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* Indicates from the collection of Alan V. Miller
Sjolander, John P. Salt of the earth and sea / John P Sjolander. Dallas, TX: Southwest Press, 1928.
* Sloan, Emily E. Ballads of the plains. [Denver, CO: Great Western Publishing Co.], 1908. 35 p.
* Sloan, Maxine. Hours that linger / Maxine Sloan. Dallas, TX: Triangle Publishing Co., 1956. 77 p. Inscribed. Dj
* Smith, Ernest W. Forest Service rhymes and other verse / Ernest W. Smith. Boston: Bruce Humphries Publishers, 1949. 90 p.
Smith, Goldie Capers. The creative arts in Texas: a handbook of biography / Goldie Capers Smith. Nashville, TN: Cokesbury Press, 1926.
Smith, Goldie Capers. Sword of laughter / Goldie Capers Smith. Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, 1932.
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Viajando con vasconcelos / by Alfonso Taracena. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1938. |
* Smith, Lawrence B. (Lon). The Sunlight Kid and other western verses / Lawrence B. Smith. Frontispiece etching by Edward Borein and 36 photographs. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1935. 120 p.
* Smith, Leonard K. Moods and memories / Leonard K. Smith. Foreword by Herman Page. Spokane, WA: Leonard K. Smith, [1923]. 53 p.
* Smith, Pamela; Polese, Richard. Passions in print: private press artistry in New Mexico, 1834 – present. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006. 232 p. See: Laughing Horse Press and Spud Johnson, p.50-56; and poetry titles throughout.
Smith, Reed. "Review of 'Folk-songs of America'." Southern Folklore Quarterly. 3: 60-63, 1939.
* Smith, Robert Wallace. The golden bear / Robert Wallace Smith. Foreword by Margarette Ball Dickson. Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, 1946. 136 p.
Smith, William R. "Hell among the yearlings." Old Time Music. 5: 16-19, nd.
Smyth, Willie. "Country music in commercial motion pictures (1933-1935)." JEMF Quarterly. 19: 103-105, 1983.
* Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of frontier literature / Mary Ellen Snodgrass. New York; Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, 1999, c1997. 540 p.
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El tren olivo en marcha / by Roberto Hinojosa. [Mexico City]: np, 193-. |
Snow, Eliza R. Poems: religious, historical and political / Eliza R. Snow. Vol. 1. Liverpool: F.D. Richards, 1856; Vol. 2, Salt Lake City, UT: L.D.S. Printing and Publishing, 1877. Mormon songs.
"Song of the cowboy." Arizona Graphic. 1(8): 8, Nov. 4, 1899.
* Songs from the step ladder. Chicago, IL: Bookfellows, 1927. 112 p. No.36 of 285 copies.
See: "Song for the Rocky Mountain folk" / Margery Sweet, p.44.
Songs for the rodeo. Edited by Kenneth S. Clark. New York: Paull-Pioneer Music, 1937.
Songs of man. Compiled by Norman Luboff and Win Stracke. New York: Prentice Hall, 1965.
* Songs of men. An anthology selected and arranged by Robert Frothingham. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. 173 p.
See: V. Lindsay, R.G. Badger, S. M. Hall, R.V. Carr.
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Entresuelo / by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, [1948]. |
Songs of the American west. Compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer and David Cohen. Drawings by Steven M. Johnson. Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1968. 595 p.
Songs of the cowboy. Compiled by Ron Middlebrook, foreword by Tom Chambers. Fullerton, CA: Centerstream Publications, 1990.
* Songs of the cowboys. Compiled by N. Howard (Jack) Thorp ; with introduction by Alice Corbin Henderson. Boston, MA; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921, c1908. 184 p. 101 songs of the cowboy.
* Songs of the gold rush. Edited with introduction by Richard A. Dwyer and Richard Lingenfelter. Music edited with guitar arrangements by David Cohen. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. 200 p.
* Songs of the great American West. Compiled and edited by Irwin Silber. Music annotated, edited and arranged by Earl Robinson. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 334 p. Ill.
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Reconquista / by Federico Gamboa. 2nd ed Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1937. |
Songs of the Mormon pioneers: music, words, guitar chord symbols. With historical notations by Austin E. Fife and Alta S. Fife. Salt Lake City, UT: Columbia Research Group, [195-] 17 p.
