Word: ogden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THERE WERE No HEROES-George W. Ogden-Dodd, Mead...
George Washington Ogden is an oldtime newspaperman (born 1871) who has written westerns (Whiskey Trail, Windy Range, etc.) and whose verse was once reprinted in the old Literary Digest. There Were No Heroes, which he subtitles "A Personal Record of a Man's Beginning," is unlike anything he ever tried before. It is too bad that he did not turn his hand to such serious writing decades...
...best of the book is its first half: a bleak, sharp-eyed, sensitive account of what the world was like to a boy on a cruelly poor east-Kansas farm after the Civil War. In those pages George Ogden does a job on U. S. rural life such as many U. S. writers have tried and as few, living or dead, could improve on. At its best, it is what Mark Twain might have told if he had had the courage not to be genial...