Eugene Field and His Age

336 Pages·2000·1.158 MB·English

by  Lewis O. Saum

Eugene Field
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Lewis O. Saum
E F
UGENE IELD
and His Age
University of Nebraska Press
Lincoln &London
Publication ofthis volume was assisted by The Virginia
Faulkner Fund, established in memory ofVirginia Faulkner,
editor-in-chiefofthe University ofNebraska Press.
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saum, Lewis O.
Eugene Field and his age / Lewis O. Saum.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ---(cl : alk. paper)
. Field, Eugene, ‒. . Journalism—Illinois—
Chicago—History—th century. . Poets, American—
th century—Biography. . Journalists—United States—
Biography. . Chicago (Ill.)—Biography. . Chicago
(Ill.)—History. I. Title.
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To my wife, Judy

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
A Brief Field Chronology xi
Introduction 
1 The West 
2 Politics in Missouri 
3 Politics in the Nation 
4 Ball Games 
5 Theater 
6 The Literary Arena 
Epilogue 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Acknowledgments
Early in the research for this study a grant from the Hunting-
ton Library in San Marino, California, assisted me in doing work
there. Later, awards from the Richard E. Brownlee Fund at the State
Historical Society of Missouri aided me in the considerable work
that needed to be done there. On two occasions also, assistance came
my way from the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Fund at the
University of Washington. My gratitude goes to those institutions,
and my thanks go to various other libraries and repositories I visited
in the course of this project. Also, I thank Charles K. Field, a grand-
son of Eugene Field, for his friendly interest in my project and for
his willingness to have me use passages from Eugene Field’s letters.
Sometimes my wife Judy, also a historian, accompanied me on my in-
vestigative forays, doing her own research while making mine more
enjoyable. None of those who offered aid and encouragement to me
should in any way be thought responsible for waywardness or mis-
construction some might discern in what follows. Such unlovely
qualities will be mine alone.