Author: Peter Boag
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295749997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.
Pioneering Death
Author: Peter Boag
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295749997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295749997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.
Conversations on Dying
Author: Phil Dwyer
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459731956
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach dedicated his life and his career to helping his patients navigate their final journey. Then, in April 2013, Larry was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Unlike the majority of us, Larry knew the death he wanted. He wanted to die at home, surrounded by his family: his wife of forty years, his children, and his grandchildren. He did. He was peaceful and calm at the end. Larry proved that the “good death” isn’t a myth. It can be done, and he showed us how. Ever the teacher, Larry made his last journey a teachable moment on how to die the best death possible, even with a pernicious disease. As hard as it is to guide patients toward dying well, it is far harder to live those precepts day by day as the clock ticks down to one’s own death, but Larry, together with author Phil Dwyer, chronicled his final journey with courage and humour.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459731956
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach dedicated his life and his career to helping his patients navigate their final journey. Then, in April 2013, Larry was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Unlike the majority of us, Larry knew the death he wanted. He wanted to die at home, surrounded by his family: his wife of forty years, his children, and his grandchildren. He did. He was peaceful and calm at the end. Larry proved that the “good death” isn’t a myth. It can be done, and he showed us how. Ever the teacher, Larry made his last journey a teachable moment on how to die the best death possible, even with a pernicious disease. As hard as it is to guide patients toward dying well, it is far harder to live those precepts day by day as the clock ticks down to one’s own death, but Larry, together with author Phil Dwyer, chronicled his final journey with courage and humour.
Pioneer Girl Perspectives
Author: Nancy Tystad Koupal
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN: 9781941813089
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A publication of the Pioneer Girl Project."
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN: 9781941813089
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A publication of the Pioneer Girl Project."
The Last Cowboys
Author: John Branch
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 039335699X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A can't-put-it-down modern Western." —Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—many call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of heartache and broken bones, The Last Cowboys is a powerful testament to the grit and integrity that fuel the American Dream.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 039335699X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A can't-put-it-down modern Western." —Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—many call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of heartache and broken bones, The Last Cowboys is a powerful testament to the grit and integrity that fuel the American Dream.
The Firelands Pioneer
Author:
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Category : Erie County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Erie County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. I]
Author: James R. Columbia
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387496131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This volume is part of a two-volume set that contains over 1,000 local and national articles, from historical newspapers and other publications, relating to the pioneer history of the area of northeastern Kentucky known as the "Buffalo Trace," including the counties of Mason, Bracken, Fleming, Robertson and Lewis, and the adjacent Ohio counties of Adams and Brown.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387496131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This volume is part of a two-volume set that contains over 1,000 local and national articles, from historical newspapers and other publications, relating to the pioneer history of the area of northeastern Kentucky known as the "Buffalo Trace," including the counties of Mason, Bracken, Fleming, Robertson and Lewis, and the adjacent Ohio counties of Adams and Brown.
Report of the Pioneer and Historical Society of the State of Michigan
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West
Author: John S.C. Abbott
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387084712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 - May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime via biographies and news articles. His (sometimes exaggerated) exploits were the subject of dime novels. In 'Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West, ' historian John Abbott traces the remarkable life of this early American icon.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387084712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 - May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime via biographies and news articles. His (sometimes exaggerated) exploits were the subject of dime novels. In 'Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West, ' historian John Abbott traces the remarkable life of this early American icon.
History of Randolph County, Indiana
Author: E. Tucker
Publisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years: An Autobiography
Author: Samuel Thompson
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This is the autobiography of Samuel Thompson, a pioneer farmer and settler to the Canadian frontier. He was born in London, England in 1810. And after an apprenticeship with a printer, he moved to Upper Canada in 1833 with his two brothers and settled on farms there. In 1837, he went to Toronto in search of work where he joined the city guards during the Upper Canada Rebellion. He subsequently worked in newspaper and insurance business ventures. It was while in his final position as manager of the city library that he wrote his autobiography.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This is the autobiography of Samuel Thompson, a pioneer farmer and settler to the Canadian frontier. He was born in London, England in 1810. And after an apprenticeship with a printer, he moved to Upper Canada in 1833 with his two brothers and settled on farms there. In 1837, he went to Toronto in search of work where he joined the city guards during the Upper Canada Rebellion. He subsequently worked in newspaper and insurance business ventures. It was while in his final position as manager of the city library that he wrote his autobiography.