Henry Harvey Fuson papers

Abstract

The Henry Harvey Fuson papers (dated 1902-1964; 19 cubic feet; 19 boxes) comprise bound manuscripts that document the life and writings of Henry Harvey Fuson, as well as the history of the Fuson family of Harlan County and Bell County, Kentucky.

Descriptive Summary

Title
Henry Harvey Fuson papers
Date
1902-1964 (inclusive)
Extent
19 Cubic Feet
Subjects
Appalachian authors
Appalachian Region -- In literature.
Autobiography.
Bell County (Ky.) -- History
Family -- History
Journals.
Letters.
Manuscripts -- Kentucky.
Scrapbooks
Arrangement
Collection is arranged by subject into 4 series: Journals, Letters, Manuscripts, and Scrapbooks.
Finding Aid Author
Kaylee McMunn
Preferred Citation
2023ms102 : [identification of item], Henry Harvey Fuson papers, 1902-1964, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
Repository
University of Kentucky

Collection Overview

Biography / History
Henry Harvey Fuson, author, poet, teacher, and lawyer, was born August 21, 1876, in Bell County, Kentucky. He received his A.B. in 1905 from Cumberland College and his B.S. in 1920 from the University of Cincinnati. Fuson worked in Kentucky schools as teacher, principal, and superintendent from 1895 to 1925. He then studied law and was admitted to practice in 1929. He was County Attorney of Harlan County from 1935 to 1936, by appointment. Fuson married Sara Ellen Watson, of Somerset, Kentucky, in 1904. They had one daughter, Ruth Maurine Fuson, born 1910. The Fuson family lived primarily in parts of eastern Kentucky that are now Bell County. Bell County was created in 1867 from parts of Harlan County and Knox County. Throughout his life, Fuson sustained interests in the history of Kentucky, in particular the southeastern region, and the literature of the state and Appalachian region. His books include: The Pinnacle and Other Kentucky Mountain Poems (Louisville, Kentucky: J.P. Morton, 1921); Ballads of the Kentucky Highlands (London, Kentucky: The Mitre Press, 1931); History of the Fuson Family, Vol. 1-2 (London, Kentucky: Mitre Press, 1932, 1938); and History of Bell County, Kentucky (New York: Hobson Book Press, 1947). Fuson was also an editor of Kentucky Folk Lore and Poetry Magazine and a member of the Kentucky State Historical Society.
More biographical details can be found in Fuson's History of Bell County, Volumes 1 and 2. Transcription is available on the Bell County Public Library's website.
Scope and Content
The Henry Harvey Fuson papers (dated 1902-1964; 19 cubic feet; 19 boxes) comprise bound manuscripts that document the life and writings of Henry Harvey Fuson, as well as the history of the Fuson family of Bell County, Kentucky. The collection is organized by format into 4 series.
The Journals series contains volumes of Fuson's short writings on current events, daily life, political events and opinions, and poetry.
The Letters series contains letters to and from members of the Fuson family. Some volumes also contain newspaper clippings and photographs of members of the Fuson family. A note from Fuson in the first volume states that the letters are not organized by date or subject, rather in the order they came to him.
The Manuscripts series contains bound volumes of Fuson's poetry and short stories, as well as autobiographical writings. Volumes include both drafts of published writings as well as unpublished works.
The Scrapbooks series contains primarily newspaper clippings that document the history of the Fuson family, Bell County, and southeastern Kentucky. The Fuson family lived primarily in parts of eastern Kentucky that are now Bell County. Bell County was created in 1867 from parts of Harlan County and Knox County.

Restrictions on Access and Use

Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to researchers by appointment
Use Restrictions
The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.

