Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Writings

EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES (1869-1934)

Annotated List of Writings

Rebecca S. Burton

Organization

Rhodes was a great recycler. He sometimes used the same title for completely different stories. Sometimes the same story appeared under different titles. Some stories were re-worked and re-published in different forms. Works were collected in different versions in different books. In order to reduce confusion, I assigned a unique number to each work. If there are multiple versions (e.g. differences in the magazine version and the book version), and I detected this, I assigned letters to differentiate them. Short works that were later incorporated into larger ones have unique numbers. Synopses are usually only listed once; follow the links to them.

Copyright

The copyright has expired on most works published in the US before January 1, 1930. When possible, I have linked to digitized versions of the works. Many of the magazines have an entire year in one file, but you can often search within the file. "Manlove" is usually a good search term, but occasional works will only use his initials, and he is not credited in some collaborations. I have digitized some materials that were published before 1930, but were in obscure publications and are not available elsewhere.

Books and Stand-alone Publications, Alphabetical

(Includes items collected elsewhere, reprints of magazine stories, collections of magazine stories, and poems)

The Best Novels and Short Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1949. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Edited by Frank V. Dearing.

Contains: Paso por Aqui [#1], Good Men and True [#2], Bransford of Rainbow Range [#3a], The Trusty Knaves [#4], Hit the Line Hard [#5], Consider the Lizard [#6], The Perfect Day [#7], Beyond the Desert [#8], Maid Most Dear [#9], Pe alosa [#10], Say Now Shibboleth [#11], Hired Man on Horseback [#12].

Beyond the Desert [#13]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. English edition by Wright & Brown, 1935 Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post June 9 1934. Completely different from the short story of the same title [#8]. Rhodes received $100 for this manuscript, the last payment received for his writing before his death.

1893, La Huerta and Cienfuegos: Bud Copeland of Olvidado (Sliding H Brand) is under siege from Jake Fowler, Anson Hunter, and Deputy Sheriff Bat Cremony, but is aided by Shane Easy McFarland (MC Brand), Sam Lithpin Tham Clark, George Gradual Walker, Dan Corby, and John and Bill Marbel (ONO Brand). Supporting characters: Eusebio and minor villains Lant Stewart, Strap Harrison, and Henry Hall. Rhodes returns to his theme of redemption as Lithpin Tham who featured as a minor villain in previous works finds himself part of a band of brothers. Rhodes himself had a significant speech impediment.

Bransford in Arcadia Or The Little Eohippus [#3b]. New York, H. Holt, 1914. This version is the same basic story as, but longer than, Bransford of Rainbow Range [#3a ]. Holt required Rhodes to end the story in New Mexico rather than New York, thus deleting the last third of the story that appeared in the serial. This version includes a prologue that originally appeared as An Executive Mind [#14]. The plates and unbound sheets for this book were acquired by the Fly Company, which may have published it as Rainbow Range. The story was filmed in 1914 by the clair Film Company. Review in the Christian Register March 26, 1914--Google Books

Contemporary, Arcadia: After a chance meeting with Ellinor Hoffman, Jeff Bransford goes to a costume party to court her. While there, he is framed for bank robbery and attempted murder, but won t defend himself because it would mean casting an undeserved shadow on Ellinor s reputation. A chase and cat-and-mouse game ensue. Johnny Dines and Billy White help the fugitive. Supporting characters: John Wesley Also Ran Pringle, Billy Beebe, and Leo Ballinger. Villain: Lake. Contains the poem The Little Eohippus [#145], who aspires to be a horse someday.

Rhodes had a friend named Jeff Bransford. This was one of the rare occasions when he did not alter a name before using it. The events in the prologue are based on the loss of his childhood homestead. Billy Beebe is introduced as a tenderfoot in A Touch of Nature [#133]. Leo Ballinger is recruited for the cowboy life by Jeff Bransford in A Neighbor [#114].

Bransford in Arcadia Or The Little Eohippus [#3c]. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. This version is the longest. The original ending from the serial that concludes in upstate New York was re-instated. The prologue that originally appeared as An Executive Mind [#14] was also included.

Bransford of Rainbow Range [#3a]. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914 and 1920.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. Included in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. This version is the shorter one ending in New Mexico. The prologue is included in the book.

The Brave Adventure [#15a]. Clarendon, Texas: Clarendon Press, 1971. Foreword by W. H. Hutchinson, who created this version long after Rhodes s death. Rhodes spent 7 years writing this story in several versions. The earliest published version appeared in The Red Book Magazine (later Redbook) in October 1917 [#15b]. Rhodes hoped to bring out a private printing just before his death, but was not able to.

1830 s to 1862, Tonti, IL and Shiloh Battlefield: David Kerr has to leave school at 15 to take on his life's work of supporting his family. He finds a bright spot in his niece Barbara, who dies as a toddler. His memory of her braces him up on the battlefield, fighting for the Union.

Rhodes and his wife lost a daughter named Barbara to childhood diabetes, which was always fatal at the time. His father was a Colonel during the Civil War in the "Ragged 28th". Their stories inspired this one.

Copper Streak Trail [#16]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922. New York, Grosset & Dunlap,1922. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press,1970 (ISBN 0-8061-0897-5). Das geheimnis der Kupfermine. M nchen: W. Heyne Verlag, 1980. Foreword by W. H. Hutchinson in 1970 edition. Originally published as Over, Under, Around, or Through in The Saturday Evening Post Apr 21, Apr 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, 1917.

Tucson, Silver Bell, and Cobre, AZ; and Vesper and Abingdon, NY: Pete Wallace Johnson and Stanley Mitchell must outsmart the villains to develop their copper discovery. Supporting characters: Robert E. Lee Carr, Jackson Carr, Cornelius Van Lear, Mary Selden, Francis Charles Frank Boland, Ferdie Sedgwick, Joe Benavides, C. Mayer Zurich, Bill Dorsey, Jim Scarboro, Something Dewing, Eric Anderson, George Marsh, Oscar Mitchell, Joe Pelman.

The Desire of the Moth and The Come On (#17 and #18). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. New York, Hodder and Stoughton published this book in England in 1922. The Desire of the Moth was published as a stand-alone by H. Holt in 1916 and then Fly. The Desire of the Moth is included in pages 299-351 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. This is entirely different from the short story of the same name [#94]. M.D. Rhodes believed this story may have been printed in Braille. Falsche Freunde: ein klassischer M nchen: W. Heyne Verlag, 1979 is probably The Come On, [#18]

Moth: 1902, Las Uvas, Dona Ana County: John Wesley Pringle meets Stella Vorhis, who he has not seen since she was a child and Pringle worked for her father. Stella s intended is Kit Foy, the enemy of Sheriff Matthew Lisner, Jose Espalin and Dick Marr. Pringle risks his reputation to save Foy and is aided by political boss Anastacio Barela and Police Chief Nueces River. Reflects political situation in Las Cruces.

Come on: Contemporary, El Paso, TX and New York City: Steve Wildcat Thompson goes to gamble his cattle sale proceeds, wins big, and heads for New York, where con men Mitchell, Loring, and company try to put one over on him. Anson Walworth Wyatt lends a hand.

Good Men and True [#2]. New York, H. Holt, 1910, 1914. Included in pages 45-104 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

1900 s, El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico: Jeff Bransford is kidnapped while attempting to foil an assassination. John Wesley Pringle, William Beebe, and Leo Ballinger form the rescue party. Villains: S. S. Thorpe, Sandy McGregor (the latter is redeemed in the short story Beyond the Desert [#8], which also makes up the prologue of West is West [#73]).

The late Ron Scheer's Buddies in the Saddle contains a review of the book and a link to the list of books that the Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company (later called Bull Durham) offered in exchange for coupons. These books figure in several Rhodes stories. The list apparently grew to over 300 titles.

Good Men and True and Hit the Line Hard [#2 and #5]. London: Hodder and Stoughton, New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1920, 1923. Hit the Line Hard is included in pages 355 to 398 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

Hit the Line: Contemporary, Saragossa, N.M.: Roger Ducky Drake comes west to find the fortune he inherited at the death of his uncle, but Octaviano Baca, Martin Bennett, Owen Quinliven, Beck, and Scanlon conspire against him. Neighbor Jones lends a hand. The title is from a football saying by Teddy Roosevelt, Don t flinch; don t foul; hit the line hard (at that time football was more like rugby).

The Line of Least Resistance [#21]. Chico, CA: Hurst and Yount 1958. Contains comments by W. H. Hutchinson. 500 copies printed. Original story serialized in 1910 in the Saturday Evening Post, Aug 13, Aug 20, Aug 27, Sep 3. This is entirely different from a story of the same name published in 1902 [#134] except in the theme of a former bad man redeemed by courage and self sacrifice.

1882, Dundee, NM: Don Kennedy and Hiram Yoast meet Lena Mallory, Professor Lathrop Ormsby Otis, and his daughter Dolly. Don faces down bully Adam Sleiter and is framed for felonies, but when Apaches strike, outcasts become heroes. Characters include Guardy and Aunt Polly Breese, Kim Ky Rogers of the KIM, Uncle Jimmy Collins and Jimmy, Jr., Pappy Sickles, Pres Lewis, Sheriff Louie Kaylor and Smith-Leonard, Horsethief Fisher, Springtime Morgan, Teagardner, Jim Gale, Pat Qunilan.

The Little World Waddies [#22]. El Paso, Tex., Texas Western Press, 1946. Only 1000 copies of this book were published. Includes all of Rhodes s short stories that appeared in Cosmopolitan and one from The Red Book Magazine. All of the poems were later collected in Recognition. Tie Fast Men [#24] appeared as The Bad Man and the Darling of the Gods. Rhodes allegedly found this title nauseating. Contains a bibliography of Rhodes's writings.

Contents: Tie Fast Men [#24], Aforesaid Bates [#25], Trail s End [#26], Shoot the Moon [#27], The Bird in the Bush [#23], and poems: The Hired Man on Horseback [#12], Charlie Graham [#28], A Blossom of Barren Lands [#29], A Ballade of Gray Hills [#30], Te Deum Laudamus [#31], As Is the Needle to the Pole [#32], A Ballade of Wild Bees [#33], With an Evening Primrose [#34], White Fingers [#35], Little Next Door [#36], Lyn Dyer s Dream [#37], A Song of Harvest [#38], Recognition [#39], Pegasus at the Plow [#40], The Immortals [#41], Engle Ferry [#42], My Banker [#43], The Little People [#44], Night Message [#45], Important Einstein s Universe [#46], Relativity for Ladies [#47], Personal Liberty [#48], Advice [#49], Nineteen Thirty-one [#50], The Ballad of East and West [#51], Fire Song [#52], The Prairie Farmer [#53], The Last L Envoi [#54], Epitaph [#55]

Once in the Saddle and Paso por Aqui [#56 and #1]. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1925, 1926, 1927. The cover lists only Once in the Saddle, but the flyleaf lists both, so this volume may be listed under either the long or the short title. Once in the Saddle [#56] appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Apr 18, Apr 25 1925.

Once in the Saddle: [#56] Circa 1910 s, Salamanca: Pliny Mullins sets out to challenge the local mine boss Malloch, and visit Pinky Ford (nephew of his old fried Jimmy Rainy Day). A tragedy gives Cal Pelly an idea for the perfect crime. Supporting characters: Tommy Garrett, Lafe Yancy, Andy ( George ) the waiter, Jake Henry, Bud Faulkner, Grice, Lithpin Tham, Blanding, Fowler, Blake, Slim, Taylor, Aleck Berdine, Eddy Early.

Paso por Aqui [#1]. Alamogordo, N. M.: Friends of the Alamogordo Public Library/Alamogordo Printing Co., 1963 (limited edition of 5,000 numbered copies, includes forward and illustrations). Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. First serialized in The Saturday Evening Post February 20-27, 1926.Included in pages 1-44 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Later filmed (with many changes) as Four Faces West (A.K.A. They Passed by Here ). Flucht Nach Nevada is the title of the German book and the German title of Four Faces West.

Circa 1900 s. Alamogordo and Belen. Ross McEwen commits a daylight robbery and goes on the run, but fate intervenes at Rancho Perdido (TT Brand) where he must save Florencio, Estafania, Felix, and Demetrio Telles. Supporting characters: Nurse Jay Hollister, Ben Griggs, Rosalio Monte Marquez, Sheriff Jim Hunter, Sheriff Pat Garret, Numa Frenger, Page Otero. Rhodes and his father nursed the residents of the reservation during a diphtheria outbreak when no medical help was available. This may have provided some of the basis for the story. Hutchinson describes how Mush Neal roped a steer from a nearly exhausted horse and rode it into camp, providing another plot point.

Pe alosa [#10]. Santa Fe, N.M., Writers' Editions. 1934. Appears in pages 88-110 in West is West as Barnaby Bright. Included in pages 515 to 528 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

1600 s: History/biography of Don Diego Dionisio de Penalosa Briceno y Berdugo, a Spaniard from Spanish Peru who became Governor of New Mexico in 1660, clashed with church officials, fled to Mexico City, and was tried by the inquisition. He later fled to Europe and tried to interest England and France in military expeditions against Spain in the New World.

The Proud Sheriff [#57]. Houghton Mifflin, 1935, Wright & Brown, 1935, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937, New York: Editions for the Armed Services, 194-?, New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1953 with foreward by H. H. Knibbs. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Der stolze Sheriff: ein klassischer Western-Roman. Munchen: W. Heyne Verlag, c1978. Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post October 1-15, 1932.

