NOTES
1. "John Estes Cooke" (L. Frank Baum), Tamawaca Folks (USA [Grand Rapids, Michigan, n.d.]: The Tamawaca Press, North Dakota [1899, reprinted 1907]), p. 21.
2. Ibid., pp. 144–45.
3. Salman Rushdie, The Wizard of Oz (London: BFI Film Classics, 1992), p. 57.
4. Gore Vidal, "On Rereading the Oz Books," The New York Review of Books, October 13, 1977, pp. 38–42; reprinted as "The Oz Books" in Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952–1992 (New York: Random House, 1993), pp. 1094–1119.
5. Suzanne Rahn, The Wizard of Oz: A Reader's Companion (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998), p. 79.
6. Alison Lurie, "The Oddness of Oz," The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2000.
7. Laura Miller, "Oz vs. Narnia," Salon, December 28, 2000, np.
8. C. Warren Hollister, "Oz and the Fifth Criterion," Baum Bugle (Winter 1971): 5–8. Also in Hearn, 1983, and Rahn, 1998.
9. Cory Panshin, letter, Salon, January 10, 2001, np.
10. L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, (Chicago and New York: George M. Hill Co., 1900), Introduction, np.
11. Ibid., p. 60.
12. James Thurber, p.5.
13. L. Frank Baum, The Tin Woodman of Oz, p. 64.
14. Baum, interview, 1904, in Hearn, p. 64.
15. See Tim Burton's 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas for a more intentionally frightening use of the same image.
16. Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Introduction, np.
17. "Le Comte de Lautréamont" (Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [1846–1870]), Poesies, 1890.
18. L. Frank Baum, "Modern Fairy Tales," 1909, in Rahn, p. 28.
19. L. Frank Baum, editorial, Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, December 15, 1890.
20. L. Frank Baum, editorial, Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, January 3, 1891.
21. "Planners and Anticipated Participants in the L. Frank Baum Conference for Aberdeen, South Dakota, Planned in 1997," "Apology and Pledge," np. ("Note: The Baum Festival went on as planned in the summer of 1997. Because of conflicting opinions, the Apology and Pledge were not, in the end, part of the program that took place in the town of Aberdeen." —J. S. Dill, March 11, 1998.)
22. Martin Gardner, "The Royal Historian of Oz," in Gardner and Russel B. Nye, eds., The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was (East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 1994), p. 30.
23. L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz (Chicago: Reilly and Buitton, 1909), pp. 108–10.
24. Gardner, p. 36.
25. See Michael O'Riley, Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum (University Press of Kansas, 1997), pp. 147–48.
26. Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1980), p. 104.
27. Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks.
28. For a clever contemporary collection of objects that suggest faces, see François and Jean Robert's photography collection Faces (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000).
29. L. Frank Baum, The Tin Woodman of Oz (Chicago: Reilly and Buitton, 1918), pp. 224–25.
30. J. Allan Hobson, The Chemistry of Conscious States (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), p. 91.
31. Rahn, pp. 100–101.
32. Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Book of the Fair (Chicago and San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893), p. 836.
33. Ibid., pp. 450–51.
34. Ibid., pp. 445–46.
35. Ibid., pp. 371–72.
36. Ibid., p. 266.
37. Oxford English Dictionary, entry, "wicker"; John Dryden, Aeneis, vii. p. 478.
38. Stewart Cullin, "Retrospect of the Folk-Lore of the Columbian Exposition," in Journal of American Folklore 7 (8): 51–59, quoted in Robert Cantwell, "Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklife," in Crossroads, Virginia.edu.
39. Bancroft, p. 636.
40. One feature Baum wrote for his own Aberdeen newspaper was a humorous serial narrative called "Our Landlady." In the installment of December 6, 1890, the eponymous heroine walks into Indian country alone to assess whether the Sioux are actually a threat, taking Cody's book with her as a guide.
41. William Frederick Cody, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (Hartford, Conn.: Frank E. Bliss, 1879).
42. W. W. Denslow, the illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, also contributed illustrations for Twain's A Tramp Abroad (1880).
43. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Roughing It (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., 1872), pp. 146–49.
44. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Innocents Abroad, or, the New Pilgrim's Progress (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., 1869).
45. Albert James Pickett: History of Alabama (Mobile, Ala.: 1851).
46. Henry Timberlake, Memoirs of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake (London: Printed for the author, 1765), p. 49.
