by Paula Becker
funerals and burials: Betty
Betty’s abhorrence of
Bob Heskett
Darsie
Gammy
Mike Gordon
for miners in Butte
Sylvia. See also cemeteries
“funny women”
G
gallus (gallows) frames
Garbo, Greta
gardening books
gardens and gardening: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and
at the ranch
Sydney and
gender roles
Geoduck (Native American)
geoducks (bivalves)
ghostly presences
Girl Scouts
Golden Gate National Cemetery
Good Housekeeping
Gordon, George “Mike”
Gowen, Rev. Herbert
Gowen, Sylvia
Granite Mountain Mine, Butte
Great Depression
Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder
Guttormsen, George
gypsum mine property, Montana
H
Hamilton, Blanche
Betty’s death and
on Bob Heskett meeting Betty
Chimacum farm and
correspondence with
on divorce from Bob Haskett
friendship of
on hospital fan visits
libel lawsuit and
on Mike Gordon
on mortgages
stories told from assisted living center
on Sydney
Harborview Hospital, Seattle
Hargrove, Marion
HarperCollins
Harris, Joel Chandler
Hart, Moss
Harvard University
Hayes, Helen
Hays Code
headframes
Helene Curtis Shampoo plus Egg
Henrietta Hen
Hepburn, Katharine
Heskett, Anne (daughter). See MacDonald, Anne
Heskett, Bob (1st husband): background
Betty’s stories about
brief reconciliation with
child support and jail sentence of
courtship and wedding
decision to quit insurance for chicken farming
divorce proceedings against
in The Egg and I
film release deal
libel lawsuit and
marriage to Betty and chicken farm
move to Olympic Peninsula
murder of
public confusion between Don and
Heskett, Florence
Heskett, Joan (daughter). See MacDonald, Joan
Heskett, Katherine
Heskett, Otis
Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. (characters)
Hildebrand, John and Bridget
Hohoff, Tay
A Hole Is to Dig (Krauss)
Holland, Barbara
Hollywood
Hollywood Ostrich Farm
Holm, Celeste
Holmes, Madeline Bishop
Hoover, Lou Henry
The Horn Book magazine
hospitals: fan visits in
Firland Sanatorium
Harborview, Seattle
King County Hospital
Maynard, Seattle
St. John’s, Port Townsend
houses and homes: addresses, listing of
Anybody house (15th Ave. NE, Seattle)
Betty’s presence in
Capitol Hill, Seattle (former Danish consulate)
at Corral de Tierra Ranch, Carmel Valley, CA
Dolphin Point Trail, Vashon Island
duplex near University of Washington (22nd Ave NE), Seattle
Egg and I Road, Chimacum, WA
E Howe St., North Capitol Hill, Seattle
Laurelhurst, Seattle (The Palisades)
looking for
Madrona, Seattle (Jensens)
Roosevelt District, Seattle
Spruce St., Boulder, CO (Betty’s birthplace)
Star Ranch Road, Placerville
Vashon Island beach house (Jensens)
West Copper St. cottage, Butte
West Granite St., Butte. See also mortgages
Humane Society
Huntington, D. Whitney
I
Illahee ferry
illnesses (Betty): cancer
itching (skin condition)
pulmonary tuberculosis and treatment
scarlet fever. See also tuberculosis
illustrators for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books
Indians
intrapleural pneumolysis
itching (skin condition)
Itoi, Kazuko Monica (“Kazi”) (later Sone)
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World; “Wobblies”)
J
Jackson, Shirley
Japanese internment
Japantown/Nihonmachi, Seattle
Jefferson, Maxwell Ford (character)
Jefferson County, WA: about
Bard women renting in
chicken ranch, Center
dairy farm, Chimacum
egg ranches in
film location scouting trip in
tourists in. See also Chimacum, WA
Jefferson County Fair
Jefferson County Historical Society
Jensen, Dr. Clyde Reynolds (“Jens”) (brother-in-law): background
Betty and
Betty’s cancer and
Betty’s tuberculosis and
Guttormsen and
Madrona house and Vashon Island beach house
Mary’s marriage to
wedding
Jensen, Heidi Elizabeth (later Rabel) (niece)
Jensen, Mari Hildegarde (later Clack) (niece)
Jensen, Mary (sister). See Bard, Mary Ten Eyck
Jensen, Salli Dorothea (later Rogers) (niece)
“Joanie” (daughter). See MacDonald, Joan
jobs (Betty)
Johnson, J. C.