Songs of the old West / Alan Axelrod (commentary) and Dan Fox (arrangements). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; in association with Simon and Schuster, 1991. 128 p.
A collection of 45 popular western tunes, illustrated with works of art by Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, N.C. Wyeth, Albert Bierstadt, Charles Schreyvogel, W.H.D. Koerner and others.
Songs of the ranch and range. Edited by Kenneth Clark. New York: Paull-Pioneer Music Corp., 1932.
Songs of the San Francisco minstrels Birch and Backus, including all the continuously popular pieces that have been received with boundless applause from Maine to California when sung by this great troupe. New York: De Witt Publishing, 1881.
* Songs of the wild West. Commentary by Alan Axelrod; arrangements by Dan Fox. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; in association with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center; Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1991. 128 p.
* Songs of the Yellowstone Park lodges: if you feel like sighing - sing. Yellowstone Park, WY: Yellowstone Park Lodge and Camps Company, c1925. 44 p.
Songs Texas sings. Dallas, TX: Turner Company, 1936. 32 p. Centennial Edition for Schools by Public School Division of the Texas Department of Publicity for Centennial Celebrations.
Songs we like to hear. np: [19--] 40 p. Words only, see "cowboy".
Songs you hear no more. np: [1937]. Songbook mailed by a border radio performer.
Sonnichsen, Charles L. The Southwest in life and literature. Compiled and edited by Charles L. Sonnichsen. New York: Devin-Adair, 1962. 554 p.
No poetry, but includes sections on authors: Eugene Manlove Rhodes, "He wrote fourteen novels ... and more verse, including 'The hired man on horseback.' The best poem in the language about cowboys." p.551.
Sonnichsen, Charles L. Twentieth-century western writers / Charles L. Sonnichsen. Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1991. 848 p.
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Camaradas! / by Raul Carranca Trujillo. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1938. |
* Southwester anthology. Compiled and edited by Elsie Smith Parker and Miriam G. Beaird. Dallas, TX: American Poetry Association, 1937. 130 p.
* The southwest in literature: an anthology for high schools. Edited by Mabel Major and Rebecca W. Smith. New York: Macmillan, 1929. 370 p.
The Southwest scene. Edited by Benjamin A. Botkin. Oklahoma City, OK: Economy Co., 1931. xi, 115 p.
* Southwestern American literature: a bibliography. Edited by John Q. Anderson, Edwin W. Gaston, Jr., James W. Lee. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1980. 445p.
See: Poetry, p.141-145.
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Los peregrinos inmoviles / by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1944. |
* Southwesterners write: the American southwest in stories and articles by thirty-two contributors. Selected and edited by T.M. Pearce and A.P. Thomason. Illustrated by Helen S. Pearce. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1947, c1946. 365 p. Little poetry.
* Space, silence, spirit: Maynard Dixon's West. [Paradise Valley, Cal.: A.P. Hays, 2002]. 36 p. Catalogue of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Hays.
Includes poems by Maynard Dixon: "My country," "Alone," and "At last."
Spaeth, Sigmund. "Home on the range." Rotarian. 67(5): 27, Nov. 1945.
Spanish folk songs of the southwest. Collected and transcribed by Mary R. Van Stone. Foreword by Merle Armitage. Fresno, CA: Academy Guild Press, 1963, c1928. 45 p. 6 new songs added; nothing of interest.
Spanish songs of old California. Collected and translated by Charles F. Lummis. Pianoforte accompaniments by Arthur Farwell. New York: G. Schirmer, [?1923]. 31 p. (Schrimer's American Folk-song Series no.11)
See also poetry by Charles F. Lummis
Spates, Virginia. Enchanted windows / Virginia Spates. Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, 1934.
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Anahuac o el Indio sin plumas / by Marc Chadourne. Traducción de Alfonso Teja Zabre. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1935. |
* Spencer, Lilian White. Arrowheads / Lilian White Spencer. New York: Parade Publishing Co., 1929. 64 p. Limited edition of 500 copies. Inscribed.
Spinden, Herbert Joseph. Songs of the Tewa / Herbert Joseph Spinden. New York: Exposition of Indian Tribals Arts, nd.
Sprague, Carl T. "The last longhorn." The Cattleman (Fort Worth). Mar. 1917
See also John I. White
Sprigg, Norris C. Chimes of the West / Norris C. Sprigg. Denver, CO: Balance Pub. Co., 190-. 223 p.