Contents of the Collection

Journals, 1951-1964

Volume 1, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 1
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Volume 2, 1953

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 2
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Volume 3, 1954

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 3
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Volume 4, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 4
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Volume 5, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 5
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Volume 6, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 6
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Volume 7, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 7
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Volume 8, 1958

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 8
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Volume 9, 1959

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 9
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Volume 10, 1959

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 10
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Volume 11, 1959

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 11
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Volume 12, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 12
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Volume 13, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-006, folder 13
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Volume 14, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 1
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Volume 15, 1961

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 2
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Volume 16, 1961

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 3
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Volume 17, 1962

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 4
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Volume 18, 1962

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 5
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Volume 19, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 6
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Volume 20, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 7
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Volume 21, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 8
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Volume 22, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 9
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Volume 23, 1964

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 10
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Volume 24, 1964

  • Box 2023ms102-007, folder 11
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Letters, 1916-1948

Volume 1, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-008, folder 1
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Volume 2, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-008, folder 2
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Volume 3, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-008, folder 3
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Volume 4, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-008, folder 4
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Volume 5, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-008, folder 5
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Volume 6, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-008, folder 6
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Volume 7, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-009, folder 1
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Volume 8, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-009, folder 2
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Volume 9, 1927-1937

  • Box 2023ms102-009, folder 3
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Volume 10, 1907-1938

  • Box 2023ms102-009, folder 4
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Volume 11, 1926-1938

  • Box 2023ms102-009, folder 5
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Volume 12, 1916-1928

  • Box 2023ms102-010, folder 1
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Volume 13, 1916-1928

  • Box 2023ms102-010, folder 2
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Volume 14, 1938-1944

  • Box 2023ms102-010, folder 3
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Volume 15, 1938-1942

  • Box 2023ms102-010, folder 4
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Volume 16, 1941-1942

  • Box 2023ms102-010, folder 5
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Volume 17, 1942-1945

  • Box 2023ms102-010, folder 6
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Volume 18, 1943-1945

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 1
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Volume 19, 1945

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 2
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Volume 20, 1945-1946

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 3
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Volume 21, 1947-1948

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 4
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Manuscripts, 1902-1963

Autobiography manuscript, 1937

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 1
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The Autumn Maid, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 2
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Ballads of the Kentucky Highlands, 1939

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 3
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The Battling Ages, 1945

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 4
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Buffalo River Tales and other poems, 1958

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 5
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Call of the Wild, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 6
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The Cave Dweller and other poems, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 7
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Collected poems, volume 1, 1936

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 8
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Collected poems, volume 2, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 9
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Collected poems, volume 2 supplement, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 10
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The Crown of Glory, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 11
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Down Country Lanes, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 12
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Duke of the Cumberland: the old fiddler of the Kentucky Mountains, 1933

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 13
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Echoes from the Mountain and other poems, 1958

  • Box 2023ms102-001, folder 14
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Educational writings, 1931

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 1
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Fables of Life, volume 1, 1952

  • Box 2023ms102-003, folder 1
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Fables of Life, volume 2, 1953

  • Box 2023ms102-003, folder 2
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Fables of Life, volume 3, 1953

  • Box 2023ms102-003, folder 3
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Fables of Life, volume 4, 1953

  • Box 2023ms102-003, folder 4
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Fables of Life, volume 5, 1953

  • Box 2023ms102-003, folder 5
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Fables of Life, volume 6, 1953

  • Box 2023ms102-003, folder 6
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Fables of Life, volume 7, 1954

  • Box 2023ms102-004, folder 1
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Fables of Life, volume 8, 1954

  • Box 2023ms102-004, folder 2
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Fables of Life, volume 9, 1954

  • Box 2023ms102-004, folder 3
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Fables of Life, volume 10, 1954

  • Box 2023ms102-004, folder 4
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Fables of Life, volume 11, 1954

  • Box 2023ms102-004, folder 5
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Fables of Life, volume 12, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-004, folder 6
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Fables of Life, volume 13, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 1
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Fables of Life, volume 14, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 2
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Fables of Life, volume 15, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 3
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Fables of Life, volume 16, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 4
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Fables of Life, volume 17, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 5
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The Fig Tree, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 6
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Following the Game Trail, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 2
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Fruit of the Vine, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 3
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Fusonia: poetry of the Fuson family, 1933