Circa 1900, Hillsboro: Young Otey Beach is accused of killing the town s beloved outcast, Sam Travis. Sheriff Mike Spinal Maginnis has a murder to solve. Dad Wilson, Abe Forney, John Scott, Spencer Allen, Tip Chandler, Doc McArthur, Andy Hinckle, Doc Scanderbeg, Deputy Buck Hamilton, Gus and Laura Krumm, Bud and Bill.

Recognition: the poems of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Alamogordo, N.M. 1997, Friends of the Alamogordo Public Library. Illustrated by Martha Julian. Foreword by June Harwell and Sallie Hammond, Biographical Sketch by Frank M. Clark.

Contains all of the Poems in Little World Waddies [#22] and more: Recognition [#39], The hired man on horseback [#12], Fire Song [#52], Te Deum Laudamus [#31], A Ballade of Gray Hills [#30], A Blossom of Barren Lands [#29], As Is the Needle to the Pole [#32], My Banker [#43], A Ballade of Wild Bees [#33], Little Next Door [#36], Lyn Dyer s Dream [#37], Night Message [#45], The Immortals [#41], With an Evening Primrose [#34], Pegasus at the Plow [#40], Important Einstein s Universe [#46], Relativity for Ladies [#47], White Fingers [#35], The Little People [#44], A Song of Harvest [#38], Engle Ferry [#42], Charlie Graham [#28], Personal Liberty [#48], Advice [#49], Nineteen Thirty-one [#50], The Prairie Farmer [#53], The Last L Envoi [#54], At the Last Minute [#58], The Little Eohippus [#145], The Ballad of East and West [#51], Epitaph [#55].

The Rhodes reader: stories of virgins, villains, and varmints Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957, 1966, 1975. Includes: Loved I Not Honor More [#60] (Out West, Feb, 1903), Sticky Pierce, Diplomat [#61] (Out West, October, 1906), The Numismatist [#62] (Saturday Evening Post, March, 1907), The Long Shift [#19] (McClure s, Aug, 1907 and West is West), The Enchanted Valley (Redbook, March 1909) [#63], The Trouble Man [#64] (Saturday Evening Post, November 20, 1909), A Number of Things [#65] (Saturday Evening Post, April, 1911), The Barred Door [#66] (Saturday Evening Post, May, 1911), The Fool s Heart [#67] (Saturday Evening Post, May, 1915), Cheerful Land [#68] (in West is West), The Bird in the Bush [#23] (Redbook, April, 1917), No Mean City [#69] (Saturday Evening Post, May, 1919), The West that Was [#70] (Photodramatist, Sept. 1922), Aforesaid Bates [#25] (Cosmopolitan, Aug. 1928), In Defense of Pat Garrett [#71] (Sunset, July 1927).

Romances of Navajo Land New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1920. Includes: The Desire of the Moth [#17], The Come on [#18], Good Men and True [#2], Bransford of Rainbow Range [3a], West is West [*Do not know which portions].

Say Now Shibboleth [#11] (essay collection) Chicago, Bookfellows, 1921. King Charles s Head [#20] and The Gentle Plagiarist --which is identical to When the Bills Come In [#83]--are also included in this publication. There may have been only 400 copies printed.

Say Now Shibboleth [#11a] (essay) is included in pages 532 to 546 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Rhodes takes aim at elitists and gives advice about writing and about giving advice on writing.

King Charles s Head [#20] (essay) is included in pages 62-72 of Stepsons of Light [#72] and in pages 37-44 of Say Now, Shibboleth [#11]. Rhodes sets forth the case for romanticism against realism. He takes H.L. Mencken to task for jeering at people like those of Garfield Settlement and glorifying the idle rich of Europe and the East. Contains the quote: "It was once commonly understood that it is not good for a man to whine."

Stepsons of Light [#72]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1921, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. Foreword by William H. Hutchinson.

1880 s, Bar Cross Range and Hillsboro area: Johnny Dines is framed for murder. Charlie See and Hobbie Lull come to the rescue. Supporting characters: Adam Forbes, George Gwinne, Lyn Dyer, Edith Harkey, Pete Harkey, Andy Hinckle, Aloys Preisser, Spinal Maginnis, Neighbor Jones, Hiram Yoast, Cole Ralston, Henry Enriquez, Kitty Seiber, Bob Gifford. Villians: Jody Weir, Deputy Big Ed Caney, Deputy Toad Hales. Includes the poem I Loved You in my Dream [#37] ("How for one hour of dream I loved you only") and the essay that became King Charles s Head [#20]. A ranch in this story is a description of Rhodes s own.

In a letter to "Retta," Rhodes encloses a copy of an article that says Johnny Dines was the son of Mrs. Jacob Dines. It names three cowboys killed by Apaches in 1886. Rhodes's note at the end says that two of those cowboys--Harve Moorland and Frank Adams--had worked with Rhodes the last seven days before they were killed. The day before the ambush, they rode in opposite directions. He also notes that he (Rhodes) had worked for Cole Ralston at the Bar Cross, and later for the HAM (Hardcastle and Mitford).

Sunset Land: the best novels of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. New York, N.Y.: Dell Pub. Co., 1949, 1955, 1959 (?) Edited by Frank V. Dearing. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. Includes: Good Men and True [#2], Bransford of Rainbow Range [#3a], The Trusty Knaves [#4].

The Trusty Knaves [#4]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935, New York: Editions for the Armed Services, [194-?], New York: Hillman Periodicals, 1950, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, Apr 18, Apr 25, May 2 1931. Included in pages 213-298 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

Late 1890 s, Target, N.M.: Johnny Pardee, Elmer Slim Farr and outlaw Bill Doolin (aka Bill Hawkins) help the George Carmody family and foreman Charlie Bird fight injustice. Villain: Ernie Patterson.

West is West [#73]. New York: H.K. Fly, 1917, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. The two editions have different pagination (Fly = 304, G&D = 386) and some different errors due to re-setting the type. Parts also included in Romances of Navajo Land. Cheerful Land is included in pages 157-171 of The Rhodes Reader. Rhodes considered this a collection of short stories, many of which appeared elsewhere, therefore, story descriptions are listed separately.

The Prologue (I-VI, pages 3-42 of the Fly edition) is the story Beyond the Desert [#8], which first appeared in McClure's, February, 1914, but has an additional 3,500 words. This story is entirely different from novel of the same name [#13]. The story was reprinted without Chapter 1, Keeper of the Gate, in Out West (Boston, 1955) as The Hand of the Potter which appeared in The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.) July 15, 1923, p.4.

San Quentin area near the Datils and Pictured Rock. Sandy MacGregor (aka Maxwell) takes a job with Clay Mundy of the CLA Ranch. Bennie Morgan of the Wyandotte Ranch is in love with Clay Mundy, but her father, Steelfoot Morgan, is Mundy s sworn enemy. Horse: Neighbor. Villains: Tait, Joe Hanson, Hamerick.

Once Upon a Time is made up of 6 chapters (described below), which have appeared in different formats.
The Long Shift [#19b] (I, pages 43-56 in the Fly edition) first appeared as The Long Shift. [#19] in McClure's, August 1907 (v. 29, no. 4) with a slightly different ending. It is included in pages 38-48 of The Rhodes Reader with the same ending as the magazine story. It is also included in Western Roundup by Bantam. Wikisource Version.
Five years after the prologue: There s a cave-in at the Golden Fleece Mine and the men must drill through the rock to save their friends. Manager Ivers, Evans, Jones, Lone Miller, Caradoc Hughs, Charlie, Clovis, Davis, White, and Williams.

Cheerful Land [#68] (II, pages 57-73 in the Fly edition) Malibu Flat (III, pages 74-87 in the Fly edition) [#135]. Cheerful Land [#68] and the first part of Malibu Flat [#135] are combined in pages 157-171 of The Rhodes Reader as Cheerful Land [#68b]. Pages 71-73 of Cheerful land [#68b] in the Fly Edition are published as The Chuck Wagon [#68c] in The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West, although the wagon in question was not a chuck wagon.

Emil James and his horse Tippytoes ride into San Clemente to meet tenderfoot John Sayles Watterson, Jr., late of Princeton, and offer him a ride to the N8 ranch, owned by John s uncle Nate. Several characters are present, including: Pat Nunn; Monte; Billy Armstrong; Pretty Pierre Hines; Owen Quinliven of the Double D; Steve Wildcat Thompson of the Hook and Ladder and his bronco Redlegs; Cox of the newspaper; Baker, manager of three stage lines; Max Goldenburg, owner of the New York Store; Innkeeper Oleander; Ed Dowlin, free lance; Walter Keough, owner of the telephone exchange; and Old Man Gibson of the Berenda.

Malibu Flat [#135] (III, pages 74-87 in the Fly edition) occurs immediately after Cheerful Land [#68].

Emil James and John Sayles travel to Fuentes with horses Pinto and Paint in an ingenious spring wagon (described in Cheerful Land). They discuss the rumors about the killings of five years before. The word is that Steelfoot Morgan and his man Jim Webb murdered Mundy and his hired gun MacGregor. Emil is not quite convinced. Emil shows John Sayles the amazing Church of Barnaby Bright.

Barnaby Bright (IV, pages 88-110 in the Fly edition) was also published as a book-length essay under the title Pe alosa [#10]. Santa Fe, N.M., Writers' Editions. 1934. Included in pages 515 to 528 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

Fuentes [#136] (V, pages 111-121 in the Fly edition) continues the story of Emil and John Sayles as they stop in the town of Fuentes and visit with Don Timoteo Fuentes, Helen Fuentes, Billy Murray, Tim Fuentes and Charlie Stewart of the Fuentes clan. Lone Miller rides in from the Malibu. Billy is courting Katie Quinn, to the patriarch s displeasure and he hopes that he and Miller can join up with miner Tom Quinn. Lone Miller and Emil are both interested in Bennie May Morgan, but she is not yet over the events of five years past. The descriptive passages were used in The Line of Least Resistance [#134], which appeared in Out West in August of 1907.

Pursuit of Hapiness [#137] (VI, pages 122-132 in the Fly edition) describes how Lone Miller and John Sayles continue to the N8 Ranch. Emil trades a third of the homestead he has claimed in Barnaby Bright for a third interest in the Miller & Murray coal mining venture. Emil rides over to the Morgan Ranch to court Bennie May. Emil worries about Steelfoot Morgan and his man Jim Webb boring a new well that will bring Wyandotte cattle to the Fuentes range. Webb has also been courting Bennie May.

The Spring Drive

Return of the Native, The Shipping Pens, and Above All Wisdom and Subtlety (VII-IX, pages 109-125* in the G & D edition; Pages 133-155 in the Fly edition) first appeared as A Reversion to Type [#123] Sunset Magazine June 1913.

1910 s, near Magdalena, NM. Nate Logan (N8 Brand) discusses the West with easterner John Sayles Watterson, Jr. and explains why the local men do not respect him. But when danger strikes he shows his mettle. Supporting characters: The V Cross T boys, Johnny Dines, Street, Horsethief Fisher, Cole Ralston, Dallas McComas (spelled as McCombs), the Inspector, Spike Gibson, Gip, Wallace, Bill Saunders, Tom-Dick-Bob Riley, Al Clemmens, Milt Craig, Slim, Slick, Kinks Logan, and Katy the cow pony.
The Cutting Ground, The Night Guard and Bell-the-Cat (X-XII, pages 156-181 in the Fly Edition 126-144 in the D & G edition) first appeared as Bell the Cat [#105] in Pacific Monthly, May, 1909 page 466-477 (p. 892 of e-version).

The Inspector asks Steve Wildcat Thompson about a motherless calf and Wildcat expresses his opinion on local government, taxes, and livestock laws. Wildcat then puts his thoughts into practice when he tangles with the all of the County officials (except the coroner), including Johnny-the-Slick and Sheriff Santiago Padilla.

The Fool s Heart [#80] (XIII-XVII, pages 182-212 in the Fly Edition). Originally appeared in All Story Magazine, September 1909. Completely different from the murder story of the same name that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post [#67].

Old Man Gibson brags to Keough about his wad of money and Keough sees a way out of debt. Meanwhile, Tait breaks into Van Atta s remote house, Saint s Rest. Will either of them get away with murder? Supporting cast: George the cook, Clara Clayton, Johnny Cox. Hutchinson states that the story was based on an actual incident in NM in which two men hanged for each other's crimes, but I have not been able to substantiate this.

Crooknose [#119b]

Pass of the North, The Dream Shop, Chips that Pass in the Night and Crooknose Represents (XVIII- XXI, pages 213-241 pages in the Fly Edition and pages 169-190 in the Grosset & Dunlap edition). This story appeared as Sealed Orders [#119] (with minor changes, such as an additional first sentence and some different wording) in The Saturday Evening Post May 10, 1913 (pages 11-13, 34-35). Completely different from earlier story entitled Sealed Orders in Out West [#101].

Crooknose (later known as Lute Evans) meets Officer Mart Gannon on the wild side of El Paso. The professional gambler and crooked cop clash when William Parker complains that he was robbed at a local gambling hall. Katie Quinn is victimized, first by a silly rich woman who costs her her job, then by a madam who lures her into a brothel under the pretense of giving her a respectable place to stay. Crooknose Evans sees her in distress and jumps in to save her. Gannon wades in to help. Villains: Alice Holden, Mrs. Julius Baron, Travesey, Ikey, Curly, Blink, Ratty. (Female villains were a rarity in Rhodes's works.)

Dick (XXII-XXVII, pages 242-345 in the Fly Edition) [#139]. The love story in this section makes up The Desire of the Moth [#94] (not to be confused with another story of the same name [#17]).

