Visions Of The Big Sky

Author : Dan Louie Flores
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Northwest, Canadian
ISBN : 0806138971

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Visions of the Big Sky by Dan Louie Flores Pdf

Ancient ecstasies -- Visualizing Lewis and Clark and the meaning of the West -- The eye and the heart in George Catlin's West -- Karl Bodmer's gift -- Alfred Jacob Miller's new Western American -- Jesus and animus beneath the Bitterroots -- An entire Heaven and an entire Earth : audubon on the Missouri -- Albert Bierstadt and the mountains of Mars -- Thomas Moran's Rocky Mountain romance -- Coming to terms with the Little Bighorn -- Altitude equals beatitude : William Henry Jackson and the Northern Rockies -- L.A. Huffman and the frontier disconnect -- Catching shadows in the northern West -- Through Indian eyes : the Crows and Richard Throssel -- Evelyn Cameron's time machine -- Carl Rungius and the son of wild folk -- Loving the West, hating the West, painting the West : the troubled times of Fra Dana -- Frederic Remington's Kiss of death -- Maynard and Montana -- Winold Reiss's beautiful Blackfeet -- Motion and poetry -- The bear in the mirror -- Emily Carr and the Great Mother -- The ripples beyond Ansel Adams -- In the end, what was Charlie Russell trying to tell us?

Author : David C.W. Parker
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483368627

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Battle for the Big Sky by David C.W. Parker Pdf

Battle for the Big Sky delves into one of the few competitive races of the 2012 election: the US Senate campaign in Montana. Author David C.W. Parker was granted exceptional access by both candidates over the 21 months preceding the election, allowing him to tell the story of the race in rare and fascinating detail, while also exploring the impact of Citizens United and so-called "dark money" on the campaign. The Montana setting offers readers a view into the rising political influence of the West, the importance of "place" in politics, and the impact of congressional styles and constituent relationships on campaigns and elections. Parker skillfully weaves political analysis into his narrative and places the race in the broader context of congressional elections and the research literature.

Author : William E. Farr,William W. Bevis
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 091729873X

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Fifty Years After The Big Sky by William E. Farr,William W. Bevis Pdf

Writers, historians, and public intellectuals from James Welch and Mary Clearman Blew to Dan Flores, William W. Bevis and Daniel Kemmis explore A. B. Guthrie's life and legacy in Fifty Years after The Big Sky: New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Best known for his novels, The Big Sky and The Way West and as the author of the screenplay for the movie classic Shane, A. B. Guthrie is a much-loved but under-studied Montana author. There has been almost no serious study of Guthrie's work, until now. This wide-ranging anthology examines this beloved western author in multiple contexts. Essays examine Guthrie's relationship with the movie industry; how the Cold War influenced Guthrie's work; how people in his hometown of Choteau, Montana, and others close to him remember the man; and how the myths that lie at the core of Guthrie's fiction haunt today's Montanans.

Author : Jackson J. Benson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803224643

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Under the Big Sky by Jackson J. Benson Pdf

Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthrie s historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky, the latest in his celebrated series of biographies of Western writers, Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape. The small Montana town that figures in several of Guthrie s books is clearly patterned after the town where he grew up, Choteau, on the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. Benson illuminates the critical details of Guthrie s upbringing and education, the influence of his intellectually inclined father, his work as a newspaperman in Kentucky, and his time at Harvard University. Animated by the observations of friends, family, and fellow authors, this intimate account offers rare insight into the life and work of a remarkable writer and into the making of the literary West.

Author : Gerald F. Kreyche
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813187556

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Visions of the American West by Gerald F. Kreyche Pdf

Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. But the West has seldom been written about with the reflective pen of a philosopher. Offering more than a fresh retelling, in thoroughly human terms, of the major historical events of the nineteenth-century West, Gerald Kreyche also leads the reader in a search for the spirit of the West itself. That spirit was one with the American Dream, which offered freedom, individualism, and self-sufficiency to those strong enough and gutsy enough to heed the call of Manifest Destiny. Although the West was and is the most American part of America itself, its natural wonders, its spacious grandeur, its myths and mystique have captured the hearts and imaginations of people the world over. We have all experienced the quickened pulse at the mention of things indelibly western—tumbleweed, mountain men, high plains, cowboys and Indians, sod houses, coyotes, and grizzlies. And who doesn't react to such bigger-than-life figures as Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill, George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse? The personal humdrum of our times rapidly disappears when, through the magic of western films, TV shows, and books, we vicariously lose ourselves and then find ourselves in the American West of a bygone time. The West, then, produced a quasi-separate culture. And, as each culture must, it gave birth to its own ethos, its own special character, its own tone and set of guiding beliefs. Kreyche contends that in the process of "westering," the veneer of the sophisticated easterner was sloughed off, leaving in sharp outline the frontiersman and the pioneer. In their own manner, these men and women produced a new species of homo americanus.

