At the Keith Ranch (1893)
Creator: Anna Fuller (1893)
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This short story, published in 1893, focuses on events at a square dance at a Colorado ranch. Although the plot itself is melodramatic, the author includes helpful bits of information about the dancing, including various snippets of calls ( The Girl I Left Behind Me). Mention is made of the "caller-out," a job that rotated among different men. The author writes of "a pause between the two figures of the dance," showing that by this date we had moved away from the three or five figures of the earlier quadrille. Thanks to Fred Feild, who has been researching examples of dance found in early literature; he shares his research at his website.
Subjects: Traditional Western (pre-1940)
Tags: Anna Fuller, Colorado, cowboy, Keith Ranch
Tags: Anna Fuller, Colorado, cowboy, Keith Ranch
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Anna Fuller, “At the Keith Ranch (1893),” Square Dance History Project, accessed March 31, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1188.
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At the Keith Ranch (1893)
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See Additional Files for the full story.
This short story, published in 1893, focuses on events at a square dance at a Colorado ranch. Although the plot itself is melodramatic, the author includes helpful bits of information about the dancing, including various snippets of calls ( The Girl I Left Behind Me). Mention is made of the "caller-out," a job that rotated among different men. The author writes of "a pause between the two figures of the dance," showing that by this date we had moved away from the three or five figures of the earlier quadrille. Thanks to Fred Feild, who has been researching examples of dance found in early literature; he shares his research at his website.
This short story, published in 1893, focuses on events at a square dance at a Colorado ranch. Although the plot itself is melodramatic, the author includes helpful bits of information about the dancing, including various snippets of calls ( The Girl I Left Behind Me). Mention is made of the "caller-out," a job that rotated among different men. The author writes of "a pause between the two figures of the dance," showing that by this date we had moved away from the three or five figures of the earlier quadrille. Thanks to Fred Feild, who has been researching examples of dance found in early literature; he shares his research at his website.
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1893