Resource Type
Serial/Series Title
Country
States
Counties
The Pimienta Pancakes
A cow camp cook tells a story about a pancake recipe.
Date:
December 1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Poor Rule
Short story set in Texas
Date:
August 1909
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Princess and the Puma
Short story set on a ranch in Texas.
Date:
October 1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Quest of Soapy
"This is one of the best and most characteristic of the sketches of lower New York life by O. Henry...The story under another title--"The Cop and the Anthem"--appears in the collection of O. Henry's stories, "The Four Million."
Date:
November 1908
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Ramble in Aphasia
Short story about a lawyer suffering from memory loss.
Date:
February 1905
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ransom of Mack
Short story about two hustlers.
Date:
December 1904
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ransom of Red Chief
Short story about the kidnap and ransom of a wealthy Alabaman's son.
Date:
July 6, 1907
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Remorse
A three-stanza poem by O. Henry and published under the pen name S. H. Peters.
Date:
July 1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Renaissance at Charleroi
Short story about a clerk in New Orleans.
Date:
October 1902
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Retrieved Reform
A short story about Jimmy Valentine, a young safe-cracker.
Date:
April 1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Roads of Destiny
A short story about a traveling poet.
Date:
1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rose of Dixie
Short story about a magazine and its editor.
Date:
June 1908
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rouge et Noire
A short story about the banana trade in Central America based on O. Henry's experiences in Honduras in the late 1890s. This is perhaps the first instance of O. Henry's use of the term "banana republic."
Date:
December 1901
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Round the Circle
Short story set in Texas.
Date:
October 1902
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Ruler of Men
Short story about two old friends meeting in New York.
Date:
August 1906
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rus in Urbe
Short story about a press-agent in New York.
Date:
August 1909
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Schools and Schools
Short story about courtship.
Date:
October 1908
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seats of the Haughty
Short story by O. Henry.
Date:
October 1906
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snow Man
Short story set in Colorado in the winter. "Editorial note.--Before the recent fatal illness of William Sydney Porter...this American master of short-story writing had begun for Hampton's Magazine the story printed below...When he realized that he could do no more...O. Henry told in detail the remainder of "The Snow Man" to Harris Merton Lyon..."
Date:
August 1910
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Sphinx Apple
Short story about a group of travelers stopped for the night.
Date:
December 1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Struggle of the Outliers
A short story about two men fighting over the same woman.
Date:
August 1902
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Technical Error
Short story set on a ranch.
Date:
February 1910
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telemachus, Friend
A man discusses friendship with a hotel proprietor. The advertisement on the cover of the magazine for Cream of Wheat includes the brand's mascot, Rastus, a racist depiction of a Black cook.
Date:
December 1905
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Tempered Wind
Short story about a grafter named Buckingham Skinner.
Date:
August 1904
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
System:
The Portal to Texas History