AMBROSE BIERCE 1842-1914? "A Horseman in the Sky"

 

The Ambrose Bierce Project - by Craig Warren and Penn State University: scholarly sources.  Includes photographs of sites as described in stories (look down this page of photographs to see the ones for "Horseman in the Sky")

Other General Resources:

• The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society 
• The Ambrose Bierce Site - by Don Swaim - lots of information and links, including audio discussion, with Jack Matthews, on the life and works of Ambrose Bierce from Wired for Books - credible source

Online Articles

• Peter Carmichael's review of Ambrose Bierce's Civil War, a book edited by William McCann (a collection of Bierce's fictional and non-fictional writings)
• Albert Guelzo's "Ambrose Bierce's Civil War: One Man's Morbid Vision" - published by HistoryNet
• Jack Matthews' "Ambrose Bierce and the Joy of Outrage" - Matthews' credentials are given at the bottom of the page

Articles/books available from databases, library catalogue, or stacks:

• Lawrence I. Berkove's A Prescription for Adversity: The Moral Art of Ambrose Bierce (Ohio State UP, 2002) - book, see ProQuest review
• Paul Fatout's "Ambrose Bierce, Civil War Topographer" (in American Literature, November 1954, about 9 pages). - JSTOR
• David M. Owens' The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story. (University of Tennessee Press, 2006) - book, see ProQuest review
• Amy Murrell Taylor's The Divided Family in Civil War America (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) - book, see ProQuest review.
• Clyde Wilson's "World without Glory," a review of Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce, a book edited by Brian M. Thomsen (in The World & I of August 2002) - ProQuest
• Napier Wilt's "Ambrose Bierce and The Civil War"  (in American Literature, November 1929, about 25 pages) - JSTOR
   

Brief Bierce biography, links to his poetry, and a bibliography of works concerning Bierce - from the Poetry Foundation

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