The New Penelope: And Other Stories and Poems

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The New Penelope: And Other Stories And Poems

Literature & Fiction

Victor, Frances Fuller

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

The Early Indian Wars Of Oregon Compiled From The Oregon Archives And Other Original Sources: With Muster Rolls

History & Criticism

Kessinger Pub Co

A Mountain Man Classic The River of the West is easily the most reliable and extensive first-person history ever written of that unique and never-to-be-duplicated era. An extraordinary first-hand account of those who came West and lived with the land. Of all the men who walked the Rocky Mountains a century and a half ago, none other is so completely alive as Joe Meek. This book has been described as a howling yawp of youth and vitality, challenge and danger, exultation and joy. It is all of that and more. Originally published in 1870, this book includes the original illustrations and offers a new introduction, map, notes, bibliography and index.In the first volume of 'The River of the West', The Mountain Years, we meet Joe Meek as a dashing and valiant trapper. In this second volume, The Oregon Years, with the help of his wife Joe comes to light as pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, and legislator.Through Meek's wondrous recollections, his memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's formative years, and that of the entire Northwest United States. The struggles of women, Native Americans, missionaries, trappers, early settlers, explorers, and the Hudson's Bay company all shaped a territory, and finally a state.It is fact, but more than that. It's the truth of an era and place. As all good stories are, it is the blend of the objective and what is imaginatively implied about the days when giants roamed the raw West.The issues of life and death were often in the balance, and these were decided by the cool judgment of natural leaders--women and men, Native Americans and whites. Those leaders come through in folk literature as heroic. They were. They were also authentically human and worthy of admiration, flaws and all.Put together, it is the sort of historic memoir that we love, the sort that ennobles us.Editor Win Blevins is an expert on the fur trade era. He has written screenplays about the mountain men. His first book, "Give Your Heart to the Hawks," perhaps the best collection of mountain man adventures and stories, has been in print for forty years.He is the recipient of the 2015 Owen Wister award for lifetime achievement for Literature of the West. He is also in the Western Writers Hall of Fame."Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best." Tony Hillerman on ‘Give Your Heart to the Hawks.’"Blevins possesses a rare skill in masterfully telling a story to paper. He is a true storyteller in the tradition of Naïve people." Lee Francis, Native American Studies, UNM"Blevins shows us the glory years of frontier life, fresh and rich." Kirkus Reviews on "Beauty for Ashes" "One of the finest novels to come out of the American West in a long time. An amazing book, grandly conceived and beautifully written." Dallas Morning News on "Stone Song, The Story of Crazy Horse."

The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek: The Oregon Years (Epic Adventures)

Biographies & Memoirs

Blevins, Win

Historical

WordWorx Publishing

Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was widely known as a Civil War figure, author, and successful cavalry leader before his spectacular defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians. His actions—and those of his troops—would have been of public interest even without their final, bloody outcome. A ready audience of readers was hungry for information about the engagement and about their fallen hero when Frances Fuller Victor's book appeared in spring 1877.
Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and comprehensive account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early 1877. It was a major accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide range of sources—including personal letters, war correspondents' dispatches, and government documents—to explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army and the Lakota-Cheyenne coalition. She also offered one of the earliest biographical assessments of Custer, its most noted military participant.
Compared to other period writings, Victor's narrative is smooth and dispassionate, devoid of conjecture and judgment. In addition, her account contains rare Indian perspectives on the Little Bighorn battle, including Lakota testimony that has not previously appeared elsewhere. Featuring an introduction by historian Jerome A. Greene, this edition of Our Centennial Indian War provides a remarkable window into contemporary thinking about an iconic event

Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer (Volume 68) (The Western Frontier Library Series)

University of Oklahoma Press

The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek: 001 (Classics of the Fur Trade Series)

Nash, Lee

Contemporary

Scurlock Pub Co

The river of the West : Life and adventure in the Rocky mountains and Oregon; embracing events in the life-time of a mountain-man and pioneer: with the early history of the north-western slope, including an account of the fur traders ... Also, a description of the country. Joe Meek was one of the West's irresistible characters-dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, more fun than a playful grizzly cub. Meek comes down to us not as a myth, says Blevins, but as "simply a right kind of fella." It is our good luck that Joe knew how to yarn his mountain experiences truly and colorfully and with only a mite of stretching, and that he happened to cross trails with Frances Fuller Victor, who had the sense to see the worth of his tale as Joe told it-in the raw.

The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek Volume One; The Mountain Years (Classics of the Fur Trade Series)

A Mountain Man Classic The River of the West is easily the most reliable and extensive first-person history ever written of that unique and never-to-be-duplicated era.  An extraordinary first-hand account of those who came West and lived with the land. Of all the men who walked the Rocky Mountains a century and a half ago, none other is so completely alive as Joe Meek.  This book has been described as a howling yawp of youth and vitality, challenge and danger, exultation and joy.  It is all of that and more. Originally published in 1870, this book includes the original illustrations and offers a new introduction, map, notes, bibliography and index.In the first volume of 'The River of the West',  The Mountain Years, we meet Joe Meek as a dashing and valiant trapper.  In this second volume, The Oregon Years, with the help of his wife Joe comes to light as pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, and legislator.Through Meek's wondrous recollections, his memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's  formative years, and that of the entire Northwest United States. The struggles of women, Native Americans, missionaries, trappers, early settlers, explorers, and the Hudson's Bay company all shaped a territory, and finally a state.It is fact, but more than that. It's the truth of an era and place. As all good stories are, it is the blend of the objective and what is imaginatively implied about the days when giants roamed the raw West.The issues of life and death were often in the balance, and these were decided by the cool judgment of natural leaders--women and men, Native Americans and whites.  Those leaders come through in folk literature as heroic.  They were.  They were also authentically human and worthy of admiration, flaws and all.Put together, it is the sort of historic memoir that we love, the sort that ennobles us.Editor Win Blevins is an expert on the fur trade era.  He has written screenplays about the mountain men.  His first book, "Give Your Heart to the Hawks," perhaps the best collection of mountain man adventures and stories, has been in print for forty years.He is the recipient of the 2015 Owen Wister award for lifetime achievement for Literature of the West.  He is also in the Western Writers Hall of Fame."Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best." Tony Hillerman on ‘Give Your Heart to the Hawks.’"Blevins possesses a rare skill in masterfully telling a story to paper.  He is a true storyteller in the tradition of Naïve people." Lee Francis, Native American Studies, UNM"Blevins shows us the glory years of frontier life, fresh and rich."  Kirkus Reviews on "Beauty for Ashes" "One of the finest novels to come out of the American West in a long time.  An amazing book, grandly conceived and beautifully written."  Dallas Morning News on "Stone Song, The Story of Crazy Horse."

River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek : The Oregon Years (002) (Classics of the Fur Trade Series)

History

Americas

Mountain Pr

Here Joe Meek continues his collaboration with Frances Fuller Victor, telling the story of his own colorful life and the tale of his times. This is a memoir that has proved immediately and endearingly popular upon its publication more than a century ago through the present day. In this volume, Meek is shown is his roles as pioneer, sheriff, U. S. Marshall, even legislator--Citizen Joe. Through Meek's pungent recollections, his engaging memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's turbulent formative years--the struggles of the missionaries, the other early settlers, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Indians that shaped a territory and finally a state.

The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek: Volume Two: The Oregon Years (Classics of the Fur Trade Series)

Mountain Press

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