Thomas BOYD. Served in Co B, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 4th Brigade of Marines,
2nd Division, American Expeditionary Force. He served at Belleau Wood,
Soissons & St Mihiel. Was gassed at Blanc Mont. His novel
Through the Wheat was recommended to Scribners by F. Scott Fitzgerald and praised by
Edmund Wilson. Worked as journalist after the war and published a number of
novels and historical biographies. Died of cerebral hemorrhage at age 37.
Through the Wheat, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. (1927 edition illustrated
by John W. Thomason). The Dark Cloud, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Points of Honor. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Shadow of the Long Knives,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Simon Girty, the White Savage, Balch, 1928.
Mad Anthony Wayne, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Lighthorse Harry Lee,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. In Time of Peace, Minton, Balch, 1935.
Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steam Boat, G.P. Putnam, 1935.
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Boyd, Thomas,
THROUGH THE WHEAT. (1923 edition).
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Boyd, Thomas.
THROUGH THE WHEAT. (Reprint edition, with new forward
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