Wild Rose : The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Historian of Early Texas / Louise S. O'Connor ; with forewords by Gary Dunnam and Margaret Stoner McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Louise S., author.

Series:

Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; Number 18.

Number 18: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rose, Victor M., 1842-1893.

Rose, Victor M.

Poets, American--Texas--Biography.

Poets, American.

Newspaper editors--Texas--Biography.

Newspaper editors.

Historians--Texas--Biography.

Historians.

Texas--Biography.

Texas.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2018]

Summary:

During much of his brief and troubled life, Victor Marion Rose was a walking anomaly. The scion of a venerable Texas farming and ranching family, he was widely reported to be unable to distinguish one horse from another. He fought for the Confederacy and endured imprisonment at Ohio's notorious Camp Chase, yet he later bitterly decried the Civil War as utter folly for the South. His florid poetry often celebrated the feminine mystique and ideal as he considered it, yet he was infamously unfaithful and sometimes abusive in his relationships with women. He built a respected reputation as a journalist and historian, and at the same time, he struggled with alcoholism and bouts of deep depression. Born in 1842 as the third of thirteen children of a wealthy Victoria, Texas, planter, Victor Marion Rose served as publisher and editor of the Victoria Advocate from 1869 to 1873 before moving to Laredo--reportedly due to a scandalous love affair--where he edited the Laredo Times . He also wrote volumes of poetry and published several histories of South Texas and the biography of Gen. Ben McCulloch. Rose ultimately succumbed to pneumonia in February 1893. Louise S. O'Connor, a descendant of Victor Marion Rose, has mined family records and recorded family traditions about "Uncle Vic." She carefully reviewed Rose's collected papers, both in her personal possession and in the archives of the Briscoe Center for American History and other repositories. Wild Rose provides an intimate portrait of a complicated individual who, despite his frequently unsuccessful struggles with his demons, nevertheless left an important mark on Texas history and letters.

Contents:

Foreword / by Gary Dunnam

Foreword: An introduction to "Uncle Vic" / by Margaret Stoner McLean

Preface

Introduction: Victor Marion Rose and his times

The formative years, 1842-1860

The lost cause and the honor system of the South, 1861-1865

A wanderer's return, 1866-1869

Wild Rose, 1870-1879

A writer "par excellence," 1880-1889

The Old Capitol, 1887-1889

The final years, 1890-1893

Epilogue

Appendix one: The Brookings Family

Appendix two: Henry Eustace McCulloch-a biographical sketch

Appendix three: A selection of poems by Victor Marion Rose

Appendix four: Timeline and newspaper career of Victor Marion Rose.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-676-4

OCLC:

1029063804