Gift of Rosemae Wells Campbell, 1999
Biography
Rosemae Wells Campbell was born in New York state in 1909. She graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1926, and from Elmira College in 1930. She then went on to earn a library degree from the Brooklyn Public Library Training School in 1931. She married William Tod Campbell in August of 1932. During World War II, she worked as the engineering librarian for the Sperry Gyroscope Company Research Laboratory in Garden City, New York and volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, transporting the wounded from airports to local hospitals. In 1947, she and her husband moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado when her husband’s company, Shepard’s Citations, relocated. She continued her education and received a Master’s Degree in Education from Colorado College in 1953.
Campbell worked as a librarian, a teacher of library science, an author, and a volunteer in several local organizations. She was a librarian at the Colorado Springs School for Girls, the Cheyenne Mountain School, and Tutt Library at Colorado College. From 1955 to 1963 she taught library science during Summer Session for the Education Department at Colorado College. Her volunteer positions included President of the Historical Society of the Pikes Peak Region, President of the Friends of the Public Library, President of the Colorado Library Association, founder of the Fremont-Custer Historical Society and instructor of first aid courses for the Red Cross.
During the 1950s through the 1970s, she published several works of juvenile fiction and adult non-fiction, primarily local histories. Her research on local and regional historical subjects was extensive. She also found time for membership in several local clubs and organizations and she studied photography with well-known local photographer Myron Wood. After her husband’s retirement, Campbell took up watercolor and oil painting and exhibited her work at a number of local galleries.
She died April 21, 2009.
List of Publications:
Books and Beaux, Westminster Press, 1958
Tops and Gyroscopes, Thomas Crowell, 1959
The Split Rock Mystery, Westminster Press, 1960
Drag Doll, Funk and Wagnalls, 1962
Crystal River Valley: Jewel or Jinx, Sage Books, 1966
From Trappers to Tourists: Fremont County, Colorado, 1830-1950, Filter Press, 1972
Law in Action: An Introduction to the Courts of El Paso County, Shepard’s Citations, 1976 (revised)
Meals on the Road: for Camper, Trailer or Boat, W. Ritchie Press, 1975
Scope and Content
The bulk of the collection covers the years 1950 to 1990. Included are correspondence with various publishers, concerning her books: Books and Beaux, Drag Doll, and The Split Rock Mystery, all juvenile fiction; Tops and Gyroscopes, Crystal River Valley, From Trappers to Tourists, Law in Action, and Meals on the Road, all non-fiction. There are also royalty statements, manuscripts of speeches, personal correspondence, research and story notes, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings covering Rosemae Wells Campbell’s publications and civic activities, and Wells and Campbell family photographs. There is extensive research material (never published) as well as tapes and transcriptions of interviews with Ed and Louise Bowman, covering their families and ranch life. Bowman was a Depression era rancher near Coolidge Dam, Arizona and later owned a second ranch near Peyton, Colorado. He was an expert trainer of ranch horses, a top earning rodeo professional for many years of his early life and a member of the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame. There is also research material for a possible book on the McCandless family, the family of Space Shuttle astronaut, Bruce McCandless, III.
