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Poetry and Commentary of
Ambrose Bierce, Duncan McPherson,
Dr. Charles William Doyle, and Other
Critics of Santa Cruz, California:
Chronology of Newspaper Articles and
Documentary Evidence of Their Relationship
“Things Made Immortal by the Kiss of Rhyme”
Compiled by
Stanley D. Stevens
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�Poetry and Commentary of
Ambrose Bierce, Duncan McPherson, Dr. Charles William Doyle
& Other Critics of Santa Cruz, California
Chronology of Newspaper Articles and Documentary Evidence of their relationship.
“Things Made Immortal
by the Kiss of Rhyme.”
Compiled by
Stanley D. Stevens
Santa Cruz, California
July 1, 1988; Revised May 9, 2019
Notes:
A correction needs to be made before going further; it's not a major point, but worthy of noting:
Dr. Charles William Doyle died on May 2, 1903, not the 6th as I had earlier noted. This error
came to light after reading his obituaries. The Cemetery records book that has been compiled by
local genealogists was done from various sources, apparently wrong in this case. Nevertheless,
May 2, 1903, is the correct date.
R. M. BELL, whose contributions appear herein, was Robert M. Bell, physician, of San
Francisco.
Josephine Clifford McCrackin, who wrote for Overland Monthly, inter alia, and also contributed
to the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper, as an occasional and later as a hired reporter, was one of
the writers whom Bierce visited at her place in the Santa Cruz Mountains on occasion. Her place
was called Monte Paraiso. See Stephen Payne’s book A Howling Wilderness: the Summit Road
of the Santa Cruz Mountains 1850-1906 [Santa Cruz : Loma Prieta Publishing Company, 1978.]
That biography of Mrs. McCrackin provides the context for the material that appears in the
following:
In 1913, George Wharton James published The Woman Who Lost Him and Tales of the Army
Frontier by Josephine Clifford McCrackin, with Introduction by Ambrose Bierce [Pasadena, Cal.
: George Wharton James, 1913].
Take notice of the photos which include Bierce, and the photo of McCrackin leaning on the
fireplace in the middle of the rubble of her burned-out Monte Paraiso; she is draped by Ambrose
Bierce’s cape.
A November 1973, article which appeared in American West (10:6 34-39, 63), by Dale L
Walker, was brought to my attention by a colleague (Donald T. Clark) and I thought it is most
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�useful. It provided me with additional context for understanding the Bierce mistique. It also has
useful bibliographic information.
Chronology of Newspaper Articles and Documentary Evidence of their relationship.
ITEM #1
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
March 2, 1894, p. 2, c. 4
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IN COURT
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Bierce in Examiner.
In another department of the paper I mentioned last week the litigation of Col. R. H.
Savage [Dick Savage of Santa Cruz], author, against Mr. F. Tennyson Neeley, publisher. Since
then I have received some “documents in the case” showing it to be the most important and
notable of its kind that ever came before an American court. In one feature it is, indeed, believed
to be unique, being the only instance in which an author has gone into court and compelled a
publisher to make an accounting for royalties withheld, or pay the sum claimed as due. It is not
likely to be the last case of the kind—not by many. Several authors—among them Charles
Warren Stoddard—have signified an intention to go up against this same pirate of the Spanish
Main and bear a hand at the job of degorging him of his plunder. For four years he has been
publishing Stoddard’s “Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes,” and has paid him in royalties the
gorgeous sum of fifty-one dollars and ten cents! As one of the robber barons of the book-writing
industry, I extend to Mr. Stoddard the itching palm of fellowship, and declare him a worthy
member of our millionaire combine.
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[NOTE: I believe the bracketed information in the above article was supplied by the Santa Cruz
Daily Sentinel, Duncan McPherson, Editor/Publisher.]
[The same article appeared in the Santa Cruz Evening Sentinel (same publisher) on March 3,
1897, p. 2, c.4]
[A poem by Richard Henry Savage, “The Little Lady of Lagunitas,” appears in the Santa Cruz
Daily Sentinel for November 16, 1895, p.2, c.3.]
ITEM # 2
Santa Cruz Sentinel
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�November 10, 1894, p. 3, c. 3 “Bell to Bierce.”
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“ED. SENTINEL: — When Mr. Bierce, in criticising Dr. Doyle’s sonnet, objects to the use of
“doth observe,” a “bastard indicative” made use of by Byron, Shakespeare, Keats, Tenyson,
Milton (for example), there is borne in upon us with the burst of a revelation the severely
exclusive character of Mr. Bierce’s critical faculty. How hard it must be for a man of his
sensitive nature to get any enjoyment out of this poor little world of ours, to whom even “most of
the great sonnets of our tongue are illegitimate,” and “the king of them all being quite irritating
in that way.” Sonnet writers like Keats, Wordsworth and Shakespeare, capable of giving
pleasure to the rest of us ignorant mortals, apparently only irritate poor Mr. Bierce, since in some
of their sonnets “the octet comprises three rhymes,” or even four occasionally. These latter Mr.
Bierce presumably never reads. To him there is, it seems, but one correct form for the sonnet.
As to Orpheus, there are those who would differ from Mr. Bierce even on that point.
Orpheus did not, as a matter of fact, succeed in finally winning Eurydice from the shades, and it
is easily supposable, with just a trifle more of imagination than Mr. Bierce is able to throw into
the subject, that the hard condition, through the non-fulfilment of which she was obliged to
return, may have been imposed on account of a lack of complete sympathy with Orpheus’ music,
on the part of those who had the matter in charge. This may quite possibly, as Dr. Doyle
suggests, have been due to the imperfect character of the instruments of Orpheus’ day.
When Mr. Bierce says that “in our tongue ‘er’ and ‘ur’ have not the same sound,” to what
tongue does he refer? Does he mean that spoken by the inmates of the Examiner sanctum, or is
he modestly making use of the editorial “our” in referring to his own personal pronunciation?
He can hardly be thinking of American speech. Webster, it is true, while considering that “the
most approved style of pronunciation” of the e in such words as term, mercy, is something
between the e in met and u in urge, admits that “many cultivated speakers both in England and
America give the e in such words the full sound of u in urge.” Without consulting further
authorities it may be said that under these circumstances it will be a difficult task for Mr. Bierce
to try to disseminate the Examiner sanctum speech among the common people, especially when
among the poets examples like the following can be easily found:
Returned ryhming with discerned, (Coleridge); hers with stirs, (J. R. Lowell); her with
myrrh, (Edwin Arnold); perverse with curse, (Browning); universe with curse, (Shelley); and so
on ad libitum.
