“Mervyn”: A Poetical Correspondent / Jim Webster: Timbuctoo Terror (Pamphlet)
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Description
Author: Parsons, Chuck (“Mervyn”) (1940-)
Author: O’Dell, Roy (Jim Webster)
Publisher: The English Westerners’ Society (London)
Pub Date: 1990
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good. Stapled binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Slight wear along spine edge.
Notes: Pamphlet. The Brand Book, Winter 1988/89. “Mervyn” (a pseudonym) is a series of letters written by an unknown Texas Ranger that appeared in the Galveston, Texas Daily News in 1877. The unknown ranger’s letters “…can be nevertheless appreciated for their historical content as well as revealing the author’s sensitivity to humanity, his appreciation of Nature and providing a model of the enlisted man’s respect for his superiors.” (Page 1). “Jim Webster” is a brief chronicle of an outlaw who operated primarily in California and Nevada. Timbuctoo (sic) is the name of a mining (ghost) town in Yuba County, California, and according to California Place Names (Erwin Gudde, University of California Press, 1969) “It is not certain whether a Negro miner dubbed ‘Timbuctoo,’ or the popular song (‘for he was a man from Timbuctoo’) inspired the name.”
