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Lida W. Pyles Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 722

Scope and Content Note

In addition to a photocopy of Sense and Nonsense in Verse and her newspaper articles, the collection also contains two newspaper items pertaining to Pyles, an article about her husband, Elba Pyles, papers concerning the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, materials about the Ozark Creative Writers, Inc., and a collection of photographs of Pyles, Cora Pinkley Call of Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild, in which both women were active members, and the Ozark Creative Writers, Inc. All photographs are black and white unless otherwise noted. The dimensions of the photographs are given height first.

Dates

  • 1948-1986

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Born in Eagle Rock, Barry County, Missouri, in 1906, Lida [Lydia] Wilson Pyles wrote about unusual people and events of the Ozarks of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. Pyles was the author of several books, including the novel Stranger at the Gate, Tall Tales from the Hills, It Happened in the Ozarks, and Sense and Nonsense in Verse, a publication in book form of her newspaper column, a regular feature of the Mountain View Herald of Mountain View, Arkansas. She recorded Ozark folk tales of the Ozarks and wrote "local color" newspaper articles, published in The Joplin Globe, The Oklahoma Farm World, The Sunday News and Leader of Springfield, Missouri, The Carthage Press, Country World, the Times-Echo of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and The Tulsa World, among others, from the nineteen-fifties to the nineteen-seventies. She also was a charter member in the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild and in the Ozark Creative Writers, Inc., of which she was one of the founders.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (47 items in 1 box)

Arrangement of the Papers

Photographs are divided between individuals and groups.

Acquisition Information

Lida Wilson Pyles of Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, donated her papers and photographs to Special Collections on September 10, 1987.

Processing Information

Prepared by Janet G. Tucker, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February 1988.

Title
Lida W. Pyles Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Janet G. Tucker
Date
February 1988
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444