1981.115.11  Al Look Collection Correspondence and Dinosaurs 

Folder 1

#1) Newspaper article about Samuel G. McMullin death  (2 May 1947)

#2) Newspaper article about Samuel G. McMullin death “Second Case of Poisoning is disclosed”

#3) Newspaper article about Samuel McMullin death “Disclosure of illness . . . “

#4) Newspaper article (15 May 1947)

#5) Newspaper article “Solution is Expected soon in McMullin Case”

#6) Newspaper article about sam McMullin “Junction Case Near Solution”

#7) Newspaper article about McMullin death “Maxson Admits Buying Poison at Clifton…”

Folder 2

#8) Handwritten notes about Frank Dean

#9) Envelope with Al Look’s address  (1981)

#10) Letter to Al Look from Molly Stucker and Frances Dewey

#11) Letter to Preston from Al Look  (25 Nov 1930)

#12) Letter to Al Look from Joanne Wichman  (12 Jan 1981)

#13) Letter to Mr. Look from Paul E. Stucker 

#14) Letter to Mr. Look from Molly (Dean) Stucker

#15) Letter to Al Look from Molly L. Stucker  (2 Feb 1981)

#16) Orange envelope to Al Look  (23 March 1983)

#17) Letter to Mr. Look from Molly Stucker  (23 March 1983) (found in #16 orange envelope)

#18) Xerox copy of newspaper article about Frank Dean’s death death (found in #16 orange envelope  (referenced in #17 “Letter to Mr. Look. . . .”)

#19) Xerox copy of newspaper article about Frank Dean “Veteran Portrait Artist. . . “    

(found in #16 orange envelope)

#20) Advertising section  “Dean Forry”  “Fotografers”  +1 copy

Folder 3

#21) Newspaper article “6 Dinosaur Tracks Millions of Years . . .” (18 Mar 1946) +1 copy

#22) The Colorado Magazine (Volume XIX  Number 2) March 1942

    (Included a clipping of “Meeker Massacre Survivors-Josephine Meeker and Flora Price and children on page 60)

#23) Loose pages about Meeker History  (3 pages)

#24) “Tread of Pioneers”  Chales Leckenby (6 pages)

#25) Newspaper page  “Ute Superstitions save Meeker women”  (30 Sep 1955)

#26) 2 loose pages-possibly from a magazine publication  “Range Call Rodeo”

#27) Grand Lake Pioneer - Regatta Week Souvenir “The Firing of the Mountain” 

(17 Aug 1940)

#28) “Range Call Rodeo” Passages about Meeker Massacre   (2 pages)

#29)  “Range Call Rodeo:  Picture of “Meeker’s Main Street .. . “ (page #27)

#30) Small, square, handwritten note.  Regarding Meeker

#31) Handwritten note:  Titled “Meeker”

#32) Handwritten note:  “Mrs. Meeker . . . “

#33) Handwritten note:  “OBITS”

#34) Handwritten note: “Meeker Thoughts”

#35) Small handwritten diagram.  Possibly map

#36) Handwritten note: “Whites at White River”

#37) “Start Meeker Massacre”  (3 pages)

#38) Handwritten note:  “The Command”

#39) Handwritten pages:  “Thornburg 1”  (5 pages)

#40) Handwritten passages:  “Captives” in left corner (5 pages)

#41) Handwritten passages  “U.S. Indian Department” “Thornburg”

#42) Handwritten passages:  “After Merritt Rescue”

#43) Handwritten passages  “Uncompahgre Agency”  (5 pages)

#44) Handwritten passages  “After Thornburg Battle Denver”  (5 pages)

#45) Hand drawn map.  Possibly Wyoming/Colorado border

#46) Letter to Al Look from Richard Lyttle (manager of Meeker Herald) regarding Thornburg battle of 1879 (12 June 1942)

#47) List of “characters” and vague notes about them  “Characters”

#48) Writer’s notes (handwritten) 

#49) Writer’s notes (handwritten) “characters”

#50) Writer’s notes (handwritten) “Sheriff” written in left corner

#51) Writer’s notes (handwritten) W.R. Agency” (17 pages)

#52) Letter to Al Look from S.F. Stacher (Department of the Interior) plus related material (copies of historic letters)  (3 pages)

#53) Writer’s notes (handwritten)  “Craig Short History of Colorado Ute Indians” (4 pages)

#54) “Clauson’s Guide Map Colorado” with handwritten notes on it.  Double sided.

