| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; In Dogs We Trust; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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); Pershing Honors Dog Mascot of A.E.F. (1921); Another Dog (1895); Craig, an Appreciation (1916) |
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A Pleasant Instance of the Sagacity of a Dog (1781)The Shepherd's Dog (1845); When Eyes Were No Use (1920); The Bar Sinister (1902); That Spot (1908); PART 2 Sporting Dogs; The Setter, an Aristocrat among Dogs (1920); Memoir of a Celebrated Setter Dog (1831); Dog Knew a Sportsman (1906); That First Bird Dog (1913); A Lesson in Faithfulness (1919); A Walt Whitman Grouse (1916); Sportsmen's Dogs-the Setters (1897); Mac: The Story of a Dog of Honor (1920); Some Dogs That I Have Owned (1901); Do Dogs Dream? (1882); The Working Airedale in Colorado (1910); About a Setter Dog (1902) |
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PART 3 Poetry about DogsEpitaph on a Dog (1773); A Dog (1934); Dan (1921); The Fate of an Innocent Dog (1845); What shall I do -- it whimpers so (ca. 1861); Elegy on the Death of Fidelio, a Dog Who Possessed More Merits Than the Poet Has Deigned to Ascribe to Him (1795); Tumbler's Epitaph (ca. 1840); An Untitled Poem about Sailor (1845); The Dog Star Pup (1920); My Dog (1918); To My Dog, "Quien Sabe" (In the Happy Hunting Grounds) (1920); Sonnet for My Dog (ca. 1939); My Dog (1897); The Good, True Dog (1913); To a Dog's Memory (1889); PART 4 Companion Dogs; The Animal Mind (1913) |
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From The History of New England from 1630 to 1649 (1644)From the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1805); Stickeen (1909); Testimony of James Smith, Field Hand, Enslaved in Virginia and Georgia. Interviewed by Henry Bibb (1852); A Yellow Dog: A California Story (1895); A Dog's Ghost: A Story from the Tobique River, New Brunswick (1892); Memoirs of a Yellow Dog (1906); A Dog's Story (1898); From "Our Dogs" (1867); My Dog (A Hamlet in Old Hampshire) (1901); Thoughts on Dogs (1793); In Praise of Mops (1892); Dogs (1829); The Fidelity of a Dog (1903); One Minute Longer (1919) |
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The Education of Sam (1900)The Reform of Shaun (1903); Where Is My Dog? or, Is Man Alone Immortal? (1892); Gulliver the Great (1912); Coda: All the Good Dogs (1954); Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2019) |
| Subject |
Dogs -- Literary collections
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Dogs
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rivers, Jacob F., 1951- editor.
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Makala, Jeffrey, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018054348 |
| ISBN |
9781611179675 |
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161117967X |
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