Activities Files for more info on this award. Photographer unknown.

2 large B&W photos of JTN on Rio Grande at Big Arsenic, taken by my pal Mike Kimmel. Folder includes a letter to me from Mike about the photos dated March 18, 1983.

Bernard Plossu was French photographer who lived in Taos for a while. Folder includes 3 B&W contact sheets of Bernard's photos of me in my son Luke's pigeon coop in Taos, 1982. Also of me wrestling with Luke. And 2 shots of me with my daughter Tania. Folder also has 1 print Bernard sent me years later, of me releasing a pigeon in the coop that day. Photos were taken for the publication ARTlines, which I guess ran an interview with me by Thom Collins, June 1982.

7 color photos. 2 of John and Betty in Nicaragua, Dec. 1983. One of Betty on Tres Orejas Mt., Taos; one of her on the Rio Grande with large trout; one at William Floyd house in Mastic, Long Island, NY; and one of Betty and her son, Jesse Read, on Leo Garen's boat in Los Angeles, 1984.

5 B&W photos of JTN by my buddy, Leo Garen, obviously for book jacket, but I forget which one. Probably taken mid-1980s in Taos. None were ever used. Folder includes 2 major contact sheets of all the photos. Also all the original negatives for the photos. 42 pictures in all. (There's one contact picture [and negative] I took of Leo.)

Nice photos. Color. One in front of my Taos portal, 1985. One out on the western mesa smelling some flowers. Mel Howard was a good friend, actor (Hester Street), teacher, film director, AD. We worked on movies (never made) together. He was also good pals with my other Hollywood buddy, Leo Garen. Mel died of a liver transplant for hepatitis. Leo comitted suicide at age 71 in Cartagena, Columbia.

7 B&W contact sheet photos of moving sheep trailer to my land in Carson. Juanita gave me trailer for my birthday. Bill Renison and Mary Alice Renison helped to move it. I sold the land in 2001. And gave the sheep trailer to Jerry Boxberger who lived up the road in Carson. Folder includes negatives of these pictures which could actually be developed as viable photographs.

4 B&W photos taken at Tucson conference by Cynthia Farah in 1985. Picture of me laughing with my new wife, Juanita; of me and Rudy Anaya and William Eastlake; and a picture of me in a striped rugby jersey that I think was taken in Taos and that Cynthia included in her book, Literature and Landscape: Writers of the Southwest.

7 B&W photos of me on mesa, publicity pictures for On the Mesa, published in 1986. Folder includes 37 of the negatives from the photo shoot.

2 color photos. One of us kissing on the mesa, perhaps taken by Mel Howard in 1985? Another of us in Alicante, Spain, 1987, taken by my Uncle Nito. There are a g-zillion pictures of me and Juana together throughout my slide box archives.

1 big color photo of John; Juanita; my film agent at Curtis Brown, Tim Knowlton; and Tim's friend on the Rio Grande at bottom of Rope Trail. I took the picture by time exposure, I think around 1986.

4 B&W photos of JTN for my novel American Blood dust jacket, 1986. Taken by Juanita Nichols.

1 color photo of JTN giving a toast to Michael Martin Murphey at Godie Schutz' restaurant in Arroyo Seco. Photo by Juanita Nichols in March 1986.

2 B&W large photos of Juana and John with Moctesuma Esparza and his son, and with Redford, 1986. 1 big color photo of John and Juana with Redford on location in Truchas, August or September 1986. B&W negatives of the 2 photos mentioned above. (Many transparencies of the Milagro filming can be found in my slide archives, in Slide Box 16.)

I took this in Dori's Bakery. Article about Susan's book, Good Girls Gone Bad, along with photo. I thought Susan was cool. July 1987.