Walter Noble Burns papers

AZ 291
Tombstone Epitaph Newspaper Building, 1927

Photograph of Tombstone Epitaph newspaper building, 1927.  The caption on the back reads "Tombstone, Newspaper Epitaph's office before 1927."

Collection area: Literature

Collection dates: 1908-1964 bulk (bulk 1922-1932)

About this collection

This collection contains manuscripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, clippings, and related material. Several drafts of the manuscripts for The Saga of Billy the Kid, 1925, Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest, 1927, The One Way Ride, 1931 and The Robin Hood of El Dorado: the Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, 1932, are present. Photographs are of people and places such as Pat Garrett, John Slaughter, Lincoln County, N.M., and Tombstone, Ariz. Correspondents, including Wyatt Earp and various others, relate their experiences. Also included are short stories and articles; many about Wild Bill Hickock. Clippings from his newspaper columns in Chicago's Inter Ocean, 1908-1913, chiefly concern western themes.

Historical background

Walter N. Burns was a journalist and author of Western fiction

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