Song Of The Plains

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496240820
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Song to the Plains written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues—courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish—their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726934
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plainsong written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803283299
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plains Song written by Wright Morris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This narrative, which on its surface is an account of three generations of women (and a few of their men) living on the plains of Nebraska ... only gets more strange and beautiful the more you look at it, like a photograph that slowly reveals its truth under very close inspection."--Introduction, p. [v].

Author : Linda Joy Myers
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631522175
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Plains written by Linda Joy Myers and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers received a gift that proved crucial in her life: the idea that everyone is a walking storybook, and that we all have within us the key to a deeper understanding of life—the secret stories that make themselves known even without words. Song of the Plains is a weaving of family history that starts in the Oklahoma plains and spans over forty years as Myers combs through dusty archives, family stories, and genealogy online. She discovers the secrets that help to explain the fractures in her family, and the ways in which her mother and grandmother found a way not only to survive the great challenges of their eras, but to thrive despite mental illness and abuse. She discovers how decisions made long ago broke her family apart—and she makes it her life's work to change her family story from one of abuse and loss to one of finding and creating a new story of hope, forgiveness, healing, and love.

Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : John Curley & Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780893403041
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plains Song written by Wright Morris and published by John Curley & Associates. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496240812
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Song to the Plains written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849672891
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Plains Trilogy written by Willa Cather and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edna Worthley Underwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs from the Plains written by Edna Worthley Underwood and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803247871
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Great Plains written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : John G. Neihardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Song of the Indian Wars written by John G. Neihardt and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic narrative poem focuses on the days after the end of the Civil War through the fall of 1877, describing the leaders and events of the Indian Wars, including Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Dull Knife, Spotted Tail, the Fetterman Massacre, the Wagon Box Incident, and the the Battle of Little Big Horn. See: Holsinger, Indian Wars West of the Mississippi, pp. 174-175.