Literature of the American West Series – serie
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8 produkter
GhostWest
Reflections Past and Present
Av Ann Ronald
Häftad, 2005
246 kr
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Our sense of place is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings, she reflects on how western history, literature, and lore continue to shape our visceral impressions of these …
After Eden
A Novel
Inbunden, 2007
348 kr
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Loss and renewal in the lives of an individual and a communityAfter Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Indians, Euro-American ranchers and vintners, and Mexican …
High Country
A Novel
Häftad, 2008
283 kr
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The packer's business is guiding mule trains into mountains where wagons can't travel. It's a life of danger, long days, and low pay. But for those wedded to the wilderness and inaccessible high country, it is the only life there is.During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his …
After Eden
A Novel
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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After Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Indians, Euro-American ranchers and vintners, and Mexican American migrant laborers, Valerie Miner deftly juxtaposes …
Bone Deep in Landscape
Writing, Reading, and Place
Häftad, 2000
136 kr
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Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of the rural frontier. Her girlhood chores--hauling water and rounding up cattle--were remote even to her town-bred classmates in the forties and fifties. It was a girlhood she now …
Writing Her Own Life
Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher
Inbunden, 2004
352 kr
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Mary Clearman Blew's aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing Her Own Life, Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the diaries Imogene kept during World War II while she taught in rural Montana schools and later in Washington State. …
High Country
A Novel
Inbunden, 2005
329 kr
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The packer's business is guiding mule trains into mountains where wagons can't travel. It's a life of danger, long days, and low pay. But for those wedded to the wilderness and inaccessible high country, it is the only life there is.During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his …
Oh, Give Me a Home
Western Contemplations
Av Ann Ronald
Häftad, 2006
281 kr
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Evoking memorable images of the American West, the old cowboy song ""Home on the Range"" is both nostalgic and eternally appealing. The verses remind us of the sweep of history, while their innocence indicates the way westerners still tend to view the land.In lyrical prose, Ann Ronald's Oh, Give Me …
