Author: George Amos DorseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Mythology of the Wichita
Author: George Amos DorseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Mythology of the Wichita
Author: George Amos DorseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Mythology the Wichita
Author: George A.. DorseyMayday Over Wichita
Author: D. W. CarterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781626190528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"On the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashedinto a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When the fire and destruction finally subsided, forty-seven people--mostly African American children--were dead or injured, homes were completely destroyed and numerous families were splintered. As shocking as it may sound, the event was seemingly omitted from the historical record for nearly fifty years. Now, historian D. W. Carter examines the myths and realities of the crash while providing new insights about the horrific four-minute flight that forever changed the history of Kansas. "--
The Wichita Indians: People of the Grass House
Author: Susan a. HollandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781939054401
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Wichita Indians shared the Great Plains, in the central United States, with a variety of animals, including millions of bison, elk, and birds. The Wichita built their homes of poles and prairie grass, which grew up to 12 feet tall. These unique, beehive-shaped grass houses were exclusive to the Wichita, housed extended families, and could last up to 14 years. Tools, fashioned from chert and bison bones, were used to construct homes and cultivate garden plots.
West of Wichita
Author: H. Craig MinerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780700603640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This volume, which presents a "slice-of-life" on the Plains during its early settlement, adds rich detail to our understanding of the struggle for survival in a harsh landscape that tested the hardiest pioneer. Miner concentrates not only on the major economic events of the period—railroad building, Indian raids, the grasshopper invasion of 1874, the blizzard of 1886—but also on the more personal experiences equally important: building sod houses, choosing crops, filing of claims, fighting varmints, and dealing with the deaths of children on the prairie. "Magnificent. . . . A subtle and often moving account of pioneer life. . . . A truly splendid book."—Choice "Regional history at its best. . . . Many of the traditional tales of early hardships—grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccustomed hazards of nature—are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair. . . . Not the least of Miner's talents is his engaging style. Images are alive, progression of the story lively, and the analysis convincing. This first-rate book is an important addition to the history of Kansas and, more broadly, to the study of western settlement."—American Historical Review
The Mythology of the Wichita
Author: George A. DorseyPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497845749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.
The Pawnee; Mythology (part I)
Author: George Amos DorseyPublisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Mythology of the Wichita
Author: George Amos DorseyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598357137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Butcher's Crossing
Author: John WilliamsPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.