Coyote Waits (1990)

This is not a full or formal draft, but is a collection of notes and assorted draft pages. The collection contains a plot synopsis, notes on plot ideas, to do lists for chapter revisions, and drafts of a couple of chapters of Coyote Waits.

This is another draft of Coyote Waits. This draft is dated April 19, 1989 and is 240 pages long. The beginning of the draft shows fairly heavy editing with black marker and black pen while the second half is more lightly edited.

This is an early draft of Coyote Waits, probably created in 1988. The draft is 151 pages long and contains very few editing marks, mostly just corrections to chapter titles.

This is the proposal for the novelCoyote Waits, it contains a plot summary for the story. On the first page Hillerman notes that this proposal caused some confusion as the story changed so much as it was written that when the editor wrote the jacket copy based on this proposal, Hillerman didn't recognize it.