Inventory
Box 1
Folder 1 Manuscripts of Speeches and Talks
Folder 2 Correspondence/Royalty Statements – Swallow Press
Folder 3 Correspondence/Royalty Statements – Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Folder 4 Correspondence with miscellaneous publishers
Folder 5 Personal correspondence, 1950-1969
Folder 6 Personal correspondence, 1970-1999 and undated
Folder 7 Bowman background research materials
Folder 8 Bowman grazing rights dispute correspondence
Folder 9 Bowman legal documents
Folder 10 McCandless Family background research materials
Folder 11 McCandless Family background research photocopies
Tape 1 Interviews with Ed and Louise Bowman
Tape 2 Interview with Rosemae Wells Campbell for the Barker Show, 4/62
Binder 1 Transcription of Louise and Ed Bowman interviews
Binder 2 Edited transcription of Bowman interviews
Notebook 1 Miscellaneous story ideas
Notebook 2 Story ideas and research notes for Crystal River Valley
Notebook 3 Story ideas and background materials for Drag Doll
Notebook 4(6) Notes on Bowmans, hot rods, finances
Notebook 5(7) Notes on Bowmans
Notebook 6(8) Notes for Crystal River Valley
Notebook 7(9) Notes for Fremont County
Notebook 8(10) Notes for Fremont County
Notebook 11 Cooking book from 7th and 8th grades
Notebook 12 Song book from grades 5 through 7
Box 5 Biography of Ed Bowman file card notes
Box 6 Fremont County file card notes
Box 7 Fremont County file card notes
Box 8 Photographs of Wells and Campbell Families
Box 9
2 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and messages covering RWC’s publications and civic activities, 1950-1980
Box 10
Folder 1 Newspaper clippings, Sperry Company handbook and operating bulletins, book cover, publisher’s catalog, transcript of “Spinning Pilot” – Kettering radio talk, 1945
Folder 2 Tops and Gyroscopes correspondence
Folder 3 Tops and Gyroscopes manuscript – changed pages
Folder 4 Tops and Gyroscopes manuscript (revised)
Fortune magazine, May 1940
Four copies of Tops and Gyroscopes, various stages of revision
Box 11
Folder 1 Drag Doll correspondence, NHRA pamphlets
Folder 2 Drag Doll correspondence, 32-page outline, order form, newspaper clippings
Folder 3 In Our Merry Bookmobile – first attempt
Folder 4 Books and Beaux – correspondence, book covers, invitations, photographs
One copy of Split Rock Mystery
Two copies of Drag Doll
One copy of Books and Beaux
Box 12 [see also Box 17 Fd 4]
Folder 1 Crystal River Valley – rough draft
Folder 2 Crystal River Valley – first draft
Folder 3 Crystal River Valley manuscript with photographs
Folder 4 Crystal River Valley manuscript
Folder 5 Crystal River Valley – copy-ready manuscript
Folder 6 Crystal River Valley and Rocky Mountain School clippings, booklets, and photographs
Folder 7 Crystal River Valley correspondence
Folder 8 Colorado’s Forgotten Carrara – text and photographs (pertains to CRV)
Box 13
Folder 1 This Way Up – pamphlet edited by RWC ca. 1949, chronology of events in Fremont and Custer counties, Split Rock Mystery research, catalog, RWC photo negatives
Folder 2 Split Rock Mystery correspondence, synopsis
Folder 3 “How to Stop Bleeding” – article by RWC, Progressive Farmer, 1952
Folder 4 Four copies of Law in Action – August 1971
Folder 5 Book reviews (newspaper clippings)
Folder 6 A Library is More Than Books – text, article, correspondence
Box 14
Folder 1-3 Typewritten edited early draft of Fremont County, undated
Folder 4-6 Typewritten edited later draft of Fremont County, undated
Folder 7-8 Typewritten edited draft of Split Rock, 1959
Box 15
Folder 1-2 Edited galleys of Fremont County, 1972?
Folder 3 Typewritten edited draft of Law in Action, undated
Folder 4 Notes, recipes, photos, miscellaneous related to Meals on the Road
Folder 5-6 Typewritten edited draft of Books and Beaux, undated
Folder 7-8 Typewritten carbon copy of draft of Fremont County, undated
Folder 9 Typewritten draft of “Cramped Kitchen Cookbook”, undated
Folder 10 Miscellaneous notes and maps for Fremont County and two essays: “Rolling with the Punch” and “Airmail”
ADDITION received as a bequest after Campbell’s death in April of 2009
Box 16
Folder 1: Odds and ends: items found in books donated to Tutt, including a photograph labeled “RFW Elmira College Spring 1930.”
Folder 2: Ed Bowman biography research materials, notes, manuscript fragments, family trees
Folder 3: Ed Bowman biography (typed manuscript, 252 pages)
Folder 4: Ed Bowman biography (typed manuscript, 152,700 words, 567 pages) with five “suggested titles” on the cover page
Box 17
Folder 1: Hoofbeats and Heart (typed manuscript of Ed Bowman biography, 122,000 words, 455 pages) with handwritten notes and blue post-its
Folder 2: Hoofbeats and Heart (typed manuscript of Ed Bowman biography, 128,000 words, 432 pages) with a few handwritten notes
Folder 3: Hoofbeats and Heart (typed manuscript of Ed Bowman biography, 128,000 words, 432 pages) with substantial handwritten notes and a 1963 letter
Folder 4: Typed manuscript of My Crystal River Valley with clippings and handwritten notes
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