Author: Emerson BennettPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Ella Barnwell
Author: Emerson BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
De Bow's Review
Author: James Dunwoody Brownson De BowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
American Fiction, 1774-1900
Author: The Herald of Truth
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Category : Religious newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
De Bow's Review
Author: Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007
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ISBN: 9780835247498
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3004
Book Description
The Empress of the Isles; Or, The Lake Bravo
Author: Charley ClewlinePublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Indianization of Lewis and Clark
Author: William R. SwagertyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Although some have attributed the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition primarily to gunpowder and gumption, historian William R. Swagerty demonstrates in this two-volume set that adopting Indian ways of procuring, processing, and transporting food and gear was crucial to the survival of the Corps of Discovery. The Indianization of Lewis and Clark retraces the well-known trail of America’s most famous explorers as a journey into the heart of Native America—a case study of successful material adaptation and cultural borrowing. Beginning with a broad examination of regional demographics and folkways, Swagerty describes the cultural baggage and material preferences the expedition carried west in 1804. Detailing this baseline reveals which Indian influences were already part of Jeffersonian American culture, and which were progressive adaptations the Corpsmen made of Indian ways in the course of their journey. Swagerty’s exhaustive research offers detailed information on both Indian and Euro-American science, medicine, cartography, and cuisine, and on a wide range of technologies and material culture. Readers learn what the Corpsmen wore, what they ate, how they traveled, and where they slept (and with whom) before, during, and after the return. Indianization is as old as contact experiences between Native Americans and Europeans. Lewis and Clark took the process to a new level, accepting the hospitality of dozens of Native groups as they sought a navigable water route to the Pacific. This richly illustrated, interdisciplinary study provides a unique and complex portrait of the material and cultural legacy of Indian America, offering readers perspective on lessons learned but largely forgotten in the aftermath of the epic journey.
From Daniel Boone to Captain America
Author: Chad A. BarbourPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496806859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth century, American art and literature developed images of the Indian and the frontiersman that exemplified ideals of heroism, bravery, and manhood, as well as embodying fears of betrayal, loss of civilization, and weakness. In the twentieth century, comic books, among other popular forms of media, would inherit these images. The Western genre of comic books participated fully in the common conventions, replicating and perpetuating the myths and ideals long associated with the frontier in the United States. A fascination with Native Americans also emerged in comic books devoted to depicting the Indian past of the US In such stories, the Indian remains a figure of the past, romanticized as a lost segment of US history, ignoring contemporary and actual Native peoples. Playing Indian occupies a definite subgenre of Western comics, especially during the postwar period when a host of comics featuring a "white Indian" as the hero were being published. Playing Indian migrates into superhero comics, a phenomenon that heightens and amplifies the notions of heroism, bravery, and manhood already attached to the white Indian trope. Instances of superheroes like Batman and Superman playing Indian correspond with depictions found in the strictly Western comics. The superhero as Indian returned in the twenty-first century via Captain America, attesting to the continuing power of this ideal and image.