Mine owners Herman Mendenhall and Clem Gray, and mine superintendent Alfred Spence plot to freeze out the Torpedo-Sunset shareholders, including J.C. Armstrong. Dick Rainboldt and his horse, Wiseman, travel to San Clemente and meet Emil James. Rainbolt takes a job breaking broncs to earn his keep. He meets Miss Judy Elliott (Armstrong s niece), who is being courted by Pierre Hines, Ed Dowlin, and Billy Armstrong. Parker writes to Spencer that Boss Traversy is offering for Crooknose, who has been spirited away by Wildcat and some of the Fuentes people. Miners Blacky Corwen, Pendravis, Price, Owens, Murtha and Sam Wigfall try to deal with Armstrong, but he won t have it. Strikebreakers, including their leader, Clay Connor, try to stir up trouble. Rainboldt comes to the rescue.

Over on the Malibu

The Enchanted Valley [#63] & Wizard of Finance [#131] (XXXVII-XXXVIII, pages 346-363 in the Fly Edition) . This story first appeared in The Red Book Magazine, March 1909 and as Wizard of Finance in Zane Gray s Magazine, March-April,1947, pages 144-153 and as The Enchanted Valley in pages 49-61 of The Rhodes Reader.

L. Orrin Sewell and Emil James take the Hueco stage to Son Todos. Emil describes life in the valley and how the lack of currency casts a shadow on what is otherwise a happy community. He sets out to rectify the situation.

If Antony Be Well Remembered Yet (XXXIX, pages 364-372 in the Fly Edition) [#140]

Emil James visits Tom Whitly to tell him about plans for building a railroad. Dick Rainboldt, Pat Breen, Nate Logan, J. C. Armstrong, Wildcat Thompson, Lone Miller, and Billy Murray, are also part of the plan to develop the CCC Railroad. They discuss the killings of MacGregor and Mundy.

The Arbitrator (XL, pages 373-380 in the Fly Edition) [#141]

Emil James visits the N8 home ranch. Spike Gibson fills him in on friction between the Morgan and Fuentes clans. Lute Evans, a.k.a. Crooknose has strong-armed both clans into peace and gone to stay with the Morgans.

The Witch Hills (XLI, pages 381-386 in the Fly Edition) [#142]

Emil James is building a house on his claim and hears the call to duty.

Possible collaboration with Henry Wallace Phillips:

According to W. H. Hutchinson, these works were the result of collaboration, but with Rhodes serving an uncredited apprenticeship. Rhodes discusses their collaborations in a letter.

The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch [#74] 1908. Henry Wallace Phillips, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Contemporary, Plattesville. Jim Felton is a lonely miner, but when he goes into town he winds up adopting an abused boy also named Jim, and rechristened Ches. Ches, mail carrier Bud, horse Buck, and Captain Hanrahan s miners come to the rescue after a mishap.

Mr. Scraggs: Introduced by Red Saunders 1906. Phillips, Henry Wallace, Grafton Press.

Red Saunder's Pets, and Other Critters 1906. Phillips, Henry Wallace. New York: Doubleday.

Trolley Folly [#59] 1909. Henry Wallace Phillips, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Short story collection.

Foreword by Rhodes:

Cunningham, Eugene, 1896-1957. Triggernometry: a gallery of gunfighters: with technical notes on leather slapping as a fine art, gathered from many a loose holstered expert over the years. New York, The Press of the Pioneers, 1934. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1956, 1975.

Inclusion in Anthologies of Multiple Authors

Paso por Aqui [#1a] in The Literature of the American West,1971 Edited by J. Golden Taylor. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. Pp. 148-183. Also in The Western Hall of Fame, 1984. Edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg, William Morrow and Co. Pp. 323-376.

The Trouble Man [#64] in Great Short Stories of the American West, Vol 2. (aka Great Western Short Stories) 1971. Edited by J. Golden Taylor. Ballantine, New York. Pp. 28-48.

Aforesaid Bates [#25] and The Trouble Man [#64] in The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told: Enduring tales of the Western Frontier [wrong cover at link], 2005 edited by Stephen Vincent Brennan. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT, Pp. 223-250 and 9-24.

Say Now Shibboleth [#11] p. 236 in Present Day Essays (Google Books), 1923. Edited by Edwin Van B. Knickerbocker. Holt, New York.

Consider the Lizard [#6] in Saturday Evening Post Treasury, 1954, Edited by Roger Butterfield Simon and Schuster.

A Ragtime Lady [with Laurence Yates] [#120] in Today s Short Stories Analyzed by Robert Wilson, Oxford University Press, 1918.

The Star of Empire [#116] in Best Short Stories from the Southwest. Dallas: Southwest Press, 1928. Greer, Hilton Ross, b. 1878.

The Numismatist [#62] (pages 32-60) and The Punishment and the Crime [#111] (pages 135-164) in Trolley Folly [#59], a collection of stories authored by Rhodes and Henry Wallace Phillips (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1909 and reprinted, New York Book Co., 1913). Rhodes is not credited in the book. In a letter to Charles N. Gould (available on microfilm at the UNM library), Rhodes explains that Phillips was teaching Rhodes the craft, and intended to credit him, but was gravely ill when the book was published. The publisher and widow gave him permission to use the two stories, which he did. Other stories (particularly Reverse of a Medal and Ten Minutes of Eternity ) also appear to bear his influence. Both of these stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.

Bransford Meets Aughinbaugh [#2b] Chapter I of Good Men and True [#2] in Classic Cowboy Stories: 18 Extraordinary Tales of the Old West, 2004, Edited by Michael McCoy, MJF Books, New York. Pp 229-237.

Cheerful Land [#68b] Pages 71-73 of the Fly Edition of West is West as The Chuck Wagon [#68c] in The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West, 1991, Edited by Tony Hillerman, Harper Collins, New York. Pp 183-184. [Note that the wagon in question is not, in fact, a chuck wagon, but a spring wagon designed for personal use.]

The Hand of the Potter in: Out West: an anthology of stories, 1955, Edited by Jack Schaefer, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston. Pp **. Opening of West is West [#8] without Chapter 1, Keeper of the Gate. Also appeared in the Sunday Star (Washington DC), July 23, 1923.

A Touch of Nature [#88]. in Red Saunder's Pets, and Other Critters. Henry Wallace Phillips. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1910, c1906.

Beyond the Desert in Great Tales of the American West. Harry E. Maule. New York: Modern Library 1945.

Magazine Appearances

Magazine titles are in alphabetical order. Works are listed in chronological order under the name of the magazine at the time of publication.

Adventure Magazine

The Hired Man on Horseback (poem) [#12] Adventure Magazine, February 1, 1928, pp. 72-74. Collected in Recognition and Little World Waddies. Included in pages 549-551 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Appears in pages ix-xii in The Hired Man on Horesback by May Davison Rhodes. Reprinted in The Turquoise Trail by Alice Corbin Hederson in 1928, Houghton-Mifflin Co.: Boston.

One of his best-known poems, this was a response to cowboys being referred to as nothing more than "hired men on horseback."

Two quotes:

Doggerel upon his lips and valor in his heart,
Not to flinch and not to fail and not to shirk his part;

"He'll do to ride the river with!" (Bridging the years between, Men shall use these words again--and wonder what they mean.)

The Immortals (poem) [#41] Adventure Magazine, June 1, 1929. Collected in Recognition and Little World Waddies.

Rhodes asks who in history you would be and answers that he would be the nameless soldier who broke his spear to make a cross for Joan of Arc when she was at the stake.

All Story Magazine (Became Argosy All-Story)

On Velvet (short story) [#76] All Story Magazine September, 1906. A telling of this story is included in Gene Rhodes, Cowboy by B.F. Day.

Circa 1890, Albuquerque, New Mexico and the 7TX near Dundee: College student returns home to New Mexico in city clothes and locals put him on a mustang as a joke that backfires. This was based on a stunt that Rhodes pulled. Springtime Morgan (narrator) and Tip Chandler are drowning their sorrows after a poor show in a rodeo when they meet a duded-up individual who they think is named Dolly Varden. The stranger asks many ignorant questions. Knowing that they boys at the ranch will guy them over their losses, they bring the young man back as a distraction John Graham (A.K.A. Pat) Supporting characters: Clay McGonnigle, rodeo winner; Creed, the Cook; Bob Martin, foreman; George Foster; Velvet, desperado horse; Sleepy the gentle horse. (Cover Art)

An Interlude (short story) [#77] All Story Magazine October, 1906

1899, Monterey and Carmel, CA; various ranches and hay farms; and 1914 in New York City: "Based on Rhodes experiences during summer vacation from University of the Pacific, 1899, this contains much Californiana of the Monterey/Carmel area. Marks the first usage by Rhodes of a young Easterner as an expository audience for Rhodes West and is the first indication in print of Rhodes resentment over the Easterner feeling that all Westerners were tawny barbarians."--A Bar Cross Liar

Foamy White (standing in for Rhodes) narrates this tale of meeting Gilbert Winthrop Otis Bradford (AKA Miles Standish), a man of a prominent New York family who has been on a world tour to avoid marrying Miss Livingston-Scudder, who his mother favors. Like David Copperfield's Barkis, the young woman is willing. However, the absence of obstacles has robbed the situation of romance for the poetic young man. Instead, he falls for Emily Brown, who is in love with Ross Sargent. "Miles" makes his romantic suffering the basis for much overwrought fiction. After a desperate act, "Miles" agrees to spend the summer as a working man with Foamy and gets a new outlook on life.

Neighbors (short story) [#78] All Story Magazine February, 1907

"The central character in this story is Pat Coghlan, one-time King of Tularosa and fence for Billy the Kid s stolen cattle. It seems that this makes a fair picture of Pat s disintegration after his downfall."--A Bar Cross Liar

Despite the similar name, this story bears no relation to A Neighbor [#114]

Temporal, New Mexico. Time of the building of the railroad from El Paso to the Texas Panhandle. While all working-age men are gone to make money building the railroad, women have taken over the farm work. The only adult males left are Grandpa Harrison and Prescott, the town drunk and former "King of Temporal." All is well until Mary Tyree comes back from Alamogordo with a plan for the town to build a clubhouse. Miss Thurber suggest using funds raised by a now-defunct group to build a church. Churchwoman Ida Kettle strongly objects and the town chooses sides in a major verbal battle. When a family is in trouble, unlikely allies band together to care for strangers. Supporting characters: Blanche Ford, Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Greenleaf, Slick Miller, Wesley Post, Mrs. Sanders, traveling family. Horses: Bally, Prince, [offensive name].

This story is a meditation about the true meaning and practice of Christianity. It includes this quote:
"Perhaps, too, the Great Accountant, whose values are not ours, prized more this humble offering from a miserable and broken wretch, than vast cathedrals builded by mighty kings, or princely foundations laid in the sweat of the poor."

Wildcat Represents (short story) [#79] All Story Magazine, March, 1907. This story was apparently reprinted in The Golden West Magazine July 1927. This second appearance includes a misspelling ( rung for wrung ), but is otherwise the same as the original. Transcription.

1890 s, Los Ranchos de Marfil and Las Uvas: Johnny Lyons of the Tumble T is found shot in the back and graft resistor Dan Hurley faces a lynching. Foamy White, Wildcat Thompson, and Pablo Wiggins the snake charmer take on the mob. Supporting cast: Clark Hurst, Elsie Brandon, Sheriff Jose Benavides, Ross, Calhoun, Bojarquez, Pink Murray, Lon Roberts, Bert Mossman, Cole, Dallas, Frank Hill, Hiram Yoast, Summerford, Martin, Foster, Jailer Silvester, Judge Brown, and Bert Spring. Villians: Deputy Searchlight Wilson, Levi, Slick Johnnie, the Tall Sycamore, the California Column, and D.A. Benard. The first person narrative was fairly rare in Rhodes stories.

The Fool s Heart (short story) [#80] All Story Magazine, September 1909. Included in West is West [#73]. Entirely different than the other murder story of the same name [#67]. (Cover art)

The Argosy (AKA Munsey s Argosy)

[The Professor s Experiment (short story) [~~#84~~] The Argosy December, 1901]

This has been erroneously credited to Gene Rhodes. It is actually by Elizabeth Meserole Rhodes. W. H. Hutchinson lists this story in A Bar Cross Liar (p.3), but states that he has never seen it.The confusion goes both ways. One source lists the author of this story, The White Flyer [#85], Check! [#113], Without an Introduction (Short Stories v 38 #3, June 1900), and other stories as Elizabeth Meserole Rhodes. The White Flyer and Check! are clearly Gene Rhodes' work. Both appeared under his initials only. The link above lists Elizabeth Meserole Rhodes as the author of the story in question.

A description on a site where it was offered for sale:
"The Professor's Experiment", by Elizabeth Meserole Rhodes, "An exhibition of mindreading of an extraordinary character, suggested by the superior intelligence of a particular audience."

I included this story here only to clear up confusion.

The White Flyer (short story) [#85] The Argosy December, 1902. v. 41 pp 129-131

Contemporary. Vanderwent is the son of a railroad president. On his first trip west, he has his private car, the White Flyer diverted to Leadville so that he can see the local color. Simmons of Bronco City meets him and the two share drinks in the saloon. Simmons tells him of a robbery and shooting and enlists Vanderwent s help in catching the thief while preventing a lynching.

Bunker's Monthly (later Texas Weekly)

Portrait of a Prohibitionist: The picture which Eastern sophisticates conjure up is fearfully and wonderfully made indeed (Essay) [#138] Bunker's Monthly June, 1928. pp. 901-904.

Contains this quote:
"My own objection to Governor Smith's nomination has never been voiced. It is because every Republican leader and every Republican paper unite in selecting Governor Smith as the Democratic candidate. The Republican Party dares not say that it is Wet or Dry; but it would be delighted if the Democrats would be so obliging as to label themselves the Whiskey Party."

