Contains two manuscripts of stories with Western themes collected by Zane Grey dating from approximately 1930 to 1950.

Contains drafts and manuscripts of books, poems, and short stories written by Ball.

Contains copies of publications by Eve Ball on Western history and folklore.

Includes contracts from and contact information for participants in the Livestock Oral History Project, as well as the original audio recordings of the oral history interviews, and transcripts for those interviews, 2005-2006.

Contains correspondence to and from Robert S. Ellison, mostly incoming letters. Letters document Ellison's collection and research activities and his interactions with other devotees of the American West, such as booksellers, scholars, amateur historians, journalists, and surviving western pioneers such as William Henry Jackson. Dated 1906 to 1945.

Contains Kane's correspondence relating to the Mexican War, focusing on his efforts to gain a military commission. Materials dated from June to December 1846.

Contains material relating to Kane's related activities connected with the development of the American West. Includes information on his lobbying for appointment to territorial governorships, his interests in Alaska and Mexico, Western railroad development, and his correspondence with a variety of state and national politicians.

Correspondence of Lee, including correspondence concerning "Ghost-town," Garfield Co. School District, President Wilkinson, and other various personal correspondence, dated 1934-1980.

Educational papers, including pamphlets, handbooks, essays and papers, dated 1935-1972. Includes teaching notes, information on teaching in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and on teaching children.

Drafts of essays and other creative works by Lee, circa 1980-1981. Some works deal with Mormon and Western themes, as well as religious topics.