Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Literary Pioneer
Author: O Pioneers!
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9181080794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Pioneer Girl
Author: Laura Ingalls WilderPublisher:
ISBN: 9781941813096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"A side-by-side textual comparison of the three surviving typescript revisions of "Pioneer Girl" that uses the texts themselves to draw inferences about Laura Ingalls Wilder's authorial and Rose Wilder Lane's editorial processes and intentions, as well as about the working relationship between the two women during their attempts to market "Pioneer Girl" as adult nonfiction, prior to the publication of Wilder's Little House novels that are based on these original manuscripts"--
Pioneer Girl
Author: Bich Minh NguyenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698151372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From an award-winning author, a novel about a Vietnamese American family’s ties to The Little House on the Prairie Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending with issues she’s evaded since college. But when her brother disappears, he leaves behind an object from their mother’s Vietnam past that stirs up a forgotten childhood dream: a gold-leaf brooch, abandoned by an American reporter in Saigon back in 1965, that might be an heirloom belonging to Laura Ingalls Wilder. As Lee explores the tenuous facts of this connection, she unearths more than expected—a trail of clues and enticements that lead her from the dusty stacks of library archives to hilarious prairie life reenactments and ultimately to San Francisco, where her findings will transform strangers’ lives as well as her own. A dazzling literary mystery about the true origins of a time-tested classic, Pioneer Girl is also the deeply moving tale of a second-generation Vietnamese daughter, the parents she struggles to honor, the missing brother she is expected to bring home—even as her discoveries yield dramatic insights that will free her to live her own life to its full potential.
Dinner Time for Bella and Rosie
Author: Pioneer Valley BooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584533764
Category : Early Reader
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Pioneer Girl
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803225268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.
Brigham Young
Author: John G. TurnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.
GREAT PIONEER PROJECTS
Author: Rachel DickinsonPublisher: Nomad Press
ISBN: 1936749270
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
What was it like to be an American pioneer during the 1800s? Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself introduces readers ages 9 and up to the settling of the great American frontier with over 25 hands-on building projects and activities. Young learners build replica sod houses, log cabins, and covered wagons and create their own printing presses and maps. Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself provides detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project. Historical facts and anecdotes, biographies, and fascinating trivia support the fun projects and teach readers about the American pioneers’ relentless push westward. Together they give kids a first-hand look at daily life on the trail and on the frontier. Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself brings the American Pioneer experience to life.
The Textual Outlaw
Author: Manuel M. Martín-RodríguezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Science Fiction Pioneer
Author: Tom StreissguthPublisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761382674
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
When Jules Verne was born in 1828, his family had his future planned out for him. They expected him to become a lawyer, but he dreamed of writing. He started out writing more traditional poetry and plays, but then he began to create a new, unconventional kind of fiction. It combined adventure, the modern world of science and invention, and his personal view of the future. With fantastical characters, spaceships to the moon, and deep-sea submarines, his books told of things that would not actually occur for decades.