While it may be well occasionally to consult metrical chiropodists if the feet in one’s
lines need attending to, yet there is one thing that other poets may learn from Dr. Doyle’s
experience. That is, not to submit their literary efforts to those who can see in the great masters
of poetry only metrical defects and faults of phrasing; in other words, not to cast their pearls
before — those who will submit them to a nitric acid test, which never was a fair test for a pearl.
One question I should like to ask in closing. Who is this Mr. Ambrose Bierce? Is he
known outside of his Examiner writings, or is he merely one of those writers for the press to
whom everything is gall that comes to their pen; who willingly sacrifice friendship, truth,
anything for the sake of a witty paragraph — a class of writers from which American journalism
is suffering at present. Or is he, on the other hand, a writer of ability led into evil ways by the
terrible demands made on the paid contributors of a great daily? I ask to enlighten my own
igfnorance, being a new comer in these parts.
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�R. M. Bell.
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ITEM # 3
Santa Cruz Surf
November 13, 1894, p. 2, c. 2 & 3 "THE SONNET.'
It seems an impertinence for any one so late in the day to try and say anything new about
the sonnet. Books and exhaustive articles by scholars and poets and critics have been written
about it by the score, and therefore nothing new need be expected here.
A lamentable lack of knowledge seems to prevail amongst sonneteers and their readers
about the form of the sonnet. The great English critic, Mr. Theodore Watts, who was assigned to
write the articles on Poetry and the Sonnet for the Encyclopedia Britannica, and may therefore be
considered an authority, says that there are four classes of sonnets in English literature.
First, the sonnet of Shakespeare consisting of three quatrains of alternate rhymes and a
concluding couplet.
Secondly, the sonnet of Milton in which he blends the octave and the sestet with the
daring of a genius that scorns all laws.
Thirdly, the sonnet of Petrarch, which consists of an octave of two rhymes and a sestet of
two or three rhymes. The law regulating the arrangement of the rhymes in the octave is never to
be infringed; it requires the first, fourth, fifth and eighth lines to rhyme and the second, third,
sixth and seventh. The rhymes of the sestet can be arranged as the writer pleases.
Fourthly, the sonnets of irregular form. It is in this class that some of the greatest sonnets
in the English language have been written, but it is true also that the mere sonneteer as
distinguished from the sonnet writer almost invariably uses this form. Mr. Theodore Watts was
evidently led to admit the claims of this last class of poems to be called sonnets from his personal
affection for Rossetti, whose troubles and discomforts in his last years Mr. Watts greatly
ameliorated, at whose death bed he was present, and whose memoirs he was assigned to write.
Rossetti was particularly sensitive to hostile criticism. An article that appeared in 1871 in
the Contemporary Review, which was written by Mr. Robert Buchanan, against the school of
"fleshly poets" led by Swinburne and Rossetti sank into the very soul of the latter and embittered
the last eleven years of his life; he fell into a condition of melancholia, and Rossetti’s friends
always claimed that Buchanan’s article was the primary cause of the depression of his spirits that
ended so disastrously.
Rossetti published altogether one hundred and sixty sonnets, of which fifty-four were
irregular in form, having three rhymes instead of two in the octave, and as Mr. Watts’ article on
the Sonnet appeared during Rossetti’s life time, and, as nobody could have known better than
Watts how morbidiy sensitive Rossetti was to criticism, it is fair to presume he created a fourth
class of sonnets to include his friend’s poems and thereby save him any pang that might have
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�resulted from telling him that, however beautiful his poems might be, they were not sonnets.
Were it not for this consideration of strong personal regard for, and close intimacy with, Mr.
Rossetti, Mr. Watts would doubtless have said that poems--especially the poems of modern
writers — claiming to be sonnets must conform to cast-iron laws which may not be set aside by
anyone, and that poems, however superlatively beautiful, that did not conform to these laws were
not sonnets. So that practically there are but two forms of sonnet for modern poets to use: the
Shakesperean and the Petrarchan, and it would be more proper and modest for modern writers to
work under the strict limitations of the Petrarchan sonnet than to use the greater freedom allowed
by the Shakesperean. The heaven-born poet may sing in his own way, but the rank and file of
the immense and growing army of poetasters will find, as a critic of much ability lately said,
“that the best work is done under the strictest limitations.” This is particularly true of the sonnet,
“whose scanty plot,” as Mr. Ambrose Bierce says, “is made ground.” The sonnet is to poetry
what the diamond is to gems, and a flaw in one is as fatal as a flaw in the other. The ordinary
writer is as little qualified to write a sonnet as a bricklayer is to cut and polish a diamond. The
difficulties that surround the writing of a sonnet in these days are increased by the severer
demands of modern criticism. Mr Theodore Watts says: “As a fine art English poetry is
receiving much attention at present. Defective rhymes, once allowable, and make-shift work in
general, are no longer tolerated. And we believe the time is not far distant when even such a
subject as vowel-compoeition (the arrangement of one vowel sound with regard to another) will
have to be studied with the care which the Greeks evidently bestowed upon it.”
The Sentinel for Nov. 10th had an article, written by Mr. R. M. Bell, complaining of what
appeared to him to be the needlessly severe criticism by Mr. Ambrose Bierce of such poetry as is
submitted to him. Mr. Bierce can doubtless take care of his own “poem-battered” head, but as he
is a professed critic and one who thoroughly understands his business he would fail in his duty
were he to give the sanction of his approval to inferior work, especially where the sonnet is
concerned.
The following poem shows the form of the Petrarchan sonnet and exemplifies the
wholesomeness of sound advice, for it was evoked after three spasms of production from the
pseudo-sonnet that Mr. R. M. Bell seeks to protect from Mr. Bierce and which even now totters
with difficulty on its spindle legs.
A SONNETEER TO HIS ILLEGITIMATE
SONNET
Hence, bastard bantling, to your sulphurous
cell
Your mincing phrases scarce support your
claims
To be admitted to the tempered flames
Where soaring Shelley’s, Wordsworth’s, sonnets
dwell;
That you should jostle them were far from well.
Your rawness, and your “doths,” and other
shames,
Which every school boy sees, and scorns,
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�and blames,
Deserve a roasting in the fires of hell.
You know the moods of love and mirth and
grief,
And o’er emotion’s realms hold ample sway?
What, you a singer with that piping voice?
O, cease your shrillings, give us some relief!
I’ll have you criticised ! yes that’s the way —
It’s worse than hell, and will my friends
rejoice.
C. W. DOYLE
ITEM # 4
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
November 28, 1894, p. 2, c. 2
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Ambrose Bierce in the Examiner.
