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1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171). |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Autobiography -- ch. 2. Startin' out: Rough hands -- Hair cuttin' -- Wild dogs -- Wolves, Reptiles -- Old time country school days -- Traveling school master -- It was a draw! -- ch. 3. Introducing Bill: Concernin' Bill -- Bill's Injun trouble -- Bill meets a funeral -- Bill doctors the Chimleys -- City folks go bear huntin' -- Bill plays ghost -- ch. 4. Bill and Rildy Briggs: Bill's joke goes wrong -- Bill has luck -- Bill goes to Turkey Creek dance -- Bill takes the mules to preachin' -- Preacher loses his team -- Bill leaves for the high country -- Shorty is Bill's secretary -- ch. 5. Bill says goodbye: Bill turns pugilist -- Bill does a fan dance -- Bill buys some medicine -- Bill visits a married friend -- Rock Creek dance -- Bill and the medicine man get quarantined -- Bill adjusts matrimonial affairs -- Bill has trouble -- Bill says goodbye -- ch. 6. Shorty and the professors: Introducing the professor -- Rildy brings the portfolio -- Second perfessor arrives -- Zeb loses a trick -- Rildy and Zeb have a date -- Shorty rescues the second perfessor -- Perfessor buys a horse ... an a dog -- Eph and the perfessor says goodbye -- Shorty turns diplomat -- Shorty's boss buys a mule team -- ch. 7. Shorty goes home: Shorty goes home for Armistice Day -- Shorty finishes his visit -- ch. 8. Introducing Ike: Shorty meets some Missourians -- Shorty meets a fool for luck -- Shorty hears Ike analyse words -- Boss buys a mare -- He was after a road runner -- Shorty and Ike meet the boss's nephews -- ch. 9. Rustlers and romance: Shorty corrects a mistake -- Fortune teller sends Ike fishing -- Ike has trouble with his hat -- Ike meets a romance -- Cap'n Beasley goes in for cattle -- Stockings and watches -- ch. 10. Hell among the yearlin's: Ricky comes and goes -- Cap takes to mules -- Squint comes and goes -- Cap and Morton each tell one -- Stickin' to one idee -- Hell among the yearlin's -- Ike gets a new job -- ch. 11. Shorty's boss buys purebred bulls -- Bruce Kiskaddon visits old friends in Arizona -- Afterword for the city dweller: The old night hawk. |
| Summary |
The short stories of Bruce Kiskaddon, one of the most famous cowboy poets of the American 20th century. Compiled and introduced by Bill Siems in this new collection, to which he has added a selection of Kiskaddon's poems and the original drawings that accompanied them, by Katherine Field, a fine, underappreciated western artist. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : 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 |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- Literary collections.
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Ranch life -- Literary collections.
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Ranch life. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Cowboys -- Literary collections.
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Cowboys. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Field, Katherine, 1908-
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Siems, Bill, 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kiskaddon, Bruce, 1878-1950. Shorty's yarns. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004 087421579X 0874215803 (DLC) 2004001967 (OCoLC)54279989 |
| ISBN |
0874215293 (electronic book) |
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9780874215298 (electronic book) |
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087421579X (acid-free paper) |
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0874215803 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780874215793 (acid-free paper) |
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9780874215809 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0874214971 |
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9780874214970 |
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