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Calamity Jane
A Reader's Guide
Inbunden, 2015
430 kr
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This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph - and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic …
American West
A Modern History, 1900 to the Present
Av Richard W. Etulain, Michael P. Malone
Häftad, 2007
344 kr
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The American West is the only book-length historical overview of the post-1900 American West. This balanced, comprehensive account of the modern West skillfully delineates the changes and resulting complexities that characterize the twentieth-century West. The authors consider the ways in which …
Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Inbunden, 2014
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299 kr
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Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, …
Ernest Haycox and the Western
Inbunden, 2017
366 kr
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Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899-1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about …
Presidents Who Shaped the American West
Av Glenda Riley, Richard W. Etulain
Häftad, 2018
491 kr
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Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national government's presence in the West dates to before Lewis and Clark, and since 1789 a number of U.S. presidents have had a penetrating and long-lasting impact on the region. In Presidents Who Shaped …
Thunder in the West
The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid
Inbunden, 2020
366 kr
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Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life - and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true …
Billy the Kid
A Reader's Guide
Inbunden, 2020
465 kr
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A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer for the number of books and movies his brief, violent life inspired. Billy the Kid: A Reader's Guide introduces readers to the most significant of …
Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Häftad, 2021
225 kr
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Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, …
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon Statesman
Häftad, 2021
249 kr
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In a career in public office spanning five decades, Mark Odom Hatfield (1922-2011) never lost an election. First elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1950, he retired from political office in 1997 after serving as Oregon state senator, secretary of state, and governor and as United …
Billy the Kid
A Reader's Guide
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer for the number of books and movies his brief, violent life inspired. Billy the Kid: A Reader’s Guide introduces readers to the most significant of …
Thunder in the West Volume 32
The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid
Häftad, 2027
282 kr
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Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life—and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true …
Lincoln Looks West
From the Mississippi to the Pacific
Av Michael S. Green, Robert W. Johannsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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This volume explores Abraham Lincoln’s ties to the American West, bringing together a variety of scholars and experts who offer a look at the sixteenth president’s legacy in the territory beyond the Mississippi River. Included in this collection are an examination of Lincoln’s opposition to the …
Telling Western Stories
From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry
Häftad, 1999
314 kr
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What has the western of literature and film contributed to American culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the West, answers that question by tracing four distinct storytelling traditions and exploring the indelible images each has left in the public's mind over the past 125 …
Beyond the Missouri
The Story of the American West
Häftad, 2006
635 kr
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This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly diverse cultural groups, including today's …
American West and Its Interpreters
Essays on Literary History and Historiography
Häftad, 2023
445 kr
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Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography--including insightful …
American West and Its Interpreters
Essays on Literary History and Historiography
E-bok, 2023
558 kr
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Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful …
Death Comes for the Archbishop
A Classic Novel of New Mexico
Av Willa Cather, Richard W. Etulain
Häftad, 2024
217 kr
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A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the diocese of New Mexico, which was created after the Mexican-American War. With his friend and vicar Joseph …
Writing Western History
Essays on Major Western Historians
Av Richard W. Etulain, Richard W. Etulain m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
326 kr
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Historians of the American West are indebted to the pioneering scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Frederick Jackson Turner, Walter Prescott Webb, and Herbert Eugene Bolton. Etulain gathers essays by contemporary historians on ten of these early writers to survey …
Log of a Cowboy
Av Andy Adams, Richard W. Etulain
E-bok, 2006
88 kr
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Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and laced with appealing campfire humor, Andy Adams''s realistic The Log of a Cowboy is a classic portrayal of the western cattle country. Drawing on his own experiences as a cowboy working in cattle and horse drives, Adams presents a vivid portrait of the …
Boyhood Among the Woolies
Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch
Häftad, 2023
231 kr
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Like many Pacific Northwest sheep herders, Sebastian Etulain emigrated from Europe's Basque country. He arrived in Yakima in May of 1921, convinced that hard work could overcome a lack of formal education and other shortcomings. It became his doctrine, and he advanced to ranch owner before marrying …
Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose
1800 to the Present
Häftad, 2024
686 kr
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Richard W. Etulain examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the present. The book provides an introductory overview to a vast subject through “illuminative moments” that illustrate major shifts in the literary history of the region. The …
Basques of the American West
New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity
Häftad, 2026
880 kr
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Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity brings together new and previously published work by Richard W. Etulain, blending historical analysis and literary criticism to explore the lives, stories, and representations of the Basques in this region. The essays …
Narratives of the American West
Literature and History
Häftad, 2027
509 kr
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Narratives of the American West: Literature and History brings together Richard W. Etulain's most resonant work—along with newly written essays—to reveal how history and storytelling have continually shaped each other in the making of the West. Part historiographical memoir, part wide‑ranging …
Narratives of the American West
Literature and History
Inbunden, 2027
1429 kr
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Narratives of the American West: Literature and History brings together Richard W. Etulain's most resonant work—along with newly written essays—to reveal how history and storytelling have continually shaped each other in the making of the West. Part historiographical memoir, part wide‑ranging …
Abraham Lincoln
A Western Legacy
Häftad, 2020
186 kr
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Best remembered as the man who carried the United States through a civil war and emancipated four million slaves, Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of nearly seventeen thousand books. While historians have chronicled his life and presidency, they rarely go beyond his assassination by John Wilkes …
American Far West in the Twentieth Century
Av Earl Pomeroy, Richard W. Etulain
Häftad, 2009
288 kr
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An eminent scholar’s monumental and highly original history of the twentieth-century American WestIn this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, …
New Mexican Lives
Profiles and Historical Stories
Av Etulain R, Richard W. Etulain
Häftad, 2002
351 kr
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The editor and a distinguished group of twelve collaborators re-interpret New Mexico's history through biography. Profiles of fourteen notable, complex characters provide a unique view into New Mexico's development from prehistoric times to the present. Here are lives of men and women that …
Western Lives
A Biographical History of the American West
Häftad, 2004
224 kr
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The history of the American West is full of intriguing life stories, and the fifteen essays in this collection weave a selection of those lives together to focus on the main currents in the region's history. The first five essays cover the period from contact to the mid-nineteenth century and …
Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2013
224 kr
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This cross-continental history demonstrates Abraham Lincoln’s strong connections with the Oregon Country on various political issues—Indian relations, military policies, civil and legal rights, and North-South ideological conflicts—before and during the Civil War years. Richard Etulain refutes the …
