The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-12-01
STATE IN
(BY DoANE ROBINSoN)

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sent works OF the Boyles and Han
fon in a re, ent article has rOug I
NE inquiries from two liorar ans W o
desire to establish distinct ely SOu,h
Dakota shelves, for in.orTati. n ABOUT
booked fl ton by South Dahola writ.
erS. Perhaps others a!e interested.
The first South Dako,a writer OF
fiction, SO far as ! can lea n. VS. Mrs.
George e. Spencer of Deadwood, VIII
wrote a very excellent SO y of Bla k
Hills life which she ruined by giving
it the vaudeville title of Ca amity
Jane" Mrs. SPENCER now restless in
Watertown, n. Y, and the book IS out
of print, but may be obtained OF sec
ond hand dealers.
Hamlin Garland was the net Scuth
Jakota writer and he has three fc-
lions which are pecul arly ours. T ey
are Jason Edwards Is. An Ave age
Man." a Brown county story filed
with the spirit of the old Gays OF pop
ulism. Many of the old time ALe.-
deem boomers figure In it thinly dis
gu sed. The Little Nor k, OF OIL
Pap's Flaxen," a M,Pherscn cornty
story in Garland's best STYLE. Bo h o
these works a e now out Of Ir.nt.
"Moccasin Ranch" is a recent story
by Garland, which is rather q estion-
able in its morals. 1t has to DO VITA
homesteading in Brown county.
Miss Stella Gilman of HuLson. was
also an cary fct on writer and her
That Dakota Gil l." and "A Gumb)
Lily" two very cred.taDle books, are
out Of print.
Judge George H. Marquis. of the
TIL I'd circuit, has a very good lit {
dete tive story, entitled 'Fairyiew S
Mystery"
Marion L. Fox, once editor of the
Sioux Falls Press, wrote a book in
tended to d;scredit the Philippine war;,
which he called Private Smith" 1t IS
out of print.
Rev. w. D. Atwater of Stu~gis long
ago published a religious sto y en-
titled Told Again" l find it occa-
sionally in second hand lists.
Thomas A. Stubbins, a YanEton COL
lege man. has a patriotic story for
boys, The Patriot" Donohue, Chi
cago,
Eleanor Gates CTuTey) "AutoNiog-
raphy of a Prairie Gil" and The
Plow Woman" Mrs. Tulley was DO n
near Humboldt, M;nrefaNa county,
and the old homestead there is the
scene of her first story. The scene OF
the second is along the Missouri f4om
Fort Randall to Bismare k.
The late DR.. Will Lillibridge Of
Sioux Falls, left five C ed.ta. lie oOks
of fiction, the best known Of which
was his first. Pen Blair" which had
a remarkable sale, and is still going.
Pen Blair" and Where TIE Trail
Divides" are stories of tie Old cat
tie range region in western South Da-
kota. The Dominant Dol a )" The
Eternal Question" and one other, a
posthumous work. all have to do with
life in Sioux Falls.
Kate and Virgil Boyles have col
laborated upon three fctions: Lang
ford of the Three Bars" a ta'e O.
Lyman county cattle rustling, in whi'h
John Q. Anderson as Langford, ana
John G.. Baltine, the newly elected
state senator from Lyman county, as
prosecuting attorney, We for heroic
honors; The HomestCaders," a quiet
err Lyman county story, and the last,
The Spirit Trail" a g aphic story
of the Sioux war, all by NJ C'urgs.
John H. Burns, the well known at
torney of Deadwood has a splendid
story in his Memoirs of a Cow Pony"
"Everyman His Chance" is a Rapid
City story, by Miss Matilda Stone
Woods, daughter Of the late James NJ
Woods, the well known politician or
Rapid City. 1t is a very good story
published by Badger, Boston.
A further reading of joseph MILL
Hanson's with Sully in the Sioux
Lands leaves me doubling the pro-
priety of CHASING that excellent work
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but is as interesting as any fiction.
These works made up a shelf of
twenty-three highly credita5le works
of fiction that are distinctly the work
of South Dakotans and usually upon
South Dakota themes. There are
several other works which for one
reason or another should be upon the
South Dakota shelf.
Governor Gilbert A. Pierce wrote
the Dangerous Woman" a story of
the civil war and the days immediate
ly following. The Identification Of the
author with Dakota makes his work
of special interest.
"The Conquest" by Eva Emery
Dye, is for two reasons ours. Ii haS
much to do with primitive Dakota
affairs and the author is a former
resident. having been the wife of Pro-
lessor Emery of the Madison norma.
THE Westerners," by Stewart Ed
ward White, is a story of the Bla k
Hills, though Mr.. White was never
more than a temporary resident oil
the state.
paul Traver's Adventures" was
written by Sam T. Glover, while a
resident of Sioux Falls, but not pub
lished until a long time after the
author left the state. 1t does not
have much to do with South Dakota
matters.
. "Tonda," by Warren X. Morehead
is a story of the Sioux of South Da-
kota and incidentally of the white
people who live among them.
There are perhaps others OF this
class as we'll as other distinctively
South Dakota productions, but this )
, the complete list which has been
gathered in the state library.
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