Cosmopolitan

The Bad Man and the Darling of the Gods (short story) [#24] Cosmopolitan July, 1927 pp. 66-71, 172-184. Rhodes despised this title, selected by the magazine, He entitled it The Tie-fast Men in Little World Waddies (pp. 1-53).

The Little World: Eastern snobs Delos Thornton and Richard Thornton Niles are renting the home of Aforesaid Bates while Sam Girdlestone prospects for oil on their behalf. Aforesaid tries to teach Niles something of the ways of the sunburned men. Deputy Joe Gandy and Bartender Jake try to stir up trouble between Johnny Hopper and Charlie See. Drifter Jeb Rider intends to lead an honest life, but when eastern snobs Delos Thornton and Richard Thornton Niles abuse him, he decides to give them a scare. When Olivia Thornton enters the picture, he has to make an honorable choice. Supporting cast: Bud Faulkner, George Thompson, Jose Marie Apodaca, Bert Kendricks, and Felipe Lucero.

Rhodes had a special affection for tie-fast, neck-or-nothing men. When a tie-fast man catches something, he ties his rope to his saddle horn, committing himself to finish the job. Dally men use the horn as a snubbing post, so they can release an animal if things get bad. Dally men are more likely to lose thumbs, but are not totally committed to a dangerous situation.

Aforesaid Bates (short story) [#25] Cosmopolitan Aug 1928, pp. pp. 34-37. pp. 151-156. Pp. 55-96 in Little World Waddies. Included in pages 273-304 of The Rhodes Reader. Reprinted in The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told: Enduring tales of the Western Frontier by Stephen Vincent Brennan, 2005. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT, 339 pp.

One year after The Tie-Fast Men, The Little World: Drought hits and the Little World Waddies band together to save their cattle and ranches. Andrew Jackson Aforesaid Bates (of Halfway House), Dick Mason, Bull Pepper, Jonny Hopper, Red Murray, Bud Faulkner, Charlie See, Cole Ralston, Yancy, Eddie Early, Hobby Lull, Spinal Maginnis, Bud Faulkner, Headlight, Sam Girdlestone, Zenobio, John Copeland, John Jastrow, Bill McCall. Villians: Big Jake, Lithpin Tham (redeemed in the book Beyond the Desert [#13]), Blinker Murphy, Deputy Joe Gandy, and Lawyer Pickett Boone.

Trail s End (short story) [#26] Cosmopolitan Feb 1929 pp.30-33, pp. 124-128. Pp 97-124 in Little World Waddies.

Robbers hit the San Lucas Bank when Eddie Early and Ambrosio Lucero are in town. Sheriff Bill Simpson and Deputy Joe Gandy lead the posse after them, joined by Charlie See, Bob Burch, Pancho Amador, Mel Hardy, Sticky Pierce, Mine owner Martin Fletcher, and prosecuting attorney Edwin Arthur Andrews. Grandpa Gardner fights a prowler on his own. Edith Harkey makes a brief appearance. Robbers: Blue Serge/Blue Overalls, Red Stubble, Lee Dunn, Johnny Bivins, Alec, and Vic.

Shoot the Moon (short story) [#27] Cosmopolitan Aug 1930 pp. 36-39, pp. 106-114. Pp. 125-154 in Little World Waddies.

The Little World: Big Jake Hubbard is now the sheriff and is building a large house near town. Deputy Joe Gandy tries to run off young Grigsby Dial, who is down on his luck. Red Murray has come to town to see about some stolen saddles and intervenes. Aforesaid Bates and Spinal Maginnis get involved with this mystery and a murder. Other players: Cook Scrub Oaks, Johnny Judd, Felipe Lucero, Bull Pepper, Bernabel Chavez, Ambrosio Lucero, Procopio Lucero, and Steve Greenway.

Everybody s Magazine

The Awaited Hour (short story) [#81] Everybody s Magazine May 1908 pp. 691-698.

Contemporary, eastern town: A modern (for the day) Count of Monte Cristo. Colby (aka Convict No. 1237) plots his revenge against the partner and wife who betrayed him. Supporting characters: Reverend Frank Long, Jimmy Adams. Villain: Farwell.

Of the Lost Legion [with Laurence Yates] (novella) [#82] Everybody s Magazine Apr 1913, pp. 443-455.

Circa 1910s, Vespers, New York and County Leitrum, Ireland of 40 years past. James Foley (aka Sir James ) is a wandering alcoholic. He meets up with young Ben Starr, who invites him to entertain at his club s party. Foley and Captain Michael Quigley have a shared secret past. Supporting characters: Janey Considine, Danny Fallon, Frank O Connell, Vance Devine.

The Golden West Magazine

Wildcat Represents (short story) [#79] The Golden West Magazine July 1927 [link to cover art only]. Reprint of story from All Story Magazine, March, 1907. Includes a misspelling ( rung for wrung ) but is otherwise the same story as the original.

Harper s Weekly

When the Bills Come in (essay) [#83] Harper s Weekly, June 13, 1914, pp. 13-15.

Lighthearted essay on writing. One illustration seems to include his cat Beppo. Identical to The Gentle Plagiarist [#83], which is found in the stand-alone Say Now Shibboleth, along with the title essay [#11] and the essay King Charles s Head [#20].

Land of Sunshine Magazine (Later Out West Magazine)

Charley Graham (poem) [#28] Land of Sunshine, April, 1896, v. 4, n. 5, p. 227. Collected in Recognition. This was Rhodes s first professionally published work. Earlier poems appeared in his college publication.

Graham employed Rhodes to dig wells. He is discussed in A Bar Cross Man and The Fabulous Frontier by Keleher. Charlie Graham flashes the signal "All is well! Good night! Good night!" even as he is dying.

A Blossom of Barren Lands (poem) [#29] Land of Sunshine, October, 1899, v. 11, n. 5, p. 251 (p. 265 in pdf). Collected in Recognition.

About the yucca, which bids us hope.

A Ballade of Gray Hills (poem) [#30] Land of Sunshine, November, 1900, v. 13, n. 5, p. 311 (p. 340 in pdf). Collected in Recognition.

When one is weary or feeling like a sinner, the barren hills of the desert call.

Te Deum Laudamus (poem) [#31] Land of Sunshine, January, 1901. v. 14, n. 1, p. 54. (M. R. This poem had appeared previously in an unidentified newspaper, Novermber 16, 1900, as Io Paean Io paean! [#31]) Collected in Recognition.

Denunciation of colonialism in the Philippines, includes the lines:

With a traitor's shame we shall brand his name, who, in his native land,
Presumptuous 'gainst our conquering flag raise his rebellious band;
And the women of the vanquished shall share the vanquished's shame,
And bear the white man's children--to lack the white man's name.

and

For the holy name of Freedom and the Glory of our God,
The blood of Luzon's children smokes up from Luzon's sod.

McClure's

His Father's Flag. (short story) [#86] McClure's. October 1902 (v. 19, no. 6), pp. 492-496.

1900, Ping-Yurn on the Hoang-Ho, near Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, China: Lt. Richard Nelson protects Missionary Ritter s family during the Boxer Rebellion with the help of Company A from Virginia. Though this story promotes the "Lost Cause" mythology of the South, Rhodes also wrote pro-Union stories, such as The Ragged 28th [#87], and The Brave Adventure [#15].

A Touch of Nature (short story) [#88] McClure's . January, 1905 (v. 29, no. 4), pp. 225-234. Entirely different from the Out West story of the same title [#133]. Rhodes is not credited with authorship, but it has been described as a joint venture by Rhodes and Henry Wallace Phillips. Hutchinson states that this story also appears in Pardner of the Wind, pages 220-21.

Time of Victorio (probably circa 1880). Bill Williams Mountains, AZ: Red meets Scotsman Colin Hiccup Grunt, and a violent beginning leads to friendship. Yuma men drop in for a surprise visit.

The Long Shift (short story) [#19] McClure's . August 1907 (v. 29, no. 4). Appears with a slightly different ending in pages 43-56 in West is West. Included in pages 38-48 of The Rhodes Reader with the same ending as the magazine story. Wikisource Version.

Contemporary, Mountains near San Clemente: There s a cave-in at the Golden Fleece Mine and the men must drill through the rock to save their friends. Manager Ivers, Evans, Jones, Lone Miller, Caradoc Hughs, Charlie, Clovis, Davis, White, and Williams. The real Caradoc Hughes was shot for robbing camps. Rhodes thought this was a great waste.

Beyond the Desert (short story) [#8] McClure's. February, 1914, pp. 52-63. Completely different than the novel of the same name [#13]. This story also appears as pages 3-42 of West is West and in Great Tales of the American West by Harry E. Maule (1945) Random House, NY.

San Quentin area near the Datils, the Wyandotte, the CLA Ranch and Pictured Rock. Sandy MacGregor (aka Maxwell) takes a job with Clay Mundy. Bennie Morgan is in love with Clay Mundy but her father, Steelfoot Morgan, is Mundy s sworn enemy. MacGregor, who was the villain in Good Men and True [#2], redeems himself. Horse: Neighbor. Villians: Joe, Mr. Hamerick.

The Perfect Day (short story) [#7] McClure's, Pp. 16-18, 51-57, April, 1916. Included in pages 429 to 449 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Also printed in The Evening World, March 4 [?] 1922.

Circa 1910 s. Along the Rio Grande, N. of Dona Ana: Spud Wallis is anxious to marry Gertie Wheeler, but Postmaster Tubs Wheeler thinks him a shiftless waddie. Spud sets out to prove him wrong. Supporting characters: Robert Whalen, Shrimp Dwyer, Joe Haskell, Bill, Charlie Simpson, Jim Hendricks, Hank, Cole and the Tumble-Tee boys.

The Ragged 28^th (short story) [#87] McClure's, June, 1916. pp 29 and 37. Reprinted as a miniature advertising issue.

Civil War, August. Natchez: Story related to Rhodes by his father, Colonel Rhodes about a fateful review of his decorated regiment.

New Mexico Highway Journal

When Apache Kid Took a Wife [#148] New Mexico Highway Journal, January, 1928. This is preceded by both a letter from Rhodes and an editor's note and ends with the recollection of Charlie Anderson about horse stealing and murder near Ojo Caliente. The editor had asked him to write this article for free. Rhodes responded with some humor.

New Mexico Magazine

Engle Ferry. (poem) [#42] New Mexico Magazine, Oct., 1929. Collected in Recognition (Apparently longer than the version in M. D. Rhodes' book)

Nostalgic poem written after the Elephant Butte Dam had drowned the Engle Ford.

New Orleans Times-Democrat

As is the Needle to the Pole (poem) [#32]. New Orleans Times-Democrat, March 24, 1901. Collected in Recognition.

Writer promises his love that he will be as true as the needle to the pole "(with slight magnetic variations)."

Oakland Saturday Night [Identified in A Bar Cross Liar as a feminist newspaper]

White Man s Burden (poem) [#89] Oakland Saturday Night, June 10, 1899. Collected in Recognition. Scathing reply to Kipling s poem of this title.

Contains the quotes: "No hand that strikes for freedom Will wear Columbia's chains." and "Nor bear afar with fire and blood, The Gospel of God's peace."

Rhodes was against the colonial treatment of the Philippines by the US and the Boers by England.

Out West Magazine [Formerly The Land of Sunshine]

The Hour and the Man (short story) [#96] Out West, January, 1902, Vol. 16 n. 1 pp 43-52. Rhodes received $10 for this story. (This has been reported as Rhodes s first published story. He had published poems previously.)

Contemporary, Lincoln to Loma Parda, N.M.: Dinny Morrison is a rejected suitor who races the clock to save the woman he loves (Helen Dorsey) from being murdered on her wedding day. Supporting characters: Tommy, Jim Simpson. Villain: Dave Kellum.

Lubly Ge-ge and Gruffamgrim (short story) [#98] Out West, February, 1902 pp. 166-172.

Contemporary. Tularosa, N.M: Wanted outlaw John Brady rescues child Frederick Carlos Morley from a storm at the risk of his own life.

A Ballade of Wild Bees (poem) [#33] Out West, March, Vol 16, n. 3. 1902, pp. 243-244. Collected in Recognition.

A salute to the bees who gather something sweet from a dry and barren land.

The Captain of the Gate (short story) [#93] Out West, April 1902. pp. 391-396

Chloride, N.M.: Bud Keyes saves the woman he loves, and who scorns him, from Apaches at the cost of his life. This story is similar to The Blunderer s Mark [#92]. It contains the poem With an Evening Primrose [#34] on page 393. The story was based on an actual event in which a notorious gambler, Felix Knox, sacrificed himself for his family. See Massacre on the Lordesburg Road, p. 160.

With an Evening Primrose (poem) [#34] Out West, April, 1902 pp. 393. Collected in Recognition.

Love poem about how the primrose only blooms as the sun goes down. Appears in The Hour and the Man [#96].

The Bar Cross Liar (short story) [#90] Out West, June, 1902, Vol 16, n 6. pp. 619-625.

Rhodes s youth, circa 1882. Bar Cross Ranch: Young horse wrangler, Pat (aka John Graham) looks like a miser because he sends his pay home, telling his struggling parents that he was given a raise. The Bar Cross waddies make things right. Supporting characters: Dallas McComas, Hiram Yoast, Pink Murray, Summerford, Foster, Wildcat Thompson. Based on Gene s experiences as a boy working his first job with the Bar Cross at 13.

The Desire of the Moth (short story) [#94] Out West, October, 1902 pp. 446-456.

