Sons of the Pioneers Fan Club Newsletters
(1949–1952)

Theresa Scott, formerly Terry Sevigny, was secretary for the Sons of the Pioneers in 1948–1952. One of her many tasks was to keep up some kind of fan newspaper for the Sons of the Pioneers Fan Club after the New York fan club president resigned in January 1948.

The original fan newspaper was a newsletter called The Prairie Prattler, which grew into Tumbleweed Topics, a professional-looking fanzine of eight pages, including photographs, that ran 1940–1942. This, in turn, was replaced by a second Prairie Prattler fanzine in 1943 which Martha Retsch produced until 1946. Retsch assisted another president, Julia Tiedemann of New York City, until it became too much to handle by 1948.

In January 1949 Sevigny reorganized the fan club, which had more than 1,000 members and started printing and sending out a simple typewritten newsletter once more. Sevigny kept copies for herself and scanned them for us: all but one, which was lost. Sevigny’s newsletters were matter-of-fact and factual. Thanks to Sevigny, a great deal can be learned from these pages about the Sons of the Pioneers of that era.

1949 Newsletters
1950 Newsletters
1951 Newsletters
1952 Newsletters