Author : Sir William Drummond Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Indians of North America
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Author : Monica Rico
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0300196253
DIV In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “roughing it” in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. Rico uncovers the networks of elite men—British and American—who circulated between the West and the metropoles of London and New York. Each chapter tells the story of an individual who, by traveling these transatlantic paths, sought to resolve anxieties about class, gender, and empire in an era of profound economic and social transformation. All of the men Rico discusses—from the well known, including Theodore Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill Cody, to the comparatively obscure, such as English cattle rancher Moreton Frewen—envisioned the American West as a global space into which redemptive narratives of heroic upper-class masculinity could be written. /div
Author : William Benemann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080324469X
The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe—not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found in American culture of the 1830s and 1840s a cultural milieu of openness in which men could pursue same-sex relationships. This book traces Stewart’s travels from his arrival in America in 1832 to his return to Murthly Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, with his French Canadian–Cree Indian companion, Antoine Clement, one of the most skilled hunters in the Rockies. Benemann chronicles Stewart’s friendships with such notables as Kit Carson, William Sublette, Marcus Whitman, and Jim Bridger. He describes the wild Renaissance-costume party held by Stewart and Clement upon their return to America—a journey that ended in scandal. Through Stewart’s letters and novels, Benemann shows that Stewart was one of many men drawn to the sexual freedom offered by the West. His book provides a tantalizing new perspective on the Rocky Mountain fur trade and the role of homosexuality in shaping the American West.
Author : Daniel Kimball Whitaker
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1846
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William D. Barge
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Lee County (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Kimball Whitaker
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1846
Category : American periodicals
ISBN :
Author : William D. Barge
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Lee County (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Jules David Prown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300057317
A common theme of western American art is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this book, the authors look at western American art of the past three centuries, re-evaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history and American studies.
Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0748647406
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement and disappearance, the 'wilderness' was also a source of adventure and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a new idea of identity, freedom and landscape?
Author : John Logan Allen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803210431
The third volume of North American Exploration, covering 1784 to 1914, charts a dramatic shift in the purpose, priorities, and results of the exploration of North America. As the nineteenth century opened, exploration was still fostered by the growth of empire, but by the 1830s commercial interests came to drive most exploratory ventures, particularly through the fur trade. By midcentury, however, as imperial rivalries lessened and the fur trade declined, exploration was driven by the growing scientific spirit of the age?although the science was often conducted in the service of a search for railroad routes or natural resources linked to military concerns. A clear transition took place as the spirit of the Enlightenment gave way to economic imperatives and to the science of the post-Darwinian age and exploration passed beyond discovery and geographical definition. This volume explores the resultant beginnings of an understanding of the continent and its native peoples.
