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Cover of the first edition (1947) Home Country is a collection of articles written by the columnist Ernie Pyle for Scripps-Howard newspapers between 1935 and 1940. It was compiled and published in 1947 by William Sloan Associates, Inc., after the author's death in 1945.
Ernie Pyle birthplace in Dana, Indiana. Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle was born on August 3, 1900, on the Sam Elder farm near Dana, Indiana, in rural Vermillion County, Indiana.
Pyle and his wife, Jerry, had this house built in 1940 after years of roving the country as a columnist for Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Pyle was born in Indiana, but chose Albuquerque for a home after visiting many times and developing, in Pyle's words, "a deep, unreasoning affection" for New Mexico.
Ernie Pyle wrote several columns about the Northwest Angle and its residents, which were collected in Home Country (1947), published posthumously. The American writer Tim O'Brien set his bestselling novel In the Lake of the Woods (1994) in the Angle. His short story "On the Rainy River" is also set there.
Ernie Pyle wrote a column about him in the Memphis Commercial Appeal June 18, 1936 (republished in 1947 in Pyle's Home Country. [1] His semi-professional baseball team the Claybrook Tigers played in the Negro Southern League , winning a couple of championships with Ted Radcliffe .
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A large white stone memorial to Captain Waskow is located in the side yard of Ernie Pyle's former Albuquerque New Mexico home, now a branch of the Albuquerque Library system, reciting in stone some of Pyle's tribute to Captain Waskow: “I sure am sorry, sir,” said one soldier, his voice trailing off.