Author : Kirby Larson
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375846410

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Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier. For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim. Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove. Her quest to make a home is championed by new neighbors Perilee Mueller, her German husband, and their children. For the first time in her life, Hattie feels part of a family, finding the strength to stand up against Traft Martin’s schemes to buy her out and against increasing pressure to be a “loyal” American at a time when anything—or anyone—German is suspect. Despite daily trials, Hattie continues to work her uncle’s claim until an unforeseen tragedy causes her to search her soul for the real meaning of home. This young pioneer's story is lovingly stitched together from Kirby Larson’s own family history and the sights, sounds, and scents of homesteading life.

Author : Sean Staples
Publisher : Sean Staples
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vision by Sean Staples Pdf

A robbery to save a dog. Trouble at the gas station. A drug fueled trip in the woods. The legendary concert that killed. An invasion of another country. A gritty crime story. There is so much more in this book that is packed with 13 different stories that all can be read in just an afternoon. If you are looking for a dark-comedy book full of plot twists. This is it.

Author : David Mogen
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780893704001

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Wilderness Visions by David Mogen Pdf

A careful and meticulous study of the Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature. I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature, Vol. 1

Author : Vicente F. Gotera
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0820315109

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Radical Visions by Vicente F. Gotera Pdf

Although poets have written about warfare since at least the time of Homer, the Vietnam war has struck many observers as being immune to the interpretations of poetry and myth. "Lyric poetry of a traditional kind," writes one critic, "has proved inappropriate to communicate the character of the Vietnam war, its remoteness, its jargonized recapitulations, its seeming imperviousness to aesthetics." Nonetheless, the past two decades have seen an unprecedented outpouring of poetry that seeks to describe and come to terms with that bitterly divisive conflict. In Radical Visions Vince Gotera argues that poetry written by Vietnam veterans underlines the failure of traditional American myths to help Americans understand the war and its aftermath. The book blends sociohistorical commentary with close readings of individual works by such poets as Michael Casey, Walter McDonald, and W. D. Ehrhart. In the book's first section, "The 'Nam," Gotera examines several key mythic structures--the Wild West (a violent extension of the mythic virgin land), the machine in the garden, the city on the hill, regeneration through violence--all of which helped delude Americans about Vietnam and the war being fought there. In the second part, "The World," Gotera shows how another myth, the American Adam as an exemplar of ahistorical innocence, proved unusable for returning veterans attempting to readjust to American life. In addition to exposing these failed myths, Gotera argues, the poetry by Vietnam veterans reflects an effort to construct new myths--most notably that of the "warrior against war," an oxymoronic structure arising from the difficulties faced by returning veterans. In the book's final chapters, Gotera examines the work of Bruce Weigl and Yusef Komunyakaa, two poets whom the author considers most successful at portraying the moral absurdity of the Vietnam war without sacrificing lyrical aesthetics. The first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to poetry by Vietnam veterans, Radical Visions argues that this body of writing registers an important advance in the aesthetics and poetics of war literature and offers a cogent antiwar statement rooted in personal experience.

Author : Ben A Minteer,Mark Klett,Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300268867

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Wild Visions by Ben A Minteer,Mark Klett,Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable “place apart” to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process.

Author : Gordon E. Legge
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781482269482

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Psychophysics of Reading in Normal and Low Vision by Gordon E. Legge Pdf

Written by a leader in the field of low vision research, this book discusses the role of vision in reading, focusing on the reading performance of people with normal, healthy vision and people with impaired vision. The author describes the influence of physical properties of text on reading performance and the implications for information processin

Author : Jennifer Mikels
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459202702

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Big Sky Cowboy by Jennifer Mikels Pdf

A passion fiercer than the Montana heat… When rugged rancher Colby Holmes wanted to solve his aunt's murder, he reluctantly enlisted the help of stunning psychic Tessa Madison. Despite her mysterious beauty, Colby swore that he would never let a woman near his heart again. But it wasn't long before a burning desire tantalized him each time he looked Tessa's way. With a past that proved falling in love only brought pain, Tessa kept her heart under lock and key. But Colby's kiss brought on a sweet emotion that left her enchanted. So when the town's skeptics tried to force her from her home, would the love of one handsome cowboy be enough to make her stay?

Author : Tricia Goyer
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781433668692

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Along Wooded Paths by Tricia Goyer Pdf

A young Amish woman, recently transplanted from Indiana to Montana, is torn between marrying a man from back home or the Englischer whose active faith is calling to her in Goyer's "Along Wooded Paths."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Frontier and Pioneer Life
ISBN : UCBK:C098755023

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The Western Historical Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470999073

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A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America by Charles L. Crow Pdf

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.