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The fighting horse of the Stanislaus : stories & essays / by Dan De Quille ; edited by Lawrence I. Berkove.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xxiv, 257 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587290138
  • 9781587290138
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. 1990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fighting horse of the Stanislaus.DDC classification:
  • 813/.4 20
LOC classification:
  • PS1525.D35 A6 1990eb
Other classification:
  • HU 9800
  • HU 9800.
Online resources:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: 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 life. The travelling stones of Pahranagat, when scattered about the ground, immediately huddle together like eggs in a nest. Highly eccentric but shrewd, itinerant preacher Lorenzo Dow raises the devil. A cheery voiced goblin frog points the way toward the great Comstack silver lode.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257).

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 life. The travelling stones of Pahranagat, when scattered about the ground, immediately huddle together like eggs in a nest. Highly eccentric but shrewd, itinerant preacher Lorenzo Dow raises the devil. A cheery voiced goblin frog points the way toward the great Comstack silver lode.

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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