R. M. Bell, of Santa Cruz, has struck a streak of hard luck. Dr. C. W. Doyle, of his town,
a clever man with a neatish knack at rhyming, sent me a manuscript sonnet, asking me to print it
if it seemed good enough, and point out it[s] faults. The sonnet was printed and what I
conceived to be its faults duly pointed out. Thereupon ensued the Bell, stirring his long clapper
in the SENTINEL in championship of the injured poet and fierce denunciation of the
presumptious critic. Straightway appears the smiling Dr. Doyle, in the Surf, gracefully
acknowledging the justice of my criticism, saying pleasant things about me and tranquilly
repudiating the brazen slambanging of the Bell. After this amusing incident who shall say that
the rough and thorny path of the luckless satirist has not, here and again, short reaches ordered
with meadowsweet and gallingale. Occasionally, too, it proffers something soft and warm to sit
upon and rest when wayweary—Mr. Bell, for example.
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Among other objections to Dr. Doyle’s sonnet, I based one upon the “illegitimacy of its
form.” That roused the sleeping swine in Mr. Bell’s upper entrail and evoked from the heart of
Dr. Doyle the following ingenious lines in proof that he can write a legitimate sonnet if he
choose:
A SONNETEER TO AN ILLEGITIMATE
SONNET.
Hence, bastard bantling, to your sulphurous cell !
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�Your mincing phrases scarce support
your claims
To be admitted to the tempered flames
Where soaring Shelley’s, Wordsworth’s,
sonnets dwell;
That you should jostle them were far from
well.
Your rawness, and your “doths,” and
other shames,
Which every school boy sees, and scorns,
and blames,
Deserve a roasting in the fires of hell.
You know the moods of love and mirth
and grief,
And o’er emotion’s realms hold ample
sway?
What, you a singer with that piping
voice?
O, cease your shrillings — give us some relief!
I’ll have you criticised ! — yes that’s the
way —
It’s worse than hell and will my
friends rejoice.
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ITEM # 5
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
November 28, 1894, p. 2, c. 4
[Written for the Sentinel.]
“SONNET.”
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When the gods gave us, pitying man’s sad
plight.
The gift of wit, they said, “O man, behold
An influence mightier than fear or gold.
See that thou use this weapon for the
right!”
Since then, what wrongs have fallen by
its might?
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�Foul superstition flees the conqueror
bold;
Corruption’s walls are leveled, falsehoods old
Are slain; long prisoned worth is brought
to light.
Yet ‘gainst things high and holy when it
is turned,
Their pure light, glinting on the blade
of wit,
Smites him who wields; each time by
eyes thus burned
Less clearly the heights of truth can be
discerned,
Buft poisoned with coarse vulgarity, ‘tis
fit
That he’s most injured who has struck
with it.
R. M. BELL.
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ITEM # 6
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
November 12, 1895, p. 2, c.2
“Ambrose Bierce, the hired critic of the Examiner, was at his post in that sheet last Sunday. This
fact proves the falsity of the statement that he had been discharged. It may be that his name got
mixed up with some discharged Bierce. Possibly, the absence of the Bierce stuff from the
columns of the Examiner for a number of Sundays led some one to conclude that the Monarh of
metropolitan dailies had given him the grand bounce. Not so, no so. Hearst has money, and the
men who write for him and want to get it will not criticise in the direction he wants to throw
taffy.”
ITEM # 7
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
November 14, 1895, p. 2, c. 1 [no head] “It is said that the intellectual powers of Ambrose
Bierce, the hired critic of the Examiner, are waning. This is unfortunate. The country needs a
dyspeptic scold, and he is a good one, Shakespear [sic, no "e" printed in original. sds], Byron,
Burns, Longfellow, all had their critics, and smaller writers must have theirs, some one to bite
’em, “fleas ad infinitum.””
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�ITEM # 8
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
November 27, 1895, p. 2, c. 1: [no head] “Mr. Bierce has run afoul of a victim who will not stay
crushed. The victim’s name is William Greer Harrison, who criticizes the writings of the satirist
with much acumen, if not with the bitterness that Bierce criticizes his. The fact seems to be that
Bierce is no longer a Bogie Man to people who write, act, think, do business and mind their own.
He has played that role for years, but he has lost his power to scare. — Alameda Argus.
And yet Bierce has apes and admirers among a class of men who think the power to
abuse the best evidence of genius. If this is genius, genius he has.”
[The latter comment is typical of McPherson’s style. He frequently ran clips from other
newspapers and then added his own comment. sds]
[PREFACE TO ITEM # 9:]
[It seems that R. M. Bell was not the only critic of Bierce in Santa Cruz.]
Mark Tapley wrote for the Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel from his location in the Santa Cruz
Mountains, Highland. He wrote a regular column called: “Sense & Nonsense”, as well as poetry
and criticism. For an example, on November 28, 1895 (p. 3, c.4) he published a poem directed
against Phil Francis, author/editor of a book about Santa Cruz County, [Beautiful ] Santa Cruz
County (San Francisco : H. S. Crocker Co., 1896). Again, on December 21, 1895 (p.2,c.3
SCDS) he followed a poem written about “Bonita May” with this: “And now mark tapley has a
few words to say to Phil Francis (the cheerful idiot)”, — a poem for Francis. I do not know the
chronological span of his association with SCDS. On November 13, 1895 (p.3, c.4) he wrote “A
Farewell Social...” in which he said that “This will be the last letter I can write from this place
[Highland, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 15 miles from Santa Cruz, and very near the
home of Josephine Clifford McCrackin and the Hotel Bohemia where Bierce stayed when he
visited the latter.], as my vacation is at an end and I must now travel, but I shall continue to write
for the Sentinel from the places I visit on my tour around the world....” And, on November 19th
(p. 2, c.3) he wrote “Good-Bye to Highland”and a poem “Santa Cruz, the Beautiful City by the
Sea.”
ITEM # 9
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
December 5, 1895, p. 1, c. 5 & 6
“Sense and Nonsense by Mark Tapley.”
Editor Bowman of the Los Gatos Mail has a temper of such sweetness that comb honey is used
in Los Gatos for pickling cucumbers. Two weeks ago I referred to his paper inadvertently as The
Times, and that heavenly man did not resent it! Small wonder that he is imposed on by the
mountain love-poets. However, he has taken action for his relief by appointing me to guard his
peace; and I if I do not clean the whole Santa Cruz range of the sighers and dreamers that infact
its junggles I’m Dunc. Macpherson, the Upward Oswump of the Mount of Song!
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�So writes the once brilliant wit and famous journalist, Ambrose Bierce, in last Sunday’s
Examiner.
What a task for a man whose articles need to be a household word, but who for the last
few years has substituted blasphemy for logic, personal abuse for criticism, and vulgar and
unmeaning words for the beautiful sentences that used to flow from his masterly pen.
