Scope and Contents Collection contains published poetry, magazine and newspaper articles, and a book. Also included are unpublished poems and short stories and an unpublished book-length manuscript entitled, A Permanent Home. The thematic focus of the writing is life in western Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s including the Dust Bowl period.

Scope and Contents Collection consists primarily of books, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, clippings, postcards, notes, newspapers, posters, lobby cards, artifacts and scrapbooks. A small collection of media contains phonograph records, movies on videotape and film, and radio serial programs. The scope of the collection includes numerous topics, or areas of interest. Among them are: the American West; the history of Northeastern Oklahoma, including various outlaws and lawmen; circuses and wild west...