Writer Caroline Lockhart (1871-1962) lived a life as colorfully picaresque and as successful as any of her bestselling Western adventure novels or her widely quoted newspaper column. Her popular novels, championing the region and the Old West culture of which she became a part, were compared favorably to those of Owen Wister, and one, The Fighting Shepherdess, was made into a movie. She also attracted national attention as the owner-editor of the Cody Enterprise. H. L. Mencken praised her outspokenness as an investigative reporter and as a critic of Prohibition, and Christopher Morley borrowed her witticisms verbatim for his column in the New York Post. Lockhart's devilishly honest humor, he said, could "make the human lung crow like Chanticleer." Although her writings are little known today, Lockhart left a body of work that reveals her to be a first-class interpreter of the West in a time of economic and social transition. Necah Stewart Furman's informative and compelling literary biography intersperses a lively chronicling of Lockhart's life with an objective and probing analysis of her books, short stories, and articles. Furman has made thorough and judicious use of newspapers, interviews, and manuscripts, including personal correspondence and diaries, to detail the western sojourns, the civic controversies, the love affairs, and the real-life adventures that honed Lockhart's point of view and formed the basis of her fiction. From her Kansas childhood, to her early success as a reporter in Boston and Philadelphia, to the excitement of "making it big" as a writer-journalist, civic leader, and rancher based mainly in Cody, Wyoming, a remarkable portrait emerges of a woman who broke conventions and made her own mark not only in a frontier setting but in a primarily masculine literary genre.

Caroline Lockhart: Her Life and Legacy

Literature & Fiction

Furman, Necah Stewart

United States

Univ of Washington Pr

Writer Caroline Lockhart (1871-1962) lived a life as colorfully picaresque and as successful as any of her best-selling Western adventure novels or her widely quoted newspaper column. Her popular novels, championing the region and the Old West culture of which she became a part, were compared favorably to those of Owen Wister, and one, The Fighting Shepherdess, was made into a movie. She also attracted national attention as the owner-editor of the Cody Enterprise. H. L. Mencken praised her outspokenness as an investigative reporter and as a critic of Prohibition, and Christopher Morley borrowed her witticisms verbatim for his column in the New York Post. Lockhart's devilishly honest humor, he said, could "make the human lung crow like Chanticleer." Although her writings are little known today, Lockhart left a body of work that reveals her to be a first-class interpreter of the West in a time of economic and social transition. Necah Stewart Furman's informative and compelling literary biography intersperses a lively chronicling of Lockhart's life with an objective and probing analysis of her books, short stories, and articles. Furman has made thorough and judicious use of newspapers, interviews, and manuscripts, including personal correspondence and diaries, to detail the western sojourns, the civic controversies, the love affairs, and the real-life adventures that honed Lockhart's point of view and formed the basis of her fiction. From her Kansas childhood, to her early success as a reporter in Boston and Philadelphia, to the excitement of "making it big" as a writer-journalist, civic leader, and rancher based mainly in Cody, Wyoming, a remarkable portrait emerges of a woman who broke conventions and made her own mark not only in a frontier setting but in a primarily masculine literary genre.

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Walter Prescott Webb: His life and impact

Univ Of Nm Press

The only externally published account of the nation's premier nuclear ordnance laboratory during its formative years. Based on primary sources from archives, oral histories, and laboratory records, Furman places the development of the Laboratory in both national and international context, relating the institutional history to technological developments, the character and capacities of the scientists and engineers, and the political temper of the times. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade

Science & Math

Technology

University of New Mexico Press

A handsomely illustrated biography of a classic automotive designer.\nOriginally written in 1981, this revised, comprehensive, and entertaining biography of famous classic car designer Raymond H. Dietrich—known as “the automotive architect of the classic era”—is an accurate record of his life and times based upon records and interviews unavailable to others. Featuring more than four hundred photographs and documents, many never previously published, this entertaining and well-researched societal history traces the eight decades of the designer's life, revealing little-known aspects of his career and illustrating his triumphs over tragedy. Historians and auto enthusiasts alike will appreciate how this handsomely illustrated book skillfully transports the reader from one era to another in the life of an extraordinary man who left such an impressive legacy of classic car design.

Raymond Henri Dietrich: Automotive Architect of the Classic Era & Beyond

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Dalton Watson Fine Books

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