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Author |
: Barney Nelson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105040445731 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voices & Visions of the American West by : Barney Nelson
Photographed and edited by Barney Nelson. Introduction by Elmer Kelton. Memorial to Shawn Burchett by Helen & Peter Sarfatis.
Author |
: Gerald F. Kreyche |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2014-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813150604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813150604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visions of the American West by : Gerald F. Kreyche
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. But the West has seldom been written about with the reflective pen of a philosopher. Offering more than a fresh retelling, in thoroughly human terms, of the major historical events of the nineteenth-century West, Gerald Kreyche also leads the reader in a search for the spirit of the West itself. That spirit was one with the American Dream, which offered freedom, individualism, and self-sufficiency to those strong enough and gutsy enough to heed the call of Manifest Destiny. Although the West was and is the most American part of America itself, its natural wonders, its spacious grandeur, its myths and mystique have captured the hearts and imaginations of people the world over. We have all experienced the quickened pulse at the mention of things indelibly western—tumbleweed, mountain men, high plains, cowboys and Indians, sod houses, coyotes, and grizzlies. And who doesn't react to such bigger-than-life figures as Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill, George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse? The personal humdrum of our times rapidly disappears when, through the magic of western films, TV shows, and books, we vicariously lose ourselves and then find ourselves in the American West of a bygone time. The West, then, produced a quasi-separate culture. And, as each culture must, it gave birth to its own ethos, its own special character, its own tone and set of guiding beliefs. Kreyche contends that in the process of "westering," the veneer of the sophisticated easterner was sloughed off, leaving in sharp outline the frontiersman and the pioneer. In their own manner, these men and women produced a new species of homo americanus.
Author |
: Corinne Platt |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2008-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873589467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873589468 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voices of the American West by : Corinne Platt
Author |
: Eli Seavey Ricker |
Publisher |
: Bison Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803239963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803239968 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voices of the American West by : Eli Seavey Ricker
The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle, the Grattan incident, and other events and personages of the Old West are finally made widely available in this long-awaited volume. In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1843-1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to write a multi-volume series about its last days. Among the many individuals he interviewed were American Indians, mostly Sioux, who spoke extensively about a range of subjects, some with the help of an interpreter. For years Ricker traveled across the northern Plains, determinedly gathering information on and off reservations, in winter and in summer. Judge Ricker never wrote his book, but his interviews are priceless sources of information about the Old West that offer more balanced perspectives on events than were accepted at the time. Richard E. Jensen brings together all of Ricker's interviews with American Indians, annotating the conversations and offering an extensive introduction that sets forth important information about Ricker, his research, and the editorial methodology guiding the present volume. Eli S. Ricker (1843-1926) served with the 102nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. After the war, he began farming but was eventually admitted to the bar and moved to Dawes County, Nebraska, to set up his law practice. There, he served for three terms as a county judge and then worked as a newspaper man at the Chadron Times. Ricker devoted his retirement to research for a book that was to be titled The Final Conflict between the Red Man and the Pale Face, which was never written as Ricker became so engrossed in his research. Upon his death, Ricker's notebooks, data, and correspondence were donated to the Nebraska State Historical Society. Richard E. Jensen is retired from the Nebraska State Historical Society, where he was senior research anthropologist. His most recent books are Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the Nineteenth-Century Central Plains (2009) and The Pawnee Mission Letters, 1834-1851 (2010).
Author |
: Gerald F. Kreyche |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015017652382 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visions of the American West by : Gerald F. Kreyche
Author |
: Logan Ames |
Publisher |
: Chartwell Books |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0785821937 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780785821939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visions of the American West by : Logan Ames
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book contains paintings, photography, etchings and lithographs to provide a fascinating image of the US and North America in the 19th century.
Author |
: Michael C. Steiner |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 534 |
Release |
: 2015-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806148953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806148950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regionalists on the Left by : Michael C. Steiner
“Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism,” Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who explore the lives and works of sixteen progressive western intellectuals, authors, and artists, ranging from nationally prominent figures such as John Steinbeck and Carey McWilliams to equally influential, though less well known, figures such as Angie Debo and Américo Paredes. Although they never constituted a unified movement complete with manifestos or specific goals, the thinkers and leaders examined in this volume raised voices of protest against racial, environmental, and working-class injustices during the Depression era that reverberate in the twenty-first century. Sharing a deep affection for their native and adopted places within the West, these individuals felt a strong sense of avoidable and remediable wrong done to the land and the people who lived upon it, motivating them to seek the root causes of social problems and demand change. Regionalists on the Left shows also that this radical regionalism in the West often took urban, working-class, and multicultural forms. Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora Babb, and Joe Jones. Tracing the relationship between politics and place across the West, Regionalists on the Left highlights a significant but neglected strain of western thought and expression.
Author |
: Karen R. Jones |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2009-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748629732 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748629734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis American West by : Karen R. Jones
The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes.This book explores the bipolar world of Turner's Old West and Limerick's New West and reveals the values and ambiguities associated with both historical traditions. Sections on Lewis and Clark, the frontier and the cowboy sit alongside work on Indian genocide and women's trail diaries. Images of the region as seen through the arcade Western, Hollywood film and Disney theme parks confirm the West as a symbolic and contested landscape.Tapping into popular fascination with the Cowboy, Hollywood movies, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand, the authors show the reader how to deconstruct the imagery and reality surrounding Western history.Key Features*Uses popular subjects (the Cowboy, Hollywood westerns, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand) to enliven the text*Includes 13 b+w illustrations*Interdisciplinary approach covers film, literature, art and historical artefacts
Author |
: Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2009-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674033306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674033302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voice and Vision by : Stephen J. Pyne
It has become commonplace these days to speak of "unpacking" texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. This book is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. Stephen Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.
Author |
: Don Gulbrandsen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2007-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1905573596 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781905573592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visions of the American West by : Don Gulbrandsen
This is a companion to the book of landscapes. It is a journey through time and space, an unfolding story of the America's West artist-adventurers both in words and through the memorable paintings and photographs they left us.