* Sprigg, Norris C. Sprigs of poetry / Norris C. Sprigg. Ill. Denver, CO: Balance Pub. Co., 1907. 128 p.
See: "Colorado" p.23; "To the West greeting" p.24; "To a prospector" p.45; "Chums" p.108.
* The square dance, including round dances, quadrilles, novelties and mixers. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration of the State of Illinois. Chicago: Chicago Park District, 1940. 243 p.
Includes calls: slow and easy calls, fast and easy calls, slow and difficult calls, fast and difficult calls, and singing calls.
* St. Clair, George. Young heart / George St. Clair. New York: Henry Harrison, 1933. 61 p.
See: "A boy's heart."
"Within its leaves,
Faded and worn with years, I see a picture -
The face of one I loved in those gone days.
I'd fain forget how long ago it was!
But I was young, and he was ten years older."
(p.11-12; a poem of an orphan, befriended by one female teacher)
* Stafford, Clayton. Verse, 1931-1938. Albuquerque, NM: Alan Swallow, 1941. 18 p. (Swallow pamphlets, no.2)
Stafford, Kim. "Making something fine." p.22-30. In Cowboy poets and cowboy poetry. Edited by David Stanley and Elaine Thatcher. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
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Libertad y demagogia / by Felix F. Palavicini. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1938. |
Stambler, Irwin; Landon, Grelun. Encyclopedia of folk, country, and western music / Irwin Stambler and Grelun Landon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969. Content?
Stambler, Irwin; Landon, Grelun. Golden guitars: the story of country music / Irwin Stambler and Grelun Landon. New York: Four Winds Press, 1971. 186 p.
See: "The singing brakeman (Jimmie Rodgers)" p.36-55.
Stand By. WLS fan magazine.
* Stanfield, Peter. "Dixie cowboys and blue yodels: the strange history of the singing cowboy." p.96-118. In Back in the saddle again: new essays on the Western. Edited by Edward Buscombe and Roberta E. Pearson. London: British Film Institute, 1998.
Stanley, Clark. The life and adventures of the American cow-boy: life in the Far West / Clark Stanley. Providence, RI: C. Stanley, 1897. 39 p. Also reprint, 1905.
Stanley, Clark. True life in the far west / Clark Stanley. Providence, RI: C. Stanley, nd.
Stanley, David. "Cowboy poetry then and now: an overview." p.1-20. In Cowboy poets and cowboy poetry. Edited by David Stanley and Elaine Thatcher. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 392 p.
Stanley, David. "Orderly disorder: form and tension in cowboy poetry." p.107-124. In Cowboy poets and cowboy poetry. Edited by David Stanley and Elaine Thatcher. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Starkloff, Carl J. "Renewing the sacred hoop." p.159-172. In A sender of words: essays in memory of John G. Neihardt. Edited by Vine Deloria, Jr. Salt Lake City, UT; Chicago, IL: Howe Brothers, 1984.
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Amerindmaya / by Luis Rosado Vega. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1938. |
Starr, Jeremiah. A California adventure and vision. Prose and poetry by Jeremiah Starr. Cincinnati, OH: [J. Starr], 1864.
Starr, Kevin "Painterly poet, poetic painter." California Historical Quarterly. 56: 290-309, 1977.
On Maynard Dixon.
* Stars of country music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez. Edited by Bill C. Malone and Judith McCulloch. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. 476 p. Ill.
See: Jimmie Rodgers p.121-141, "Gene Autry" by Douglas B. Green, p.142-156.
Stars of country music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez. Edited by Bill C. Malone and Judith McCulloch. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975. 476 p. Ill.
See: Jimmie Rodgers p.121-141, "Gene Autry" by Douglas B. Green, p.142-156.
Stauffer, Helen. "Neihardt's journey on the Missouri." p.59-71. In A sender of words: essays in memory of John G. Neihardt. Edited by Vine Deloria, Jr. Salt Lake City, UT; Chicago, IL: Howe Brothers, 1984.
Steagall Red. Ride for the brand / Red Steagall. Foreword by Elmer Kelton, afterword by Joyce Gibson Roach, drawings by Joe Beeler. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1993.
Steele, John. In camp and cabin; mining life and adventures in California during 1850 and later / John Steele. New York: Citadel Press, 1962.
