The Wittliff Collections The Lonesome Dove collection makes up only a frac-


tion of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State. “What we hope is that when folks visit the Lonesome Dove exhibition, they will be amazed and delighted by what else is actually here,” Miller explains. The Wittliff Col- lections’ public spaces occupy 6,600 square feet that spotlight the literature, fi lm, music and photography of this region — preserved for the discovery and en- couragement of students, scholars, researchers and the general public. Wittliff, in addition to being a screenwriter, is also


a collector, writer, photographer and artist. He was looking for a place to house his collections when he contacted Texas State University. Wittliff explains, “The Wittliff Collections is a place of preservation of both the literary and the photographic heritage of Texas, the Southwest and Mexico.” The Collections contain the works of hundreds of


authors, photographers, musicians and fi lmmakers; for example, the major literary papers of Cormac Mc- Carthy, the Joyce Gibson Roach papers and even an extensive Willie Nelson Recording Collection dating back to 1954. “The main thing for me is that [the Wittliff Collec-


tions] be a place of inspiration for someone who has the itch to create, but not yet the courage; to go and


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The Wittliff Collections are located in the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. For more information on the Wittliff Collections, including how to purchase signed copies of their Lonesome Dove photography books, please visit www. thewittliffcollections. txstate.edu or call 512-245-2313


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