The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West

Acknowledgments

xxi Acknowledgments save for Tom Auer,” said the quick handwritten note that fluttered onto my bedside table as I opened one of the scores of scholarly books the late Thomas M. Auer had gathered in decades of research on the life of Alan Swallow. It was yet another reminder of the tremendous debt I owed to a man whose untimely death came before he could write the book he had labored on for so long. This is not the book Tom Auer would have written, because no two writers will approach the same subject in exactly the same way. I can only hope that Mr. Auer would not have been too unhappy with the result. Thanks also are due to: The American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming , for a 1923 photo of Main Street in Powell,Wyoming. The Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, the University of New Mexico, for permission to quote from correspondence of Frank Waters. The Louisiana State University Libraries for a photo of Robert Penn Warren and T. S. Stribling. Grant Fisher for permission to quote from correspondence of his father, Vardis Fisher. xxii | Acknowledgments Grant Fisher and the Special Collections Department, Boise State University, for a photo of Vardis Fisher. Cynthia Farah Haines for a photo of Frank Waters. Jose Mercado of the Stanford News Service for a photo of Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis. Photographer Joyce Miller Nelson for photos of Powell , Wyoming. The University of North Dakota Library for permission to use brief excerpts from the correspondence of Thomas McGrath. Karen Swallow for photos of her father, Alan Swallow, and other members of the Swallow family, and for permission to quote from Alan Swallow’s poems. Rowene Williams, director/curator of the Homestead Museum, for assistance to the author and to photographer Joyce Miller Nelson during a research visit to Powell, Wyoming. The University of Wyoming for a photo of Arthur G. Clark, president of the university when Alan Swallow was a student. Other acknowledgments are made in the source entries at the back of the book. The Imprint of Alan Swallow ...