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Author De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898.

Title The fighting horse of the Stanislaus : stories & essays / by Dan De Quille ; edited by Lawrence I. Berkove
Edition 1st ed
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 257 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257)
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Subject Western stories.
TRAVEL -- General.
Manners and customs
Western stories
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
Subject West United States
Genre/Form Western stories.
Form Electronic book
Author Berkove, Lawrence I., 1930-2018.
LC no. 90010751
ISBN 1587290138
9781587290138
Other Titles Works. Selections. 1990