Cow Country

Cow Country PDF Author: Will James
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Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Cow Country

Cow Country PDF Author: Will James
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Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp PDF Author: John Avery Lomax
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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The "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp" does not purport to be an anthology of Western verse. As its title indicates, the contents of the book are limited to attempts, more or less poetic, in translating scenes connected with the life of a cowboy. The volume is in reality a by-product of my earlier collection, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads." In the former book I put together what seemed to me to be the best of the songs created and sung by the cowboys as they went about their work. In making the collection, the cowboys often sang or sent to me songs which I recognized as having already been in print; although the singer usually said that some other cowboy had sung the song to him and that he did not know where it had originated. For example, one night in New Mexico a cowboy sang to me, in typical cowboy music, Larry Chittenden's entire "Cowboys' Christmas Ball"; since that time the poem has often come to me in manuscript form as an original cowboy song. The changes — usually, it must be confessed, resulting in bettering the verse — which have occurred in oral transmission, are most interesting. Of one example, Charles Badger Clark's "High Chin Bob," I have printed, following Mr. Clark's poem, a cowboy version, which I submit to Mr. Clark and his admirers for their consideration. In making selections for this volume from a large mass of material that came into my ballad hopper while hunting cowboy songs as a Traveling Fellow from Harvard University, I have included the best of the verse given me directly by the cowboys; other selections have come in through repeated recommendation of these men; others are vagrant verses from Western newspapers; and still others have been lifted from collections of Western verse written by such men as Charles Badger Clark, Jr., and Herbert H. Knibbs. To these two authors, as well as others who have permitted me to make use of their work, the grateful thanks of the collector are extended. As will be seen, almost one-half of the selections have no assignable authorship. I am equally grateful to these unknown authors.

Honduras

Honduras PDF Author: Cecil Charles
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Category : Honduras
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The Classical Review

The Classical Review PDF Author:
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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National Fertilizer Review

National Fertilizer Review PDF Author:
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Category : Fertilizers
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Ontario Library Review

Ontario Library Review PDF Author:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Choucas

Choucas PDF Author: Zofia Nalkowska
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501756834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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The novel in Europe in the early twentieth century took a decidedly inward turn, and Choucas (1927) is an intriguing example of the modernist psychological tradition. Its author, Zofia Nalkowska (1884–1954), was a celebrated Polish novelist and playwright. She rose to prominence in interwar Poland and was one of a group of early feminist writers that included Pola Gojawiczynska, Maria Dabrowska, and Maria Kuncewiczowa. Choucas is set in the Swiss Alps in the mid-1920s in a sanatoria village near Lake Geneva. The book has an international focus, and the narrator, a polish woman, profiles a motley collection of visitors to the village and patients at the sanatorium and their interactions with each other. Among these she encounters Armenian survivors of the 1915–16 genocide who were given refuge in Switzerland. The characters are all from different countries and each represents a distinct political or religious point of view. The title is derived from the French word for a species of bird native to this region of Switzerland. Nalkowska was known for her love of nature and animals, and the birds have symbolic significance for the characters themselves. The choucas fly down from the mountain passes seeking food, while some of the characters in the novel wander around the sanatorium seeking philosophical truths. In Choucas, there is a strong autobiographical element to the story, as Nalkowska had stayed in a sanatorium in Leysin, Switzerland, with her husband in 1925. A comparison may also be drawn with the classic novel by Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924), which has similar themes. The book delineates a fascinating time period, and the author's concise fictional technique is strikingly innovative and groundbreaking. Choucas is a fine example of early modernist literature and is translated for the first time into English for a new generation of readers.

Talking Animals and Others

Talking Animals and Others PDF Author: Michael Cart
Publisher: Abrams Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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The first complete biography of the beloved children's book author Walter R. Brooks, creator of Freddy the Pig.

Ontario Library Review and Book Selection Guide

Ontario Library Review and Book Selection Guide PDF Author:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Animal Ecology

Animal Ecology PDF Author: Charles Sutherland Elton
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Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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