tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post4276624002927581253..comments2024-03-29T01:33:22.669-07:00Comments on Buddies in the Saddle: Irene Welch Grissom, The Superintendent (1910)Ron Scheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-84029972483454222472017-06-15T22:36:31.834-07:002017-06-15T22:36:31.834-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.doug denslowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11303000553553961134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-68118001367815841932013-08-19T07:49:11.166-07:002013-08-19T07:49:11.166-07:00Early frontier fiction and even some later western...Early frontier fiction and even some later westerns make room in the community for a likable parson whose presence represents a civil social order. Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-23285184502160007902013-08-19T04:23:16.427-07:002013-08-19T04:23:16.427-07:00I have read westerns set around mining camps and t...I have read westerns set around mining camps and the Civil War where God and religion are often invoked by one or the other character. I have found this to be true of early fiction and a few Classics as well. In times of despair, the lead character(s) turn to the heavens for succour. I have yet to read a story set around the lumber industry.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-22166081630716713512013-08-18T12:30:20.574-07:002013-08-18T12:30:20.574-07:00I have come across lumber mill novels that give a ...I have come across lumber mill novels that give a good idea of the business end as well as the felling of timber in the woods and getting it to the mills. I realized reading this one that no novelist of the period had taken me through a working mill in such detail.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-8177479385272199762013-08-18T12:17:42.802-07:002013-08-18T12:17:42.802-07:00Shades of Carrie Nation and her desire for Prohibi...Shades of Carrie Nation and her desire for Prohibition. The lumber mill setting of the novel is interesting in that some novels mention lumber mills but never get much into the details of the operation. I guess this one could be classed as a non-traditional western. Mr. Cranmer's note about marijuana is right on, even Sanjay Gupta has changed his tune and is saying it is good. Oscar Casehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328166606910469945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-9472534882410029762013-08-16T18:07:14.141-07:002013-08-16T18:07:14.141-07:00And now a century later we are legalizing wacky to...And now a century later we are legalizing wacky tobacky. I'm pulling for taking the sting out of sniffing glue in 2113.David Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749857752139212888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-75563273455419454802013-08-16T09:17:14.059-07:002013-08-16T09:17:14.059-07:00Alcohol can certainly be a scourge. I fear we are ...Alcohol can certainly be a scourge. I fear we are stuck with it now, though.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-329988667099891702013-08-16T06:06:57.255-07:002013-08-16T06:06:57.255-07:00Alcohol was widely perceived as a scourge, particu...Alcohol was widely perceived as a scourge, particularly ruinous to family life. Limiting easy access to it (i.e. by the drink in saloons) was thought to be the best remedy for a damaging social ill. This belief shows up as a theme in a lot of frontier fiction from the period.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-754260310474731822013-08-16T05:39:20.461-07:002013-08-16T05:39:20.461-07:00I see one of the characters advocates prohibition ...I see one of the characters advocates prohibition to stop men from drinking. In 1910 there was quite a few people who believed in this. But as we found out when the law was passed outlawing liquor, you can't tell people what they can drink. Thousands of speakeasies and a large criminal organization were happy to keep the booze flowing.<br /><br />Instead of writing this novel maybe the author would have had more success by taking an ax to some local saloons.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com