This collection contains materials relating to the creation and writing of the Rat Patrol fanfic The Last Ride Raid, written in 1997 by L.C. Wells and Kathy Agel.

The collection, which contains copies of correspondence between Wells, Agel and their onetime collaborator Nora Myers; photocopied background research materials, photographs of sites ultimately not used for the story, and illustrations, provides a compact group of materials that document the creation and production of a work of fanfiction. A copy of the final product The Last Ride Raid is also included.

Also included is a CD containing PDFs of the correspondence and the fanzine, as well as an introductory letter from Wells to researchers and readers explaining the process of creating the fanzine.

1/1: Introduction/explanation letter to readers by Wells, February 17, 2017

1/2: The Last Ride Raid (1997), fanzine, by L.C. Wells and Kathy Agel

1/3: Correspondence between Wells, Agel, and Nora Myers, March 1997

1/4: Correspondence between Wells, Agel, and Nora Myers, April 1997

2/1: Correspondence between Wells, Agel, and Nora Myers, May 1997

2/2: Correspondence between Wells, Agel, and Nora Myers, June-August 1997

2/3: The Patton Pony (the original title for The Last Ride Raid), illustrations, 1997

2/4: Background research materials, various dates

2/5: Photographs, Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel (Asbury Park, NJ), 1997

2/6: Photographs, Metropolitan Hotel (Asbury Park, NJ), 1997

2/7: Compact disc containing PDFs of correspondence, illustrations, and final published text, 1997 (saved to CD 2017)