
Wild Rose
The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Historian of Early Texas
Louise O'Connor(Author)
Texas A & M University Press
Published on 30. July 2018
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-62349-675-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62349-675-3 (9781623496753)
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Louise S. O'Connor is the author of Cryin' for Daylight: A Ranching Culture in the Texas Coastal Bend and other titles. Her photographic portraits of African American cowboys of the Coastal Bend region have been exhibited at the Briscoe Center for American History and other museums. O'Connor lives on her ranch in Victoria County, Texas.