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Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Sixty-eight selections representing writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century and have become known as the Sagebrush School. Features Mark Twain, Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett, and lesser-known writers Arthur McEwen, Fred Hart, and others"--Provided by publisher.
5) The big sky
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
THE BIG SKY is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places. A legend before he turns 20,...
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
From whte men's first tentative forays into the West to the highways that crisscross today's West, this anthology spans almost five centuries, celebrating many myths of a legendary landscape and exploding many more. Every facet of the Western experience is crystallized here -- Indians, cowboys, Latinos, frontier justice, homesteaders, the Pony Express, the mines, the railroad, the military, and far, far, more. Included are such well-known documents...
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"Best remembered for The Land of Little Rain (1903), which established her as a unique voice of the American West, Mary Austin was the author of nearly thirty books and hundreds of short works. Her essays, novels, plays, short stories, poems, and articles draw upon her impressions of the indigenous peoples and terrains of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Throughout her work, glimmers of her idiosyncratic feminism appear; not until long after her...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
William Bonney a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain 19 more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid," bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
Series
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Collected nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from thirty-four women who published during the settlement years of the American frontier. Framed by biographical and historical introductions by Susan Cummins Miller, the selections focus on women's experiences and address such issues as isolation, drudgery, frustration, mourning, and mysticism"--Provided by publisher.