Author: Devin Scillian
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627530185
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Westward Journeys contains three stories focusing on the American westward expansion, including the Oregon Trail and the Oklahoma Land Run. In Minnow and Rose, Rose and her family are traveling with a wagon train heading west on the Oregon Trail. When she encounters Minnow, a young native girl, their meeting has life-changing results for both cultures. The Oklahoma Land Run is the topic in Pappy's Handkerchief. When Moses and his family hear of free farmland out in Oklahoma, they head west to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning their own land. After a difficult wagon trip, they arrive at the staging point for the Oklahoma Land Run. In A Book for Black-Eyed Susan, Cora's family is faced with tragedy during their journey on the Oregon Trail. When Cora learns she is to be separated from her baby sister, she creates a memento of their journey together.
Author: Lillian Schlissel
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307803171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author: Judy Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484403808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Westward Journeys contains three stories focusing on the American westward expansion, including the Oregon Trail and the Oklahoma Land Run.
Author: Martin Ridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Applegate, Jesse A. (Jesse Alexander), 1835-1919
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Joe Wilkins
Publisher: White Pine Press Poetry Prize
ISBN: 9781935210368
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A book that interrogates the idea of America--especially our westering, both historical and contemporary.
Author: George J. Vago
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781462030507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The book gives to the reader a glimpse into the life of a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia from the end of WW I, throughout the Nazi horrors of WW II, to the era of Communist dictatorship and finally to the freedom in the West. This non-fictional narrative is written in chronological order and ties in related political events that occurred during this time. The author's WW II survival is followed in detail, showing how the will to fight for life aided in the achievement of that vision. Full recognition is given to the good people who took risks, without which the author could not have survived the war. While liberation brought happiness and hope for a better life, there was also a cloud of sadness over the loss of his father, dear family members and friends that can never be eradicated from memory. Unfortunately, the freedom that came with the end of the war was short lived. The establishment of Communist dictatorship marred that gained freedom. Once again, the author's determination to live in a free society, guided him through an adventurous escape to the West, where he finally achieved his dream of freedom.
Author: Corinne Hosfeld Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927043301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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While Henry David Thoreau's travels to the Maine Woods and Cape Cod were well documented and have been followed by "Thoreauvians" for decades, his 1861 "journey west" with Horace Mann, Jr.--which took the duo from Massachusetts to Minnesota and back--was left to be veiled in mystery. This book details this, the last, longest, and least-known of Thoreau's excursions. The story of two 19th-century men and the 21st-century woman who was determined to follow their 4,000-mile path, this account will intrigue history buffs as they follow in the footsteps of a popular American writer and naturalist.
Author: Lillian Schlissel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.
Author: Frank Shovlin
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846318238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Journey Westward suggests that James Joyce was attracted to the west of Ireland as a place of authenticity and freedom. It examines how this acute sensibility is reflected in Dubliners via a series of coded nods and winks, posing new and revealing questions about one of the most enduring and resonant collections of short stories ever written. The answers are a fusion of history and literary criticism, utilizing close readings that balance the techniques of realism and symbolism. The result is a startlingly original study that opens up fresh ways of thinking about Joyce's masterpieces.
Author: Jesse Applegate Applegate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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