The man who in days gone by dared to expose wrong, ridicule folly and champion the
right is now going to bring some of the remaining force of his critical abilities to bear upon the
simple utterances of love-sick swains or ambitious school boys, who write their little rhymes or
unpretentious essays to their county paper for the pleasure of seeing their names in print, or to
gain an approving smile from their mother or sweetheart.
Verily whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. But simple as this task may
appear to the Goliath of journalism, I hope that I shall live to see him succeed in awakening a
fearless young David who, trusting for guidance in the all-wise and omnipotent Creator whom
his boasting opponent defies and blasphemes, will boldly stand out and give him battle, and
perhaps even find a pebble of truth that will enter the supposed invulnerable armor of his
haughty antagonist.
For the Santa Cruz mountains are infested with poets and dreamers, as Mr. Bierce puts it,
but they no longer live in jungles, for the hills and valleys are now dotted with Christian homes
occupied by manly man and pure and devoted women, and blessed and brightened by the merry
laughter and innocent prattle of loving and happy children, and the very air they breathe instills
the love of all that is good and beautiful into their grateful hearts.
They are nature’s true poets, peculiar to the romantic spot in which they have chosen to
dwell, and the great critic might as well try to hush the countless feathered songsters that sing
from the branches of the soaring redwood trees upon which they love to cluster as to drown with
the discordant croaking of his ground-out rhyme and prose the happy songs that swell from the
toneful souls of the poetical mountainers.
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With all his bitter disdain for the poetry that other people write, Mr. Bierce ventures to
attempt to warble occasionally himself, and as he has been so unmerciful to our poets and
dreamers let us see what kind of a song-bird he is. Here is a sample of the melodious manner in
which he sings, and which he must consider to be one of his master-pieces, as he inflicts it for
the second time on his readers:
No doubt, McAllister, you can explain
How honorable ‘tis to lie for gain.
Provided only that the jury’s made
To understand that lying is your trade.
A hundred thousand volumnes, broad and
flat.
(The Bible not include) prove that
Have been put forth, but still the doubt
remains
If God has read them with befitting pains,
No Morrow could get justice, you’ll declare,
If none who knew him foul affirmed him
fair.
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�Ingenious man! how easy ‘tis to raise
An argument to justify the course that pays!
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The Bible not include. Great Scott!
Surely this is a compositor’s mistake; he never could have been guilty of writing such stuff.
Upon my word, there is scarcely a bright school boy living on the Santa Cruz mountains but
would be ashamed of fathering such silly twaddle, and though most of our boys could excel him
in rhyme, and metre, I am proud to say it would be a difficult matter to find one who would be
guilty of attempting to compose such as lot of muddled-up, obscure, blasphemous trash. To read
it over is, figurately speaking, like riding in an empty, springless dust cart over the rough cobblestones that disfigure the streets of this city. Still he sings, and we must call him some kind of a
bird, and I think I can find an appropriate one for him.
Some years ago when I was in a concert hall in New York a vocalist appeared upon the
stage and commenced, out of time and tune, to sing, “Oh, would I were a bird.” She got no
further, for an indignant and disgusted English sailor (half seas over) arose from his seat and in a
loud tone of voice cried, “Which you are mum; you are aye hold howl.”
Yes, yes, he is a bird, but, poets of the mountains, he is one whose discordant croaking
you should drown with the simple little songs with which your hearts are overflowing.
And dreamers, it is time for you to wake and put your thoughts into words. Too long
have the Ambrose Bierces of journalism held their pernicious sway; too long unrebuked have
they defied our great Creator, ridiculed eternal truth, and sneered at religious patriotism and
manhood. Up and at them, all of you, and cause them to think they struck a hornet’s nest when
they disturbed your peaceful slumbers.
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In heaven’s name, what will that class of men attempt to deprive us of next? Not
satisfied with trying by their silly sneers and ridicule to turn our hearts from the love and
reverence of the kind and merciful Giver of all good, that our fathers and mothers taught us to
worship, they now would, if they could, prevent us from attempting to describe the beauties of
nature, the love we feel for our native land or the admiration we entertain for the loss that has
won our affection.
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How strange it is that critics are so fond of asses. The following is from Ambrose
Bierce’s article:
“No man,” says ex-Secretary Whitney,
“can truthfuly say he would not like to
be President.”
Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride
Of qualities to meaner beasts denied,
Surveys the jackass with respect and fear,
Adoring his superior length of ear,
And says: “No living creature, lean or fat,
But wishes in his heart to be like That!”
If that means anything it means that the man is a jackass who gains the highest office a
free people in a great and glorious land can confer, and as it is said that all men would like to
attain that exalted position, all men are (in the critic’s opinion) asses.
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�“Mr. Bierce not include” perhaps he forgot to add, but with true mountain
openheartedness we will not only include him but his little Prattler also and try to do it in his
own style of asinine rhyme:
A FREAK.
On reading Balaam had an ass,
And was by it instructed,
Our Ambrose gazing in a glass,
A bright idea deducted,
I’ll mount, one too, and ride to fame,
With braying, noise and rattle,
And as my ass must have a name
I’ll call it “Weekly Prattle.”
So on he rode and brayed aloud
In most discordant measure,
And for his master drew a crowd
(He proved indeed a treasure).
For people crowded ’round to see
One ass another straddle,
And shouted with approving glee,
Gee, woo, there. Weakly Twaddle.
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ITEM # 10
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
December 13, 1895, p. 2, c.1:
“It is said that Ambrose Bierce, the Prattle editor of the Sunday issue of the Examiner, is to go to
New York to work on Hearst’s Journal. Being about played out in San Francisco he should go
somewhere — anywhere. His stuff, entirely Bierceonian, will undoubtedly take well in the East
while its newness lasts.”
ITEM # 11
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
January 1, 1896, p. 2, c.2 & 3 & 4
Sense and Nonsense by Mark Tapley.
[Written for the SENTINEL.]
———
Some few weeks ago, when replying to an article written by Ambrose Bierce, ridiculing
the poets and dreamers of Santa Cruz, amongst other things I said:
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�Verily whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. But simple as this task may
apper to the Goliath of journalism, I hope that I shall live to see him succeed in awakening a
fearless young David who, trusting for guidance in all-wise and omnipotent Creator whom his
boasting opponent defies and blasphemes, will boldly stand out and give him battle, and perhaps
even find a pebble of truth that will enter the supposed invulnerable armor of his haughty
antagonist.
And on reading my mail to-day I find that in part my hope has been realized. The
Goliath of skeptical and personal journalism has been attacked and defeated. But it was not by
one of the Santa Cruz poets, whom I had learned to love and admire so much during my short
stay amongst them, but by Wm. Greer Harrison, the famous poet, dramatist and journalist, a man
fuly Mr. Bierce’s equal in intellectual stature and a popular, generous-hearted Christian
gentleman.
