A Postscript to "Songs of a Man Who Failed."
Lincoln, NE: Woodruff Press, ca. 1922. Broadside. 8 1/2 x 22 inches. First edition. A very good clean copy, a few minor chips and tears at the edges and folds. Item #33819
Parkhurst (1845-1933) joined the 16th Iowa at the age of 17 in 1862 and upon mustering out became a reporter in Iowa and was the author of numerous sketches and poems of the Civil War. He spent much of his life in and out of soldier's homes in California and Iowa in the early part of the 20th c. "Parkhurst was a particularly irascible and intolerant man... But his scathing account of life in soldiers' homes nevertheless offer insights into the tensions thatshaped veterans' place in society... [and] a dismal paraphrase of Dante ...summed up his point of view: 'Who enters here leaves pride and self-respect behind," (James Marten: Sing Not War, Univ. N. Carolina, 2011, p. 187). This postscript contains a long piece on Joaquin Miller. OCLC shows a single copy at the Henry Clinton Parkhurst Collection at Iowa State Hist. Soc.
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