The fighting horse of the Stanislaus : stories & essays /

Tongue-Oil Timothy, as unflappable as he is unconscionable, swindles Wasatch Sam in a villainous poker game. Amazed prospectors discover a full-grown silver man deep in a mountain tunnel. Old Pizen, a horse so mean that he was almost poison to himself, is wagered by his own owner in the fight of his...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898
Other Authors: Berkove, Lawrence I., 1930-2018
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Western stories.
TRAVEL > General.
Manners and customs.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
West United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hoaxes, humor, and practical jokes. A silver man
  • The traveling stones of Pahranagat
  • Solar armor
  • Eyeless fish that live in hot water
  • The troubles of John Smith
  • The boss snorer
  • Torture unutterable
  • Tom Collette's bath.
  • History and description. The typical prospector
  • The old California prospector
  • The tricks of miners
  • A superintendent who was fatherly and "smooth"
  • The wealth of Washoe
  • Old Johnny Ranchero
  • The wolf and the wild hogs
  • Trailing a lost child.
  • Colorful characterizations. Jones' opinion
  • A strange monomania
  • The earth never dies
  • A dietetic Don Quixote
  • Tongue-oil Timothy dead
  • A female world-ranger
  • Rev. Olympus Jump.
  • Legends and folklore. Lorenzo Dow's miracle
  • Death Valley
  • A goblin frog
  • Elam Storm
  • Peter Crow among the witches.
  • Stories. The fighting horse of the Stanislaus
  • Marier's room
  • Bendix Biargo and his three sisters
  • The seven Nimrods of the Sierras
  • The eagles' nest
  • An Indian story of the Sierra Madre.

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