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Words West
Author | : Ginger Wadsworth |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0618234756 |
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Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.
West words
Author | : Moira Jean Day |
Publsiher | : University of Regina Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0889772355 |
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West-words gives the reader a bird's-eye view of the contemporary theatre scene across the prairies.
Winning the West with Words
Author | : James Joseph Buss |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-07-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806150406 |
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Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Historian James Joseph Buss borrows from literary studies, geography, and anthropology to examine images of stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established farms, towns, and “civilized” governments. He demonstrates how this now-familiar narrative came to replace a more complicated history of cooperation, adaptation, and violence between peoples of different cultures. Buss scrutinizes a wide range of sources—travel journals, captivity narratives, treaty council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials, late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional fairs and centennial pageants and parades—to show how white Americans used language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal of Native peoples from the region south of the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that the popular image of the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerful narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative of conquest to show the ways Indians, far from being passive, participated in shaping historical memory—and often used Anglo-Americans’ own words to subvert removal attempts. By grounding his study in place rather than focusing on a single group of people, Buss goes beyond the conventional uses of history, giving readers a new understanding not just of the history of the Midwest but of the power of creation narratives.
The Secret Lives of Words
Author | : Paul West |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015042476096 |
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Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekly".
Journal of the House of Delegates of the District of Columbia
Author | : District of Columbia. Legislative Assembly. House of Delegates |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : District of Columbia |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112109633500 |
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Central America the West Indies and South America
Author | : Henry Walter Bates |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB11368814 |
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Western Words a Dictionary of the Old West
Author | : Ramon Adams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0781805902 |
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Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor and strength-unique, original, full-flavored. With his usually limited education he squeezes the juice from language, molds it to suit his needs, and is a genius at making a verb out of anything. He 'don't have to fish 'round for no decorated language to make his meanin' clear, ' and has little patience with the man who 'spouts words that run eight to the pound.' Perhaps the strength and originality in his speech are due to the solitude, the nearness of the stars, the bigness of the country, and the far horizons-all of which give him a chance to think clearly and go into the depths of his own mind. Wide spaces 'don't breed chatterboxes.' On his long and lonely rides, he is not forced to listen to the scandal and idle gossip that dwarf a man's mind. Quite frequently he has no one to talk to but a horse..." -from the author's Introduction
Lois Du Manitoba
Author | : Manitoba |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4790073 |
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