Glancing over the account of the battle is very much like reading the story of the
engagement betwixt David and Goliath, as recorded in Holy Writ, a story with which no doubt
most of our readers are familiar.
Ambrose Bierce appeared as usual in his customary place (Weekly Examiner, Dec. 5th),
defying and ridiculing all that is pure and sacred; pouring forth his usual mass of blasphemous
and vulgarly-worded challenge. To his surprise a champion stood up before him.
Goliath ridiculed David because he was a stripling; and the haughty critic sneeringly
referred to Mr. Harrison as a “prentice hand.” David made a modest yet manly reply, and Mr.
Harrison answered in these words:
Let me explain myself to Mr. Bierce. He has been the Bogie Man of San Francisco for
quite a number of years; he has frightened a great many people; he has destroyed some people;
he has brought tears to many a woman’s eyes, and he has brought the indignant oath to many an
honest man’s lips, and so he has been a terror. I have discovered him to be a stuffed man.
Goliath retorted with foul words and threats. Mr. Ambrose Bierce hurled the following
language at his undaunted foe: “Rogue, ignoramus, amusing impostor, mutton-head, unearthly
person, niggeramus, scalawag, toggle jointed, blood wump, plantigrades,” etc.
A volley of abuse like this had often demoralized and disheartened a less corageous
antagonist, but had no effect on this “prentice hand,” who aptly replied:
He utters and mutters and sputters
The filth that belongs to the gutters.
Daniel O‘Connell, the Liberator, thought it necessary to silence a notorious scold—a
coarse, vulgar fish wife of Dublin—and he did so by calling her a rectangular hypotenuse. Mr.
Bierce is a vulgar fraction.
Goaded to fury by the calmness and daring of our champion, the critical giant with a
great flourish attempted to make an end of his tormentor by charging him with falsehood. He
said:
Here are some of the things which this remarkable scholar, poet, critic and wit has
uttered, for our virtues.
He says that Shakespeare frequently begins a blank verse passage with a couplet—which
is, of course, false.
Then like David Mr. Harison picked up the pebble of truth and hurled it right home. He
replied:
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�Mr. Bierce proclaims his gross ignorance in charging me with falsehood when I said that
Shakespeare frequently opened a passage of blank verse with a rhyming couplet. Apparently he
has never read Shakespeare, but doubtless his readers have. The following passages will be of
interest to them, and in reading them they will see how utterly false Ambrose Bierce is.
In all the quoted passages Shakespeare uses a rhyming couplet introducing his blank
verse:
“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” act 2, scene 7, Julia begins a blank-verse passage with a
couplet:
“Counsel, Lucetta: gentle girl, assist me.
And even in kind love I do conjure thee.”
“The Comedy of Errors,” act 4, scene 1, opens with a couplet preceding blank verse:
“You know since Pentecost the sum is due,
And since I have not much importuned
you.”
“Richard the II,” act 2, scene 1, King Richard opens blank passage with a couplet, and is
immediately followed by York, who does the same thing:
“The ripest fruit first falls land so doth he;
His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.”
“How long shall I be patient? Ah, how long,
Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?”
In act 4, same play, scene 1, King Richard again opens a blank verse-passage with a
couplet:
“Ay, no! No, ay! For I must nothing be;
Therefore, no, no, for I resign to thee.
“Henry the VI,” part 1, act 3, scene 3, La Pucelle opens a blank-verse passage with a
couplet:
“Besides, all French and France exclaims on
thee,
Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.”
“Henry the VI,” part 2, act 3, scene 2, Warwick begins a blank-verse passage with a
couplet:
“But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee
And I should rob the deathsman of his fee.”
“Julius Ceasar,” act 1, scene 1, Marullus opens a blank-verse passage with couplet:
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�“Wherefore rejoice, what conquest brings
he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome?
“Pericles,” scene 1, act 1, opens blank-verse passage with couplet:
“See where she comes appareled like the
spring,
Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the
King.”
In the same play, act 2, scene 4, Helicanus opens blank-verse passage with couplet:
“No, Escanes, know this of me,
Antiohus from incest lived not free.”
And these are only a few of a large number of instances where Shakespeare employs this
method of introducing blank verse.
Mr. Bierce may object to Shakespeare. Let him turn to Ben Jonson, and there he will find
numerous instances of a similar use of the couplet.
This exposure of Bierce’s ignorance clearly indicates his illiteracy.
After this he proceeded to cut the fallen giant to pieces, and the skillful manner in which
he did it was a treat to every one who read Wm. Greer Harrison’s article criticizing Ambrose
Bierce in the Sunday Call, Dec. 8th.
I was very well pleased to see that the battle had taken place, and yet I feel almost sorry
for the poor giant—he was so easily beaten, but as Mr. Harrison says that he discovered he was a
stuffed man, I hope that it was only the stuffing that was destroyed, and that in future he will be
what he was in the days gone by, the clean, caustic, fearless critic and gentleman—Ambrose
Bierce. Mr. Bierce gave to me (unintentionally, it is true) good cause for self-congratulations,
for he fell into the mistake of thinking the simple little songs and articles that were written and
composed by me were the work of Duncan McPherson, the able and successful journalist and
orator of Santa Cruz.
He could not have flattered me more if he had used the choicest words even his pen could
inscribe.
I see my friend, the enemy, Phil Francis, is chafing under the little trick I played upon
him in my last article. Poor young man. I confess that I was rather hard upon him, and do not
wonder at his display of feeling, and so I intend to have mercy on him this week and let him off
lightly.
There is one thing in his article, however, I must notice. He doubts the truth of the story
(as I told it) of the very pert young man, but if he will ask any of his German friends they will (I
feel sure) tell him that such tricks are often played on would-be linguists.
I have seen it done not only in Germany, but also in New York, New Orleans and San
Francisco. Mr. Francis charges me with falsehood for saying that I was in Germany. Once more
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�he has thrown a boomerang, for I have been not only in Germany, but also in very many different
parts of the world, among the others Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Ireland, Wales,
the West India Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Sandwich Islands, Ceylon, Java, India,
Brazil and Mexico, in addition to having visited and resided for short or long periods in very
many of the principal cities in our country, both on the Atlantic and Pacific slopes.
Let me add that the sentence in German was written as it is pronounced on purpose to
draw attention to it, though I confess that all the credit for this “respectable old trick” is not due
to me, for the gentleman that set up the type aided me charmingly by improving on my
“mistake.” A very foxy trick to play on such a verdant youth as you are, was it not, Phil? You
don’t know me yet, my cheerful friend. I am not the kind of bird you think I am. You are a little
too green, as you term it, for me to play with, but as you say you want to have lots of fun with
me, I want to accommodate you, and perhaps occasionally have just a quiet little laugh to myself.
