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| List of illustrations and poems | ||
| Introduction : an uncommon waddy | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| A note on the text | ||
| Ch. 1 | Autobiography | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Startin' out | 9 |
| Rough hands | 9 | |
| Hair cuttin | 10 | |
| Wild dogs | 11 | |
| Wolves | 11 | |
| Reptiles | 12 | |
| Old time country school days | 13 | |
| The traveling school master | 14 | |
| It was a draw! | 15 | |
| Ch. 3 | Introducing Bill | 19 |
| Concernin Bill | 19 | |
| Bill's injun trouble | 20 | |
| Bill meets a funeral | 21 | |
| Bill doctors the Chimbleys | 23 | |
| City folks go bear huntin' | 25 | |
| Bill plays ghost | 26 | |
| Ch. 4 | Bill and Rildy Briggs | 31 |
| Bill's joke goes wrong | 32 | |
| Bill has luck | 32 | |
| Bill goes to Turkey Greek dance | 34 | |
| Bill takes the mules to preachin' | 36 | |
| The preacher loses his team | 37 | |
| Bill leaves for the high country | 39 | |
| Shorty is Bill's secretary | 40 | |
| Ch. 5 | Bill says goodbye | 45 |
| Bill turns pugilist | 45 | |
| Bill does a fan dance | 47 | |
| Bill buys some medicine | 49 | |
| Bill visits a married friend | 51 | |
| The rock creek dance | 54 | |
| Bill and the medicine man get quarantined | 56 | |
| Bill adjusts matrimonial affairs | 57 | |
| Bill has trouble | 59 | |
| Bill says goodbye | 61 | |
| Ch. 6 | Shorty and the professors | 67 |
| Introducing the professor | 67 | |
| Rildy brings the portfolio | 69 | |
| The second professor arrives | 71 | |
| Zeb loses a trick | 73 | |
| Rildy and Zeb have a date | 75 | |
| Shorty rescues the second professor | 77 | |
| The professor buys a horse ... and a dog | 79 | |
| Eph and the professor says good bye | 81 | |
| Shorty turns diplomat | 83 | |
| Shorty's boss buys a mule team | 85 | |
| Ch. 7 | Shorty goes home | 91 |
| Shorty goes home for armistice day | 91 | |
| Shorty finishes his visit | 94 | |
| Ch. 8 | Introducing Ike | 99 |
| Shorty meets some Missourians | 99 | |
| Shorty meets a fool for luck | 100 | |
| Shorty hears Ike analyse words | 102 | |
| The boss buys a mate | 104 | |
| He was after a road runner | 106 | |
| Shorty and Ike meet the boss's nephews | 108 | |
| Ch. 9 | Rustlers and romance | 113 |
| Shorty corrects a mistake | 113 | |
| The fortune teller sends Ike fishing | 115 | |
| Ike has trouble with his hat | 118 | |
| Ike meets a romance | 120 | |
| Cap'n Beasley goes in for cattle | 122 | |
| Stockings and watches | 125 | |
| Ch. 10 | Hell among the yearlin's | 131 |
| Ricky comes and goes | 131 | |
| Cap takes to mules | 134 | |
| Squint comes and goes | 136 | |
| Cap and Morton each tell one | 140 | |
| Stickin' to one idee | 142 | |
| Hell among the yearlin's | 144 | |
| Ike gets a news job | 148 | |
| Ch. 11 | Last stories | 153 |
| Shorty's boss buys purebred bulls | 153 | |
| Bruce Kiskaddon visits old friends in Arizona | 155 | |
| Afterword for the city dweller : the old night hawk | 158 | |
| Notes | 163 |
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Kim Mills
reviewed Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories And Poems Of Bruce Kiskaddon on August 29, 2013
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories And Poems Of Bruce Kiskaddon
A Great Guide to a Beautiful City
Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in the late 1990s. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the last decade because of the spotlight cast on it by a developing film industry within the city and by the immense popularity of author John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The genius of this exceptional travel literary anthology is the eclectic mixture of names it includes. Some--like founding father George Washington and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano--many readers would not expect to find because of their globe-spanning historical stature. Others--like Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Lowe and songwriter Johnny Mercer--were natives of the city and therefore are less surprising. In total, the voices of some 37 writers, plus that of editor Patrick Allen, comprise the volume.
Among those voices are such modern chroniclers of Savannah's ongoing story as: Pulitzer Prize-winner James Alan McPherson; journalist Tom Coffey; playwright and educator Ja A. Jahannes; author and writing instructor Rosemary Danielle; and the author of "Savannah Spectres," Margaret Wayt DeBolt.
It also happens to include a poem by this author called "Return to Savannah."
Much of the book's richness is also due to the variety of literary genres sampled within it. From passing glimpses of the city as jotted down in a notebook entry by novelist Henry James to famous declarations as made by General William T. Sherman in a letter to his commander in chief. Memoirs, fiction, essays, poetry, "true" accounts of hauntings, and songs all blend to create a finely balanced and nuanced portrait of one of the most uniquely beautiful cities in the United States.
by Aberjhani
author of The Bridge of Silver Wings
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
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Add Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories And Poems Of Bruce Kiskaddon, Set in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the stories are a loosely tied string of old timer's yarns with a continuing cast of engaging characters, whom Kiskaddon avoids reducing to cowboy stereotypes. They include, as Siems describes them, Kiskaddon him, Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories And Poems Of Bruce Kiskaddon to your collection on WonderClub |