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El indio: novela mexicana / by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1937. |
Sterling, George (1869-1926). After sunset / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: J. Howell, c1939. 70 p. Edition of 250 copies.
Sterling, George. Beyond the breakers, and other poems / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1914. 141 p.
Sterling, George. The caged eagle, and other poems / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1916. 167 p.
Sterling, George. "Father coyote." np nd
Sterling, George. Five poems / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: Windsor Press, 1928. [12 p.]
Sterling, George. The House of Orchids, and other poems / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1911. 140 p.
Sterling, George. Lilith: a dramatic poem / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1919. 110 p.
Sterling, George. Lilith: a dramatic poem / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1920. 76 p.
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Morelia - Patzcuaro and Uruapan. [Mexico City]: Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo / Mexican Tourist Association, [1943]. 32 p. |
Sterling, George. Lilith: a dramatic poem / George Sterling. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 116 p.
Sterling, George. Ode on the opening of the Panama-Pacific international exposition, San Francisco, February, 1915 / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1915. 16 p.
Sterling, George. Robinson Jeffers: the man and the artist / George Sterling. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. 40 p.
See also Robinson Jeffers
Sterling, George. Selected poems / George Sterling. New York: H. Holt, 1923. 232 p.
Sterling, George. Sonnets to Craig / George Sterling. With an introduction by Upton Sinclair. New York: A. and C. Boni, 1928. 120 p.
Sterling, George. Strange waters / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: n.p., 1926. 10 p. Edition of 150 copies.
Sterling, George. The testimony of the suns, and other poems / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: W.E. Wood, 1903. 142 p.
Sterling, George. The testimony of the suns, and other poems / George Sterling. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1904, c1903. 142 p.
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Veracruz, Mexico. Edicion en español. [Mexico City]: Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo / [Mexican Tourist Association], [1943]. 32 p. |
Sterling, George. The testimony of the suns, and other poems / George Sterling. 3rd ed. San Francisco, CA: A. M. Robertson, 1907, c1903. 142 p.
Sterling, George. Thirty-five sonnets / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 1917. 54 p.
Sterling, George. A wine of wizardry, and other poems / George Sterling. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1909. 137 p.
Sterling, George. Yosemite: an ode / George Sterling. With a cover in color after the painting by H.J. Breuer and illustrations after photographs by W.E. Dassonville. San Francisco, CA: A.M. Robertson, 1916. 16 p.
* Stern, Jane; Stern, Michael. Way out west. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. 400 p.
See "Singing cowboys," p.51-55: "Ol' Proc," p.50; "The cowboy's life," p.54-55; "Git along, little dogies," p.55 and "Old Paint," p.140.
* Stevens, Pearl Moore. Silver wings against the sky. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1942. 72 p.
Former Poet Laureate of Texas and editor of The greater Texas anthology and The southwestern anthology. See: “The Alamo,” p.33.
* Stevens, Thomas Wood. Westward under Vega / Thomas Wood Stevens. New York: Covici Friede, 1938. 143 p.
Stevenson, James H. Songs and poems of the old west by an old cowboy / James H. Stevenson. [U.S.: n.p.], 1937. [91 p.]
* Stevenson, Robert M. Music in El Paso, 1919-1939. El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, The University of Texas at El Paso. 1970. 40 p. (Southwestern studies monograph, no.27)
Includes references to: Ferdinand Dewey, John Nathaniel Vincent, Mrs. William R. Brown, Francis Moore, Samuel Martinez, Henry Cobos, Frances Newman, Paul Moor, Frank Kenneth MacCallum, Roscoe P. Conkling, Charles J. Andrews, and others.
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Archaeology in Mexico today. Mexico
City: Petroleos Mexicanos, [1943]. 61 p. |
* Stewart, Anna Bird. Builder of bridges / Anna Bird Stewart. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. 76 p.
* Stewart, Ora Pate. "Song of the wheels." Ideals (Milwaukee). 10(5): [59], October 1953.
Stone, John A. [Put]. Put's original California songster / John A. Stone. San Francisco, CA: D.E. Appleton, 1868, c1855.
Stone, John A. Put's golden west songster / John A. Stone. San Francisco, CA: D.E. Appleton, 1857 [1858].
Stone, Paul C. "Morality against text: the central tension in J. Frank Dobie's literary career." Southern American Literature. 19(2): 45-52, 1994.