Johnson, Raymond
Just Be Yourself (Mary Bard)
“The Just-One-More-TV-Programmers” (Mac Donald)
K
Kaufman, George S.
Keil, Girard “Jerry” (son-in-law)
Keil, Heidi (granddaughter)
Keil, Joan. See MacDonald, Joan
Keil, Rebecca “Becky” (granddaughter)
Keil, Tim (grandson)
Kerr, Jean
Kettle, Ma, Pa, and family (characters): Basket as original name
descriptions in Egg and I
film roles
focus on
as iconic figures
introduction of characters
Ma and Pa Kettle film series
readers and
significance of characters
TV series (unrealized). See also Bishop/Kettle et al. libel suits
Kettle, Tits
Kilbride, Percy
Kimi (character)
King County Courthouse
King County Hospital
Knight, Hilary
KOL radio
Korean War
Krauss, Ruth
L
labor adjustor, NRA
Lake Union
Lake Washington
Lake Washington Ship Canal
Lantz, Walter
Larson, Alfred
Larson, Anita
Larson, Dave
Larson, Ilah Moody
Las Cruces, NM
Laurelhurst District, Seattle
Laurelhurst house (The Palisades), Seattle
lawsuits and court cases: Calkins and gypsum mine proceeds
Edward and Ilah Bishop libel case
over Mandarin tea house debts
Pacific Coast Coal Company. See also Bishop/ Kettle et al. libel suits
Lee, Harper
Lesh, Daniel
letters. See fan mail
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewiston, MT, mineral property
libel suits. See B
ishop/Kettle et al. libel suits; lawsuits and court cases
Liberty magazine
Lieberson, Goddard
Life among the Savages (Jackson)
“Life Goes Calling On the Author of ‘The Egg and I’” (Life magazine)
Life magazine
Lilly Library, Bloomington, IN
Lincoln High School, Seattle
Lippincott, Bertram
Lippincott, Joseph
J. B. Lippincott Co.: advances from
Anybody Can Do Anything and
Betty’s cancer and
Betty’s death and
bio prepared for
correspondence with
Don and
on The Egg and I
The Egg and I and
lawsuits and
Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Manhattan offices
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and
Nancy and Plum and
Onions in the Stew and
The Plague and I and
publishing process with Betty
search for other Bard family writers
sequel to Egg wanted by
literary agent. See Baumgarten, Bernice; Brandt & Brandt
literary estate (Betty)
Loft Candy
Long, William
Los Angeles
Lowell Elementary, Seattle
Lumber Research, Inc.
Lyon, Marge
M
MacDonald, Anne Elizabeth Campbell (born Heskett; later Strunk, Evans, Canham) (daughter): about
adopted by Don
in Anybody Can Do Anything
author’s visit with
on Betty’s and Don’s marriage
Betty’s death and
birth of
birth of Johnny and Betsy
children in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle compared to
custody of
Dede’s help with
domestic crises
The Egg and I and
Egg and I film role considered
father not seen again after divorce
as flower girl for Mary
in Hollywood
home improvements and
Jensen family and
“The Just-One-More-TV-Programmers” updated by
leaving the chicken farm
MacDonald name and
marriage to Donald Strunk
marriage to Robert Evans
mentioned
middle name, change of
move to Vashon Island
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and
Nancy and the Plum and
in Onions in the Stew
photographs of
pregnancy
at ranch
schooling
in Sydney’s care
MacDonald, Betty (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; later Heskett) (also “Betsy”): about
baptism of
biography, need for
birth of
books of (overview)
breadwinner role and
called “Betty,” not “Mother” or “Grandmother”
career overview
childhood in Boulder and Placerville
childhood in Butte
complaints about lack of writing time
death of
description of, in Cosmopolitan
fame and
family background
as grandmother
her version of her story
Heskett name dropped by
marriage to Bob Heskett
marriage to Don MacDonald
as matron of honor for Mary
name change from Betsy to Betty
National Industrial Recovery Administration personal history record
no funeral for
schooling
on Seattle
skill as correspondent
as storyteller
suitors
testifying in own defense
working at Mandarin tea shop
writing time, finding. See also specific places, topics, book titles, and family members by name
MacDonald, Betty, photographs of: Anybody Can Do Anything publicity photo
booksignings
Carmel Valley
with Claudette Colbert
Egg and I book cover
with family members
with friends
Illahee ferry
King County Courthouse
with Margaret Bundy Callahan
National Tuberculosis Assn campaign
St. Nicholas School
MacDonald, Betty, works of: “The Just-One-More-TV-Programmers”
“The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met”
Nancy and the Plum
Onions in the Stew
periodical articles
