Wolfville Folks (Illustrated)

Wolfville Folks continues the hilarious events of the residents of Wolfville, a small Arizona town, or "camp," as it's called by its residents. The honor of Wolfville reposes in the keeping of the Old Cattleman, who is the narrator of the "doings" of Wolfvillites; to Doc Petts, "the genteelest sharp an' the best eddicated ever dwells in Arizona"; to Sam Enright, "the soul of fairness"; to Cherokee Hall, "predestined kyard sharp"; and other frequenters of the Red Light. This chapter of Wolfville excitement records the disappearance of the landlady's husband, her willingness to install a successor and the alacrity with which the hunting for the lost man begins - Book Review Digest, 1908, Vol 4, pg 220.

This is what reviewers of the times said: "Rollicking sketches," ALA Bkl 4 221 Je 08; "We like these gentlemen of imaginative speech and welcome Wolfville Folks," Ind 35 550 S 3 08 100w; "Taking dialect and story together they more nearly than any other we can recall tugs at those muscles of mirth that Artemus Ward first played upon. One feels almost like an Englishman discovering American humor," Nation 86 516 Je 4 08 270w, NY Times 13 210 Ap 11 08 50w; "They are much more interesting and amusing than if they and their purely imaginary dialect were true to life," NY Times 13 304 My 30 08 140w.

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 - December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer. He began his career as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald.

During the late 19th century, he wrote muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. This was the subject of his book The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York, which focused on the Tammany Hall society of the 18th century. He also wrote biographies of Irish-American politician Richard Croker (1843-1922), and of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.

As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were in his Wolfville series of Western fiction, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914.

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