Some part of myself /
by Dobie, J. Frank
Published by : Little, Brown & Company (Boston) Physical details: xiii, 282 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| sw 900 - 999 | 921 Dob Dob (Browse shelf) | Available | Book Fund | 34012 |
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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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