Ann Nolan Clark Little Herder typescripts : typescript.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1935-1944.

1 item (300 leaves)

English

Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2016.

This material is open for research.

Ann Nolan Clark (1896-1995) of Las Vegas, New Mexico, graduated from New Mexico Highlands University circa 1917 and began her career there teaching English. In the early 1920s, she transferred to a job teaching Pueblo children in Tesuque, New Mexico, how to read. During her 25 years with the Puebloans, Clark wrote juvenile fiction to teach within the one-room schoolhouse. The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs published 15 of her books between 1940 and 1951. Clark received the Newberry Medal in 1953.

Typescript with manuscript corrections, unsigned, by Ann Nolan Clark for her Little Herder series, circa late 1930s. The series was written specifically for Navajo children and tells of the everyday life of a Navajo girl. Included are typescripts for Little herder in autumn, Little herder in winter, Little herder in spring, and Little herder in summer. There are several manuscript editorial notes as well as an autograph note, signed, from Clark to “Louisa”, referencing the former's son, 1944.

March 20, 2019

Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Herder. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Ann Nolan Clark, The Little Herder. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Juvenile literature.