Book of Sketches

Book of Sketches
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1440626499

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.

Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935

Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935
Author: Jane Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810937420

Looks at drawings in Indian ledger books, depicting traditional dances and war losses, and includes scholarly commentary

A Song for the Horse Nation

A Song for the Horse Nation
Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781555911126

Presents an illustrated examination of the role of horses in Native American culture and history, providing information on the depiction of horses in tribal clothing, tools, and other objects.

A Kiowa's Odyssey

A Kiowa's Odyssey
Author: Phillip Earenfight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents the sketchbook made by Kiowa warrior artist Etahdleuh Doanmoe at Fort Marion in 1877, with other drawings and photographs, and essays about the U.S. Army's exile of Arapaho, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Native Americans from Oklahoma to Florida and subsequent Westernization and assimilation of the prisoners.

Women and Ledger Art

Women and Ledger Art
Author: Richard Pearce
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0816599823

Ledger art has traditionally been created by men to recount the lives of male warriors on the Plains. During the past forty years, this form has been adopted by Native female artists, who are turning previously untold stories of women’s lifestyles and achievements into ledger-style pictures. While there has been a resurgence of interest in ledger art, little has been written about these women ledger artists. Women and Ledger Art calls attention to the extraordinary achievements of these strong women who have chosen to express themselves through ledger art. Author Richard Pearce foregrounds these contributions by focusing on four contemporary women ledger artists: Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), Linda Haukaas (Sicangu Lakota), and Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo). Pearce spent six years in continual communication with the women, learning about their work and their lives. Women and Ledger Art examines the artists and explains how they expanded Plains Indian history. With 46 stunning images of works in various mediums—from traditional forms on recovered ledger pages to simulated quillwork and sculpture, Women in Ledger Art reflects the new life these women have brought to an important transcultural form of expression.

Between Two Cultures

Between Two Cultures
Author: Moira F. Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780961776732

Art historian Moira F. Harris analyzes the known Fort Marion drawings attributed to Wo-Haw, Kiowa warrior and artist (1855-1924), in relationship to then contemporary events.. Her work shows how Kiowa Indian painting developed from its traditional beginnings to the preset day.

Art from Fort Marion

Art from Fort Marion
Author: Joyce M. Szabo
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780806138831

During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion, Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic memories of home. The Silberman Collection is an unusually complete group of images that illustrate the artists' fascination with the world outside the southern plains, their living conditions and survival strategies as prisoners, and their reminiscences of pre-reservation life.

Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors

Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors
Author: Denise Low
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 149621515X

Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents Dodge City ledger-art images and biographies that document a Native perspective at the cusp of reservation life in 1879.

Love's Fortress

Love's Fortress
Author: Jennifer Uhlarik
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636091830

A Love Story from the Past Brings Closure to Dani’s Fractured Family Walk through Doors to the Past via a series of historical stories of romance and adventure. When Dani Sango’s art forger father passes away, Dani inherits his home. Among his effects is a book of Native American drawings, which leads her to seek the help of museum curator Brad Osgood to decipher the ledger art. Why would her father have this book? Is it just another forgery? Brad Osgood’s four-year-old niece, Brynn, needs a safe home, and Brad longs to provide it. The last thing he needs is more drama, especially from a forger’s daughter. But when the two meet “accidentally” at St. Augustine’s 350-year-old Spanish fort, Castillo de San Marcos, he can’t refuse the intriguing woman. Broken Bow is among seventy-three Plains Indians transported to Florida in 1875 for incarceration at ancient Fort Marion. Sally Jo Harris and Luke Worthing dream of serving God on a foreign mission field, but when the Indians arrive in St. Augustine, God changes their plans. Then when friendship develops between Sally Jo and Broken Bow and false accusations fly, it could cost them their lives. Can Dani discover how Broken Bow and Sally Jo’s story ends and how it impacted her father’s life? Don’t miss other great books in the Doors to the Past series: The Lady in Residence by Allison Pittman Hope Between the Pages by Pepper Basham Bridge of Gold by Kimberley Woodhouse Undercurrent of Secrets by Rachel Scott McDaniel Behind Love’s Wall by Carrie Fancett Pagels High Wire Heartbreak by Anna Schmidt