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DeVoto, Bernard, 1897-1955

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Bernard DeVoto Letter

 Item
Identifier: MSS-428
Dates: 1920 - 1955

Bernard DeVoto Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P-120
Abstract

These photographs were copied from ones housed at the University of Utah. Permission to copy must come from the Marriott Library.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Literary Utah Poster

 Item
Identifier: MSS-385
Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Chester Olsen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-002
Abstract

This collection contains personal correspondence and memorabilia particularly related to Bernard DeVoto. The correspondence is between Chester "Chet" Olsen and DeVoto's widow Avis. Most is concerned with the death of DeVoto and requesting that Olsen scatter his ash among a National Forest in Idaho. It includes items from the cremation including the body tag.

Dates: Agent Relation: 1953 - 1969

Oral History Cassette Tapes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-223
Abstract

Joe McCune, Nick Williams and Reed Baily "Partial History of Early Days of Baseball"



A. Russell Croft "Bernard DeVoto"

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Rhoda DeWolf (later DeVoto) Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: P-149
Abstract

This is a cabinet card photograph of Rhoda DeWolf taken in 1891. She later divorced E. S. DeWolf and married Florian DeVoto. She was Bernard DeVoto’s mother.

Dates: 1891

The Chester "Chet" Olsen Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-003
Abstract

Six photos taken on the day that Olsen scattered Bernard DeVoto's ashes in Idaho, April 6, 1956. The negatives for the photographs are in Folder 1 of the Collection

Dates: 1956 April 6

"The Easy Chair" Columns by Bernard DeVoto

 Collection
Identifier: MS-309
Abstract

A collection of Harper's Magazine featuring Bernard DeVoto's column.

Dates: Other: 1937 - 1944

Val Holley Article

 Item
Identifier: MSS-216
Scope and Contents

Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review, Spring 1993, No. 125. Article in it by Val

Holley, “Vexing Utah: Mencken, DeVoto, and the Mormons.” Val Holley was a former student

at Weber State College in the 1970s. This article was sent by Holley to Dr. Levi S. Petersen of

Weber State University, September 20, 1993. Included is a letter from Holley to Petersen.

Dates: 1993