See also J. Frank Dobie
* Storm, Barry. ”Adventure's call.” In Gold of the Superstitions: the amazing true story of America's most famous lost mines! / by Barry Storm. Phoenix, AZ: Southwest Press, 1940. 44 p. Iinside back cover. Issued as vol. 1, no.1.
Streeter, Thomas Winthrop (1883-1965). The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter: sold by order of the trustees / Thomas Winthrop Streeter. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1966-69. 7 vol.
* Strauss, Joseph B. “The Redwoods.” In Forest primeval. San Francisco, CA: Gray Line, nd. Small brochure which ncludes poem by Joseph B. Strauss “The Redwoods,” often printed on postcards.
Stricklin, Al (1908- ); McConal, Jon. My years with Bob Wills / Al Stricklin and Jon McConal. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Co., 1976. 153 p. Ill.
Stricklin and Bob Wills (1906-1975) played with the Texas Playboys.
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Archeological relics in Mexico. Mexico
City: Petroleos Mexicanos; V. Venero, [1943]. 42 p. |
* Sullivan, Mark; Rather, Dan. Our times: America at the birth of the twentieth century. Edited and with new material by Dan Rather, based on the landmark [1926] study by Mark Sullivan. New York: Scribner, 1996, c1926. 731 p.
"Cowboy ballads, tales of derring-do on the western prairies, became a vogue in the drawing rooms of eastern cities; a collection of them, which pleased the tuneful and also won the esteem of scholars, was made by a teacher at the University of Texas, John A. Lomax." p.703
* Sun and wind: a collection of verse from Texas Christian University, 1873-1936. Edited and published by T.C.U. Poetry Club. Fort Worth, TX: TCU Poetry Club, 1936. 96 p. "Everett Gillis, editor" --Preface
Swallow, Alan. XI poems / Alan Swallow. ?, 1943.
* Swallow, Alan. The nameless sight, poems 1937-1956 / Alan Swallow. Iowa City, IA: Prairie Press, 1956. 74 p.
See section: "The remembered land" p.9-24; poems include; "Stone," "Wyoming," "Road south: Wyoming to Louisiana," "Journey," "Landscape," "Southern landscape," "Return to the West," Ghost town: night," "The cliff ruin."
Swan, Howard. Music in the southwest (1825-1950) / Howard Swan. Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1952.
Swan, Howard. "The music of the Mormons, 1830-1865." Huntington Library Quarterly. 12(3): 223-252, May 1949.
* Swanson, Robert E. Bunkhouse ballads / Robert E. Swanson. Book 3. Illustrated by Bert Bushell. Toronto, ON: Thomas Allen, 1945. 58 p.
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"Bunk house in logging camp in northern Minnesota." Minneapolis,
MN; Chicago, IL: V.O. Hammon Pub., c1909. No.100 |
* Swanson, Robert E. Rhymes of a lumberjack: a second book of verse / Robert E. Swanson. Illustrated by Bert Buchell. Toronto, ON: Thomas Allen, 1943. 94 p. "Concerning the trials and tribulations, lives and ways of loggers living and working in the great northwest of America."
* Swanson, Robert E. Rhymes of a lumberjack: a second book of verse / Robert E. Swanson. 2nd ed. Illustrated by Bert Buchell. Toronto, ON: Thomas Allen, 1943. [59 p.]
* Swanson, Robert E. Rhymes of a western logger / Robert E. Swanson. [Toronto?], ON: Thomas Allen, 194-.
* Swanson, Robert E. Rhymes of a western logger: a book of verse / Robert E. Swanson. 7th ed. Vancouver, BC: The Lumberman Printing Co., 1942. [57 p.]
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Autobiografia, cuentos / by Alfonso Taracena. Mexico City: Ediciones Botas, 1933. |
* Swanson, Robert E. Rhymes of a western rambler / Robert E. Swanson. [Toronto?], ON: Thomas Allen, 194-.
* Swift, Eliza Morgan. Summer goodbye / Eliza Morgan Swift. New York: Harold Vinal, 1926. 43 p.
See: "The ranchman's story", p.9-15.
Sylvester, Frederick Oakes. The great river: poems and pictures / Frederick Oakes Sylvester. Chicago, IL: [Printed by the Publishers' Press], 1911.
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