The Collectors  A tale of tenacity, obsession, and ancient texts

The papers were yellowed, fragile, and disorganized, but in December of
1941, on a search for rare books and documents in Mexico, Spanish professor
J. Horace Nunemaker found his treasure.

A long-time collector who spent many hours searching for old Spanish texts
and papers through booksellers and dealers in Spain and the United States,
Nunemaker had just turned his efforts to Mexico City. There he made the
find of his life, a collection that dated almost as far back as the Spanish
conquest of the Aztec Empire and contained the business dealings of one
central elite family and several families who had intermarried.

Nunemaker’s wouldn’t be the only quest for these papers. Four decades
later, a portion of them were hunted out and plucked from the University’s
locked archives by a notorious book thief. That led to a police
investigation and ultimately a third quest, this one involving a WSU police
officer, the FBI, and a snitch.




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