Just think of it, mark tapley laughing at Mr. Phil Francis, the real, live, funny man, with a
circus (in his head?). “Oh fillip, fillip, it is a sight at which the hevens should drop.”
Oh, by the by, you want to know what Bonita’s doll was laying. Chestnuts, chestnuts,
she was laying chestnuts. My poor innocent, you had better lay in a fresh supply as your present
stock is in need of reorganizing. They are strong, fitly, very strong. Your present supply of
chestnuts has long, grey whiskers on the, my poor boy.
When you can grow a crop of whiskers like that which is upon your poor dear old
chestnuts, you will perhaps be able to poke fun at mark tapley, but at present you are “not in it”.
I admit that in the use of vulgar language and insulting remarks you can far outshine me,
but to tell you the truth I do not desire to either acquire that habit or have anything to say to the
man that has acquired it, for like every other foul disease, it is “catching,” and so I now, for the
last time, refer to or notice you, unless you can write like a gentleman. If you do that I will do
my best to amuse yolu, but I don’t want to get into the habit of calling a fellow creature out of his
name. It is one that only an ignorant blackguard should be found guilty of, and is an insult to the
readers of any respectable newspaper.
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ITEM # 12
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
February 23, 1896, p. 2, c.2
[Here is a good example of obscurity: The Santa Cruz Sentinel is quoting the Fresno Expositor,
who was quoting the Stockton Record]:
“Bierce , as the ambassador of the Examiner, never knew how really great he was until now.
The newspapers are dissecting him in an attempt to find a vulnerable spot in his flesh, and in
speaking of this the Stockton Record says: “His mantle of egotism is wrapped so tightly around
him that it protects him from all the world, including himself, for the ordinary man sometimes
does realize he has made an ass of himself.””
[Also in this issue (p. 2, c. 4) “Mark Tapley, Highland” [I thought he departed in 1895, maybe he
returned — as so many do return to Santa Cruz after roaming the world ] has a poem:
“Remember You’ve Faults of Your Own.”]
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ITEM # 13
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
February 6, 1897, p. 1, c. 2
“The Surf‘s Appreciation.”
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Advance sheets of a literary work now in press have been forwarded to the Surf office.
The publication of this work will mark the invasion of a new force into literature, one that is
destined to dim the fame for humor of Artemus Ward, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, and to prove
that the weapon used so effectively by Samson may also propel the pen.
The title page of this new brochure reads:
POEMS
— BY —
DUNCAN M’PHERSON
—
A Choice Bibelot of verse Gleaned
from a Daily Record of Mundane Things Made Immortal
by the Kiss of Rhyme.
—
Copyright Not Wanted.
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA.
February, 1897.
No description or review could do adequate justice to the contents. A few extracts will
illustrate sufficiently, for many of our readers are becoming familiar with this literature as it
appeared from time to time in the paper of the author. —Surf.
[NOTE: The style used by the Surf above reads: M’PHERSON. The actual publication reads:
Duncan McPherson. It also has a phrase not used above: “First Edition limited to One thousand
copies on handsome linen paper.”]
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�ITEM # 14
Note: “Corbett” was Jim Corbett, the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion who was in the
news during this period.
February 13, 1897, p. 2, c.4: “And if I Can’t I’ll Cuff” by A.J.W. , in Fresno Republican
“So lend your ears—God knows that
you’ve enough! —
I mean to teach, and if I can’t I’ll cuff,
—Ambrose Bierce.
—————
E’en so, my Ambrose, and ‘tis clear,
indeed.
With such a choice you’re certain to
succeed.
You will not teach—the reason’s plain
enough—
But e‘en my cat is able, quite, to cuff.
And shall I therefore marvel at her
skill
And deem the feline is a wonder still?
Not so, Sir Critic, she but cuffs and
welts
Because her brutish mind doth know
naught else.
But you, my Ambrose, of the human
kind,
Might once have had a more than feline mind;
Might once have dreamed of using
power to bless,
And not alone to harrow and distress.
The day is past—the truth is sad
enough—
You now retain alone the will to cuff.
You warred on women. Why, a man
would scorn—
Man who is still of weaker woman
born—
To do a deed so rank. And yet no
shame
Withheld your pen your foulness to
proclaim.
I beg my cat’s good pardon, valiant
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�sir;
To war on women still denotes the cur.
And some there wer who sung, not
loud or clear,
A simple strain which still to them was
dear;
A halting lay which all too vaguely
told
That dream of music which the heart
most hold.
You cuffed them, Ambrose. If it honor
be,
Why, hug it closely; it belongs to thee.
Yet some there be to whom the thought
must cling
‘Twere better far to say, “God bless
you! Sing.”
But let it pass. You’re made of sterner
stuff,
And he must be who joys in power to
cuff.
And then, my Ambrose, still on ill intent,
Your cuffing mind to other deeds you
bent.
Some names there were to humble millions dear,
Names that the masses dared to love,
revere.
You slimed them o’er with malice from
your pen,
Fouled them with mire from out your
mental fen
And trebly proved your dastardly unworth
By thus attacking men of nobler birth
There is no petty deed but it shall
claim
You as the one to do its mite of sham;
There is no power of words at grace to
sneer
But when it summons, you shall answer, “Here.”
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�So go your way, monarch of kicks and
cuffs,
A mental Corbett in a world of
“toughs.”
So go your way; lay unction to your
soul
That it is good to be a cat termed
“pole;”
Deem, if you will, the public on its
bench
Your might admires, the while it
damns your stench.
But know this truth: Your strong, malicious pen
Records of you but this: “It might
have been.”
You might have been a man—Ah, well!
Enough!
You’ve told the tale: “And if I can’t
I’ll cuff.’
—A. J. W., in Fresno Republican.
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ITEM # 15
On Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1897, p. 2, c. 2 Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel [without a head, but in
McPherson’s usual column of commentary] appears the following:
“Sunday last Ambrose Bierce,
In the Examiner fierce,
Tried our pen to pierce,
As follows:
Eh? Duncan?
O, yes, he’s a person —
A poet — they call him a bird.
But devil a linnet
With Duncan is in it
Whenever his spirit is stirred
And the blare of his larynx is heard.
If every person,
Like Dunk McPherson,
Were singing in Santa Cruz,
In such a Babel
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�None would be able
To hear him ripped out of his shoes
By his lungs — as now none choose.”
ITEM # 16
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
February 23, 1897 p. 2, c. 2
PROMINENCE UNSOUGHT, BUT
HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
————
By the Examiner Bierce.
