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Richard Harter Fogle's earlier work, Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, has become a standard resource for both scholars and general readers who wish to gain an understanding of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne- a complex and challenging literary figure. This book, designed as a companion volume, concentrates upon Hawthorne's use of imagery, specifically sun imagery, with its contrasting images of moonlight, artificial light, shadow, and blackness, to unify his narratives and illuminate his characters. In tracing Hawthorne's imagic pattern through his major fiction works and critical pieces, Professor Fogle amply reinforces his critical judgment that Hawthorne was not only an artist but also a careful, conscious craftsman. This book, in every sense a work of original and creative scholarship, is destined to join Hawthorne's Fiction as an indispensable guide to one of America's greatest writers. Richard Harter Fogle was professor of English at Tulane University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was the author of Melville's Shorter Tales, Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, and The Imagery of Keats: Selected Poetry and Letters.

Richard Harter Fogle provides an accurate and rounded discussion of these relatively neglected Melville stories. His approach is broadly literary--expounding Melville's ideas as they exist in the context of the stories themselves and illuminating their connections with Melville's total work.

This absorbing account has become a classic, indispensable to understanding America's inexorable drive westward to the Pacific--and beyond. This second edition provides a new preface, additional maps and illustrations, and a revised bibliographical essay.

"Regionalism at its best. A wonderfully entertaining book, stuffed with sparkling and insightful stories, yarns, and sketches."Richard W. Eutulain Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the Center for the American WestIf it is true that a region is defined by its people and their culture, then Jim Hoy and Tom Isern have taken a second giant step in defining the Great Plains. Plains Folk II: The Romance of the Landscape continues that story. As in the first volume, Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains, the authors write about hardy plains dwellers-a rare breed who feel out of place anywhere except on the prairie-and their cultural heritage, derived from many countries in both the Old World and the New. Here are stories about plains folklore, animals, food, lifestyles, and artifacts in a land of buttermilk and blabs, Bigfoot and bindweed. Sharing their experiences of the plains region, Hoy and Isern convey their sense of place and their affection for the area. They see beauty in landscapes that others, used to mountains or forests, deem barren. They look beyond the seemingly flat surface into the lives and culture of those who turned the Great American Desert into the Garden of the World.Jim Hoy, professor of English at Emporia State University, writes about Flint Hills history and folklife. Tom Isern, professor of History at North Dakota State University, writes on farming, ranching, and rural life on the plains. They are coauthors of the newspaper column "Plains Folk" and Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains.

In the history of the tristate Panhandle region--the three corners of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas--the saga of Henry C. Hitch and his ranch is also the story of the social, cultural, and economic fortunes of the region.

Offers the first complete picture of the conflicts on the Upper Missouri in the 1850s and 1860s, the period bookended by the Sioux's first major military conflicts with the US Army and the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation. The book explores not only relations between the Sioux and their opponents but also the discord among Sioux themselves.

College football fans need no introduction to Bud Wilkinson, but few of them know the great University of Oklahoma football coach as a devoted father. In Dear Jay, Love Bud, Jay Wilkinson, Bud's younger son, shares forty-seven letters his father wrote to him while he was in college and graduate school.

In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history.

From his birth in Ardmore, Indian Territory, in 1898, the life of Sylvan Nathan Goldman (1898-1984) spans almost the entirety of Oklahoma's modern history. He stands as a symbol of America's twentieth-century pioneers, the developers of the business frontier of the state and the nation. His rich, productive life is recorded in these pages.

Bruchac ratchets the tension from the first page to the last in this detective novel that pairs comedy and action with serious consideration of corporate greed, environmental destruction, cultural erosion, and other modern-day issues pressing Native peoples.

An account of the life and accomplishments of Sitting Bull, American Indian warrior and chief of the Dakota Sioux. A leader in the Sioux War of 1876-1877, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General Custer, he was killed during the "Ghost Dance" uprising in 1890 by police.

This study presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. It begins with the "Aeneid", and includes chapters on the "Bucolics" and the "Georgics".

"A welcome series of intimate glimpses of life in Texas from 1832 to 1887."Southwest Review"Victorian Lady captures the tragedy and the indomitable spirit of 19th century Texas." East Texas Historical Association"I was requested by some of the ladies to put a piece of cotton in my ears," wrote Ann Raney Coleman, describing her experiences in a ditch during the Civil War while Yankee shells exploded around her, "but this I declined to do as I would rather hear all that was going on." Such charmingly understated comments abound in Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontier, the journal of a spunky girl who left England with her mother and sister to come to Texas in 1832. Anne Raney Coleman had a knack for being in the center of the action: the early preparations for the Texas "strugel for independence," the Runaway Scrape, and the Federal attack on the Texas Gulf Coast in the Civil War. While boarding with Jane Long, "the Mother of Texas," Mrs. Coleman associated with the McNeels and other leaders of the province, and she wrote of her experiences in a clear, energetic style-painting her characters sharply and with decided opinions about them all."One leaves the book with the impression of an indomitable lady. The careful editing and extensive footnotes make this volume useful also for local history."Journal of American HistoryC. Richard King was Professor Emeritus of journalism in the University of Texas. He wrote extensively on southwestern American history.

Lieutenant Jose Cortes of the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers was a keen observer of the native people of the Northern Borderlands of New Spain, and his 18th-century report provides a closely-informed, well-organised understanding of Apaches. Extensive annotations are included.

Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be "Indian." Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light.During the eighteenth century, the British allied themselves with Indian tribes to counter the American colonial rebellion. In response, British artists produced a large volume of work focusing on American Indians. Although these works depicted their subjects as either noble or ignoble savages, they also represented Indians as active participants in contemporary society.Pratt places artistic works in historical context and traces a movement away from abstraction, where Indians were symbols rather than actual people, to representational art, which portrayed Indians as actors on the colonial stage. But Pratt also argues that to view these images as mere illustrations of historical events or individuals would be reductive. As works of art they contain formal characteristics and ideological content that diminish their documentary value.Stephanie Pratt, a tribal member of the Crow Creek Dakota Sioux, is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

This work demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. It examines 350 dreams from 150 years of published and unpublished sources to describe the shared features of cosmology for 23 groups of Plains Indians.

More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Jeffrey Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology.

The Treatise of Hernando Ruiz de Alarc n is one of the most important surviving documents of early colonial Mexico. It was written in 1629 as an aid to Roman Catholic churchmen in their efforts to root out the vestiges of pre-Columbian Aztec religious beliefs and practices. For the student of Aztec religion and culture it is a valuable source of i

The Arapahoes are an important Plains Indian tribe. Previously neglected in favor of their more hostile allies, the Sioux and the Cheyennes, they have benefited from increasing attention in recent years. In this tribal history Virginia Cole Trenholm traces Arapaho life-ways from prehistoric times in Minnesota and Canada to twentieth-century Wyoming, Montana, and Oklahoma. In a new preface she summarizes the major events for the last Arapaho generation.