Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laugh where we must, be candid where we can. --Pope, "Essay...
...What is the West? Who but an editor would ask such a question? Who but a genius could answer it?" begins Walter Prescott Webb's introductory essay to this collection compiled by the Chicago Corral of Westerners. Webb, the most distinguished scholar to appear in the book, hardly provides the answer to the question...
...despite Webb's superficiality, his is the best essay in the book. The other essays try to examine various aspects of the cultural history of the West, but they mainly succeed only in relating factual anecdotes...
This is not to say that this type of essay is without value. The study of Western America suffers from a lack of compiled source material. The piece by Richard L. Evans and Kenneth S. Bennion on "The Mormoms" is possibly the best very short history of the early church. James D. Horan in his "The Gunmen" has the good sense to know that the "Wild Bunch" was the fiercest Western outlaw gang and to spend his time relating their story but he makes factual mistakes in the story of this magnificent group, who died under attack by a whole...
Seven students promoted the contest, entitled "She Is Here," in cooperation with various New Haven merchants, but received no recompense. Terms of the contest included picking the winners of seven football games and writing an essay on why the student needed a date with a pretty college girl...