Research Catalog

Title

Old Three Toes and other tales of survival and extinction / John Joseph Mathews ; edited and with an afterword by Susan Kalter.

Author

Mathews, John Joseph, 1895-1979

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Kalter, Susan, 1969-

Description

xiii, 186 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Since 1932, OU Press has published six works by John Joseph Mathews, five of which are still in print, making Mathews a quintessential OU Press author. In her introduction, Susan Kalter provides a poignant personal portrait of Mathews that traces the inspirations for and the creation of the short stories in the collection. We learn that Mathews not only wanted to create stories accessible to children and young adults but aimed to articulate his own fondness for the animal world and nature in his short fiction. The result is a collection of stories that have aged very well and that are today, fifty years after they were written, perhaps even more timely and relevant to discussions of ecology, identity, and the place of people in their environment" --

Series Statement

American Indian literature and critical studies series ; volume 63

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections
• American Indian literature and critical studies series v. 63.

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Animals > Fiction
• Nature stories, American
• Animals
• Nature stories, American

Genre/Form

• Western stories
• Fiction
• Fiction.

Note

• Editor's note -- Singers to the moon -- Grus, the sandhill crane -- Alfredo and the jaguar -- The white sack -- Arrowflight, the story of a prairie chicken -- The last dance -- The white gobbler of Rancho Seco -- The royal of Glen Orchy -- Old Three Toes of Buffalo Fork -- Notes to the stories -- Afterword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780806151205
• 080615120X

LCCN

^^2014021368

OCLC

• 885982991
• SCSB-10597306

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library