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
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
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
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
Who is David Dortort?
Part of a Series: Exploring Highlights from the David Dortort Archive The Autry National Center’s Institute for the Study of the American West recently processed the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. This month Archivist Assistant Mallory Furnier concludes the Dortort blog series with a look back at previous posts and information … Read more
Featuring the Fans
Part of a Series: Exploring Highlights from the David Dortort Archive The Autry National Center’s Institute for the Study of the American West is currently processing the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. The Autry Libraries blog will feature monthly highlights from the collection in anticipation of processing completion in June 2011. … Read more
The Production Iceberg
Part of a Series: Exploring Highlights from the David Dortort Archive The Autry National Center’s Institute for the Study of the American West is currently processing the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. Every 1st Tuesday of the month the Autry Libraries blog will feature highlights from the collection in anticipation of … Read more
April 21, 1968
Part of a Series: Exploring Highlights from the David Dortort Archive The Autry National Center’s Institute for the Study of the American West is currently processing the donated papers of novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Dortort. Today’s post is a special feature highlighting David Dortort’s relationship to the tumultuous social climate of the second half … Read more
