"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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Frank Waters: A Bibliography by Terence A. Tanner
Frank Waters ChronologyClick dates of interest in table below.
1902-1945 Published works appear in Pink. 1902
Frank Waters born in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, July 25, son of Frank Jonathon Waters and May Ione (Dozier)
Waters.
1911
Visited Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, with father. 1914
Frank Jonathon Waters died December 20. 1916
October Earliest published
writing appeared in grade school literary magazine, the Columbia Sayings and
Doings.
Studied engineering at Colorado
College, left without degree. Sold
papers; worked as Santa Fe Railroad yard clerk, baggage agent.
1924
Worked in Salt Creek oil fields near Lavoye, Wyoming, as a day laborer for Carter Oil Company and Midwest Refining Company (Standard Oil subsidiary). 1925
Worked for Southern California
Telephone Company in Los Angeles and El Centro (worked for them as traffic chief
and engineer in Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino through
1935). Made company study in
Las Vegas relative to communication
needs during building of Hoover Dam. Wrote
Fever Pitch.
1927
Wrote The Yogi of Cockroach Court, first draft. 1930
February Fever Pitch published by Horace Liveright.
1931
Traveled through Sierra
Madre back country, Mexico. North American Review published
Waters’ only short story, “Easy Meat.”
1932
Wrote The Wild Earth’s
Nobility.
1934 - 1936
Wrote The Earp Brothers of
Tombstone, first draft.
1935
June 10 The Wild Earth’s Nobility published by Liveright Publishing Company. 1936
Spring, lived in Hollywood, California. Summer, moved to Victor, Colorado, on Squaw Mountain in the Cripple Creek district. Summer, began writing full time; wrote Midas of the Rockies. Fall, moved to Mora, New
Mexico, Butler Hotel; wrote Below Grass Roots.
Petrified Forest Coyote, from Book of the Hope 1937
Spent spring in Colorado
Springs. Spent summer in Taos, New
Mexico, at Spud Johnson’s house (now Laughing Horse Inn).
Spent fall writing Earp
Brothers, second draft, while living near Nogales and Tombstone, Arizona.
Spent winter in Los Angeles rewriting The Yogi of Cockroach Court. October: Midas of the Rockies published by Covici-Friede. November:
Below Grass Roots published by Liveright Publishing Company.
1938
Spring, in Mora wrote The
Dust Within the Rock. Fall, lived in room
above garage at Tony House in Taos (“Frank’s Studio”).
1939
Wrote article on Navajo ceremonial sing, spring issue Yale Review. Spent summer in Taos at Mabel
Luhan’s Placita house (now Hacienda del Sol in El Prado) writing People of
the Valley. Spent fall in Hollywood, California. 1940
In February traveled to New
York with Tony Lujan, who went back to Taos for kiva duties.
Returned home with Mabel through South; attended New Orleans premier of Gone
With the Wind. During April traveled with both
Lujans to first Inter-American Indian Congress in Patzcuaro, Mexico.
March 31 wrote syndicated article (King Features) on conference. In Taos at Tony House studio began The Man Who Killed the Deer. January The Dust Within the
Rock published by Liveright Publishing Company
1941
Lived in Los Angeles. Wrote River Lady; began The Colorado. Worked for David O. Selznick Productions, Culver City, California. Mother May Ione (Dozier) Waters
died December 23.
February 6
People of the Valley published by Farrar & Rinehart.
1942
July, finished working for Selznick. Served in United States Army, Camp Chafee, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, Aberdeen, Maryland; wrote script for weaponry film. March:
River Lady, by Houston Branch and Frank Waters, published by
Farrar & Rinehart.
June 11:
The Man Who Killed the
Deer published by Farrar & Rinehart.
from The Man Who Killed the Deer 1943-1945
Released from army to prepare
propaganda briefs for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs,
Washington, D.C.
Wrote much of The Colorado.
1944
Married Lois Moseley; lived in New York
City and Washington, D.C.
1945
Rewrote The Yogi of
Cockroach Court. Lived in Los
Angeles and Texas.
Wrote for movies again and researched material for novel on Jefferson, Texas (never written), Moseley’s hometown.
Go to Waters' Chronology -> 1902-1945
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Frank
and Allie Earp (Mrs. Virgil Earp), 1950's
