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Contents Acknowledgments 00 Sagebrush Literature: An Introduction 1 Humor and Hoaxes Introduction 00 Petrified Man / Mark Twain (1862) 00 A Bloody Massacre near Carson / Mark Twain (1863) 00 Washoe.--"Information Wanted" / Mark Twain (1864) 00 A Silver Man / Dan De Quille (1865) 00 Frightful Catastrophe--Wonderful Escape--a Man Falls over 1,000 Feet and Is Not Killed! / Dan De Quille (1866) 00 Whipping an Editor / [D. Jones?] (1872) 00 A Libel Suit / [Rollin Daggett? and] Joe Goodman (1873) 00 Solar Armor / Dan De Quille (1874) 00 Eyeless Fish That Live in Hot Water / Dan De Quille (1876) 00 A Carson Poker Incident / Sam Davis (1878) 00 Sam Davis's Earthquake Hoax / Anonymous (1879) 00 [A Sam Davis Newspaper Story] / [Sam Davis] (1880) 00 The Tables Turned / [Denis E. McCarthy?] (1881) 00 The Carson Fossil-Footprints / Mark Twain (1884) 00 Why the Gold Gulch News Suspended / Arthur McEwen (1884) 00 The Typographical Howitzer / Sam Davis (1886) 00 One Solution / Arthur McEwen (1893) 00 Serious Trifling / Sam Davis (1894) 00 How to Win at Faro / W. H. Marshall (1894) 00 That Affair at Pollard's / Joseph T. Goodman (1894) 00 The $scTrumpet$xc Comes to Pickeye! / Joseph T. Goodman (n.d.) 00 Short Fiction Introduction 00 The Living Hinge; Or, The Seventeen Pots of Amalgam / Alfred Doten (1867) 00 Big Jack Small / James W. Gally (1875) 00 A Christmas Carol / Samuel Davis (late 1870s) 00 Sister Celeste / C. C. Goodwin (1884) 00 My Friend, the Editor / Sam P. Davis (1889) 00 The Eagles' Nest / Dan De Quille (1891) 00 Looking Down upon the Suisun Marsh Tules / Rollin M. Daggett (c. 1890s?) 00 When Booth Was Not Booth / Sam P. Davis (1895) 00 A Heart Flush / Thomas Fitch (late 1890s?) 00 The Loco Weed / Sam P. Davis (1899) 00 The Mystery of the Savage Sump / Samuel Davis (1901) 00 The Conversion of Champagne Liz / Sam Davis (19??) 00 Memoirs Introduction 00 A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward / Mark Twain (1867) 00 Artemus Ward / Dan De Quille (1888) 00 [Memories of Enterprise Writers] / Arthur McEwen (1893) 00 My French Friend / Rollin M. Daggett (1895) 00 Geological Reminiscences / Anonymous (1895) 00 Early Journalism in Nevada / Alf Doten (1899) 00 [Jim Townsend's Lies] / James P. Kennedy (1908) 00 [The Origin of Twain's Hopkins Massacre Hoax] / Joseph T. Goodman (1908) 00 [The Tragedy of Conrad Wiegand] / [Joseph T. Goodman?] (1908) 00 [The Gamble of Nevada Mining Stocks] / Anonymous (1909) 00 Nonfiction Introduction 00 The First Fourth in White Pine / Fred H. Hart (1878) 00 Under the Gallows / Fred H. Hart (1878) 00 Hoist by His Own Petard / Fred H. Hart (1878) 00 Sage-Brush Sketches / Thomas Fitch (1878) 00 The Prospector / C .C. Goodwin (1880) 00 The Pah-Utes / Sarah Winnemucca (1882) 00 Cranks and Their Uses / [Joseph T. Goodman] (1884) 00 [A Paiute Reservation] / G. W. Pease (1892) 00 Letters Introduction 00 Mark Twain to His Mother and Sister, August 19, 1863 00 Rollin Daggett to C. C. Goodwin, January 21, 1894 00 Rollin Daggett to C. C. Goodwin, March 6, 1894 00 Mark Twain to Robert L. Fulton, May 24, 1904 00 C. C. Goodwin to G. H. Babcock, June 27, 1907 00 Poetry Introduction 00 The Oak and the Vine / Rollin M. Daggett (1877) 00 My New Year's Guests / Rollin M. Daggett (1881) 00 Untitled / Jospeh T. Goodman (n.d.) 00 The Two Sermons / Jospeh T. Goodman (n.d.) 00 Sursum Corda / Joseph T. Goodman (n.d.) 00 Virginia City / Joseph T. Goodman (n.d.) 00 The Pasteurized Kiss / Sam Davis (n.d.) 00 The Campaign Debt / Sam Davis (n.d.) 00 [The Mrs. Warren of Carson City] / Sam Davis (n.d.) 00 The Storm / Sam Davis (1892) 00 The Lure of the Sagebrush / Sam Davis (n.d.) 00 The Gleaner / Sam Davis (1914?) 00 Bibliography 00 Index of Authors 00 Index of Titles 00
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American literature -- West (U.S.).
West (U.S.) -- Literary collections.
West (U.S.) -- Civilization.