Author: Neil Morris Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780237509729 Category : Children's stories, English Languages : en Pages : 22
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Presents the adventures of one pioneer family during the long journey west into an unknown land. Information pages supply additional facts about life in the American West.
Author: Neil Morris Publisher: ISBN: 9781854351678 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
Presents the adventures of one pioneer family during the long journey west into an unknown land. Information pages supply additional facts about life in the American West.
Author: Wayne D. Overholser Publisher: ISBN: 9780786259359 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 302
Book Description
From the three-time winner of the Spur Award comes this compilation of two short novels, available in paperback for the first time. Includes the title novel "Wheels Roll West" and "Swampland Empire."
Author: Frank McLynn Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802199143 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 543
Book Description
An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Richard Dunlop Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
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More than two hundred rare period illustrations enhance a chronicle of the impact of wagons, coaches, and other wheeled vehicles on the settlement of the American West.
Author: David Lusted Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317874919 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 337
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The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike. Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading. Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse, and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station, Pursued and Ulzana's Raid.
Author: Neil Morris
Author: Neil Morris
Author: Bill Francoeur
Author: Wayne D. Overholser
Author: H. F. Frame
Author: Lambert Florin
Author: Violet Lang
Author: Frank McLynn
Author: Richard Dunlop
Author: David Lusted