The sagebrush anthology : literature from the silver age of the Old West /

Other Authors: Berkove, Lawrence I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006.
Series:Mark Twain and his circle series
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Table of 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?).