The Land of Journeys' Ending

The Land of Journeys' Ending
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Publisher : Sunstone Press
Total Pages : 490
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ISBN-10 : 9780865345713
ISBN-13 : 0865345716
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Land of Journeys' Ending by : Mary Hunter Austin

Austin writes about the high plateau country lying between the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers, the traditional homeland of many Indian peoples--the Pueblo, the Zuni, the Hopi, and the Navajo.

The Land of Journeys' Ending

The Land of Journeys' Ending
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Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B28766
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Synopsis The Land of Journeys' Ending by : Mary Austin

The Land of Journeys' Ending

The Land of Journeys' Ending
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Total Pages : 459
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:868763851
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Synopsis The Land of Journeys' Ending by : Mary Austin

West of the Border

West of the Border
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9780821413456
ISBN-13 : 0821413457
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis West of the Border by : Noreen Groover Lape

Their writings negotiate their various frontier ordeals: the encroachment of pioneers on the land; reservation life; assimilation; Christianity; battles over territories and resources; exclusion; miscegenation laws; and the devastation of the environment.".

Mary Austin and the American West

Mary Austin and the American West
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 0520942264
ISBN-13 : 9780520942264
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Mary Austin and the American West by : Susan Goodman

Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.

The Land of Journey's Ending

The Land of Journey's Ending
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Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9798680073506
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Synopsis The Land of Journey's Ending by : Mary Austin

When The Land of Journeys' Ending was first published in 1924, The Literary Review warned, "This book is treacherous, waiting to overwhelm you with its abundant poetry." In it, successful New York author Mary Austin describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when she left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the southwestern United States.Part memoir, part travel narrative, part historical investigation, and part ecological study, The Land of Journeys' Ending is a moving account of a woman coming full circle, finding solace in the broad landscape of her youth.In telling her own story, Austin also tells the story of those who journeyed there before her-Native American tribes, Spanish conquistadores, miners, adventurers, and California-bound migrants. The result is both an homage to the magnificence of the desert, mountains, rivers, canyons, plants, and animals of the Southwest and a history of the waves of people who inhabited the region. "Austin writes with a singular force and charm and with an intensity of conviction of their worth that is truly stimulating." - The New York Times"A memorable, life-increasing book."- International Book Review

Picturing a Different West

Picturing a Different West
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Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 089672610X
ISBN-13 : 9780896726109
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Picturing a Different West by : Janis P. Stout

Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a women's tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. Cather's travels repeatedly took her to the Southwest, and she wrote three novels with Southwestern settings. Starting with the masculine tradition of Western art that was prevalent when Austin and Cather launched their careers, Janis P. Stout shows how the authors challenged and revised that tradition. Rather than a West of adventure, violence, and conquest, open only to rugged and daring men, the authors envisioned a new West--not conventionally feminine so much as an androgynous space of freedom for women and men alike. Their vision of an alternative West and their alternative ways of thinking about and portraying gender are inseparable. Placing Cather and Austin alongside contemporaries Elsie Clews Parsons, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Laura Gilpin, Stout emphasizes the visual nature of Austin's and Cather's personal experiences of the West and Southwest, their awareness of the prevailing visual representations of the West, and the visual nature of their books about the West, with respect to both prose style and illustrations. In closing, Stout demonstrates the continuance of their tradition in illustrated western books by Leslie Marmon Silko and by Margaret Randall and Barbara Byers.

Reimagining Indians

Reimagining Indians
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780195157277
ISBN-13 : 0195157273
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Reimagining Indians by : Sherry Lynn Smith

Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West.

Mary Austin's Regionalism

Mary Austin's Regionalism
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0813922739
ISBN-13 : 9780813922737
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Mary Austin's Regionalism by : Heike Schaefer

Mary Austin's decades-old regionalist work still has the power to fascinate and move a wide audience of contemporary readers.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism