Accession Number: 26
John Fetterman Papers, 1945-1975
Bulk Dates 1957-1975
10 linear feet
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
Series 1 - Personal / Biographical
Series 2 - Pulitizer Prize Material
Series 3 - Published Writings Material
Series 4 - Article Research Subject Files
Series 5 - Stinking Creek
Series 6 - Photographs


Related College Archives:

• Harry M. Caudill Collection, SAA 74

1. Naval Service
2. VA Checks
3. Tax Returns
4. Education (Murray State)-Newspaper Articles, n.d.
5. Education (Murray State)-Notebook and Student Coaching Plans
6. Teaching, New Windsor High School
7. Employment References / Information
8. Teaching, Yates City High School
9. Teaching, Yates City (Illinois) High School-Graduate Survey
10. Teaching, Yates City High School, Graduate Study
11. Education (UK)-Various Papers
12. Education (UK)-Various Papers
13. Calendars
14. Personal Correspondence
15. Office Correspondence
16. Application Correspondence, 1972
17. Miscellaneous
18. Mindy Fetterman-Writings-The Wiggiley Reader
19. Mindy Fetterman-Writings-The Inkwell (O.F. Stivers School Newsletter) June 2, 1967
20. Mindy Fetterman-Writings-The Bear Facts (Ballard High School Newspaper)
21. Mindy Fetterman-Writings-The Kentucky Kernel (UK)
22. Mindy Fetterman-Writings-The Herald (Bowling Green, Kentucky?) November 1, 1974
23. Mindy Fetterman-Writings-Opryland News
24. Obituaries

1. Award and Ceremony Program, Nomination
2. Newspaper Clippings, General
3. Newspaper Clippings, Personal
4. Pulitzer Prize Newspaper Clippings, General
5. Congratulatory Correspondence, A-D
6. Congratulatory Correspondence, E-J
7. Congratulatory Correspondence, K-R
8. Congratulatory Correspondence, S-Z and Misc.

1. "Appalachian Volunteers" Clues to Successful Truck Operation, Summer 1969
2. "Are You Accident Prone?" Science Digest, August 1965
3. "Big Time Small Fry" The Louisville Times, Aug. 21, 1973
4. "The Case of the Shocking-Purple School" Good Housekeeping, November 1965
5. "Chariots of Iron" Nashville Tennessean Magazine, February 28,1955
6. "Circus!"Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, May 14, 1972
7. The College News-Murray State University-1946
8. "Discovering Kentucky's Waterfalls" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, July 7, 1968
9. "East Kentucky's Absentee Asset" February 28, 1972
10. Pamphlet on Eastern Kentucky, n.d.
11. "Five Score Years Ago"-Pamphlet of reprints of Louisville Times articles, September 4-22, 1962
12. "The Ghost of the Backside" Life Magazine
13. "High Living Woman" Clues to Successful Truck Operation, Winter 1965
14. "Hospital for Thoroughbreds" Courier Journal and Time Magazine, December 14, 1969
15. "I'll take the Slow Road" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, n.d.
16. "John Fetterman Writes About Hunger" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, December 14, 1969
17. "Kentucky's still Ravaged Land" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, September 10, 1967
18. "Kentucky's Wilds: What would you do with them?" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, July 30, 1975
19. "Last Creek to Kill" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, July 25, 1971
20. "Lilly's Wood" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, June 16, 1968
21. "Louisville: Progressing with Ladylike Decorum" Courier Journal and Time Magazine, March 30, 1969
22. Louisville Times, articles, 1961
23. Louisville Times, articles, 1962-1963
24. Louisville Times, n.d.
25. "The Lure of Eastern Kentucky" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, May 4, 1969
26. "The Melungeons" Courier Journal and Times Magazine, March 20,1969
27. "A Million a Day" Nashville Tennessean Magazine, November 13, 1955
28. "Mission: Survival, Parts 1 & 2" Nashville Tennessean Magazine, May 1 & 8, 1955
29. "Moving Toward a Crisis" (Photographs) Kentucky Kernel, February 4, 1970
30. "The Mystery of Newman's Ridge" Life Magazine, n.d.
31. Nashville Tennessean articles 1953
32. The National Observer articles, October 22, 1962; February 25, 1963; and August 3, 1970
33. "Nobody Bothers You" National Observer, April 4, 1966