47. William Bartram, Travels (Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791), p. 454.
48. See Attebery, pp. 90–93.
49. Rachael Plummer, Rachael Plummer's Narrative of Twenty One Months Servitude as a Prisoner Among the Comanche Indians (Houston, Tex.: 1838), np.
50. For a contemporary treatment of this theme see the 1995 Disney film Toy Story, which turns on the idea of abused toys, naturally coming down solidly on the side of children who never do such things.
51. Eunice Tietjens, quoted in Gardner, pp. 27–28.
52. L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, p. 193.
53. Ibid., pp. 160–61.
OZ BOOKS BY L. FRANK BAUM
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900
The Marvelous Land of Oz, 1904
Ozma of Oz, 1907
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, 1908
The Road to Oz, 1909
The Emerald City of Oz, 1910
The Patchwork Girl of Oz, 1913
Tic-Tok of Oz, 1914
The Scarecrow of Oz, 1915
Rinkitink in Oz, 1916
The Lost Princess of Oz, 1917
The Tin Woodman of Oz, 1918
The Magic of Oz, 1919
Glinda of Oz, 1920
TWENTY QUESTIONS IN OZ: AN OZ QUIZ
1. Oz is called Oz because…
a. O.Z. are the Wizard's first two initials
b. it is short for Ozmandias
c. it is Often Zany
d. its ruler's name was always Oz
2. Before they cast Judy Garland in the movie, Hollywood considered using…
a. Sonja Henie
b. Margaret O'Brian
c. Shirley Temple
d. June Allyson
3. How many different characters did Frank Morgan play in the MGM movie?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
4. In the book, the Wicked Witch melts away like…
a. wax
b. sand
c. brown sugar
d. ashes
5. Which of the following L. Frank Baum projects never got past the planning stage?
a. an Oz theme park
b. an Oz Sunday comic strip
c. an Oz silent movie
d. an Oz stage extravaganza
6. The Shaggy-Man carries
a. an iron
b. a sandwich
c. a love magnet
d. a sewing kit
7. An Ork is somewhat like an ostrich, but has
a. metal feathers
b. a propeller
c. green plumes
d. skis
8. In the MGM movie, the initial scenes in Kansas are filmed in
a. black and white
b. Technicolor
c. emerald green
d. sepia
9. You can escape from Pokes by
a. running
b. dancing
c. calling for Glinda the Good
d. singing
10. The Hungry Tiger wants to eat
a. emeralds
b. choc
olate
c. fat babies
d. broccoli
11. In Bunbury, houses are made of
a. Rice Krispy squares
b. green cheese
c. crackers
d. gingerbread
12. Kalidahs are beasts with
a. heads of tigers and bodies of bears
b. bodies of tigers, heads of hawks
c. no heads
d. sharp beaks
13. Polychrome lost her
a. emeralds
b. rainbow
c. magic mirror
d. blue and red
14. How tall is Mister Yoop the Giant?
a. 2 inches
b. 21 feet
c. 210 feet
d. as tall as you want
15. In the MGM film, the idea of Glinda's using snow to neutralize the effect of the poppy field came from
a. L. Frank Baum's original book
b. L. Frank Baum's Oz musical comedy
c. L Frank Baum's Oz silent movie
d. The MGM screenwriters
16. The Lonesome Duck lives in a
a. diamond palace
b. emerald castle
c. cave of rubies
d. wicker basket
17. What was Billina the Yellow Hen's name before Dorothy renamed her?
a. Lisa
b. Bill
c. Eggstraordinary
d. Chick-chick
18. Old Mombi plans to turn the boy Tip into a
a. pumpkin
b. goldfish for her pond
c. statue
d. stew
19. The Glass Cat is transparent except for her
a. heart
b. heart and brains
c. heart and brains and eyes
d. a mouse in her tummy
20. Haughty, cruel Queen Coo-ee-oh was changed into a
a. rutabaga
b. diamond swan
c. stuffed tiger
d. goldfish made of gold
Answers: 1) d 2) c 3) d 4) c 5) a 6) c 7) b 8) d 9) c 10) c 11) c 12) a 13) b 14) b 15) b 16) a 17) b 18) c 19) c 20) d
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In addition to her nine Cat Marsala novels, Barbara D'Amato is the author of the Anthony- and Agatha-winning true crime book The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery: The True Story of the John Branion Murder Case, as well as a mystery novel, On My Honor, which was nominated for an Anthony. Her Good Cop, Bad Cop won the prestigious Carl Sandburg Award. Her other novels include Help Me, Please and Killer App.
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