Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Pioneers(Annotated)
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Pioneers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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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.
The Pioneers
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501168681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
The Pioneers (Annotated)
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While...
O Pioneers! (Annotated)
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her frontier novels of life on the Great Plains, including Oh Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during the First World War.Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At 33, she moved to New York City, her main home for the rest of her life, although she also traveled extensively and spent considerable time at her summer residence in Grand.
The Pioneers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2322438375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards," the "young hunter," who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States.
The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers begins with a judge, the Marmaduke Temple, sledding back through the deep Christmas snow of the mountains. He has gone to find his young marriageable daughter Elizabeth from school in New York, and is returning to the city he founded, Templeton, designed by a local architect. In the opening scenes, the judge and his daughter meet the elderly frontier man, Leatherstocking, who is out hunting with an attractive assistant. The judge shoots a deer that runs nearby but accidentally wounds the young man with Leatherstocking. Dismayed at his own clumsiness, the judge offers the young man to take him to the small settlement and medical care at the local sawmills. Thus sets in motion an essentially joyous love story between the judge's daughter and the shy but tremendously competent young woodcutter, all framed in a series of vivid scenes involving the largely comic characters that inhabit the town. The focus on town life and town "guys" reminded me of Thomas Hardy's first humorous novel, Under The Greenwood Tree.
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"--
Poems by Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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