Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials form part of the Austin and Alta Fife fieldwork collection. Included are tapes, transcriptions of interviews, and musical notations of western songs, ballads, and poetry (volumes 1-28). Also includes bound typescripts of extracts concerning western folksongs from other collections: John Lomax papers (originals housed at the Texas Historical Society); Gordon Oregon collection (originals housed at the Library of Congress and Univ. of Oregon); Stella M. Hendren collection of...