Guide to the Amelia Bean Letter MSS.2665
Bean, Amelia
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Amelia Bean Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.2665
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1960 September 6
- Abstract:
A letter from Western American author, Amelia Bean in Riverside, California, replying to a fan's, Robert L. Hickman of New York, New York, letter about the 1958 publication of Bean's "The Fancher Train," which is a fictional account of an historical event, the Mountain Meadow massacre by Mormons in Utah.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Amelia Bean Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains a letter from Western American author, Amelia Bean in Riverside, California, replying to a fan's, Robert L. Hickman of New York, New York, letter about the 1958 publication of Bean's "The Fancher Train," which is a fictional account of an historical event, the Mountain Meadow massacre by Mormons in Utah. Bean recommends a few books if Hickman wants to pursue the subject, and also commends her on questioning her Mormon elders.
Biographical/Historical note
In 1958, Western American author, Amelia Bean, published The Fancher Train, a book about the Mountain Meadows massacre. The book also won the 1958 Spur Award, given each year by the Western Writers of America for the best western historical novel. Bean also published The Vengence Trail (1958), The Feud (1960), and Time for Outrage (1967).
Letter Box SC0029 Folder 2665.1