The spectacle of two harmonious newspapers in one small town is sufficiently rare to
challenge attention. This pnenomenon is inferable in the instance of the “Sentinel” and The
Penny Press of Santa Cruz, the editor of the latter being the local agent for a book of poems by
the editor of the former, and apparently scorning delights and living laborious days in promotion
of its sale. It must be confessed that the merit of the poems is such as almost to justify this
reversal of traditional relations between two of a trade. “Poems by Duncan McPherson” is
indeed an epoch-making book. For once we may “hail the dawn of a new era” with a reasonable
assurance that it will stay hailed— wherein it has a distinct advantage of any new era that has
dawned within a month.
From fthe preface of Mr. McPherson’s book one learns that the poems appeared in his
paper “during the years 1893-4-5 and -6,” and is therefore encouraged to hope that others are
now apearing. “Their elemental design,” it seems, “was the expression of opinion upon current
happenings, which in the course of transmutation into words was subsequently subordinated to
the requirements of rhyme.” This, I take it, means that their author, who is locally known as the
Bird of the Avenue, “sang because he could not choose but sing,” as in the olden days when his
who-haw-gee was heard in all the region round. For be it known that Mr McPherson was once
the most distinguished bosopomp in the county of the Holy Cross.
A few of the Bird’s “wood-notes wild” are hereunto appended:
Sunday the President put in the day at Buzzard’s Bay. Any cause is sufficient Congress
to get away, thereby legislation to delay.
Those who to-day partake of Jo Ball’s barbecued beef, from pinching hunger will get
relief, and only by eating too much will they come to grief.
Wood and hay from forest and field on the way are sold on the street every day.
William Spencer was up from Aptos Thursday, where everything is as still as a summer
dream, and a contented people are feeding on richest cream, speckled beauties jumping in the
stream and the prosperous wood owner hauling with his team.
These few nameless lyrics are quoted for their brevity; when the McPherson soul soars
into the breathless altitudes of epic poetry I can no more follow it than a fish can follow a cat.
Nothing but continuous study, with occasional prayer, will get all the good out of such noble
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�works as “The Sprung Spring,” “Day’s Unclouded Lengthiness,” “The Coldness of Weight,”
“Fish Mouths” and—incomparable in strength, vivacity and splendor!—“Death’s Wormy Rake.”
When these shall have been generally perused, considered, gobbled up and digested a cry of
delight will go up from all the land!
ITEM #17
Santa Cruz Surf
February 23, 1897, p. 2, c. 2 "COMPLIMENTS OF A CRITIC.'
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The recently republished [N.B.] book of poetry entitled, Verses of an Ox-Goad or Poems
by Duncan McPherson, is reviewed at some length by Ambrose Bierce in his Sunday Prattle in
the San Francisco Examiner. This is an honor, the like of which has never been paid before to
any local publication, and which Santa Cruzans will duly appreciate. After acknowledging
receipt of a copy of the work and noted the circumstances attending its publication, Mr. Bierce
says:
“Poems by Duncan McPherson” is indeed an epoch-making book. For once we may
“hail the dawn of a new era” with a reasonable assurance that it will stay hailed—wherein it has
a distinct advantage of any new era that has dawned within a month.
From the preface of Mr. McPherson’s book one learns that the poems appeared in his
paper ‘during the years 1893 4 5 and 6,’ and is therefore encouraged to hope that others are now
appearing. ”Their elemental design,” it seems, “was the expression of opinion upon current
happenings, which in the course of transmutation into words was subsequently subordinated to
the requirements of rhyme.” This, I take it, means that their author, who is locally known as the
Bird of the Avenue, “sang because he could but choose but sing,” as in the olden golden days
when his whoa-haw-gee was heard in all the region round.
———
The Editor of the Santa Cruz Surf was Arthur A. Taylor. The Editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel
was Duncan McPherson. [In fact, the McPherson family still runs the Santa Cruz Sentinel,
although it has been sold to the Dow-Jones Company.] They had a continuing battle of words in
their respective newspapers, and Duncan McPherson was also battling continuously with the
Editor of The Penny Press, another Santa Cruz paper. References to Duncan McPherson as
being “a poet” should only be taken within the context of what he wrote in his Santa Cruz
Sentinel as its Editor/Publisher, and now we have discovered, his “Poems by Duncan
McPherson” I believe Taylor delighted in printing Bierce’s criticism of McPherson, and adding
his own jab: i.e., “Verses of an Ox-Goad.”
{McPherson’s general attitude about these other newspaper commentators, and I am certain
Bierce could be included here, is reflected in the following comment that appeared in
McPherson’s Santa Cruz Sentinel on February 6, 1897, p. 2, c. 1: [sds]
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�“We are a thousand times obliged to the many people who are writing for the “Sentinel,”
their homes being located in different parts of the county, and even one of them is a resident of
far Los Angeles. These contributions are devoted to news and general literature, some prose,
others poetry. The “Sentinel” contains more contributed articles and newsletters than all of the
other papers of the county combined, some of the writers being personally unknown to us. The
few communications that are appearing in other local journals are devoted largely to the abuse of
men in office and citizens in private life, the writers seemingly taking their cues from the tone of
the sheets in which their fulminations appear. A hog knows a mud-hole when he sees it, and a
mud-hole accepts a hog when he wallows in it.”}
I believe Bierce means a book of republished poetry , rather than the republication of a book, as
the existence of another book is doubtful; the title page indicates that it is the “First Edition”.
The work itself was published in 1,000 copies, of which I have located only one copy, in the
possession of the Granddaughter of Duncan McPherson (Lillian McPherson Rouse, who is now
eighty). It includes a note that its content was first published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 1893,
94, 95, and 96.
McPherson’s “book” is thirty-two pages, 6" high x 4 3/4" wide, tied with string in gutter. It’s
title page contains the following information: “POEMS | — BY — | Duncan | McPherson | —
—— | A Choice Bibelot of Verse Gleaned from | a Daily Record of Mundane Things | Made
Immortal by the Kiss | of Rhyme. | ——— | First Edition limited to One thousand | copies on
handsome linen paper. | ——— | Copyright Not Wanted. | SANTA CRUZ, CAL. | February,
1897. ”
McPherson’s PREFACE confirms Bierce’s statement that: “The following poems appeared
originally in the SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL during the years of 1893-4-5 and 6. Their
elemental design was the expression of an opinion upon current happenings, which, in the course
of transmution into words, was subsequently subordinated to the requirements of rhyme. Whereever rhyme and reason might have clashed, rhyme has invariably been given the preference, as
was only meet where poetry and not prose was the lofty aim to be attained. In fact, nothing
whatever has been suffered to interfere with or impede the glorious progress of the muse.”