1893, Dundee and Aleman, N.M: Carrol Dallas McComas (28 years old, top hand of the Bar Cross) aids Bessie Calvert, an easterner. She insults him by offering a tip. Supporting characters: Hiram Yoast, Headlight, Cole, Frank Mill, The Colonel. The story continues in Sons of the Soil [#103]. This story is completely unrelated to another story also called The Desire of the Moth [#17], but is part of a section of West is West that uses the same title [#139].

Loved I Not Honor More (short story) [#60] Out West, February, 1903 Pp. 187-195. Included in pages 3- 13 of The Rhodes Reader.

Boer War era. El Paso. Rancher Wildcat Thompson hits hard times, but refuses to sell his horses against his conscience. Supporting characters: Emil James, Billy McNew, Pat Garrett, Major Bertie Vaughn, Forest, Newberry, McCall, Briscoe, Johnnie Woods, Nations.

Slaves of the Ring (short story) [#102] Out West, June, 1903 pp. 722-730.

The Red Light Saloon, N.M.. A tenderfoot is being cheated at poker. He turns out to be Foley, a member of the Phi Kappa fraternity, class of 1900. John Sandy Graham and Louis Shorty Jourdain happen to be Rhizites as well and foil the plot. Features villains Doc North, Curly the bartender, and Juan Velarde. Rhodes attended the College of the Pacific (later University of the Pacific) for 3 semesters. He ran out of funds despite living in a shack over the railroad with two roommates and eating only oatmeal.

The Blunderer s Mark (short story) [#92] Out West, November, 1903, pp. 514-520.

1874, Wyoming: George Kid Lewis courts Miss Mary and is scorned. He saves her and others from Sioux at the cost of his life. Supporting character: Henry Wallace Phillips. This story is similar to The Captain of the Gate [#93].

Sons of the Soil (short story) [#103] Out West, November, 1905 pp. 474-485.

Circa 1894, Kansas City, MO & Detroit, MI: Dallas McComas goes to the big city to see Bessie Calvert. He is rebuffed by potential employers but saves the day. Conclusion to The Desire of the Moth, Oct. 1902 [#94].

Sealed Orders (short story) [#101] Out West, July, 1906 pp. 67-72. Completely different from story of the same name in West is West, which also appeared in the Saturday Evening Post [#119]. The two do share a theme of a dissolute young man who rescues a victimized young woman.

Contemporary. Unnamed eastern city. Upper-crust youth St. Clair has wasted his fortune and is about to commit suicide but ends up saving a young woman who has traded her virginity to her employer in an attempt to save her mother s life.

Sticky Pierce, Diplomat (short story) [#61] Out West, October, 1906 pp. 359-368. Included in pages 14-25 of The Rhodes Reader. Title character based on Ed Pierce.

Contemporary, White Sands and Mogollon Co.: The narrator is travelling with Sticky Pierce, who tells of a run-in with Archibald Campbell. Through the diplomatic strategy of fisticuffs, Pierce manages to educate Campbell in the ways of the West. Supporting charcters: Jimmy Dodds of the Lazy H, creditor Mike Wolf, Mrs. Campbell, Sammy Clarkson, Baldy Russell, author Burns.

A Pink Trip Slip (short story) [#99] Out West, January, 1907 pp. 50-55.

Contemporary, Eastbound Train: Jeff Bransford fights petty railroad officials.

Rule o Thumb (short story) [#100] Out West, June, 1907 v. 26 pp. 552-227.

Contemporary, country school: Mr. Barton is the young new schoolmaster. His students try to trip him up with an algebra problem, but he solves it. Rhodes kept school for a time in New Mexico, calling school to order with a pistol butt.

The End of a Story (short story) [#95] Out West, July, 1907 vol. 27 n.1 pp. 51-56.

Contemporary, La Junta. Candelaria Hastings, a telephone operator, and her outlaw boyfriend risk their lives to warn the town that the dam has broken.

The story preceded a similar actual event. In August of 1908, Sarah (Sally) J. Rooke was a telephone operator in Folsom, NM. When she recieved a call warning her to flee the flooding Cimarron, she instead stayed at her post, calling to warn others until she was killed herself. Unlike the heroine of the story, Rooke was in her 60's, disabled, and was not aided by anyone. Hutchinson claims that Rhodes's story was based on the Rooke story, but obviously the timing makes this impossible. Perhaps the story was inspired by the 1904 flood in La Junta (AKA Watrous, NM) and similar acts of heroism in other floods.

The Line of Least Resistance [#134] Out West August, 1907, v. 27, n. 2, Pp. 135-141. This is entirely different from a story of the same name published in 1910 [#21] except in the theme of a former bad man redeemed by courage and self sacrifice. The portion that describes the family and their home is used to describe the Fuentes clan in West is West. Hutchinson identifies the ranch described as the Gonzalez Ranch above Engle Ferry.

Contemporary, Near Elephant Butte. Tom Colton has led a blameless life for 12 years, but has a sinful past and cannot allow himself to court the woman he loves. He retreats to the home of old friends of the Gonzalez y Ortega clan where the family and he repay mortal debts to each other. Don Francisco, Mateo, Florentino, Josepha, Francesca, Manuelito.

A Beggar on Horseback (short story) [#91] Out West, November, 1907, pp. 406-414. Available as full text from Google Books

Contemporary, Westbound train. Jeff Bransford meets new friends Isabel and Bill Grayson and Miss Oliver. Danger strikes and Jeff saves the day, but a chance encounter will change his plans. Curs: C.D. Kennedy and son-in-law Lisle.

A Touch of Nature (short story) [#133] Out West, July, 1908 pp. 70-80. Entirely different from the story of the same name appearing in McClure s Magazine, January, 1905, [#88].

Contemporary, Rainbow Range. Billy Beebe (Harvard '00) is visiting Arizona when John Wesley Pringle (now 50 years old) invites him to go visiting. They meet Old Man Baker (13 for "Baker's dozen), Wade Headlight Owens, and Nathaniel Aforesaid Smith (N8), who proceed to guy him about the corrupt East. Billy may have the last word when the party stumbles on some illicit cow pyrography involving Charlie Gaylord and drifter Jim.

The Torch (short story) [#104] Out West, August, 1908 pp. 128-139.

Contemporary, Peru. Clubmen Cutler and Harry Gay find out they are both alumni of the College of the Pacific (Rhodes s alma mater; later to become the University of the Pacific). Years later Cutler learns of Gay s heroism on a mountain climb. Supporting characters: Atanacio and Conner.

Little Next Door (poem) [#36] Out West, January, 1916 v. 43, n. 1. pp.4 Collected in Recognition. Quoted at the start of The Desire of the Moth [#17]

Protective love for a child. Starts playfully, ends sadly. "Little Next Door, Mine eyes are wet For the cruel wisdom that awaits you yet;"

How the Dream Came True (Essay) [#97] Out West, February, 1916 v. 43. n. 2, pp. 82-83.

Poetic essay on a mythical and nameless pioneer.

Pacific Monthly (Later absorbed by Sunset Magazine)

Bell the Cat (short story) [#105] Pacific Monthly, May, 1909. Pp 466-477. Pages 157-181 in West is West with some minor changes.

Contemporary, NM. Steve Wildcat Thompson has a little disagreement with the county government. Villians: All of the County officials (except the coroner), including Johnny-the-Slick and Sheriff Santiago Padilla.

Lex Talionis (short story) [#106] Pacific Monthly, February, 1910. pp. 127-132, (Title is "tally book" Latinized.)

Contemporary. Grand Canyon. Jerry Hopper and Frances Keith plan to marry, despite Jerry s lung disease and nightmares. Will Ellis, a guide, is jealous and plots revenge. Twin Tom Hopper and Frances seek justice.

El Palacio

Announcement [#107] El Palacio. v. 22, no. 13, p. 267-268 (Mar. 26, 1927)

Mentions that Rhodes gave a talk at a meeting of the Santa Fe Women's Club at the St. Francis Auditorium on "Pioneering in New Mexico." The text of the talk is not reported. This is sometimes listed as though it were an essay entitled "Talks in El Palacio," so I listed it here for the convenience of anyone searching for it.

Photodramatist

The West That Was. [#70] Photodramatist (Sept. 1922). Included in pages 265-272 of The Rhodes Reader.

Rhodes bemoans Americans ignorance of their pioneering history and tells his side, describing how Mencken and his Young Intellectuals wronged the people of the frontier. He also advises young writers to write about their own time.

Putting the Westerner into Fiction. [#108] Photodramatist v. 4, no. 7 (Dec. 1922).
[I have not yet found a copy of this.]

The Red Book Magazine (aka RedBook)

The God from the Machine (short story) [#109] The Red Book Magazine October 1908 pp.863-872.

Contemporary, The East. The new-fangled recording phonograph takes part in a love story. Sam Morris and Jack Hollister had great times as poor young men prospecting in the mountains near Camp Verde in Arizona. Now they are rich men living back East (probably in upstate New York) and have dedicated themselves to leisure. Jack showed himself to be a man of courage and ability in Arizona, winning the love of Amy, but his idle, aimless life now makes her despair of him. He has also flirted with her friends Agnes, Martha, and Sadie. Agnes has a plot to teach Jack a lesson by having all of the girls get a declaration of love from Jack in turn. Little they know that Jack, Sam, and the recording phonograph are listening.
Starts with the same poem as does "Say Now, Shibboleth." An original manuscript calls this "The Little God from the Machine," but that's not the published title.

The Enchanted Valley (short story) [#63] The Red Book Magazine March 1909 Pages 274-286. Also in pages to 346 to 363 of West is West as The Enchanted Valley [#63] and Wizard of Finance [#131]. Included in pages 49-61 of The Rhodes Reader. Appeared as Wizard of Finance in Zane Grey s Western Magazine Mar/Apr 1947 on pages 144 to 153.

The Miracle (with Laurence Yates) (short story) [#110] The Red Book Magazine July 1916 Pages 482-494.

1477, Alsace-Lorraine. Father Bernardin is traveling homeward through the mountains in his sledge with his acolyte Michel and Annibal the mule. There he meets Roger Duruy L'Anglais and his companions. Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy was just defeated at Nancy by King Louis XI's allies, Duke Rene II and Lorraine. Following the defeat, Duruy, who supported Charles, took his men to free his beloved Lady Judith from the clutches of the Sire d'Espinal. The small band is now trying to escape d'Espinal, Judith's father, and Carondelet. While the time and place are a departure for Rhodes, this story contains familiar themes of honorable men and women who will fight to the last, and of foes who respect each other.

The Bird in the Bush (short story) [#23] The Red Book Magazine April 1917 included in155-190 Little World Waddies with a few minor word changes. Included in pages 172-199 of The Rhodes Reader.

Central, The Butterbowl, and Shelter, AZ: Andrew Jackson Aforesaid Bates has left the Little World and gone to seek a homestead. He meets Minnie Briscoe in the nearby town. Minnie s father, John, owns the large J.B. outfit and covets Bates's claim. Eph, Esteban and Eusebio help work to build a dam in Shelter. Minnie and her cousin Jane come to visit, as does Dee Macfarlane, a rival for Minnie s hand. Squatty Robinson, prospector San Simon, Hall and Billy Hall also drop by. Petey Simmons, a new bronco buster keeps his distance, but seems dangerous. Other players: Joe Only, Barefoot, Chuck, and Parson Duffy.

The Brave Adventure (short story) [#15b] The Red Book Magazine October 1917 pp 45-51 and 179-182. Very similar to the stand-alone version [#15a].

The Saturday Evening Post

The Numismatist [with Henry Wallace Phillips] (short story) [#62] The Saturday Evening Post Mar 2 1907 pp 6-9 and 29 ; Reprinted in Trolley Folly [#59], a collection of stories apparently authored by Rhodes and Henry Wallace Phillips (Indianapolis, 1909 and reprinted, New York Book Co., 1913). Rhodes is not credited for this story in the book. Included in pages 26-37 of The Rhodes Reader.

1896, Terrapin, NM: The narrator befriends Artemus G. Jones, who spends a wild election night gambling. The crooked dealer Frenchy and his pal Brown are no match for the pair. The law steps in in the form of Deputy Billy Edwards, Judge Eliot, and Lawyer Satterlee.

The Punishment and the Crime [with Henry Wallace Phillips] (short story) [#111] The Saturday Evening Post Apr 20 1907, pp. 14-15, 29. Reprinted in Trolley Folly [#59], a collection of stories apparently authored by Rhodes and Henry Wallace Phillips (Indianapolis, 1909 and reprinted, New York Book Co., 1913). Rhodes is not credited for this story in the book.

Contemporary, Dundee, NM: Several herds are camped at the railhead waiting for a delayed stock train, and the hospitality of the cowhands and owners is tested by a plague of hoboes. The solution seems to be a kangaroo court, but surprises ensue. Johnny Patton, Tinnin, Charlie Slaughter, Burt Mossman, Cornelius Brown, Jim Gale, Norah, Mrs. Stanley, Ward Boucher, John Henry Boucher, Harris the tramp, McClusky, Neighbor Jones, Dana Mossman, Kim Ky Rogers, Pink Murray, Frank Calhoun, Johnny Street, Aforesaid Smith, Will Borland, The Parson, Doc, Frank Dodds, The Colonel, Mr. Gale.

An Extra Number (short story) [#112] The Saturday Evening Post Jun 1 1907, pp. 8-9, 24-25.

Contemporary, New York City. Rose/Jennie Forsythe is a hit in Vaudeville and is on her way from the Bowery to uptown. She is guarded against trifling men by Kathleen/Kitty Dubois who has shepherded her to her current position. Both know that she can t marry young Marcus Illingsworth at this point in her career. Marcus is not much of a performer, but he will distinguish himself on his last night on stage. Supporting cast: Talbot, Lounsbury, Harrington, the British Firemen s Quartet.

