The desire to excel

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. CONTENTS XI
5. ILLUSTRATIONS XVII
6. INTRODUCTION XIX
7. ROY BEDICHEK
8. Mv friend, Roy Bedichek 1
9. "Authentic tidings of invisible things" 13
10. There is at least one full man 19
11. His kindly nature 21
12. This group of three, seated about the evening fire 23
13. The desire to excel 25
14. Our out-of-doors hotel 27
15. SO1 East Twenty-third Street 31
16. On top of Callman Mountain 35
17. "Look ye also while life lasts" 37
18. "Worse ... Football." 39
19. Freedom from pretense 42
20. "My generation is daubed witlt blood" 45
21. No affectation, no defense 54
22. "Whitman constantly exposed his soul" 55
23. Nature purges, "like great drama" 58
24. Bedichek' s rock 62
25. "The days of dizzy raptures ... gone" 70
26. "Today is life-the rest is nothing" 75
27. "I ... hear Time's winged chariot" 78
28. We loved him because of his naturalness 81
29. Dear Bedi 83
30. WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
31. His first teacher 87
32. "Professor, that was purty" 89
33. "Does anyone have a reason to suggest?" 91
34. A most generous offer 93
35. "For years we three sat together" 99
36. An unfashionable kind of historian 110
37. The Great Plains 114
38. The Great Frontier 119
39. Webb my teacher 124
40. His politics 132
41. I was regarded as a bumpkin indeed 135
42. Webb as a sinner 136
43. Going to places in the pasture 139
44. His last project 142
45. Meetings in Dallas 144
46. Free of both hate and fear 148
47. The power of land and the power of mind 152
48. To the basic loyalties of life he was true 158
49. J. FRANK DOBIE
50. We came from the same range 161
51. Poetry in an earthy growl 162
52. A quatrain forty years ago 165
53. Fellow countryman 167
54. Love of life and freedom 175
55. I helped Frank Dobie cut down a tree 187
56. A mustang in the groves of academe 190
57. An enemy of reactionary demagogues 201
58. He has never been an exile 204
59. A writer loyal to real experience 206
60. Dobie revisited 219
61. Down a bytrail 224
62. Many of his books will endure 229
63. Listening with the third ear 232
64. Handling the "insult approach" 235
65. A question of implications 237
66. The universality of Mr. Dobie 239
67. "I have that honor" 243
68. I have known Frank Dobie for about thirty-five years 252
69. I have hem associated with him a good deal since 1914 255
70. Acrostic 258
71. But the children know 259
72. Impressions of a friendship 265
73. "I am busy becoming contemporary with myself' 277
74. When I heard of Frank Dobie's death 281
75. He brought a free man 284