Nine Shots in the Dark
First Page of "Nine Shots in the Dark" draft by Erskine Caldwell.
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: 1951
Typescript chapters of a story, written in relay by Erskine Caldwell, Rosemary Taylor, Leslie Ernenwein, Joseph Wood Krutch, Roy Chapman Andrews, Ruth Suckow, Nelson C. Nye, Ann Ritner, and Elliot Arnold.
Proposed by bookseller Eugene Steinheimer, each author wrote a chapter of the story on a relay basis.
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