“The Red Satin Raincoat” (unfinished)
“Sandra Surrenders”
“Their Families”
“Too Old to Ride” (planned)
Who, Me?. See also Anybody Can Do Anything; The Egg and I; Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books; The Plague and I
MacDonald, Beulah (mother-in-law)
MacDonald, Clinton (father-in-law)
MacDonald, Don (Donald Chauncy) (2nd husband): adoption of Anne and Joan
at Anne’s wedding
background
at Baumgarten-Cozzens dinner
Betty’s frustrations and disagreements with
Betty to Bernice on
on book tour
breadwinner role eschewed by
Carmel Valley ranch and
chicken project
correspondence with Bernice Baumgarten
courtship and wedding
decline and death of
description of
The Egg and I and
finances and
in Hollywood
home improvements
as “Laird”
libel lawsuit and
at Mike Gordon’s funeral
in Onions in the Stew
photographs of
public confusion between Bob Heskett and
MacDonald, Joan Sydney (born Heskett; later Keil) (daughter): about
adopted by Don
in Anybody Can Do Anything
Betty’s death and
birth of
birth of Heidi and Rebecca
change of middle name
children in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle compared to
custody of
Dede’s help with
domestic crises
The Egg and I and
father not seen again after divorce
as flower girl for Mary
in Hollywood
home improvements and
Jensen family and
leaving the chicken farm
MacDonald name and
marriage to Jerry Keil
mentioned
move to Vashon Island
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and
Nancy and the Plum and
in Onions in the Stew
photographs of
schooling
in Sydney’s care
MacDonald, Lucille
MacMurray, Fred
MacNamara, T. C.
Madrona neighborhood, Seattle
Main, Marjorie
Mandarin tea shop, Seattle
Mapleton Hill neighborhood, Boulder
“Margar.” See Bard, Sydney
marriages (Betty): to Bob Heskett
to Don MacDonald
in Onions in the Stew. See also divorce
Mary (sister). See Bard, Mary
Mary Poppins (Travers)
Maugham, Somerset
Maynard Hospital, Seattle
McCarthy, Joseph
McCurdy, Richard F.
McGregor, Mary (character)
McGuire, Annie
McGuire, Dorothy
McKaughan, J. A. “Mac”
McKinley School, Butte
Meadows San
atorium
Mexico
miners
mines: Anselmo
Bell and Diamond
of Butte
children playing in (Butte)
Granite Mountain Mine, Butte
gypsum mine property, Montana
Orphan Girl mine
WWI and
mining engineers and wives
Montana School of Mines
moonshine
Moore, Dr. Thomas
Moran, Jim
Morningside Sanatorium
mortgages: Chimacum farm
Corral de Tierra Ranch
Laurelhurst property
paid off with Egg and I royalties
Sydney’s machinations with
“The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met” (MacDonald)
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA)
Mount Baker
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Butte
Mount Rainier
Mount Walker
movie stars. See also Colbert, Claudette; MacMurray, Fred
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books (MacDonald): Baumgarten’s efforts to place
Betty’s own daughter compared to children in
bio of Betty in
book signing
child behavior and moral lessons in
as classics
description of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
fan mail for
fifth book owed to Lippincott
Happy Birthday Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
HarperCollins new editions of
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
illustrators for
invention of the character
mentioned
money from sequels
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic
names in
“Patsy, Who Would Not Take a Bath”
print advertisements for
upside-down house in
mules
murder of Bob Heskett
Mutual Life Insurance
N
Nancy and the Plum (MacDonald)
National Industrial Recovery Administration personal history record
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
National Tuberculosis Assn. Christmas Seals campaign
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Native Americans
New Washington Hotel (now Josephinum), Seattle
New York
New York Herald Tribune book and author luncheon
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
Nisei Daughter (Sone)
Noble, Orre
nonfiction genre. See also best-seller lists; specific titles
North Capitol Hill, Seattle
Northwest Gypsum Products Co.
Norwood, Irene
Nurse Matilda (Brand)
O
Oakland, CA
Ober, Ralph
O’Dwyer, William
Olsen, Tillie
Olwell, Norah (later Flannery)
Olympic Peninsula, WA: about
Beaver and Center valleys
described in The Egg and I
Egg and I, availability of
as “last untamed frontier”
move to
Seattle and. See also Chimacum, WA; Jefferson County, WA
Olympic Stationers, Port Angeles, WA
Onions in the Stew (MacDonald)
