| Description |
1 online resource (x, 392 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Mark Twain and his circle series
|
|
Mark Twain and his circle series.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-387) and index. |
| Summary |
"Sixty-eight selections representing writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century and have become known as the Sagebrush School. Features Mark Twain, Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett, and lesser-known writers Arthur McEwen, Fred Hart, and others"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Humor and Hoaxes -- Petrified Man / Mark Twain (1862) -- A Bloody Massacre near Carson / Mark Twain (1863) -- Washoe : "Information Wanted" / Mark Twain (1864) -- A Silver Man / Dan De Quille (1865) -- Frightful Catastrophe, Wonderful Escape : a Man Falls over 1,000 Feet and Is Not Killed! / Dan De Quille (1866) -- Whipping an Editor / [D. Jones?] (1872) -- A Libel Suit / [Rollin Daggett? and] Joe Goodman (1873) -- Solar Armor / Dan De Quille (1874) -- Eyeless Fish That Live in Hot Water / Dan De Quille (1876) -- A Carson Poker Incident / Sam Davis (1878) -- Sam Davis's Earthquake Hoax / Anonymous (1879) -- [A Sam Davis Newspaper Story] / [Sam Davis] (1880) -- The Tables Turned / [Denis E. McCarthy?] (1881) -- The Carson Fossil-Footprints / Mark Twain (1884) -- Why the Gold Gulch News Suspended / Arthur McEwen (1884) -- The Typographical Howitzer / Sam Davis (1886) -- One Solution / Arthur McEwen (1893) -- Serious Trifling / Sam Davis (1894) -- How to Win at Faro / W.H. Marshall (1894) -- That Affair at Pollard's / Joseph T. Goodman (1894) -- The 'Trumpet' Comes to Pickeye! / Joseph T. Goodman (n.d.) -- -- Short Fiction -- The Living Hinge; Or, The Seventeen Pots of Amalgam / Alfred Doten (1867) -- Big Jack Small / James W. Gally (1875) -- A Christmas Carol / Samuel Davis (late 1870s) -- Sister Celeste / C.C. Goodwin (1884) -- My Friend, the Editor / Sam P. Davis (1889) -- The Eagles' Nest / Dan De Quille (1891) -- Looking Down upon the Suisun Marsh Tules / Rollin M. Daggett (c. 1890s?) -- When Booth Was Not Booth / Sam P. Davis (1895) -- A Heart Flush / Thomas Fitch (late 1890s?) -- The Loco Weed / Sam P. Davis (1899) -- The Mystery of the Savage Sump / Samuel Davis (1901) -- The Conversion of Champagne Liz / Sam Davis (19??). |
|
Memoirs -- A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward / Mark Twain (1867) -- Artemus Ward / Dan De Quille (1888) -- [Memories of Enterprise Writers] / Arthur McEwen (1893) -- My French Friend / Rollin M. Daggett (1895) -- Geological Reminiscences / Anonymous (1895) -- Early Journalism in Nevada / Alf Doten (1899) -- [Jim Townsend's Lies] / James P. Kennedy (1908) -- [The Origin of Twain's Hopkins Massacre Hoax] / Joseph T. Goodman (1908) -- [The Tragedy of Conrad Wiegand] / [Joseph T. Goodman?] (1908) -- [The Gamble of Nevada Mining Stocks] / Anonymous (1909) -- -- Nonfiction -- The First Fourth in White Pine / Fred H. Hart (1878) -- Under the Gallows / Fred H. Hart (1878) -- Hoist by His Own Petard / Fred H. Hart (1878) -- Sage-Brush Sketches / Thomas Fitch (1878) -- The Prospector / C .C. Goodwin (1880) -- The Pah-Utes / Sarah Winnemucca (1882) -- Cranks and Their Uses / [Joseph T. Goodman] (1884) -- [A Paiute Reservation] / G.W. Pease (1892) -- -- Letters -- Mark Twain to His Mother and Sister, August 19, 1863 -- Rollin Daggett to C.C. Goodwin, January 21, 1894 -- Rollin Daggett to C.C. Goodwin, March 6, 1894 -- Mark Twain to Robert L. Fulton, May 24, 1904 -- C.C. Goodwin to G.H. Babcock, June 27, 1907 -- -- Poetry -- The Oak and the Vine / Rollin M. Daggett (1877) -- My New Year's Guests / Rollin M. Daggett (1881) -- Untitled / Jospeh T. Goodman (n.d.) -- The Two Sermons / Jospeh T. Goodman (n.d.) -- Sursum Corda / Joseph T. Goodman (n.d.) -- Virginia City / Joseph T. Goodman (n.d.) -- The Pasteurized Kiss / Sam Davis (n.d.) -- The Campaign Debt / Sam Davis (n.d.) -- [The Mrs. Warren of Carson City] / Sam Davis (n.d.) -- The Storm / Sam Davis (1892) -- The Lure of the Sagebrush / Sam Davis (n.d.) -- The Gleaner / Sam Davis (1914?). |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- West (U.S.)
|
|
American literature. |
|
West (U.S.) -- Literary collections.
|
|
West (U.S.) -- Civilization.
|
|
West (U.S.) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Literary collections.
|
|
Literature.
|
|
Literature.
|
| Added Author |
Berkove, Lawrence I., 1930-2018.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sagebrush anthology. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006000186 |
| ISBN |
9780826265135 (electronic book) |
|
0826265138 (electronic book) |
|
0826216625 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780826216625 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
|
082621651X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780826216519 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780826216625 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780826216519 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