The Come-on (serial) [#18] The Saturday Evening Post Nov 23, 3-5 31-33, Nov 30 p. 5-7, 26-27, 1907

Check! [with Henry Wallace Phillips] [#113] The Saturday Evening Post October 1908 pp. 8-9, 42-43.

Contemporary, The Jornada. Colonel Lyman (Pig-pen brand) feels he owns the open range. Bud Fanning sees things differently. When the Colonel falsely accuses Bud of cattle-thieving, Bud makes the lie come true, then further settles things with the Colonel. Sacramento, McCaslin, Chuck Barefoot, Chatfield, Allory the storekeeper, Rachel the cow, Tom Thumb the cow pony. [Note: the stew in question was known as son of a bitch.] Hutchinson states that this reflects an actual feud between Rhodes and Ritch.

A Neighbor (short story) [#114] The Saturday Evening Post Mar 6 1909

Contemporary, El Paso, TX. Fite just wants to send money home to his wife, but does not guard his money well. Jeff Bransford befriends the luckless Fite, joins forces with Leo Ballinger, and goes to visit Simon Hibler.

An Executive Mind [#14] (short story) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 24 1909. pp 15-17, 4-5
Prologue of Bransford in Arcadia [#3b and 3c]

The Man with a Country (short story) [#115] The Saturday Evening Post Jul 3 1909, pp. 6-7, 30-32

Cleveland Administration, Baja California, Mexico. John Wesley Also Ran Pringle earns his name in a sporting contest between expats. Maj. John C. Seaton, formerly of Stuart s cavalry, claims no country as his own, but patriotism begins far from home. Cast: Boyd Cobb, Georgia Seaton, Barker, Lester, Kirkpatrick, Bill Cole, Behrend, Ousterhout, Huylans, Corrigan, Stanislaus Lodosky, Frenchy, Donald Mac McAllister, Mrs. McAllister, Ortega, Dick-Cowles, Martyn, Meisterschaft, Sweitzerkase, Don Sylvestre, Anglespein, Otero, Romero.

The Star of Empire (short story) [#116] The Saturday Evening Post Sep 4 1909, pp. 8-9, 40-41. Reprinted in Best Stories from the Southwest, Hilton R. Greer, 1928. Partially reprinted in America in the Southwest: A regional Anthology, T. M. Pearce and T. Hendon, University Press, 1933.

Dundee, 1908: The glory days of the Bar Cross are gone, but are still revered in the hearts of her former riders. Hiram Yoast, Foamy White, Sheriff Frank Bojarquez, and The Honorable Robert Martin stand their last guard. Also featuring the Artist, the mayor, and the boy.

The Trouble Man (short story) [#64] The Saturday Evening Post Nov 20 1909, pp. 9-11, 26-27. Included in pages 62-80 of The Rhodes Reader. Also appears in the anthology Great Short Stories of the American West, Vol 2. (aka Great Western Short Stories) 1971. Edited by J. Golden Taylor. Ballantine, New York. Pp. 28-48.

1890 s, Lincoln County: The Rainbow punchers treat Billy Beebe with every courtesy and it rankles him, especially when young Leo Ballinger is the butt of every joke. He learns that to be accepted by the boys, he must show himself to be a neck-or-nothing man. John Wesley Pringle, Jeff Bransford, Jimmy, Procopio Chavez, Uncle Pete Burleson, Clay Cooper, Squatty Robinson. Hutchinson state that this was based on the Lee/Good (AKA Good/Cooper) range troubles.

"...they asked not Was this well done?" but rather Was this done indeed so that no man could have done more?" Were the deed good or evil, so it were done utterly it commanded admiration therefore, imitation."

Good Men and True (serial) [#2] The Saturday Evening Post Jan 8, pp. 3-6, 26-32, Jan 15 1910, 9-11, 26-28. Later published in book form.

The Line of Least Resistance (serial) [#21] The Saturday Evening Post Aug 13 pp. 3-5, 30-32, Aug 20 pp. 15-19, 33-4, Aug 27 pp. 16-18, 50-52, Sep 3 pp. 22-23, 53-54 1910; western. This story was published in a different version as a stand-alone volume Chico, CA: Hurst and Yount 1958. It is entirely different from the story of the same name in Out West [#134].

A Ballade of White Fingers (poem) [#35] The Saturday Evening Post August 20, 1910. Collected in Recognition. part of The Line of Least Resistance [#21]

Also appeared under the title "She Plays Upon Her Mandolin," according to Recognition. "The air is filled with rustling wings, Forgot are folly, wrong and sin..."

The House That Jack Built (article) [#117] The Saturday Evening Post Apr 1 1911, pp. 20-21: Essay decrying proposed postal rate increase for magazines

A Number of Things (short story) [#65] The Saturday Evening Post Apr 8 1911, pp, 3-6, 30-35. Included in pages 81-111 of The Rhodes Reader.

Circa 1900, Socorro, NM. Bally Russell demands his rights at a railway crossing. John Wesley Pringle lends a hand and helps out his old friend Bill Sanders in his bid for sheriff at the same time. Elfego Baca, Judge McMillan, Brakeman Joyce, Conductor Pat Savage, Jim Bruten, Sheriff Springtime Morgan, Deputy Bob Lewis, Waitress Annie, Railroader Little Dick, Gene Thurgood, Engineer Peterson, Dealer Cliff Hamerick, Gambling house owner Fred Richards, Foreman John Dewey, Horsethief, Malquiadez

Say Now Shibboleth (article) [#11a] The Saturday Evening Post Apr 22, 1911 pp. 13-15, 28-30

Some minor differences between this and the stand-alone essay published in 1921.

The Barred Door (article) [#66] The Saturday Evening Post May 6, 1911, pp, 8-9, 50-53. Included in pages 112-130 of The Rhodes Reader. A fairly sarcastic plea to Congress to stop promising statehood to New Mexico. Statehood was granted in 1912. Hutchinson reports that Rodes entitled the story "Stung!," and that A. B. Fall had provided much of the material.

The Prince of Tonight (short story) [#118] The Saturday Evening Post Oct 19 1912, pp. 5-8, 62-66.

Contemporary, Waverly and Abingdon, NY: Jimmy McClosky has sold his cattle and hired on to tend them on their rail trip. He has a run-in with railroad tough Madden and flees to a quiet village where he meets the lovely Marion and the unlovely Dr. Adelbert Wakelin. He makes promises to Marion and to farmer Gil Crouch, but can he keep them? The fight was apparently based on one he had while travelling east to meet the penpal who would become his wife.

The Little Eohippus (serial) [#3b] The Saturday Evening Post, Nov 30, pp. 3-5 , 55-58, Dec 7, pp. 21-23, 52-54, Dec 14, pp. 20-23, 32-37, Dec 21, pp. 19-21, 41-43, Dec 28, pp. 24-26 1912. Later published in varied forms as Bransford of Rainbow Range and Bransford in Arcadia.

Sealed Orders (short story) [#119] The Saturday Evening Post May 10 1913, pp. 11-13, 34-35. Slightly altered to West is West, Pages 109-190 in the Fly edition, and pages 213-241 in the Grosset & Dunlap edition. Completely different from story with same title in Out West [#101], except that both deal with a man's destiny being to save a woman's honor.

Consider the Lizard (short story) [#6] The Saturday Evening Post Jun 28 1913 pp. 5-8, 34-37; Included in pages 401 to 426 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

Contemporary, Oasis. Johnny Dines is travelling with field naturalist Todd when they hear of a train robbery. They combine their abilities to solve it. Express manager Yeardsley, Sheriff Bill Hamilton, Special officer Ben Cafferty, Division supervisor Jones, Wells Fargo agent Howe, Bat Wilson, Petey Crandall, Bert Cornish, Fred Blinn.

A Ragtime Lady [with Laurence Yates] (short story) [#120] The Saturday Evening Post Jul 26 1913, pp. 22-25. Story appears in its entirety along with notes on the writing techniques in Today s Stories Analyzed.

Contemporary, Vesper, NY: Martha Menlick goes to visit her sister Sally and finds herself stranded without her purse. She decides to walk the 20 miles home, but accepts a ride from young farmer Coburn Hall, who takes her home to stay with his Aunt Harry. Martha takes a job with the family, but a gossipy neighbor (Euphemia Mix) and the actions of her errant sister threaten to ruin everything.

Hit the Line Hard! (serial) [#5] The Saturday Evening Post Mar 27, pp. Apr 3, pp. 17-19, 93-94, 97-98, 1915

The Fool s Heart (novel) [#67] The Saturday Evening Post May 1 1915, pp. 3-5, 38-42 ; Included in pages 131-156 of The Rhodes Reader. This is an entirely different murder story than the one of the same name [#80]. According to Hutchinson, it was adapted as a college play at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1919, adapted for a CBS television program--"Suspense" 1/16/1951, and reprinted in Suspense Stories in 1950 by Dell, New York.

Contemporary, N.M., Box O Ranch near the San Mateo Range. Charley Ellis and horse Vinegaroan are in a tough spot but Charley gets an offer from Elmer Moss that turns out to me too good to be true. Tom Hall, Broyles, and Ben Teagardner try to figure out what happened. As is often the case, Jess Laxon is an outlaw, not a true villain; he avoids needless killing and cares for horses. He even looks out for his younger accomplice. He is also an ugly man. Rhodes often presents outlaws as first having been wronged by society, and perhaps he's hinting that a better looking Laxon would have met a better end. Other horse: Bill.

Ben Teagardner is now 77 and has returned from far travels to die. Rhodes mentions the cabin of Charley Graham.

The Desire of the Moth (serial) [#17] The Saturday Evening Post Feb 26, pp. 3-5, 57-58, 61-62, Mar 4, pp. 18-29, 46-57, 50-51, 1916.

The Bells of St. Clemens (serial) [#121] The Saturday Evening Post (Cover art) June 10, pp. 3-6, 42-43, 46-47, June 17, pp. 17-20, 73-74, 77 1916. Pages 191-273 in G&D (Appears to be 296-345 in the Fly edition) of West is West.

Over, Under, Around or Through (serial) [#16] The Saturday Evening Post Apr 21, pp.3-5, 113-114, 117-118 Apr 28, pp. 23-25, 73-74, 77-78, 81, May 5, pp. 25-27, 113-114, 117-118. May 12, pp. 25-27, 105-106, 109, May 19, pp. 23-25, 90, 93 1917. Also published as the book Copper Streak Trail.

No Mean City (short story) [#69] The Saturday Evening Post, May 17, pp. 5-7, 162, 165-166, 169-170 May 24, pp. 25-27, 101, 104, 107 1919 Included in pages 200-264 of The Rhodes Reader.

1879-1917, Engle. This story opens with a history of the town of Engle. Uncle Ben Teagardner was there when the surveyors came, and on one of his return trips he finds the town and its dam in danger. It is up to him and Joe Cady to save the town. Others: Pres Lewis, Springtime Morgan, Lew Friend, Storekeeper Clayton, Kinny Apgar, Bowman, Kendall, Banner, Brooks, Miller, Hayes, Green, Dorsey, Case, and Baker. The title comes from a biblical story about Saul.

Rhodes started a follow-up story to this called "The Road to Nowhere." In it, Uncle Ben plans to round up the villains who got away.

Stepsons of Light (serial) [#72] The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 25 1920 pp. 30, 32, 34, 52

[Unusually late placement of a Rhodes story]

Once in the Saddle (serial) [#56] The Saturday Evening Post, Apr 18, 1925, pp 28-29, pp. 78 pp. 80-83, Apr 25 1925 pp. 26-27, pp. 60-62

Recognition (poem) [#39] The Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1926, pp. 218. Collected in Recognition.

Finding one's true love, in life and after

I only know who met me there
and drew me from the throng--
And "Oh my dear, and is it you?
Where have you been so long?"

Pegasus at the Plow (poem) [#40] The Saturday Evening Post, July 20 1929, page 161. Collected in Recognition and in New Voices of the Southwest by Hilton Rand Greer and Florence E. Barns (1934) Tardy: Dallas.

May be a response to how Rhodes felt working on his wife's farm in New York instead of living as a cow man in New Mexico.

Proud of a furrow straight,
Of a hard task done aright--
And the mate who drew the plow with him
And kept the traces tight!

Engle Ferry (poem) [#42] The Saturday Evening Post, Aug 10 1929, page 14. Collected in Recognition.

The Little People (poem) [#44] The Saturday Evening Post, Dec 14 1929 page 137. Collected in Recognition

Celebration of the common people who have built the world, despite the scorn of the "later-born". Excerpt:

Arms that mocked at weariness--feet that trod on fear--
Stubborn neck and knotted hands--well that you are here
When nations reel to ruin, when the golden lips are dumb,
When the world cries to God for help--and the little people come!

Night Message (poem) [#45] The Saturday Evening Post, Jan 4 1930. Collected in Recognition.

Written in the form of a telegram. Excerpt:

THE WIRES FORGET THEIR FOOLISH PRATE
OF STOCK AND BOND AND CROP
TO BEAR MY MESSAGE THROUGH THE NIGHT
AM WAITING FOR YOU STOP

My Banker (poem) [#43] The Saturday Evening Post, August 16, 1930. Collected in Recognition. Humorous claim to be "the first who was ever grateful to a banker." Excerpt:

Who is it when I'm feeling blue,
Sends me a cheerful note or two
To say my note is overdue?
My banker.

