Horses and Men

[3] In the beginning of April, that pause came and Anderson put aside his manuscript to turn his focus to the collection[4] which he had promised to his publisher by July 1.

[5] Anderson's excitement about the stories in Horses and Men and his comfortable surroundings in a small Reno, Nevada cottage where he was accompanied by his soon-to-be wife, Elizabeth Prall, pushed him to work quickly so the completed manuscript was posted to Ben Huebsch on 16 May 1923.

[4][6] The months between May and October 1923 found Anderson back to work on Story Teller's Story (then tentatively titled "Modernist Notebook" or Straws)[7] with brief pauses on 19 July and early August to read the proofs for Horses and Men.

[9] Another compromise was the omission of Anderson's story "There She is -- She is Taking Her Bath" which was scheduled to appear in Pictorial Review in November 1923.

[12] Upon opening the book, readers would see that out of the nine stories and short essay on Dreiser, six were variations of previously published pieces.