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Author: Zeese Papanikolas Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803287549 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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Zeese Papanikolas forges seemingly disparate events and movements in western history?including some of its strangest and most exotic strains?into a coherent whole by examining them against the laughter and wisdom of Shoshonean trickster tales. Seen against these tales, the West becomes both a canvas for the projection of utopian dreams and the site of their shattered remains. ø Papanikolas undertakes a dramatic retelling of Shoshoni creation stories and examines, along with other topics, the mythologies embedded in the ?Dream Mine? of Mormon folklore, the heroic images of cowboys and Wobblies, the MX missile, the dark side of Oz, and the Las Vegas of tourists, dam builders, and gamblers. ø Among those whose visions are played out against the mirage-haunted background of the West are Cabeza de Vaca, Winston Churchill, Big Bill Haywood, and Native American wise man, Antelope Jake. It is a testament to the power of Papanikolas's conception that he can weave the themes and topics of each chapter into a book that is both eloquent and intellectually stimulating.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Author: Sarah Deutsch Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496229568 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 666
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To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country’s future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression’s end, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders—Deutsch attends to the region’s role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a “white man’s country.” While this racial formation was linked to claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the eve of World War II.
Author: George W. Peck Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 231
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Peck's Sunshine" (Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, / Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882) by George W. Peck. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Christopher C. Gibbs Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 140109144X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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Nobody much liked Louis Boyer, and somebody hated him enough to murder him and leave his corpse lying on the floor of his auto body repair shop outside Corinth, Missouri. It is October 1920, and with the election only days away, Deputy Sheriff James Bolivar Buckner seems to be the only person in Highland County interested in finding out who the killer was. His investigation will force him to confront facts of life in small town Missouri that will shock and horrify him. It might also get him killed.
Author: Joseph H. Peck
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Author: Christopher C. Gibbs
Author: New York (State) State Botanist