The Cowboys and TV Censorship in the Early 1970s
Part of a Series: Exploring the David Dortort Archives At the beginning of each month, Project Archivist Mallory Furnier explores the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. Click here for other entries in the series. The David Dortort Archives includes production documents for many of the television projects he worked on. These … Read more
MS.725, Finding Aid to Myer J. Newmark Journal, 1852-1853
Part of the Diamonds in the Rough Series: Archives Ready and Set In continuation of the “Diamonds in the Rough,“Archives Ready and Set” will highlight the online finding aids and catalog records of the archive collections processed with a grant from the NHPRC. This award made it possible for the Libraries and Archives of the Autry … Read more
American Communists and Lusty Men: David Dortort’s Early Screenwriting Work
Part of a Series: Exploring the David Dortort Archives At the beginning of each month, Project Archivist Mallory Furnier explores the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. Click here for other entries in the series. After David Dortort’s novels Burial of the Fruit and The Post of Honor were published, film studios … Read more
On the 25th Anniversary Timeline 1995: The Autry Research Center is open!
On the 25th Anniversary Timeline 1995: The Autry Research Center is open! PRESERVATION AND ACCESS! Gene Autry participated in many grand openings during his long public career, but given his great interest in preserving the history of the American West, one of his proudest moments may have been cutting the ribbon to the Research Center … Read more
From Brooklyn to the West: David Dortort’s Novels
Part of a Series: Exploring the David Dortort Archives At the beginning of each month, Project Archivist Mallory Furnier explores the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. Click here for other entries in the series. Although David Dortort’s most well-known film and television work featured Western settings, he spent his earliest years … Read more
Female on the Ponderosa?
Part of a Series: Exploring the David Dortort Archives At the beginning of each month, Project Archivist Mallory Furnier explores the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. Click here for other entries in the series. If you wished to live a long, healthy life on the fictional Ponderosa of Bonanza, it was … Read more
Tweeting Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month in February, the Libraries and Archives of the Autry Twitter account @LA_Autry highlighted a book or item from our collections each weekday that featured African Americans. If you missed any of our tweets, have a look at our gallery below. Use Collections Online and our library catalog to discover … Read more
MS.605 Mary Hunter Austin Collection, 1868-1954
Part of the Series: Archives Ready and Set In continuation of the “Diamonds in the Rough” blog series, “Archives Ready and Set” will highlight the online finding aids and catalog records of the archive collections processed with a grant from the NHPRC. This award made it possible for the Libraries and Archives of the Autry to … Read more
Finding Aids and Places
If you are a regular reader of the Libraries and Archives of the Autry blog, at some point you likely ran across a blog about David Dortort and his work on Bonanza, The High Chaparral, and other projects, or perhaps a blog about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and their impact and work. The Rogers … Read more
Looking Back and Looking Forward: A 2012 Libraries and Archives Blog Review
The Libraries and Archives of the Autry blog began in January 2010 as a way to share highlights from our research collections and related events. In 2012 the Libraries and Archives of the Autry blog debuted 64 new posts. Though most of our blog visitors hailed from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, … Read more