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 4
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The Golden Age, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 5
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Halley's Comet, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 6
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These Hills, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 7
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Honey in the Rock, 1945

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 8
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The Honking Geese, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 9
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I See the Poets Rise, 1946

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 10
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The Kentucky Cardinal, 1933

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 11
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A Kentucky Mountains Boy, 1952

  • Box 2023ms102-002, folder 12
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A Kentucky Mountain Boy autobiography index, 1952

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 1
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Kentucky Poetry 1900-1926, 1933

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 2
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Kentucky Poetry: a miscellany, 1937

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 3
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The Last Leaf, 1962

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 4
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Literary Efforts 1902-1924, 1933

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 5
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Many Colored Sands, 1945

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 6
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Miscellaneous writings, 1906

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 7
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Nuggets of Gold, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 8
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The Path to the Sun and other poems, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 10
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Pegasus in Kentucky, 1937

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 9
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The Phantom Horseman, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 11
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Poems from the Wayside, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-012, folder 12
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Rhymes of Old Age , 1961

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 3
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Speeches and writings, 1902

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 2
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 1, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 1
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 2, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 2
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 3, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 3
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 4, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 4
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 5, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 5
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 6, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 6
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 7, 1958

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 7
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 8, 1958

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 8
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 9, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 9
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 10, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 10
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 11, 1961

  • Box 2023ms102-018, folder 11
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Stories from the Kentucky Mountains, volume 12, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 1
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A Time for Dreams, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 4
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The Trees Remember, 1960

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 5
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The Vanishing Plateau, 1951

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 6
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Westward Ho, volume 1, 1955

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 7
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Westward Ho, volume 2, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 8
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Westward Ho, volume 3, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 9
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The Wider View, 1963

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 10
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The Winding Trail, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-019, folder 11
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Winning of the West, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 6
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86 Poems at 86, 1961

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 7
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Scrapbooks, 1905-1957

Fuson family records, 1961

  • Box 2023ms102-005, folder 7
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Number 1, 1905

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 5
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Number 2, 1905

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 6
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Number 3, 1905

  • Box 2023ms102-011, folder 7
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Number 4, 1906

  • Box 2023ms102-013, folder 1
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Number 5, 1906

  • Box 2023ms102-013, folder 2
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Number 6, 1909

  • Box 2023ms102-013, folder 3
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Number 7, 1909

  • Box 2023ms102-013, folder 4
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Number 8, 1911

  • Box 2023ms102-013, folder 5
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Number 9, 1911

  • Box 2023ms102-013, folder 6
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Number 10, 1915

  • Box 2023ms102-014, folder 1
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Number 11, 1915

  • Box 2023ms102-014, folder 2
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Number 12, 1917

  • Box 2023ms102-014, folder 3
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Number 13, 1918

  • Box 2023ms102-014, folder 4
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Number 14, 1919

  • Box 2023ms102-014, folder 5
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Number 15, 1921

  • Box 2023ms102-014, folder 6
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Number 16, 1921

  • Box 2023ms102-015, folder 1
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Number 17, 1921

  • Box 2023ms102-015, folder 2
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Number 18, 1924

  • Box 2023ms102-015, folder 3
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Number 19, 1924

  • Box 2023ms102-015, folder 4
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Number 20, 1922

  • Box 2023ms102-015, folder 5
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Number 21, 1925

  • Box 2023ms102-015, folder 6
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Number 22, 1926

  • Box 2023ms102-016, folder 1
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Number 23, 1927

  • Box 2023ms102-016, folder 2
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Number 24, 1928

  • Box 2023ms102-016, folder 3
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Number 25, 1930

  • Box 2023ms102-016, folder 4
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Number 26, 1932

  • Box 2023ms102-016, folder 5
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Number 27, 1932

  • Box 2023ms102-016, folder 6
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Number 28, 1933

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 1
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Number 29, 1939

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 2
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Number 30, 1942

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 3
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Series 2, Number 1, 1956

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 4
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Series 2, Number 2, 1957

  • Box 2023ms102-017, folder 5
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