| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780826301598 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
810.4 Ste |
| Item number |
47 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
810.4 Ste |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Steele, James W. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Frontier army sketches |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
James W. Steele; with and introduction by Philip D. Jordan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of NM. PRESS |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1969 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Albuquerque, NM |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
329 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Captain Jinks -- Jornada del muerto -- Men of the border -- Brown's revenge -- Copper distilled -- Joe's pocket -- New Mexican common life -- "Peg" -- the story of a dog -- A good indian -- Jack's divorce -- Coyotes -- A guard-house gentleman -- Woman under difficulties -- The priest of El Paso -- A fight between buffaloes -- Chicquita -- Army mules -- A lonesome Christian. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"This book - first issued in 1873 and almost unknown except to a few devotees - offers eighteen semi-fictional sketches of incidents in the pioneer Southwest. James W. Steele, a young Army officer stationed at remote outposts during the late 1860s, wrote from first-hand knowledge and with an experienced storyteller's skill. In these short-short stories with test endings you sense much of the flavor of O. Henry, who came later. Steele also had George Ruxton's alert ear for for frontier dialect and was perhaps first to record it for the Southwest. Above all, Steele was ahead of such historians as Frederick Jackson Turner and Walter Prescott Webb in realizing how the frontier changed people who lived there"--Jacket. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
47359 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
United States |
| Location of event |
Army |
| General subdivision |
Military life |
| Chronological subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Frontier and pioneer life |
| General subdivision |
Fiction |
| Chronological subdivision |
West (U.S.) |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Soldiers |
| General subdivision |
Fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
sw 800 - 899 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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