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Ernest McGaffey
[Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors
242 (Boston: "MCGAFFEY, Ernest, lawyer, b. London, O[hio]., 1861. Now a resident of Chicago, Ill., where he practises his profession. Besides being identified as an author, Mr. McGaffey has standing as a sportsman and celebrant of the gun and rod." [Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), An American Anthology 1787-1899 809 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900)] McGaffey was a friend of Edgar Lee Masters during the 1890s and was associated with Masters and Clarence Darrow in the practice of law.
Poems [Mark] [A "Rise"] [Geronimo] [I Fear No Power a Woman Wields] [As the Day Breaks] Poetry Ernest McGaffey, Poems of Gun and Rod (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892) [online text] _____________, Poems (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895) [online text] _____________, A California Idyl (San Francisco, California: Published by the Channing Auxiliary, 1899)(illustrations by William H. Bull) _____________, Cosmos (Wausau, Wisconsin: The Philosopher Press, 1903) [online text] _____________, Sonnets to a Wife (St. Louis: W.M. Reedy, 1901)(St. Louis: W.M. Reedy, 1905)[online text] ([Los Angeles]: Printed by Wolfer & Co., 1922) _____________, Poems of the Town (Boston: R. G. Badger & Co., 1901) [online text] _____________, Ballades and Idyls (Los Angeles: Saturday Night Pub. Co., 1931) _____________, Ballades (Los Angeles: Graphic Press, 1938) _____________, War ([Los Angeles]: Lymanhouse, 1939) Writings Ernest McGaffey, Outdoors; a Book of the Woods, Fields and Marshlands (New York: C. Scribners's Sons, 1907) [online text] _____________, In the Beginning, God Created Desolation, Death Valley (Death Valley, California: Death Valley '49ers, 1981) Research Letters and Poems |