Sacred Clowns (1993)

This is the first complete and edited draft of Sacred Clowns. At the time of this draft the title for this novel was "The Death of Valuable Men", which foreshadows the plot of the novel. This edition is lightly edited by Hillerman and, in some cases, he includes notes to remind himself of information he wishes to add for plot for consistency. Additionally, the names of secondary characters appear to not have not been finalized in this draft.

This is an early typed draft of only Chapter 27 of Sacred Clowns. This chapter was lightly edited by Hillerman on a word processor.

This manuscript appears to be the revised versions of chapters J and K from the second draft of Sacred Clowns. This draft appears to be very lightly eddied and this editing could have been by Hillerman.

This appears to be the last six chapters (J,K,L,M,N,O) of the second draft of Sacred Clowns. This draft appears to only be lightly edited by Hillerman and was typed on a word processor. Included in the draft are three separate versions of the first page of Chapter J, each is marginally different.

This appears to be the first five chapters and a portion of the sixth chapter of the second draft of Sacred Clowns. It appears to only be lightly edited by the author and typed on a word processor.

This manuscript appears to be the earliest complete typed draft of Sacred Clowns. This draft contains no proper chapter titles, instead Hillerman has created a naming convention. The chapters are designated by Clown and then a corresponding letter, for instance, Clown A. The manuscript is very lightly edited probably by Hillerman himself.

This is appears to be the earliest outline of Sacred Clowns. This manuscript contains correspondence and the first third of the novel. The manuscript was tried and contained only very minimal edits.