Folder 4

#55) Official Souvenir Program - Land’s End Auto Race  (4 July 1940) +1 copy

#56) Officials Souvenir Program - Land’s End Auto Race  (4 July 1941)

#57) Colorado West  “Land’s End Road Races were tough”  (8 Jul a973)

Folder 5

#58) Letter to Al Look from Louis Unser  (12 Jul 1940)

#59) “The World’s Most Spectacular Auto Event- July 4th”  Pamphlet  (4 Jul 1940) +1 copy

#60) Loose pages from Motor Magazine about Land’s End races (August 1941)

#61) Handwritten note.  “Regarding Souvenir booklets for races”

#62) Newspaper clipping  “Utmost Efforts in Safety and Traffic Direction for Land’s End Race on July 4”  +1 copy

#63) Newspaper clipping  “Vernon Meek wins Land’s End Race Event Today in 16 minutes”  +1 copy

#64) Front page of The Denver Post  “10,000 See Al Roger Roar to victory up Grand Mesa”  section is circled  (5 July 1940) + 1 coy

#65) Loose (possibly magazine) page with handwritten notes at top  (1940)

#66) Newspaper clipping from the Daily Sentinel “First in Hill Climbing Race”

#67) Clipping of picture of land’s End.

#68) Newspaper cupping.  “The Peak and the Man - - -  Rogers wins Classic” +1 copy

#69) Newspaper Ad  “The Most Spectacular Auto Race in the World:  +1 copy

#70) handwritten page  “Hill Climbing”

#71) “Hell Creek Twist” race entry form and “Rules and Regulations”

#72) Possible draft for “30,000 miles in 17 minutes 11.5 seconds:  (8 pages)

#73) “30,000 miles in 17 minutes 11.5 seconds:  (2 pages)

#74) “Land’s End Auto Race Starting Order and Finish  (4 July 1941)

#75) Newspaper clipping  “Millionaire Joe Thorne Doesn’t Expect to Win land’s End Race”  +1 copy

#76) Newspaper clipping  “Times and Places on Land’s End Race”  (4 July 1941)

#77) Newspaper clipping  “Drivers Perform Well, But Many Hitches Dampen Race”  +1 copy

#78) newspaper clipping  “Newlywed Al Rogers Confident of Win in Land’s End Race for Second Year; Expects Unser to be Most Competition”  +1 copy

#79) Newspaper clipping  “Ab Jenkins Holds Most World Marks in Sports History”  +1 copy

#80) Newspaper clipping “Unser, Snowberger Combine In Great Team; Confident They’ll Wind Race Tomorrow”

#81) Newspaper Clipping: (partial) 2 columns  +1 copy

#82) “Land’s End Race - The Longest Distance Between Two Points” by Al Look 

(8 pages)

#83) 1941 Land’s End Race Listing  +1 copy

#84) Newspaper clipping   Yesteryear jct.  1941 Land’s End Race won by Al Unser      

 (1 Aug 1982)  +1 copy

#85) Race Official Program  (4 July 1940)

#86) Letter to Al Look from  Louis Unser  12 July 1940 +2 copies

#87) Paper relief ads  (10 mats for Land’s End Race)

Folder 6  Mammals-Paleontology

#88) Clipping “Paleontologists Sift 15 tons of sand

#89)   “   “Mammoths Died Naturally”

#90) “   “True Adventures”

#91) Article   “Now.  They’re Growing Ancestors  by Allan Carpenter

 Science Digest  (Dec 1949)

#92) Booklet  “The Rise of mammals by George Gaylord Simpson 

American Museum of natural History

#93) A Fossil Carnivore Den  by William D. Turnbull

#94) Article “Kodiak Bear, Relic of Ice ge Is Still Flourishing in Alaska” New York Herald Tribune  (7 Dec 1947) +1 copy

#95) Booklet  “Triumph of the Mammals”  The American Museum of Natural History

#96) Article  “Joseph -- Story Told by a Fossil”

#97) Article  “University Gift:  A Vast Fossil Vertebrate collection”  Chicago Natural History Museum Bulletin April 1948

#98) Cartoon:  Mark Trail +1 Copy

#99) Article:  “Bones of Mammoth Found At Texoma”  Sherman Democrat + 1 copy

#100) Article:  Science will develop tar pits’ secrets”  +1 copy

#101) Article:  “World’s only complete mounted Titanoides skeleton”  Field Museum News  Feb. 1936

#102) Article: “Finder Describes Fossil as a Link”  +1 copy

#102) Article:  “Fossils of Australia”

#103) Newspaper picture  “Lesser Mouse Lemur  (July 1931) +1 copy

#104) Newspaper Clipping:  “Penelope yields to Cecil’s Charms and zoo hope for baby platypus  (9 July 1953)  +1 copy

#105) Clipping;  Stranger in America “Echidna”  Lawrence, Kansas   +1 copy

#106) Clipping:  “Bones of Ice Age revealed in Peru”  17 May 1958  +1 copy

#107) Letter to Al look  From: Byran Patterson

#108) Clipping: “Barylambda, One of the Earliest large Mammals, added to Paleontological Hall  (Nov 1942) Field Museum

#109) Article  Barylambda  - Patterson of Chicago Field Museum tells lions of fossil discovers  The Daily Sentinel

#110)  Magazine photo  “Nebraska Mammoth”  The Colorado Museum of natural History

