Trotwood's Monthly: November 1905; Devoted to Farm, Horse and Home
Nashville, TN: Trotwood Publishing Co., 1905. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [61]-[122], 2 plates (engravings of Jersey cows Landseer's Fancy and Bisson's Belle). Fair (covers almost detached, some penciling inside and out). Item #31848
The articles include part 2 of a partly romanticized "History of the Hals," "Tennessee Jerseys," "Do Farmers Think?," "Modern Cotton Culture," "Phosphates of Tennessee," various inspirational stories and poems (some in now-offensive dialect), and other pieces by Moore and others. Moore wrote several regional novels that glorifed the Old South, including the trotting novel Gift of the Grass: Being the Autobiography of a Famous Racing Horse. The magazine was published under this title through 1906, then as Taylor-Trotwood Magazine into 1910. Sold as is. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.
Price: $15.00