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Author | : Harold Coyle |
Publisher | : Pocket |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1998-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671003876 |
From the bestselling author of "Look Away" and "Until the End" comes a sweeping historical saga about the pivotal years before the American Revolution. From the shores of Lake Champion to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the British and the French battle over the unclaimed territories of the West--and experience the fury and passion of war.
Author | : William Cook |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2011-12-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1935639188 |
Offers hundreds of character and conflict profiles and an overview of the author's detailed plot-building method in order to help build original stories.
Author | : Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520282280 |
"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a "nuclear testing program" but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin."--
Author | : Butch Denny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-01-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692568842 |
One man, alone, without weapons, tools, extra clothes, or any help from the outside world struggling to survive a year in a snowy wilderness-except that he wasn't really alone. He had only himself to depend on, but there were others who watched. It was a scientific experiment, well funded, with scouts, support, cameras, and maps, but through accidents and luck, weather and injuries, the subject of the experiment gains control of his own destiny. An incredible account of one man's courage, determination, and ingenuity, Savage Winter is an powerful tale of survival and adventure.
Author | : Mark Vinz |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000-01-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780816636877 |
Sixteen nationally acclaimed authors reflect on how their Midwestern heritage has affected their attitudes, values, and development as writers. Includes brief biographies and bandw photos of contributors. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Tom Sawyer |
Publisher | : Ashleywilde, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780962747601 |
This is a veritable thesaurus of exciting plot twists and story moves that work for any composition of any genre.
Author | : Mary Losure |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763663697 |
What happens when society finds a wild boy alone in the woods and tries to civilize him? A true story from the author of The Fairy Ring. One day in 1798, woodsmen in southern France returned from the forest having captured a naked boy. He had been running wild, digging for food, and was covered with scars. In the village square, people gathered around, gaping and jabbering in words the boy didn’t understand. And so began the curious public life of the boy known as the Savage of Aveyron, whose journey took him all the way to Paris. Though the wild boy’s world was forever changed, some things stayed the same: sometimes, when the mountain winds blew, “he looked up at the sky, made sounds deep in his throat, and gave great bursts of laughter.” In a moving work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a novel, Mary Losure invests another compelling story from history with vivid and arresting new life. Back matter includes an author’s note, source notes, and a bibliography.
Author | : Janet Moore Lindman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501717634 |
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.
Author | : Frank Christianson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806159936 |
When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European perceptions of the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West. As editor Frank Christianson explains in his introduction, for the first four years after Cody conceived it, the Wild West exhibition toured the United States, honing the operation into a financially solvent enterprise. When the troupe ventured to England for its first overseas booking, its success exceeded all expectations. Between 1887 and 1906 the Wild West performed in fourteen countries, traveled more than 200,000 miles, and attracted a collective audience in the tens of millions. How did Europeans respond to Cody’s vision of the American frontier? And how did European countries appropriate what they saw on display? Addressing these questions and others, the contributors to this volume consider how the Wild West functioned within social and cultural contexts far grander in scope than even the vast American West. Among the topics addressed are the pairing of William F. Cody and Theodore Roosevelt as embodiments of frontier masculinity, and the significance of the show’s most enduring persona, Annie Oakley. An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West’s foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture.
Author | : Stephen J. Mexal |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496211340 |
Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was a San Francisco–based literary magazine whose mix of humor, pathos, and romantic nostalgia for a lost frontier was an immediate sensation on the East Coast. Due in part to a regional desire to attract settlers and financial investment, the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy. Stories about the American West have for centuries been integral to the way we imagine freedom, the individual, and the possibility for alternate political realities. Reading for Liberalism examines the shifting literary and narrative construction of liberal selfhood in California in the late nineteenth century through case studies of a number of western American writers who wrote for the Overland Monthly, including Noah Brooks, Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte, Jack London, John Muir, and Frank Norris, among others. Reading for Liberalism argues that Harte, the magazine’s founding editor, and the other members of the Overland group critiqued and reimagined the often invisible fabric of American freedom. Reading for Liberalism uncovers and examines in the text of the Overland Monthly the relationship between wilderness, literature, race, and the production of individual freedom in late nineteenth-century California.