Letter to Edwin Ford Piper. Saint Paul, MN. 1926 Nov. 4.

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Letter to Edwin Ford Piper. Saint Paul, MN. 1926 Nov. 4.

Concerning Clark's impressions of Piper's book on a phase of American history in verse.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6769664

University of Iowa Libraries

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Piper, Edwin Ford, 1871-1939

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Edwin Ford Piper was born in 1871 in Auburn, Nebraska, a few miles west of the Missouri River. As farmers moved in and rangeland disappeared, his family moved farther west in Nebraska. While he was growing up, he listened to the songs, rhymes, square dancing calls, prayer meeting calls of the hired hands, hobos, itinerant fiddlers -- anyone who created music. He also learned songs from his mother Lucinda and his sister Ella. These folk expressions had a great effect upon Piper. In 1893, he enter...

Clark, Badger, 1883-1957

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Poet. Wrote on western themes. Father a founder of Dakota Wesleyan University (Mitchell, S.D.). Contracted tuberculosis while student there (1902) and moved to Arizona where worked as ranch hand. Returned to South Dakota (1910) and spent entire life there. Published poems include "Sun and Saddle Leather" (1915) and "Sky Lines and Wood Smoke" (1935). From the description of Charles Badger Clark papers, 1905-1967. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 35111112 Badge...