Guide to Research Topics a comprehensive subject guide to the literary collections, providing topics of interest for researchers.

Guide to Literary Collections & Archives a complete list of literary archives, alphabetized by the writers' last names.

Texas Monthly Archives The Collection also includes the first 25 years of the Texas Monthly archives, which encompass virutally all of the award-winning magazine's production files--editorial, art, business-- and establish a unique primary resource for the study of late 20th century Texas culture.

Hispanic Writers Collection A vibrant Hispanic Writers Collection is also a chief focus of the Southwestern Writers Collection. Included among the holdings are editorial archives from Hispanic magazine and manuscript collections on Tino Villanueva, Jovita Gonzales, and books and periodicals.

Guide to Film Collections & Archives The film archives include works by Robert Benton, William Broyles, Jr., Jim Dauterive, Tommy Lee Jones, Severo Perez, Sam Shepard, and Bill Wittliff.

Lonesome Dove Archives Central to the film holdings is the entire production file of the classic 8-hour television miniseries, Lonesome Dove--every draft of Bill Wittliff's novel, as well as production paperwork, set designs, props, photographs, principal wardrobe, and videotapes of all printed takes.

King of the Hill-Jim Dauterive Papers Guide to the extensive collection of materials that documents the writing and production history of the Emmy-award winning Fox television show.

Screenplay Collection Over 600 motion picture and television screenplays reside in the film archives.

Film Archives

Left to right: hat worn by Robert Urich as Jake Spoon in Lonesome Dove miniseries, 1988; reels of 35 mm film from Barbarosa, 1981; Colt Dragoon pistol used by Robert Duvall as Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove; pages from Bill Wittliff's television adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove; Production Designer Cary White's drawing of the town of Lonesome Dove; pair of boots worn by Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow F. Call in Lonesome Dove.

Texas Music Collection

Left to right: Poster for Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, 1941; Selena, a biography by Joe Nick Patoski, 1996; pages from handmade childhood songbook written and illustrated by Willie Nelson; accordion; fiddle played by Bob Wills; original Willie Nelson and family concert poster by Dale Wilkins, 1979.

Guide to Music Collections & Archives The music archives embrace a rich variety of Texas music, from country and Western Swing to blues, polka, rock and roll, conjunto, and Tejano. The Wittliff Collections works closely with the Center for Texas Music History, also at Texas State University, to preserve and celebrate the state's musical heritage.

Major collections focus on Willie Nelson, Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Western Swing, Border Music, and the collection of Texas Monthly Senior Editor Joe Nick Patoski, who has written on Texas music for over 25 years.

Willie Nelson papers

Selena Collection

Stevie Ray Vaughan Collection

Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame

Joe Nick Patoski papers

Bill Arhos/Austin City Limits

Freddy Powers/Texas Heritage Songwriters' Association Collection

Ernie Durawa Collection

Tamara Saviano Collection

Panther Hall Collection