Dobie, J. Frank
Some part of myself / J. Frank Dobie - Boston Little, Brown & Company 1967 - xiii, 282 p.
Autobiographical essays and newspaper pieces, edited by Bertha McKee Dobie.
Foreword --
Unveiling of a self-portrait --
A plot of earth --
Echoes of the all gone --
The cowman who was my father --
My mother: Ella Byler Dobie --
Uncle Frank Byler --
Ranch neighbors --
Horses out of my boyhood --
"His looks and my ways would hang any man" --
Prose and poetry --
A schoolteacher in Alpine --
Columbia University in the city of New York --
Along Lake George --
No idea where I was going --
How my life took its turn --
Storytellers I have known --
Index.
A relaxed, satisfying memoir by a master storyteller. It reveals the admirable human spirit of a man who has become as much a legend as those about whom he wrote.; When Frank Dobie died in September of 1964 he left, along with a wealth of Southwestern folklore (among them the classics Coronado's Children, The Mustangs and Cow People), a collection of autobiographical pieces which he hoped, some day, to turn into a full-length autobiography. Now, three years after this beloved storyteller's death, his wife Bertha has gathered and edited his autobiographical pieces. The result is a compelling self-portrait of Frank Dobie as his friends knew him, and as his admirers wish to know him. Some Part of Myself covers the period from Frank Dobie's birth on a ranch in Live Oak County, south Texas, in 1888, to the thirties, when as a professor at the University of Texas he had established himself as an authority on the life and literature of the Southwest -- Book jacket.
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Dobie, J. Frank 1888-1964.
Beretta, John King 1861-1948
Authors, American --20th century
Biography.--United States
921 Dob Dob 48
Some part of myself / J. Frank Dobie - Boston Little, Brown & Company 1967 - xiii, 282 p.
Autobiographical essays and newspaper pieces, edited by Bertha McKee Dobie.
Foreword --
Unveiling of a self-portrait --
A plot of earth --
Echoes of the all gone --
The cowman who was my father --
My mother: Ella Byler Dobie --
Uncle Frank Byler --
Ranch neighbors --
Horses out of my boyhood --
"His looks and my ways would hang any man" --
Prose and poetry --
A schoolteacher in Alpine --
Columbia University in the city of New York --
Along Lake George --
No idea where I was going --
How my life took its turn --
Storytellers I have known --
Index.
A relaxed, satisfying memoir by a master storyteller. It reveals the admirable human spirit of a man who has become as much a legend as those about whom he wrote.; When Frank Dobie died in September of 1964 he left, along with a wealth of Southwestern folklore (among them the classics Coronado's Children, The Mustangs and Cow People), a collection of autobiographical pieces which he hoped, some day, to turn into a full-length autobiography. Now, three years after this beloved storyteller's death, his wife Bertha has gathered and edited his autobiographical pieces. The result is a compelling self-portrait of Frank Dobie as his friends knew him, and as his admirers wish to know him. Some Part of Myself covers the period from Frank Dobie's birth on a ranch in Live Oak County, south Texas, in 1888, to the thirties, when as a professor at the University of Texas he had established himself as an authority on the life and literature of the Southwest -- Book jacket.
34012
Dobie, J. Frank 1888-1964.
Beretta, John King 1861-1948
Authors, American --20th century
Biography.--United States
921 Dob Dob 48