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Box 11

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

Typescripts of stories [Nebraska settings or themes]

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts of stories [Wyoming settings or themes]

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts of stories [Arizona and New Mexico settings or themes]

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts of stories [other western settings or themes]

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts of Brad Betts stories (or start of novel?)

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts of Judge Jerry stories

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts of Billy Fortune stories (includes one synopsis for screenplay with letter, 1918

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1918

Typescripts of Billy Fortune stories (plus two fragments of Billy Fortune stories)

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typed story fragments

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Typescripts and correspondence pertaining to book, The Flaming Sword, 1918

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
Identifier: MC 779 2 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1918