Maid Most Dear (short story) [#9] The Saturday Evening Post, August 16, 1930. Included in pages 479-511 in The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

Contemporary, west of Albuquerque. Eddie Early is riding through the Black Range on his Crybaby horse to meet a friend in Holbrook. While lost in the fog, he meets Skid Jackson of the Tumble T, who directs him to Shard. Eddie has some trouble with Slagle and the rest of the KP outfit. Bud Wilson and the CAP boys (Sooner McCoy, Shorty, and Dutch) lend a hand. Eddie stays at the hotel run by Miss Eva Sales, Aunt Gerda, and Uncle Pete Jensen to do some courting, to the discomfort of Skid. Deputy Windy Bill Nelson must solve the murder of Tom Copeland of the KP. Supporting cast: Lithpin Tham (showing signs of reform), Kirby Payne (part owner of the KP), Bartender Ben Hill, Storekeeper Rosenthal.

Important! Einstein s Universe (poem) [#46] The Saturday Evening Post, Apr 18 1931 Collected in Recognition.

Response to announcement of Einstein changing his views about the universe.

The Trusty Knaves (serial) [#4] The Saturday Evening Post, Apr 18, Apr 25, May 2 1931

Relativity for Ladies (poem) [#47] The Saturday Evening Post, Jul 11 1931 Collected in Recognition.

The narrator seems to age much faster than the lady he courts.

Advice (poem) [#49] The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 19 1931

Author takes dentist's advice to "Clo-o-se!" his mouth and avoid being a fool.

Personal Liberty (poem) [#48] The Saturday Evening Post, October 31, 1931. Collected in Recognition.

The statesman and the editor scoff at the tyranny of traffic signals. It does not end well for them.

Nineteen Thirty-One (poem) [#50] The Saturday Evening Post, November 7, 1931. Collected in Recognition.

Protest against crime, unfairness, and the corruption that allows it.

The Ballad of East and West: For bridge fiends only (poem) [#51] The Saturday Evening Post, December 19, 1931. Collected in Recognition.

Description of a magazine bridge hand not going well for hapless East and West.

Fire Song (poem) [#52] The Saturday Evening Post, January 23, 1932. Collected in Recognition.

Ode to Benjamin Franklin on the invention of the Franklin stove.

The Proud Sheriff (serial) [#57] The Saturday Evening Post Oct 1 1932

Beyond the Desert (serial) [#13] The Saturday Evening Post Jun 9 1934. Later published in book form. Not at all the same as the short story that appeared in West is West [#8]

Cover Art May 1934

The Silhouette

The Prodigal Calf (with Agnes Morely Cleaveland) (short story) [#143] The Silhouette: A Quarterly Magazine of Stories in Profile April, 1916 pp. 25-29.

Datil County, Datil and Quemado. Howison, former boss of the T Tumble T tells the story of how fast-talking Hade Henshaw, and handsome Corky Baney (CY brand) court Annie Sellers. Hade is a cattle thief who taunts Corky as being too much a tenderfoot to steal cattle effectively. But is he?

Eugene Manlove Rhodes Interviews 'The Silhouette'" The Silhouette: A Quarterly Magazine of Stories in Profile Sept., 1916 pp. 46-47 (68/240).

Sunset Magazine

A Reversion to Type (short story) [#123] Sunset Magazine June 1913. (Pages 109-125 in West is West).

A Song of Harvest (poem) [#38], Sunset Magazine, June 31, 1923 p. 31. Collected in Recognition. (567/1326)

Written about his father's influence:

He said to me gruffly--yet-kindly so,
With something of sorrow, but more of pride,
"Dear lad, you've a hard old row to hoe."

He speaks of how he has labored and made mistakes, and ends with:

Master of Harvests, accept my row!

He ll Make a Hand (essay) [#122] Sunset Magazine, June 1927. pp. 23, 89-91.

Biographical sketch about Charles Siringo, cowboy and lawman. "Tales of a hard and stormy boyhood, not forlorn, because gay and unfaltering courage met the day's disasters..."
Siringo was hired by the LX brand to take part in the Lincoln County wars. Speaks of Pat Garrett as "that timid man; new sheriff of Lincoln County." As a result of the Haymarket dynamite attack, Siringo joined the Pinkertons. He brought to justice the kidnappers of the Edward Wentz and several men accused of using dynamite against their enemies. Was part of the band that hunted Butch Cassidy, Kid Curry, and the Wild Bunch. Contians the Quote:
I must point out one inaccuracy in the first Hammond article. (Scribner's Feb. '25, p. 125) Mr. Hammond says: "Siringo, brave man, is in his grave." I asked Siringo about it and he denies it. He is an appallingly truthful man and I, for one, am inclined to believe him.

In Defense of Pat Garrett (essay) [#71] Sunset Magazine, September, 1927, pp. 27-28 , pp 85-91.Different version included in pages 305-316 of The Rhodes Reader.

Story World

Are Americans People? A symposium. [#124] Story World. v. 4, no. 10. (Apr., 1922) p. 59-64.
[I have not found a copy of this]

Touring Topics

(Published monthly by the Automobile Club of Southern California, became Westways)

Gene Rhodes on Armed thugs, beer and civil war: foibles, fictions and facts of the moment as the most confirmed living westerner views them. [#125] Touring Topics. v. 24, no. 12 P_p. 17, 39 -40. (Dec. 1932). This was Rhodes s first article in the publication and a note from the editor is included. The editor states that Rhodes will not be censored as he is one of the most intelligent and articulate of all living westerners.

While gang violence is affecting even women and children, Collier s magazine advocated calling off the Armed Thugs of the law by withdrawing all funds to enforce prohibition. Rhodes denounces this and also castigates the author of another article (his friend Rupert Hughes in Liberty) for writing that the best way to deal with armed thugs is to repeal prohibition in all states. Rhodes is also scornful of the gangsters, who are too cowardly to be a real threat to the nation.

Gene Rhodes on Geographical Inhumanities, etc.: foibles, fictions and facts of the moment as the most confirmed living westerner views them. [#127] Touring Topics . v. 25, no. 1 Pp. 15 & 48 (Jan. 1933)

Rhodes responds to contemporary essays. A. Edward Newton declared in Atlantic Monthly that western states should give up their Senatorial representation or leave the union. In the Mercury, H. L Mencken decried that a gang of clodhoppers should be allowed to abuse their betters. Rhodes points out their cowardice in not allowing a fair rebuttal in their publications. He also defends the literary reputation of the Saturday Evening Post and recommends several magazine stories: Blackcock s Feather by Maurice Walsh, High Water by A.W. Somerville in Best Stories of the Southwest, DeVoto s book on Twain, and Thomas Beer s stories. [Incorrect page number is given for Continued on. ]

Gene Rhodes on Hoi Polloi and the Hoity-Toity: praise and blame for the young intellectuals. I. Praise. [#128] Touring Topics. v. 25, no. 2 (Feb. 1933) .

Rhodes explains that while Mencken infuriates him at times, he believes that Mencken is too smart and well-read to really believe what he writes. He credits Mencken as an entertainer while decrying his influence on American literature. He praises the advent of plain language and the decline of prudishness and religious intolerance, but blames the new writing for a lack of decency and an intolerance for religion. He notes that they find native religions touching, but European ones ignoble and that they despise working men. He posits that physical labor has its own gifts. He believes the young intellectuals loathe Americans and asks whether we have thrown off the yoke of impudent priests, arrogant aristocrats and imbecile kings, only to be pestered now by sophomores?

Gene Rhodes Hoi Polloi and the Hoity-Toity: II: The Scorpion on the Hearth [#129] Touring Topics. v. 25 ,no. 3 p. 17 & 36. (March, 1933).

Rhodes rebukes the Young Intellectuals for their scorn of Americans, particularly frontier people and workers. He holds Lincoln and Twain as the greatest Americans and points out that many great leaders were toilers. He accuses the Young I. of writing mainly about sex and despair and neglecting joy, beauty, and (worst of all) children. He developed these themes more in King Charles s Head [# 20].

Gene Rhodes on The Great Tradition: foibles, fiction and facts of the moment as the most confirmed living westerner views them. [#130-1] Touring Topics. Vol. 25, no. 5 (Apr. 1933)

Rhodes s response to 1922 s Civilization in America, a book which insinuates that there is little to be proud of in America. He points with pride to honorable actions by desperate men. Echoes of these stories can be found in Rhodes s fiction. He ends with our greatest tradition : Don t flinch; don t foul, hit the line hard!

Gene Rhodes on The Great Tradition: foibles, fiction and facts of the moment as the most confirmed living westerner views them. [#130-2] Touring Topics. Vol. 25 no. 6 Pp.17, 68 & 71. (May, 1933).

Rhodes quotes liberal Huey Long s plan to tax the super-rich of the day. He also quotes a book by ultra-conservative James Truslow Adams that describes the concentration wealth and power and notes that to answer an opinion with an epithet is an admission of a poor cause or a poor defender. Rhodes points out that the only failing of the book is the lack of will to do something about corruption. Adams wondered whether the actions of abolitionists actually benefited those who were freed. Rhodes dryly suggests that those freed are the best judges of the matter. Rhodes also credits Roosevelt and Congress for trying to improve economic conditions. [Incorrect page numbers are given for Continued on and Continued from. ]

Gene Rhodes on Bunk Holidays. [#126] Touring Topics . v. 25, no. 7 Pp. 19 & 34 (June, 1933)

Rhodes wonders why Americans emulate Europeans and why the rich are free to profit while the poor starve. Rhodes compares America s policy toward the Philippines to Japan s policy in Manchuria, explains why leaving the gold standard was no real loss, and welcomes forthcoming relief efforts. He finishes by recommending the World Almanac and Max Miller s He Went Away for Awhile.

Zane Grey s Western Magazine

Bell-The-Cat (short story) [#105] Zane Grey s Western Magazine Dec 1947

Wizard of Finance (short story) [#131] Zane Grey s Western Magazine Mar/Apr 1947. Pp. 144 to 153. Appeared in West is West on pages to 346 to 363 as The Enchanted Valley and Wizard of Finance.

Strays and Mavericks

These are the "drags" of the herd. Some are unbranded, some are oddities.

[Hutchinson lists Laus Deo! It is Done (poem) [#132] as January 1900. The paper has no notations of where it appeared. I believe it may have been a copy of Whittier's poem that was in EMR's papers because he liked it. ]

The Battle of Mutton Hill [#146] (series of articles) March 15, 16, and 18, 1918, Binghampton, NY Press The importance of farmers in the war effort (WW I).

America and the Young Intellectual, Review. The Step Ladder (Publication of the Bookfellows) April, 1922. Rhodes was Bookfellow number 95.

The Triumph of the Egg, Review. The Step Ladder (Publication of the Bookfellows) April, 1923.

An Oversight, Comment. The Step Ladder (Publication of the Bookfellows) October, 1923. A response to Mencken's threat to reprint, "with a gloss," Stuart Sherman's "American and Allied Ideals."

The Men who Made the West, commentary. The Literary Digest International Book Review, January, 1924. Emerson Hough's North of '36. Stuart Henry had panned the book in a previous edition as being unrealistic. Rhodes calls out Henry as being both much less familiar with the cattle country and for disrespecting the people of the frontier.

A Committee of One. Unpublished but purchased by SEP. NMSU Box 1 Folder 4. Essay about Prohibition. Rhodes had seen many lives destroyed by alcohol and thought that Prohibition was an experiment worth making, but also felt that both sides were being asses. Contains this quote:

"Both sides, as if by secret agreement, build upon assumptions which are obviously false. They make statements which the writer knew to be false when he penned them, which the editor knew to be false when he printed them, and which you knew to be false when you read them."

Dogberry and the Watch. Unpublished? NMSU Box 1 Folder 4. Post-script to A Committee of One. Contains this quote:

"The first communication was a kind and friendly invitation to join the Authors and Artists Committee of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. (I do not want to be finicky--but it almost seems that two hundred noted writers ought to manage a better name than that. Something snappy, rhythmical, debonair--if you get what I mean...)"

Dr. Nickle--Mr. Dime Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1932
Editorial in favor of a library bond issue.

Frontier Fighter: The Autobiography of George W. Coe. (Review. Published by Houghton Mifflin?). "For fifty years I have known of George Coe as an honorable and truthful man. The picture he gives us has no touch of Hollywood." The book under review was published in 1934 and detailed the Lincoln County War. Rhodes gives his opinions about the range war, stating that the combatants were not fiends and were part of civilizing the west. He sees the McSween/Tunstall faction (The Regulators) as having started as rebels "against the ancient firm of Business, Politics, and Crime" and the other side as having no choice after the murders of Baker, Morton, Brady, and Hindman. Rhodes states that he believes Coe's account of the killing of Bernstein that clears Billy the Kid.

God s Badgered Men [#147] originally titled Stepchildren of the States Santa Fe New Mexican Nov. 24, 1949, a chapter from Rhodes unfinished nonfiction book. NMSU Box 1 Folder 6.

Old Timers: Oliver Loving and His Friends (unpublished history) Biographical work about the "Old Timers" of Rhodes' New Mexico. Rhodes wanted to do an extensive book on them, but it did not happen. Rhodes describes Oliver Loving as the "first man to trail cattle from Texas" and took them all the way to Illinois. Later, he herded cattle for the South during the Civil War. After the war, Loving herded with the famous Charlie Goodnight, whose letter is included in the manuscript. The drivers were attacked by Comanche warriors in 1867 and Loving was shot and stayed behind to let others get away. "He escaped with nothing but his underwear and hat and traversed that terrible thorny country barefoot." After three days without food and water, he was picked up. Eventually, his arm had to be amputated and he died of complications.

