A grand anthology that celebrates the many sterling virtues of the canine species
Dogs have lived with humans for thousands of years as working partners. By the nineteenth century their role expanded to companions. American dog literature reflects this gradual but dramatic shift that continues even today. Our household dogs are quite literally closer than ever to us: sleeping in our beds, getting dressed in Halloween costumes, and serving as emotional support companions.
In Dogs We Trust is the first comprehensive anthology of American dog literature. It features stories, anecdotes, and poetry that celebrate the many sterling virtues of the canine species. By mining the vast American literary archive of nineteenth and early twentieth-century periodicals, Jacob F. Rivers III and Jeffrey Makala reveal the mystique and magic of the human-canine relationship and what they believe is one of the best connections humans have to the mysteries of the natural world.
This grand anthology features a rich harvest of fiction and nonfiction in which the canine heroes and heroines think and act in ways that illuminate their unquestioning loyalty and devotion. By taking dog literature seriously, Rivers and Makala believe we can learn more about our animal companions, ourselves, and our national literature. For them dog literature is American literature; it helps us explore and explain who we are and who we wish to be.
- Cover
- In Dogs We Trust
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Celebrating the American Dog
- PART 1 Working Dogs
- Heroes of Fire and Water: I.—“Sport,” the Newark Fire Dog (1881)
- Heroes of Fire and Water: II.—“Gunner,” the Children’s Rescuer (1881)
- The Cow-Boys and the Dogs, in the War of the Revolution (1865)
- The Faithful American Dog (1798)
- Sagacity of a Dog (1831)
- A Canine Anecdote (1861)
- Pershing Honors Dog Mascot of A.E.F. (1921)
- Another Dog (1895)
- Craig, an Appreciation (1916)
- A Pleasant Instance of the Sagacity of a Dog (1781)
- The Shepherd’s Dog (1845)
- When Eyes Were No Use (1920)
- The Bar Sinister (1902)
- That Spot (1908)
- PART 2 Sporting Dogs
- The Setter, an Aristocrat among Dogs (1920)
- Memoir of a Celebrated Setter Dog (1831)
- Dog Knew a Sportsman (1906)
- That First Bird Dog (1913)
- A Lesson in Faithfulness (1919)
- A Walt Whitman Grouse (1916)
- Sportsmen’s Dogs—the Setters (1897)
- Mac: The Story of a Dog of Honor (1920)
- Some Dogs That I Have Owned (1901)
- Do Dogs Dream? (1882)
- The Working Airedale in Colorado (1910)
- About a Setter Dog (1902)
- PART 3 Poetry about Dogs
- Epitaph on a Dog (1773)
- A Dog (1934)
- Dan (1921)
- The Fate of an Innocent Dog (1845)
- What shall I do – it whimpers so (ca. 1861)
- Elegy on the Death of Fidelio, a Dog Who Possessed More Merits Than the Poet Has Deigned to Ascribe to Him (1795)
- Tumbler’s Epitaph (ca. 1840)
- An Untitled Poem about Sailor (1845)
- The Dog Star Pup (1920)
- My Dog (1918)
- To My Dog, “Quien Sabe” (In the Happy Hunting Grounds) (1920)
- Sonnet for My Dog (ca. 1939)
- My Dog (1897)
- The Good, True Dog (1913)
- To a Dog’s Memory (1889)
- PART 4 Companion Dogs
- The Animal Mind (1913)
- From The History of New England from 1630 to 1649 (1644)
- From the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1805)
- Stickeen (1909)
- Testimony of James Smith, Field Hand, Enslaved in Virginia and Georgia. Interviewed by Henry Bibb (1852)
- A Yellow Dog: A California Story (1895)
- A Dog’s Ghost: A Story from the Tobique River, New Brunswick (1892)
- Memoirs of a Yellow Dog (1906)
- A Dog’s Story (1898)
- From “Our Dogs” (1867)
- My Dog (A Hamlet in Old Hampshire) (1901)
- Thoughts on Dogs (1793)
- In Praise of Mops (1892)
- Dogs (1829)
- The Fidelity of a Dog (1903)
- One Minute Longer (1919)
- The Education of Sam (1900)
- The Reform of Shaun (1903)
- Where Is My Dog? or, Is Man Alone Immortal? (1892)
- Gulliver the Great (1912)
- Coda: All the Good Dogs (1954)
- Index
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