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Frontier and pioneer life --- African American pioneers --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Afro-American pioneers --- Pioneers, African American --- Pioneers --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- History --- South Dakota
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Forest and other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emigration to Canada in 1832. While most pieces collected here appeared in magazines in Britain, the United States, and Canada, a few have been drawn from archival holdings and make their first appearance here. This collection seeks, as it were, to complete her aspirations and to offer readers interested in Traill and 19th-century Upper Canada a ""gleaning"" of her better sketches and stories.
Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Fiction. --- History --- Ontario --- Canada West --- Антарыа --- Antarya --- Онтарио --- Οντάριο --- אונטריו --- Onṭaryo --- Ontarijas --- オンタリオ州 --- Ontario-shū --- オンタリオ --- Ontariu --- Онтаріо --- אנטעריא --- Onṭeryo --- Ontarėjė --- 安大略省 --- Andalüe Sheng --- 安大略 --- Andalüe --- Upper Canada --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs --- American literature --- Short stories, Canadian. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Villes frontières --- Canadian literature --- Villes frontières
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Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians-and bloody battles-at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity.Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices-those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American.Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.
Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History --- Turner, Frederick Jackson, --- Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, William Frederick, --- Cody, William F. --- Bill, --- Cody, W. F. --- Cody, Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, Bill, --- Tʻe-na, --- Tʻe-na, Fo-lei-te-li-kʻo Chieh-kʻo-hsün, --- Turner, F. J. --- F. J. T. --- T., F. J. --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- West (U. S.) --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1999 --- american culture. --- american hero. --- american history. --- american west. --- annie oakley. --- buffalo bill. --- columbian exposition. --- cowboys. --- custer. --- empty continent. --- folk tales. --- folklore. --- frontier. --- indians. --- indigenous peoples. --- jack crawford. --- land rights. --- little bighorn. --- log cabins. --- manifest destiny. --- military. --- national identity. --- native americans. --- nonfiction. --- oregon trail. --- pioneers. --- popular culture. --- settler colonialism. --- settlers. --- settling the west. --- sitting bull. --- wagon trains. --- western movement. --- western. --- wild west show. --- wild west.
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