Footnotes
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The date of 1331 is based on the notion that Lurline imposed a 600 years punishment upon Faleero after which she would be free once more to utilize her powers. It may have been thought that by then she would have changed her ways. Such was not the case, as evidenced by her actions in “The Purple Prince of Oz” in 1931. Click on the title above to read the story.
Date based on the text of “Yankee in Oz” (1959) in which Jinnicky, the Red Jinn states that he began studying magic 200 years ago.
The celebration in Thompson's 'Wishing Horse of Oz' commemorates the anniversary of both Dorothy and the Wizard's first arrivals in Oz. This date is based on my notion that that celebration marked the 70th year of the Wizard’s arrival in Oz (which would be exactly double the amount of years that Dorothy arrived in Oz which textually is 35 years). This dating is an invention of my own not found in the text, but one that seems reasonable enough until a clearer source of information comes to the fore. Most scholars agree that the Wizard likely arrived somewhere within the range of 1850 to 1870. A point has been made that the Wizard’s city of origin, Omaha, was not established until 1854. It is a possibility; however, that Oscar Diggs may have been born in the region of Omaha prior to it’s being named such. Also, since Omaha is the name of the Native American tribe that lived in that region, it may have been called Omaha as early as 1813 when Manuel Lisa established a large trading post there.
The internal dates in this story are erroneous as they give 1898 for the Wizard’s arrival in Oz. The Wizard himself states that he grew to be an old man in Oz, thus he had already been a long time in Oz by 1898. The story, however, is an excellent read.
A.k.a. The Wizard of Oz. The very first book that launched the Oz universe. The amount of publishers that have brought forth this book into print are countless. For the sake of brevity and continuity, I have indicated only Dover, Del Rey and Books of Wonder for modern publishers on the timeline because these two have published nearly the entire Baum canon and because they are widely available and easy to find. No offense is meant towards any other publishers.
Dreaming in a Scarlett Slumber
This short story which takes place while Dorothy is asleep in the poppy field (in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is a prologue and foreshadow to events to occur in a much longer work (forthcoming).
The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz: Chapter I: Dorothy’s Christmas Tree
This is the first episode of Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tinman newspaper strip, drawn for the McClure Syndicate. After his acrimonious split with Baum, this was Denslow's attempt to capitalize on the success of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and, perhaps, to compete with Baum who was featuring his own newspaper strip in August 1904 in The Philadelphia Syndicate. It appeared in the Minneapolis Journal on 12/10/1904. All evidence points to this story taking place during The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, whilst the characters are in the Emerald City for the first time. Note: This story has also been reprinted in The Baum Bugle vol.43 #3,12/99. It now appears as Chapter 1 in Hungry Tiger Press' The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz.
The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz: Chapters 2-12
Commissioned for the McClure Syndicate, Denslow's Scarecrow and Tin-Man appeared in The Minneapolis Journal in 1904 and ran for twelve episodes. As with Baum's Oz newspaper strips, there is no proper ending to the stories as the titular characters are left in California. Oz-Story Magazine reprinted these prior to producing the handsome 2006 volume, The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz, which collects all the stories under one cover for the first time. To complete the series, Hungry Tiger Press also included the contents of the 1904 picture book (entitled Denslow's Scarecrow and Tin-Man) from G.W. Dillingham Company. Story-wise, however, it's difficult to reconcile this final story with the rest of the Oz series as the two heroes (with the Lion nowhere in sight) appear to be the human performers of the popular stage show. However, even if they are the original Oz characters, the context of the story makes it clear that they've been away from Oz and performing for two years, with a judgment placed upon them to perform for another year. The individual titles, now chapter numbers, are as follows: “On Skates,” “On Fifth Avenue,” “On the Water,” “On the Ocean,” “In Bermuda,” “Shipwrecked,” “In Yucatan,” “At the Carnival in New Orleans,” “Captured by Indians,” “With the Cowboys,” “At the Flower Festival in California.” The book includes the picture-book, Denslow's Scarecrow and Tin-Man as Chapter 13: "The Scarecrow and Tinman Escape."
This tale is only included in the Books of Wonder edition of Baum’s American Fairy Tales.
(included in The Runaway Shadows)
Only the flashback portion of this story occurs here. The prologue and epilogue occur in 1910
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