| Description |
xxii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: celebrating the American dog -- Part 1. Working dogs -- Heroes of fire and water I: "Sport," the Newark fire dog (1881) -- Heroes of fire and water II: "Gunner," the children's rescuer (1881) -- The cow-boys and the dogs, in the War of the Revolution (1865) -- The faithful American dog (1798) -- Sagacity of a dog (1831) -- A canine anecdote (1861) / C.J. Atkinson -- Pershing honors dog mascot of A.E.F. (1921) -- Another dog (1895) / F. Hopkinson Smith -- Craig, an appreciation (1916) / C.A.D. -- A pleasant instance of the sagacity of a dog (1781) / "Abraham Weatherwise" -- The shepherd's dog (1845) / J.S. Skinner -- When eyes were no use (1920) / Albert Payson Terhune -- The bar sinister (1902) / Richard Harding Davis -- That spot (1908) / Jack London -- Part 2. Sporting dogs -- The setter, an aristocrat among dogs (1920) / Robert S. Lemmon -- Memoir of a celebrated setter dog (1831) -- Dog knew a sportsman (1906) -- That first bird dog (1913) / Fred O. Copeland -- A lesson in faithfulness (1919) / A.A. Hutton -- A Walt Whitman grouse (1916) / Archibald Rutledge -- Sportsmen's dogs--the setters (1897) / Ed. W. Sandys -- Mac: the story of a dog of honor (1920) / Travers D. Carman -- Some dogs that I have owned (1901) / W.C. Clarke -- Do dogs dream? (1882) / C.B.A. -- The working Airedale in Colorado (1910) / B.F. Simonds -- About a setter dog (1902) / B.L.S. -- Part 3. Poetry about dogs -- Epitaph about dogs (1773) -- A dog (1934) / Edgar A. Guest -- Dan (1921) / Carl Sandburg -- The fate of an innocent dog (1845) / George Moses Horton -- What shall I do, it whimpers so (ca. 1861) / Emily Dickinson -- Elegy on the death of Fidelio, a dog who possessed more merits than the poet has deigned to ascribe to him (1795) / "Zeda" -- Tumbler's epitaph (ca. 1840) -- An untitled poem about Sailor (1845) / J.S. Skinner -- The dog star pup (1920) / Henry Herbert Knibbs -- My dog (1918) / F.C. McCarthy -- To my dog, "Quien Sabe," (in the happy hunting grounds) (1920) / Henry Herbert Knibbs -- Sonnet for my dog (ca. 1939) / Thomas Curtis Clark -- My dog (1897) / Clarence Hawkes -- The good, true dog (1913) / C.A. Fonerden -- To a dog's memory (1889) / Louise Imogen Guiney -- Part 4. Companion dogs -- The animal mind (1913) / John Burroughs -- From The history of New England from 1630 to 1649 (1644) / John Winthrop -- From the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1805) / Meriwether Lewis -- Stickeen / John Muir -- Testimony of James Smith, field hand, enslaved in Virginia and Georgia: interviewed by Henry Bibb (1852) -- A yellow dog: a California story (1895) / Bret Harte -- A dog's ghost: a story from the Tobique River, New Brunswick (1892) / "Geoff" -- Memoirs of a yellow dog (1906) / O. Henry -- A dog's story (1898) / H.A. Freeman -- From "Our dogs" (1867) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- My dog (a hamlet in Old Hampshire) (1901) / Anna Lea Merritt -- Thoughts on dogs (1793) / William Livingston -- In praise of Mops (1892) -- Dogs (1903) / Catharine Maria Sedgwick -- The fidelity of a dog (1903) / Cy Warman -- One minute longer (1919) / Albert Payson Terhune -- The education of Sam (1900) / Charles Dudley Warner -- The reform of Shaun (1903) / Allen French -- Where is my dog, or, Is man alone immortal? (1892) / the Revered Charles Josiah Adams -- Gulliver the great (1912) / Walter A. Dyer -- Coda: all the good dogs (1954) / George and Helen Papashvily. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Dogs -- Literary collections.
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Dogs. (OCoLC)fst00896265
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| Genre/Form |
Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Rivers, Jacob F., 1951- editor.
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Makala, Jeffrey, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781611179668 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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1611179661 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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