1. "An Old Army Camp Fades Away..." Courier- Journal and Time Magazine, April 9, 1967
2. "On the Road With An Old-Time Circus" National Geographic, November 1972
3. "On the Wilderness Trail" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, July 20, 1969
4. "On Vanishing Wildlife" Courier Journal and Times Magazine, June 9, 1968
5. "Pat Neal's Recall of the Wild" Life Magazine, n.d.
6. "The People of Cumberland Gap" National Geographic, November 1971
7. "Perryville" Louisville Times, October 10, 1970
8. "The Personal Papers of a Modest Man" Louisville Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, June 20, 1971
9. "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, July 28, 1968
10. "Project Skyhook" Nashville Tennessean, March 20, 1975
11. "Reformation of a Speed-Trap Town" Life Magazine, n.d.
12. "Return Visit to a Hospitality Pocket" Life Magazine, n.d.
13. "The Reunion" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, September 19, 1971
14. "Sketches" Louisville Times, 1973
15. "Stately Arches of Stone" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, July 20, 1970
16. "Sweepstakes: A testimonial from a Poor Loser" Louisville Courier and Times Magazine, n.d.
17. "Tennessee Hill Country Dulcimer Builder" Nashville Tennessean Magazine, May 30, 1974
18. "This Lake is a Garbage Dump" Courier Journal and Times Magazine, September 13, 1970
19. "Tragedy at Hyden" Courier-Journal and Time Magazine, January 17, 1971
20. "Warm, Touching Warm" Courier Journal and Times Magazine, January 22, 1970
21. "Where Poverty Cripples the Mind" Courier-Journal Times Magazine, July 19, 1970
22. "Why the Kentucky River May Die" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, June 28, 1970
23. "Why Men Go to Die in the Coal Mines" Courier Journal and Times Magazine, January 3, 1971
24. "A Year After the Big Day" Courier-Journal Magazine, January 25, 1965
25. "The Bookman" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine, June 27, 1971

1. "Come to the Circus!" May 14, 1972. Courier-Journal and Times Magazine.
2. "Courier-Journal Centennial, 1868-1968: Mirror of the Century" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine 11-10-78.
3. "Fireworks: Is an American Tradition Fizzling Out?" Louisville Times 6-28-75
4. "Kentucky's Ravaged Land".Courier-Journal. Section 7. January 5, 1964
5. Pollution.n.d.- Courier-Journal and Times Magazine. "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine July 28, 1968.
6. "1968 Year of Turmoil" Courier-Journal and Times Magazine January 5, 1969.
7. "1969: End of the Sixties", Courier-Journal and Times Magazine January 4, 1970
8. "Russia Today"From the Columns of Nashville Tennessean, 1961 NOT BY JOHN FETTERMAN
9. Honorary Doctorate (Certificate), University of Louisville, 1974.

1. "Last Creek to Kill"
2. "Lilley's Wood"
3. "Louisville: Progressing with Ladylike Decorum" Manuscript
4. "The Melungeons" 1969
5. "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home," 1968
6. "The Reunion" 1971
7. "Why Men go to Die in the Coal Mines" Letter from House of Representatives, 1971
8. Antiques, Notes, Business Cards, n.d.
9. Danville, Kentucky, n.d.
10. Deitzisms (Mewos from different Sunday Times Staffers), 1972
11. The Future
12. Hensley Settlement, n.d. (Cumberland Gap National Park)
13. Manuscript on Hotel Thievery
14. One-Room School Houses
15. Overcrowding
16. Paleolithic Archeology
17. Rolls-Royce-Notes and Correspondence

1. Van Buren, Kentucky, and the Taylorsville Reservoir I, 1974
2. Van Buren, Kentucky, and the Taylorsville Reservoir II, 1974
3. Water Pollution
4. Miscellaneous Story Ideas
5. Miscellaneous Articles and Notes
6. Work and Research for Time / Life, 1971

1. "Child Abuse" 1968
2. "Child Abuse" Working Outline, 1968-69
3. Child Abuse-Research Notes, Prologue and Acknowledgements, 1968-69
4. Child Abuse-Research and Notes, Chapter I, 1968-69
5. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter II, 1968-69
6. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter II, 1968-69
7. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter III, 1968-69
8. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter IV, 1968-69
9. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter IV, 1968-69

1. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter V, Classic Cases (2 examples), 1968-69
2. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter VI, Medical x-rays, 1968-69
3. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter VI, Medical x-rays, 1968-69
4. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter VI, Medical x-rays, 1968-69

1. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter VII, Police/Courts, 1968-69
2. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter VIII, Need Law-Model Law, 1968-69
3. Child Abuse-Research, Chapter VIII, Need Law-Model Law, 1968-69
4. Child Abuse-Research, Miscellaneous-Notes, 1968-69
5. Child Abuse-Manuscript Outline, 1968-9
6. Child Abuse-Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Drafts

1. Child Abuse-Research, Miscellaneous-Articles (Journals and Magazine Papers, and Pamphlets
2. Child Abuse-Research, Miscellaneous-Newspaper Articles, 1968-69
3. Child Abuse-Research, Miscellaneous-Notes, 1968-69
4. Child Abuse-Research, Miscellaneous-Notes, 1968-69
5. Child Abuse-Manuscript Outline, 1968-69
6. Child Abuse-Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Drafts, 1968-69
7. Child Abuse-Manuscript Excerpts, 1968-69
8. Child Abuse-Manuscript, Chapter 1-"Ginny" Original and Carbon Copy of Finish
9. Child Abuse-Correspondence, 1968-69

1. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Notes (written), 1971-72
2. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Notes (typed), 1971-72
3. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Notebooks, 1971-72
4. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Correspondence, 1971-72
5. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Travel Plans, 1971-72
6. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Manuscripts Drafts, 1971-72
7. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Final Manuscripts, 1971-72
8. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Research Material, (Hoxie Bros. Information) 1971-72
9. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Research Material (Newspaper Articles) 1971-72
10. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Research Material, (Newspaper and Magazine Articles), 1971-72
11. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," (Miscellaneous), 1971-72
12. "On the Road with an Old-time Circus," Programs, 1971-72

1. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Notes, 1970-71
2. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Notebook, 1970-71
3. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Notes (Typed), 1970-71
4. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Correspondence, 1970-71
5. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Expenses and Travel Accounts, 1970-71
6. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Drafts of the Article, 1970-71
7. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Manuscript
8. "The People of Cumberland Gap" Research Materials, 1970-71

1. Tentative Outline, Miscellaneous Papers, 1966-67
2. Working Manuscript: Prologue and Chapter I, 1966-67
3. Working Manuscript: Chapter II, "How they Got There," 1966-67
4. Working Manuscript: Chapter III, "Land of Coal and Old Men," 1966-67
5. Working Manuscript: Chapter IV, "There Will Be a Reward," 1966-67
6. Notes: Chapter IV, "There will be a Reward," 1966-67
7. Working Manuscript: Chapter V, "Brown's Hollow," 1966-67
8. Working Manuscript: Chapter VI, "Shall We Gather," 1966-67
9. Working Manuscript: Chapter VII, "Shady School," 1966-67
10. Working Manuscript: Chapter VIII, "The Young People," 1966-67
11. Working Manuscript: Chapter IX, " The Young Couples," 1966-67
12. Working Manuscript: Chapter X, "Exodus" 1966-67
13. Working Manuscript: Chapter XI, "The Do Gooders"
14. Working Manuscript: Chapter XII, "Easter Sunday"

1. Notebooks, 1966-67
2. Notebooks, 1966-67
3. Notes: Chapter III, "Land of Coal and Old Men", 1966-67
4. Notes: Chapter V, "Brown's Hollow", 1966-67
5. Notes: Chapter VI, "Shall we Gather at the River", 1966-67
6. Notes: Chapter VII, "Shady School", 1966-67
7. Notes: Chapter VIII, "The Young People," 1966-67
8. Notes: Chapter IX, "The Young Couples," 1966-67
9. Notes: Chapter XI, "The Do-gooders," 1966-67
10. Notes: Chapter XII, "Easter Sunday," 1966-67
11. Notes: Epilogue, "Sometimes in the Night," 1966-67

1. Research Materials: Chapter III, "The Land of Coal and Old Men," 1966-67
2. Research Materials: Chapter III, "Land of Coal and Old Men II," 1966-67
3. Research Materials: Chapter X, "Exodus," 1966-67
4. Research Materials: Chapter XI, "The Do-gooders," 1966-67
5. Research Materials: Epilogue, "Sometimes in the Night" 1966-67
6. Miscellaneous Articles, 1966-67
7. Correspondence, April 1966-June 1967
8. Correspondence, November 1964-February 1965

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