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The Sagebrush Anthology - Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West (Hardcover)
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The Sagebrush Anthology - Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West (Hardcover)
Series: Mark Twain and His Circle
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Sagebrush School is a term applied to a group of writers who spent
their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early
twentieth century - its most illustrious representative being Mark
Twain. Yet most of their work was never republished from the
periodicals in which it first appeared and today remains largely
unknown to many scholars and aficionados of Western literature.
Lawrence I. Berkove, acknowledged as the leading authority on this
body of literature, has assembled an exceptional collection that
rescues the lively works of the Sagebrush School from the dusty
archives in which they have languished. ""The Sagebrush
Anthology"", which enlarges Mark Twain's circle to encompass the
Sagebrush Bohemians through a compelling blend of humorous and
serious fiction, memoir, nonfiction, letters, and poetry, contains
sixty-seven selections - seven by Twain - representing outstanding
work by accomplished Sagebrushers Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe
Goodman, and Rollin Daggett, plus pieces by lesser-known writers
such as Arthur McEwen, Alf Doten, and Fred Hart. Berkove's
introduction recounts the history of the school and identifies and
analyzes its main thematic and stylistic characteristics. He shows
that Sagebrush literature records and reflects the collision of the
last generation of frontiersmen with the new culture of technology,
industry, and big business - men of talent, imagination, and
integrity driven to work out distinctive ways of coping with an
unresponsive system of justice, an economy tilted toward the rich,
and a society that impinged on individual liberties.
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