Research Catalog

Title

Wanderings of a vagabond : An autobiography / edited by John Morris.

Author

O'Connor, John, active 1873

Publication

• New York : Published by the author, [1873?]
• ©1873.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

492 pages; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Gambling > Fiction
• Gamblers > United States > Fiction
• Slavery > United States > Fiction
• Southern States > Description and travel > Fiction
• Southern States > Social life and customs > Fiction

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by John Morris, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C."--verso of title page.
• "Will shortly appear, a sequel to 'Wanderings of a vagabond.'"--foot of page 292; sequel not published?

Indexed In (note)

• Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introductory -- ch. 1. Early days -- ch. 2. Early days -- ch. 3. Profession -- ch. 4. Profession -- ch. 5. Captain William Smith -- ch. 6. Diplomacy -- ch. 7. Major George Jenks -- ch. 8. Faro -- ch. 9. Departure -- ch. 10. Phantoms of memory -- ch. 11. Wheeling -- ch. 12. On to Richmond -- ch. 13. The horse -- ch. 14. Washington City -- ch. 15. Inventors -- ch. 16. Incubi -- ch. 17. Sharpers -- ch. 18. Scenes at Long Branch -- ch. 19. Second-class skinning-houses -- ch. 20. Sharpers -- ch. 21. Biographical sketches -- ch. 22. New York -- ch. 23. Squaring accounts -- ch. 24. In the lock-up -- ch. 25. Boxers -- ch. 26. Persecution -- ch. 27. Prejudices -- ch. 28. Wolf-traps -- ch. 29. Wolf-traps (continued) -- ch. 30. Sharp practice -- ch. 31. Lexington races -- ch. 32. The flight -- ch. 33. The Mississippi -- ch. 34. River sharpers -- ch. 35. Three-Card Monte throwers -- ch. 36. The hog drover -- ch. 37. Mobile -- ch. 38. A "Nigger in the fence" -- ch. 39. The "Nigger" gets out.

Call Number

Sc Fic (O'Connor, J. Wanderings of a vagabond)

LCCN

07033172 //r44

OCLC

• 3463241
• NYPGR3463241-B

Author

O'Connor, John, active 1873, author.

Title

Wanderings of a vagabond : An autobiography / edited by John Morris.

Publisher

New York : Published by the author, [1873?]

Copyright Date

©1873.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South, III:373

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, II:1812

Provenance

Copy in Sc Fic-O (accession no. B594011) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust

Added Author

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Fic (O'Connor, J. Wanderings of a vagabond)

AN (Morris) (O'Connor, J. Wanderings of a vagabond)