Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
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by ranger character. OP.
GILLETT, JAMES B. _Six Years with the Texas Rangers_, printed for the author at Austin, Texas, 1921. He paid the printer cash for either one or two thousand copies, as he told me, and sold them personally. Edited by Milo M. Quaife, the book was published by Yale University Press in 1925. This edition was reprinted, 1943, by the Lakeside Press, Chicago, in its "Lakeside Classics" series, which are given away by the publishers at Christmas annually and are not for sale--except through second-hand dealers. Meantime, in 1927, the narrative had appeared under title of _The Texas Ranger_, "in collaboration with Howard R. Driggs," a professional neutralizer for school readers of any writing not standardized, published by World Book Co., Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York. All editions OP. I regard Gillett as the strongest and straightest of all ranger narrators. He combined in his nature wild restlessness and loyal gentleness. He wrote in sunlight. GREER, JAMES K. _Buck Barry_, Dallas, 1932. OP. _Colonel Jack Hays, Texas Frontier Leader and California Builder_, Dutton, New York, 1952. Hays achieved more vividness in reputation than narratives about him have attained to. JENNINGS, N. A. _The Texas Ranger_, New York, 1899; reprinted 1930, with foreword by J. Frank Dobie. OP. Good narrative. MALTBY, W. JEFF. _Captain Jeff_, Colorado, Texas, 1906. Amorphous. OP. |
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