#111) Clipping: “A new Genus of Fossil Mammals”  Field Museum News  May 1937

#112) Clipping: “During Fifty-Five Million Years of Evolution  (Re:  Teeth)

#113)  Clipping  “Zebra was originally North American Native - A million years ago  Mar-Apr 1944  Chicago Natural History Museum

#114) Clipping  “Colorado Expedition returns with notable collection” Nov 1939 Field Museum News

#115) Clipping  “The four-tusked Mastodons and River-Rhinoceroses of North America  

Sept 1935  Field Museum News

#116) Clipping  “Exhibit shows pig-like animals of the badlands 30 million years ago

Field Museum News  Dec 1941

#117) Clipping: “Fossil finds years ago told by museum curator”  The Daily Sentinel + 1 copy

#118) Clipping:  “Prehistoric elephant bones found in San Luis Valley”  Oct 1937 + 1 copy

#119) Clipping: “Fossil Jawbone of a shrew, Tiniest Mammal That ever lived” +1 copy

#120) Clipping:  “Chicago Museum Groups Discover Important Fossils on West Slope

The Daily Sentinel  1939

#121) Clipping:  “Bones of Mammal 50 million years old found near Denver” +1 Copy

#122) Clipping: “Big Museum to House Tar Pit Discoveries  Los Angeles Examiner +1 Copy  (23 Feb 1940)

#123) Clipping:  photo  “Mammals of the Oligocene and Pleistocene”

#124) Clipping:  photo  “Rancho La Brea Exhibit”

#125) Clipping:  “Jefferson’s Big Lion”  

#126) Clipping; “Inefficient Cousins - The Egg-Layers”  Time  (9 June 1947)

#127) Clipping: Fossil Mammals Finds shed light on Species”  +1 Copy

#128) Clipping:  Local Men find strange and primitive beast in DeBeque Area museum Confirms  (26 Apr 1949)

#129) Clipping: “Lost Million years in earth History found among bones in ‘Dawn Age’ Rocks of Utah  1938  +1 copy

#130)  Clipping:  “New Prehistoric Specie Discovered by Ed Faber once roamed Near Here  8 Dec 1935)

#131) Book page: Rancho La Brea Exhibit “The Colorado Museum of Natural History”

#132) Book page: Rhinoceros Bones in Rock Formation “The Colorado Museum of Natural History”

#133) Book Page: Mammoth Exhibit  “The Colorado Museum of Natural History”

#134) Book page:  Phipps Mastodon   “The Colorado Museum of Natural History”

#135) Correspondence:  To Al Look  From Pat  (20 May 1957)

#136) Clipping - “

___?____ Digs up Hippo with PEriscopic eyes”  +1 copy

#137) Clipping  “Important Find Made on Mesa-Musk Ox Skull”  (No date-Daily Sentinel)

#138) Article “ Zebra was originally North American Native--A Million years ago” Chicago Natural History Museum Bulletin Vol 15 March-April 1944

#139) Article  “Exhibit Traces Genealogy of Mammals - Including Man” Chicago Natural History Museum Bulletin May 1948

#140) Article: Big Old Mammal  (Time, 20 Jan 1936)

#141) Clipping: “ What is an animal?  The legal status of the lizard” +1 copy

#142) Life Magazine (26 Jan 1959) 

 #143) Clipping:  “Oldest Fossils known to man discovered”  +1 copy

#144) Clipping: “Last Life on Earth”  (Time, 28 Aug 1944) +1 copy

#145) Clipping:  Los Angeles tar pit open revealing Ice Age window”  (The Christian Science Monitor  23 Jul 1969)  +1 Copy

#146) Clipping: Simons: The Paleocene Pantodonta 

#147) Clipping: Simons: The Paleocene Pantodonta  Page 9 & 10

#148) Clipping:  “Nation told of Prehistoric discovery made in western Colorado recently by Look”  1 Oct 1937 +1 Copy

#149) Clipping:  “Geologists find early fossil Link”  +1 copy

#150) Article:  “The Ice Age and the Caldron” by Carl Sagan (Sky Reporter)

#151) Article:  “The Hand Beast of Meteor Crater”  by Dr. J.R. Macdonald +1 copy

#152) Clipping: “Just a Nasty Little thing” (Time, 18 Feb 1980)

#153) Clipping:  “Fossils from one of oldest mammals unearthed by expedition in Arizona”  (Daily Sentinel  18 Sep 1981) +1 Copy

#154) Article:  “Colorado Expedition returns with notable collection” (Field Museum News  Nov 1939)

#155) Clipping: Paleontological finds over slope were important during past year:” 

+1 Copy

#156) Notes:  Handwritten

#157) Article: “Western Slope Beauty more than skin deep” 

#158) Clipping: “Disaster led to rhino find”  by Jules Loh  +1 copy

#159) Article:  “Hollywood Deathtraps” by Ted Irwin +1 Copy

#160) Article:  “Riddle of the Frozen Giants” (The Saturday Evening Post  16 Feb 1960)