Author : Linda Ray Pratt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803290705
"An exploration of influential Great Plains literature which directly reflects the culture of the people who lived there, their attempts to tame the land, and the sacrifices and rewards of their settlement" ...
Author : Eleanor Arnason
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 160486382X
When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected—he hoped!—that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason’s imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the AIM protests of the 1960s, Arnason tells of a modern woman’s struggle to use the weapons of DNA science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage. PLUS: “Writing SF During World War III,” and an Outspoken Interview that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today’s edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803297029
A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers
Author : Diane Dufva Quantic
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803288508
The Great Plains has long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by such Plains writers as Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner, and Bess Streeter Aldrich. Throughout, Diane Dufva Quantic is aware of the region’s collective social and cultural history—aware of the immensely fruitful clash between that complex history and Plains myth (such as “Garden of the World” and “Great American Desert”). In the vast and changeable Great Plains, as Wright Morris once remarked, “Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion.”
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3849672891
Willa Cather was the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her breakthrough in literature were the three novels featured here in this edition, the so-called “Great Plains Trilogy”. All three novels stage in Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains territory and deal with the life there, family challenges and romance. Included are: O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark My Antonia
Author : Elaine Nowick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2014-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1609620607
Containing thousands of entries of both vernacular and scientific names of Great Plains plants, the literature that informs this exhaustive listing spans nearly 300 years. Author Elaine Nowick has drawn from sources as diverse as Linnaeus, Lewis and Clark, and local university extension publications to compile the gamut of practical, and often fanciful, common plant names used over the years. Each common name is accompanied by a definitive scientific name with references and authority information. Interspersed with scientifically-correct botanical line drawings, the entries are written in standard ICBN format, making this a useful volume for scholars as well as lay enthusiasts alike. Volume 2 indexes the scientific names of those species, followed by listings of all the common names applied to them. Both volumes refer the common and scientific names back to a list of 190 pertinent authoritative sources.
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803247871
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author : Diane Dufva Quantic
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803288539
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation.
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0803290934
2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country. Myriad internal and external forces have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the Great Plains. Those forces--the environment, religion, tradition, guns, disease, government policy--have written their way into this history. Wishart spans the vastness of Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the reader up to date on reservation conditions and rebounding populations in a sea of rural population decline. Great Plains Indians is a compelling introduction to Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteen thousand years ago to the present.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803224095
An in-depth examination of the effects of World War II on the Great Plains states brings to life the voices and experiences of the residents of the region in recounting the stories of the daily concerns of ordinary people.
