Frontier Ballads

Doubleday Page & Company, 1927. Hardback. Good. CLEAN!! No marks. Binding lightly shaken. Damp stain on top edge does not impact text. No dust jacket. Woodcuts by Paul Honore. . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) A somewhat discursive note on outlaws, murderers, pirates, hard-cases, rapscallions, and similar radiant figures -- 2.) New Mexican troubadours -- 3.) A night in a barroom -- 4.) When American is gringo -- Index to first lines. . . . . . Charles Joseph Finger (December 25, 1869 ? January 7, 1941) was a British born American writer. He also directed an orchestra and taught piano. Finger was born in Willesden, England, and educated at King's College London. He had a strong literary and musical formation, and was quite active in the Fabian movement. Finger was a keen disciple of Walt Whitman. . . At age 20 he began to travel extensively, visiting first Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia, where he worked as gold seeker, guide, and cook for the first sheep farming stations, in the period of Selknam genocide. He moved to New York and London, thereafter, and to a number of cities in Texas. He worked as an accountant and musician, eventually settling in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he began to concentrate on writing. -- Wikipedia