Rhodes states that Texans ended the Lincoln County War, but did not start it. He states that Texans have done a lot of the work of "West-winning; like the Army men, they have had small thanks for their pains."

Out West 1921. Screenland Magazine, p. 27. [no information available]

The Souvenir: A tragedy (humorous autobiographical play) Unublished? Rhodes is asked to do many chores around the farm.

A Title in search of a text Unpublished? NMSU Box 1 Folder 4. Letter of objection to an article called "Literature in the Open Spaces" by Nelson Antrim Crawford, which appeared in the October 1932 American Mercury (pp 237-245).

Rhodes states that Crawford "snarled and spat" instead of actually discussing the title topic. Rhodes recommended the following as examples of good literature: The Life of an Ordinary Woman; Mesa, Canyon [Can~on, but need to find special character] and Pueblo; The Land of Little Rain; Laughing Boy, Apache; A Certain Rich Man; The Splendid Wayfaring; The Log of a Cowboy; Wolf Song; The House of Sun-Goes-Down; Some Recollections of a Western Rancher; Vandermark's Folly; A Lantern in Her Hand; The Great Plains; The Prairie Wife; Ma Pettingill; Caballeros; Dancing Gods; The Delight Makers; Taming of the Frontier; Coronado's Children; The Land of Journeys' Endings; and the poems of H.H. Knibbs, Sharlot Hall, Gertrude Ross, and Stanley Vestal.

The Road to Nowhere. Apparently unfinished and unpublished sequel to No Mean City [#69].

During WWI, El Paso. Uncle Ben travels from Engle, through Las Cruces, and on to El Paso. He explains the reason for the railway's route. Elmer Lane, his old friend, jumps on the train in Las Cruces and Uncle Ben describes the explosion near Engle as an accident because he is being followed. Uncle Ben is headed to see Jake Pickens, M.D., who long ago married Ruby Berry (to Elmer's dismay). Uncle Ben finds that he has a short time to live. He wants to round up the other German agents and prevent them from stirring up trouble between the US and Mexico. He plans to enlist Jim Haskell, a railroad baron who started out a poor freighter in Engle. The manuscript I have ends before the meeting with Haskell.

The story begins with descriptions of three men who were master craftsmen, Milt Bagby was an Illinois tanner and Civil War veteran who died in 1905. Jesse "Cap" Wheeler raised mules in Carthage Missouri. He was a Confederate Captain in the Civil War and he died halfway through WWI. Lute Winchell made wagons for the Southwest in Chetopa, Kansas and died in 1911. Their significance to the story is unclear.

Screenplays

Note: I have not seen any of the silent films. The numbers I have given for the stories are my best guess.

Colt .45 episode: Rare Specimen. Season 1, Episode 17. 1958. (story, Consider the Lizard [#6])

Suspence: The Fool's Heart (January 16,1951) (story, [#67])

Four Faces West (1948) aka They Passed This Way (UK) (novel, Paso Por Aqui [#1]) Harry Sherman Pictures/United Artists. Available on DVD. Description and review

The Wildcat (1924) (story, said to be A Prince of Tonight [#118], though the synopsis isn't much like the story)

The Mysterious Witness (1923) (novel, The Stepsons of Light [#72]) Robertson-Cole Pictures Corp. Robert Gordon as Johnny Brant, Elinor Fair as Ruth Garland. Directed by Seymour Zeliff.

Good Men and True (1922) (story, [#2]) Robertson-Cole Pictures Corp. Harry Carey as John Wesley Pringle, Viola Vale as Georgie Hibbler, Directed by Val Paul.

Sure Fire (1921) (story, said to be Bransford of Rainbow Range [#3a], but the plot seems quite different, including making Elinor rather passive) Hoot Gibson is Jeff Bransford and Fritzi Brunette is Elinor Parker, Directed by John Ford

The Wallop (1921) (story, Desire of the Moth [#17] or "The Girl He Left Behind Him") with Harry Carey as John Wesley Pringle, Bill Gettinger as Christopher Foy, Mignonne Golden as Stella Vorhis and John Ford directing. (working title "The Homeward Trail")

West Is West (1920) (story, Dick [#139]) Universal Film Mfg. Co. with Harry Carey, Directed by Val Paul.

The Desire of the Moth (1917) (story, [#17]) Blue Bird Photoplays, Inc. with Monroe Salisbury in the lead.

The Bad Samaritan (1916) (story, A Neighbor [#114])

Board-Bill Dodgers (1915) (scenario) Does not appear to correspond to any of Rhodes's published works. Jimmy Aubrey, Walter Kendig

The Fool's Heart (1915) (story, [#80]) Directed by Webster Cullison, starring Norbert A. Myles, Edna Payne, and Franklin Hall.

The Awaited Hour (1915) (story, [#81]) William Cliffor as Frank Colby, Violet Mersereau as Mrs. Colby. William E. Shay as the Chaplain

Within an Inch of His Life (1914) (story, Wildcat Represents [#79])

Bransford in Arcadia or, The Little Eohippus aka Little Eohippus (1914) (story, [#3]) Eclair Film Co.

The Blunderer's Mark (1914)(story, [# 92])

The Bar Cross Liar (1914) (scenario) (story, [# 90])

Sealed Orders (1914) (scenario, [#119])

The Heart of Carita (1914) (scenario) Does not appear to be based on any of Rhodes's published works.

[The Stirrup Brother (1914) (scenario) According to IMBD, this was written by O Henry, despite being listed by Hutchinson.)]

Biographical Material

A Bar Cross Liar: Bibliograpy of Eugene Manlove Rhodes who loved the west-that-was when he was young. W. H. Hutchinson.1959. Stillwater: Redlands Press. San Diego: Hutchison & Hutchison, 1982, New York: Harper, 1985. 95 Pp. An annotated list of Rhodes s work with other material.

A Bar Cross Man; the life & personal writings of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. W. H. Hutchinson. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. Includes checklist of Rhodes s Writings.

A Dedication to the memory of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. James K. Folsom, Arizona and the West, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1969), pp. 311-314.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Clem Yore, Hooves and Horns. 1935?

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, American, William MacLeod Raine. 1946, 1945 Brand Book, Ed. by Herbert O. Brayer, The Westerners, Denver.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Cowboy Chronicler. Edwin W. Gaston, Jr., Southwest Writers Series No. 11. 1967. Austin: Steck-Vaughn Co. 39 pages.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes--Himself. Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 13, 1917. p. 27 and 114.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Ken Kesey passed by here. Mark Busby, Western American Literature, Vol. 15, No. 2 (SUMMER 1980), pp. 83-92. Available on JStor.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes: spokesman for romantic frontier democracy. Jim Lawrence Fife. PhD. thesis, University of Iowa, 1965. Listing.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes Works Twenty Years on a Novel. Edwin Hunt Hoover. The Author and Journalist, Dec., 1927, p.5-7. Discusses Rhodes's work on one story for 10 years and another for 20. Rhodes states that he had the climax for both in mind at the start, but the characters didn't cooperate and he was worried about causing trouble for people on whom the characters were based. The author describes Rhodes enthusiasm for argument and his ability to listen. Rhodes reportedly felt themes were essential to stories and frequently drew on the bible for them. His writing method, including timelines and notebooks, is described. Rhodes reportedly relied on The Author and Journalist, Harry Stephen Keeler's web-work plot system, and Culpepper Chum's plot chart. It also recounts incidents from Rhodes's time in New Mexico.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, The Man Who Protected Oliver Lee and James Gililland 2018. Facebook: Legends of the Desert. Relates tale of Rhodes and friends safely turned the two men over to the law, potentially saving them from Pat Garrett's wrath in 1899.

Find a Grave: Eugene Manlove Rhodes.

Gene Rhodes, Cowboy. 1954. B. F. Day. Illustrated by Lorence F. Bjorklund. Julian Messner, Inc. New York. Weekly Reader Children s Book Club.

Gene Rhodes: Cowboy Novelist. J. Frank Dobie. Atlantic Monthly June, 1949, Pp. 75-77.

Los Paisanos. Julia Keleher. New Mexico Quarterly Review . Winter, 1946.

Hired Man on Horseback. Rhodes, May D. 1938. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. Approximately 6,000 copies. Contains some EMR works not published elsewhere: The Prairie Farmer [#53], a humorous take on who pays the freight; The Last L'Envoi [#54], "Kind old world, spin round the sun! Bright I found you and full of joy..."; At the Last Minute [#58],Christmas greeting with typographical humor; Epitaph [#55], EMR's cheerful take on his "last words." Audio version of portions of book.

I pay for what I break, W. H. Hutchinson, Western American Literature, Summer, 1966. Available on JStor

The Most Unforgettable Character I ve Met. May Davison Rhodes. The Reader s Digest. Pp. 21-26 January, 1954.

Memoirs: Episodes in New Mexico History 1892-1969, William A. Keleher, Chapter 15, Southwest Heritage Book No 5, 1969.Author describes the campaign to take care of Rhodes's grave. Describes a meeting with Bob Martin, who described how Rhodes enjoyed the hardest jobs and toughest broncos. He recalls that Rhodes claimed to have been in 50 fights, which Martin attributed to him being over-sensitive to criticism.

Passed by Here: A memorial to Gene Rhodes, Eddy Orcutt, The Saturday Evening Post, August 20, 1938. States that Harvard U. selected Paso por Aqui as supplemental reading.

My Salute to Gene Rhodes: A Christmas Remembrance from Bertha and Frank Dobie. J. Frank Dobie. 1947 12 pages.

Recollections of Gene Rhodes. New Mexico Magazine, February, 1953.

Recollections of a Western Ranchman: New Mexico, 1883-1889. French, William, 1928. New York: Frederick A. Stokes.

Sandpapers: The life and letters of Eugene Manlove Rhodes and Charles Fletcher Lummis. 1994. Frank M. Clark. Foreward by Keith Lummis.

Three Musketeers of Southwestern Fiction. A. M. Cleaveland, Overland Monthly, p. 385, December, 1929.
Essay on the works of Dane Coolidge, John M. Oskinson, and E. M. Rhodes

Trail Dust: New Mexico deputy's young killer never faced Justice. Marc Simmons. Santa Fe New Mexican, Nov. 6, 2015. Story of murder committed on Rhodes' ranch when he was absent. Rumors suggested he helped the killer escape, but Rhodes was adamant that he tried to help in the capture.

Trail Dust: Wrangler turned author once fled New Mexico. Marc Simmons. Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 11, 2013.

Virgins, Villians, and Varmints. W. H. Hutchinson, Huntington Library Quarterly, August, 1953. also found in The Rhodes Reader. Available on JStor.

The West & Eugene Manlove Rhodes. W. H. Hutchinson and W. C. Tuttle. Christmas 1960. Hutchinson describes why he dedicated so much of his life to "resurrecting" Rhodes. It was due to Hutchinson's own love of the southwest and to how Rhodes made it come alive in his stories. Contains a list of "Rhodesiana." It mentions an editorial in Collier's 11/29/24, "damning F.Scott Fitzgerald's ideas on educating the younger generation."

The West of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. W. H. Hutchinson, Arizona and the West IX, Autumn 1967, vol. 9, n. 3p. 211-218. Originally presented at the Eighth Annual Arizona Historical Convention, Tucson, May 5-6, 1967. Available on JStor.

American Memory, American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1940
Interview with Mrs. Bella Ostic 1
Interview with Mrs. Bella Ostic 2
Interview with Mrs. A.S. Hopewell
Interview with Howard Roosa

Decodings

A poetical key to Eugene Manlove Rhodes' Bransford in Arcadia or The Little Eohippus. Eidenbach, Peter L. [New Mexico]: [s.n.], 2001.

Most information gathered from A Bar Cross Liar by Hutchinson

Actual Person	Rhodes Alias
Carroll McCombs, cowboy during Rhodes s wrangling days	Dallas McComas and actual name
Cole Railston, Bar Cross Waddy	Cole Ralston
Jeff Bransford	Actual name
Eugene Rhodes	John Taylor, Jr (Bransford in Arcadia)
Eugene Rhodes	John Graham/Pat, Foamy White
Oliver Milton Lee, Democratic leader in Las Cruces	Christopher Foy
Hiram Yoast, Tombstone, AZ	Steve Wildcat Thompson and actual name
A.B. Fall, Democratic leader in Las Cruces	The Judge in The Come On
Sheriff Pat Garrett	The Eminent Person in The Come On, also actual name
Oliver Lee	The Stockman in The Come On
Ben Levy of El Paso	The Merchant in The Come On
Jose Espalin	Actual name
Will Rainboldt of Roswell	Dick Rainboldt
Emil James, Sheriff of Socorro CO	Actual name
Caradoc Hughes	Actual name
Reo Barringer	Leo Ballinger
Col. Rhodes	John Wesley Pringle
Johnny Dines	Actual name
Frank Bojorquez	Actual name
Tom Ross	Actual name
George Scarboro, AZ Ranger	George Scarborough
Dee Harkey	Pete Harkey
John Patten, Bar Cross Cook	Henry Enriquez

Actual Place	Rhodes Alias
Alamogordo	Arcadia
Deming	Target
Dona Ana	Tripoli
Las Cruces	Las Uvas
La Luz	Rainbow s End
Valley West of Las Cruces	Little World
Silver City	Argentine
Socorro	Saragossa
Tularosa	Oasis
White Oaks	Heart s Desire
Rhodes Pass	Moongate Pass
Organ Mountain and San Augustin Gap (West is West)	La Fontana moved a couple hundred miles N.E.
Magdalena	Magdalena, Ridgepole
Apalachin, NY	Abingdon, NY

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