The Eva Gillhouse Papers (1951-1967) consist of correspondence, Mesquite Club newsletters, and an original foreword from the book on Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton by Gillhouse. Also included are documented speeches presented to local clubs in Southern Nevada, periodicals, miscellaneous publications, and newspaper clippings.
The Eva Gillhouse Papers (1951-1967) consist of correspondence, Mesquite Club newsletters, and an original foreword from the book on Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton by Gillhouse. Also included are documented speeches presented to local clubs in Southern Nevada, periodicals, miscellaneous publications, and newspaper clippings.
Collection is open for research.
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Author Eva Gillhouse was born in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 1892. In 1952, her biography of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, a gunfighter from the Old West, was published under the title Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West. The book has since been republished in paperback as The True Story of Kill or Be Killed in the Real Old West: The Recollections and Personal Photos of Gunfighter and Lawman Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton. Gillhouse died in Nevada in 1977.
Eva Gillhouse Papers, 1951-1967. MS-00148. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1970 by Fred and Eva Gillhouse; accession number T-56.
Materials were processed by Alyssa Maldonado in 2016.