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Robert Van Schoick “Bob” Carr

Birth: 15 Jul 1877
Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Death: 12 Jan 1931 (aged 53)
Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial: Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery

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Dr Albert Carr

1856–1945
Emma Elizabeth Gray Carr

1856–1922

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Estella R. "Stella" Rudesill Carr

1870–1973 (m. 1902)

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William V "Willie" Carr

1880–1925
Annette Violet "Annie" Carr

1882–1897

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Excerpt from from 1913 interview: Mr. Carr tells of his first attempts to lariat the wild and untamed muse.Said he, "You must not think that the way of the writer of western verse is strewn with posies. I believe that I was about 14 years old when, in addition to an overpowering ambition to be a cowboy, I began to cherish fond hopes of becoming a writer. Possessing a couple of Indian ponies, I drifted from ranch to ranch, from cow outfit to cow outfit, and when I was not annoying the cooks I was scribbling poetry. Some of these verses I sent to a country editor. He returned them with the note to the effect that they were not worth space. Years later that editor transgressed the law and was sent to jail. That served as an awful warning to me, and later, when I became a country newspaper editor, I always published the poetry sent in.Still, in the camp and on the trail in that trampled country north of the Black Hills of South Dakota, I wrote of the things I saw. Sometimes they were printed, but more frequently rejected.I left the Western country for a bitter experience in the army in the Philippines and returned to the Black Hills a physical wreck, but still writing. I then sought the cities, but managing editors had little space for western poetry and I drifted on. In that time I came in contact with the ‘down-and-outs,' the hungry men, the broken men. I need no books to tell me of despair. In many a dark hole in the city I longed for the clean prairies and a sniff of sage. But still I scribbled. And in time I returned West... Yes, the way of the poet, like that of the transgressor, is hard;... I do not regret the efforts. I am thankful that I was made to suffer, for it is only by suffering that we learn anything worthwhile."

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Exerts from LA Times Obituary, Jan 12, 1930. Writer of Western Verse DiesRobert V. Carr, Editor and Columnist, Expires at Home in Sierra MadreSierra Madre, Jan. 11 Robert v. Carr, 43 years of age, [he was 53] poet, newspaper editor and columnist, magazine publisher and scenario writer, died here yesterday at his home on Sycamore Place. He leaves only his widow and funeral arrangements have not been discussed.Carr was credited with starting interest among men of wealth in the Palm Springs district, which has resulted in development of the high-class resort at that point. While writing scenarios for Sennett and Fox, as well as making a battle for his own health, Carr took up a claim at Palm Springs and erected a shack there. Constantly singing the praises of his desert retreat, he drew others there.Born in Illinois, the son of a country doctor, his family moved to Rapid City, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, when he was 10 years of age. When 17, he started to work in a printing office at Edgemont. Several years later, he started a column of prose in the Whitewood Plain Dealer and soon became widely quoted as the Cowboy Poet of the Black Hills.Out of his cow country experiences came two books of verse. "Black Hills Ballads," in 1902 and "Cowboy Lyrics" in 1912. At Whitewood he also became publisher of the Jawbone Magazine.In 1905, he went to Chicago as a columnist and later worked on papers and magazines in Denver, Spokane and Seattle. Carr came to Los Angeles in 1910 and two years later moved to this city residing there at intervals since that time, and continuously for the last eight years.Carr was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.

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Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa) 24 Aug 1902 - Robert V Carr, poet of Whitewood, South Dakota

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SOURCE: U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Ancestry.com)
Name: Robert Van Schoick Carr
City: Los Angeles
County: Los Angeles
State: California
Birth Date: 15 Jul 1877
Race: White
Draft Board: 17
Occupation: Magazine Writer
Nearest Relative Estella R. Carr

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