Scope and Contents From the Series: Madsen's first book, The Bannock of Idaho (Caxton Printers, 1958), was written in the summer of 1948 as a Ph.D. dissertation. The correspondence associated with this manuscript, ranging from inquiries about research possibilities in the late 1940s to letters related to publication of a paperback edition in the mid-1990s, is in box 27. Very little of Madsen's early research remains, although folders 10-12 contain research notes for his M. A. thesis. Preliminary...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Madsen's first book, The Bannock of Idaho (Caxton Printers, 1958), was written in the summer of 1948 as a Ph.D. dissertation. The correspondence associated with this manuscript, ranging from inquiries about research possibilities in the late 1940s to letters related to publication of a paperback edition in the mid-1990s, is in box 27. Very little of Madsen's early research remains, although folders 10-12 contain research notes for his M. A. thesis. Preliminary...