reach for the sky (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:52 AM -0500 3/28/11, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
>>
>>  1910 William MacLeod Raine _A Texas Ranger_  (N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap,
>1911)
>>  154: "Now, reach for the sky, and prompt, too." ...The deputy disarmed
>his
>>  captive.
>>
>>
>
>Why the 1910 dating if the book was published in 1911?
>
Is the practice to cite the quote based on the book publication but
date it according to its (slightly) earlier serialized appearance?
(I'm not saying I remember reading Raine's "Texas Ranger" in a
periodical the year before the book was published, I'm just thinking
that could be a factor here and possibly elsewhere.)

LH

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