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Stirrup high, [1956]

1889 to 1971
MS 032
Collection Guide
Title Page of Stirrup High Manuscript, 1956

Walt Coburn (1889-1971) was a Western American novelist. Coburn served briefly in Pancho Villa’s army and then worked as a cowboy and surveyor in Arizona before becoming a freelance writer.

The collection contains a typescript manuscript with holograph corrections and edits of the juvenile novel, Stirrup High. The autobiographical story is about 14-year-old Walt spending the summer as a working cowboy on his father's Montana ranch.

Included materials:
Manuscript
Subject Area:
Ranching/Cattle
Collection Area:
Arizona & Southwest

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