Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock as a writer

Subject: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 07:35 PM

I'm writing a piece about Haywire Mac. He was not only a songmaker ("Big Rock Candy Mountain" among others) but he was also a writer, and a particularly good one. He was a railroad switchman for many years, and wrote a number of stories, true or otherwise. I've managed to find five of them, in a magazine called RAILROAD MAGAZINE.

In total I've identified 22 stories of his in RAILROAD MAGAZINE, but can't find a library or archive which has a full set. Are there any mudcat railroad buffs out there who can help me?

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 07:58 PM

there are numerous blogs for train enthusiasts, try posting there:

[e-mail] standard guage
[e-mail] toytrains

and others....

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Mark Ross
Date: 18 Dec 23 - 02:38 PM

I have spotted a few pieces in The Industrial Worker, a publication of the Industrial Workers of the World, that were signed "Mac", which I think were were written by McClintock who was an IWW delegate back then. I found them in bound volumes of the paper at the University of Montana Library in Missoula,Montana.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 07:24 PM

Thanks fir this, Mark. What sort of dates are we looking at, did you see?
Jon

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Mark Ross
Date: 20 Dec 23 - 05:04 PM

The Industrial Worker was published in Spokane WA during the Free Speech Fight of 1909-1910.

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 12:08 PM

Whatever information you can turn up, I recommend you add it to the Wikipedia article about Harry McClintock.

I see it only lists 2 stories and one other article by him in its bibliography.

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 12:36 PM

WorldCat.org tells me that some issues of Railroad Magazine that contain material by Harry McClintock are held by

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
1700 NE 63rd St
Oklahoma City, OK 73111

Here’s where you can search their catalog: https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/drc/find-a-book/

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 03:00 PM

Thanks Jim, Thomas and Mark. Yes, I found the Cowboy Museum and they have five issues with articles by Haywire Mac, which they very kindly downloaded. Fabulous stories! It's the rest of the 22 I'd like to see. A Fellow Worker has sent me his Wobbly material, including Mac's IWW membership card.

Great thanks to you all!
Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 06:57 PM

Here is a list of other libraries that have Railroad Magazine:
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/5465534
(If you enter your zipcode, it will list them in order of distance from you.)
see also https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/752536708

Here are some other books that might contain something helpful:

Extracts from Railroad Magazine. New York: Frank A. Munsey; 1937-1978.
held by Harlingen Public Library
410 76 Dr
Harlingen, TX, 78550

All-Time Index 1929-1969: Railroad Magazine Model Railroader Trains Magazine Railroad Model Craftsman. New York: Wayner Publications; 1970.
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/4028285
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/23587448

All-Time Index : Railroad Magazine Model Railroader R. & L.h.s. Bulletin Trains Magazine Railroad Model Craftsman Extra 2200 South N.r.h.s. Bulletin. Rev. 2nd ed. New York: Wayner Publications; 1978.
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/7444807

Wayner, R.J. Great Poems from Railroad Magazine. New York: Wayner Publications; 1968.
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/3326404

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 08:35 PM

Damn! Every time I'm in Oklahoma City, I keep meaning to go to that cowboy museum. It looks so interesting. The banjo museum looks interesting, too. I'll do 'em next time I drive Route 66, but I'll stay in nearby El Reno and eat onion burgers and Coneys with slaw.

When I was researching for copyright permissions for the Rise Again Songbook, I had trouble with songs that had connections to Harry McClintock. Word has it that the McClintock estate vigorously defends their claim to rights for a number of songs that may or may not have been written by McClintock, so we'd be better off just to pay the royalties and buy a license, whether or not the claim was legitimate. But there are a lot of songs attributed to McClintock where I question attribution.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac McClintock
From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 10:30 PM

Thanks Jim for the added sources, and hello to Joe!
Jon