A careful reading of thirty-one pages, I failed to discover any reference to Ambrose Bierce,
unless it is obscured in a reference I do not comprehend. Unfortunately for this purpose, the
thirty-second page is not capable of being read; it is pasted down to an opaque leaf of Duncan
McPherson’s granddaughter’s scrapbook. [i.e., Lillian McPherson Rouse]
ITEM # 18
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
March 30, 1897, p. 2 c. 5
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Written for the “Sentinel.”
AT THE VAN NUYS.
———
There is a wondrous rise
At the new Hotel Van Nuys
In the temperature.
The heat is something fierce,
For it radiates from Bierce
Scorching and sure;
And it spreads all around.
It zig-zags from the ground—
It wavers to the skies.
The whole town is enerrate
In a wilted down state,
For Bierce is at the Van Nuys.
M. N. O.
Los Angeles, March 24th.
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[M. N. O. unidentified]
ITEM # 19
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
May 3, 1903, 4:1
“Death of Dr. Doyle”
Died at 2 pm Saturday [May 2, 1903]. His death is attributed to apoplexy. This obit includes
some biography of Dr. Doyle.
ITEM # 20
Santa Cruz Surf,
Monday Evening, May 4, 1903, p. 2:
a three column Editorial — “Dr. Doyle is dead” with Doyle‘s signature reproduced at top of 1st
column.
“Many of his best bits of verse were voluntary contributions to the Surf, ...”
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�Mentions [without citations] other publications in which Doyle‘s works appear: Harper’s
Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, Sacramento Bee.
It is noted in this Editorial that Dr. Doyle “... arrived in Santa Cruz in 1888 bringing the most
valuable library that had at that date reached Santa Cruz...”
ITEM # 21
Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
May 7, 1903, 3:3
Letter to Ed: “Mrs. M’Crackin’s Tribute to Dr. Doyle” by Josephine Clifford McCrackin
Monte Paraiso Ranch, Santa Cruz Mountains, May 4, 1903.
ITEM # 22
Santa Cruz Surf,
May 8, 1903, 2:2
“In Memorium — Dr. C. W. Doyle”
[a poem by] Herman Scheffauer [colleague of Bierce and McCrackin at Monte Paraiso Ranch]
References:
McCrackin, Josephine Clifford
The woman who lost him and tales of the army frontier. Pasadena : George Warton
James, 1913. pp. title-page, table-of-contents, illustrations, and Introduction by
Ambrose Bierce. (total 7 pages)
Payne, Stephen Michael
A howling wilderness. Santa Cruz : Loma Prieta Publishing, 1978. pp. 121-27, 136-37.
Walker, Dale L.
“A last laugh for Ambrose Bierce.” American West. v. X, # 6 (Nov. 1973) 34-39, 63.
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It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
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Digital file
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Title
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Poetry and Commentary of Ambrose Bierce, Duncan McPherson, Dr. Charles William Doyle, and Other Critics of Santa Cruz, California: Chronology of newspaper articles and documentary evidence of their relationship
Subject
The topic of the resource
Poetry and Poets
Newspapers
Bierce, Ambrose
Doyle, Charles
McPherson, Duncan
Description
An account of the resource
Compiled by Stanley D. Stevens
July 1, 1988; revised May 9, 2019
Creator
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Stevens, Stanley
Bierce, Ambrose
Doyle, Charles
McPherson, Duncan
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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05-09-2019
Format
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Text
Language
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En
Type
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ARTICLE
Identifier
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AR-228
Coverage
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Santa Cruz (County)
1890s
1900s
Rights
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Reproduced with permission of the author.
Arts and Entertainment
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Title
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Santa Cruz History Articles
Description
An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
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Original Format
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Paper
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Title
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The Mountain Echo
Subject
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Newspapers
Mountain Echo
Rodgers, Charles
Creator
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Stevens, Stanley
Source
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Index to the Mountain Echo, published by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, 1999
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1999
Format
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Text
Language
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En
Type
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ARTICLE
Identifier
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AR-223
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
San Lorenzo Valley
1890s
1900s
1910s
Rights
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Reproduced with permission of the author.
Relation
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<a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/collections/show/3/">Local News Index</a>
Arts and Entertainment
Business
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Title
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Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
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PAPER
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CF-54889
Title
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Sentinel staff collects five national honors
Description
An account of the resource
Santa Cruz Sentinel, APSE Awards
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2015-02-12
Source
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<i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers
Business
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2010s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
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Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Newspapers
-
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Title
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Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
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Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
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CF-54688
Title
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New managing editor takes helm at R-P
Description
An account of the resource
Brian Williams new managing editor at Register-Pajaronian
Creator
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Chalhoub, Erik
Date
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2014-01-23
Source
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<i>Register-Pajaronian</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2010s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Newspapers
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
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Identifier
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CF-53985
Title
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Santa Cruz Sentinel 120th Anniversary Edition
Description
An account of the resource
120th anniversary edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1976-06-27
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers
Business
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1970s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Newspapers
-
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Title
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Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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CF-53854
Title
A name given to the resource
Printer's Devil
Description
An account of the resource
Buz Bezore
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Dunn, Geoffrey
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2014-04-10
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<i>Good Times</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Biography
Authors
Newspapers
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2010s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Biography
-
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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CF-53837
Title
A name given to the resource
Familiar face with a new look
Description
An account of the resource
new design to the Santa Cruz Sentinel
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Miller, Don
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2014-03-18
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2010s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Newspapers
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Title
A name given to the resource
Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
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Identifier
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CF-53834
Title
A name given to the resource
Making headlines
Description
An account of the resource
Buzz Bezore
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Baine, Wallace
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2014-03-12
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Biography
Newspapers
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2010s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Biography
-
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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CF-53723
Title
A name given to the resource
Sentinel editor named editor of Monterey Herald
Description
An account of the resource
Don Miller
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2014-02-08
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2010s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Newspapers
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Local News Index
Description
An account of the resource
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
Most of the indexed articles are available on microfilm in the Californiana Room or in the clipping files in the Local History Room at the Downtown branch. Copies of individual articles may be available by contacting the Reference Department - <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/contact/">Ask Us.<br /><br /></a>
<p></p>
While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
PAPER
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
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CF-53612
Title
A name given to the resource
Register-Pajaroian to print three times per week
Description
An account of the resource
Register-Pajaronian newspaper
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Guild, Todd
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2009-12-02
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<i>Register-Pajaronian</i>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers
Business
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2000s
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
EN
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
NEWS
DOCUMENT
Clipping branch location: Downtown
Clipping filed under: Newspapers