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The Western Story
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Author : Jon Tuska
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-11-01
The Western Story written by Jon Tuska and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-01 with Fiction categories.
The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury consists of twenty Western stories spanning the years 1892 to 1994. For that generation of American writers who saw the frontier in the last century?including Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Owen Wister?it seemed exotic, strange, wonderful. Others, such as Frederic Remington and John G. Neihardt, reflected the clash between various Indian nations and pioneers. These authors prepared the way for the founders of the first Golden Age of the Western story: Willa Cather, who wrote of pioneer life in Nebraska; Zane Grey, who combined wilderness experiences with romance and the search for spiritual truth; B. M. Bower, who portrayed the cowboys and frontier women she knew growing up in Montana; Max Brand, who created dramas in which the psychological and spiritual meaning of life was more important than the physical terrain; and Ernest Haycox, who combined character and drama with historical accuracy. ø Another generation of writers perpetuated this first Golden Age: Peter Dawson and T. T. Flynn, who began writing Western stories in the 1930s; Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who created a masterpiece in The Ox-Bow Incident; Dorothy M. Johnson and Les Savage Jr., who experimented with making the Western story still more realistic; and Louis L?Amour, whose visibility and popularity won legions of new readers to the genre. ø Humanity, depth, and verisimilitude were already part of the Western story when Will Henry, Elmer Kelton, and T. V. Olsen came on the scene to intensify these qualities in their own stories even as they experimented with new perspectives. And Cynthia Haseloff?s story (written especially for this collection), with its symbolism and its simplicity, may be the harbinger of a second Golden Age.
Telling Western Stories
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Telling Western Stories written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American fiction categories.
What has the western of literature and film contributed to American culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the West, answers that question by tracing four distinct storytelling traditions and exploring the indelible images each has left in the public's mind over the past 125 years. Our images of cowboys, lawmen, outlaws, and Indians come from a collage of sources, including Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, Calamity Jane, Mary Hallock Foote, Geronimo, Mourning Dove, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, Walter Noble Burns, John Ford, Louis L'Amour, Wallace Stegner, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Larry McMurtry. Etulain begins with the dominant image conveyed in Wild West shows and dime novels of the late nineteenth century -- the West as a place of adventure and danger. In the early twentieth century stories by women and Indians appeared, but they were soon overlooked and not rediscovered until the 1970s. The period from the 1920s to the 1950s represents the classic era of western movies and novels -- of cavalry charges to save the day and heroes in white hats. But since the 1960s a counter story has emerged, one of ambiguity and complexity that often turned upside down our notions about what really mattered in how we look at the West.
The Virginian
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Author : Owen Wister
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-12-13
The Virginian written by Owen Wister and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Fiction categories.
Laying the foundations for Clint Eastwood’s nameless character in ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,’ ‘The Virginian’ is a landmark novel of the western genre. The eponymous hero is the strong, tall, silent type, acting as an armed escort to Tenderfoot on their journey to Judge Henry’s ranch in Sunk Creek. This action-packed story details their adventures and encounters along the way and includes, just as in any good western, a little romance. If you like your books full of hot bullets and cold killers, then this is the perfect place to start! Credited with setting the template for the classic western novel and the archetypal cowboy hero, Owen Wister (1860 – 1938) was born in Philadelphia. The son of an actress and a doctor, Wister spent his formative years travelling Europe, before returning to America at his father’s behest. After graduating from Harvard Law School, and suffering from poor mental health, he took the first of 15 trips to Wyoming. It was here that he was inspired to write notes and journals about the characters living in the beautiful wilderness. These notes were to serve as the basis for many of his books. His most famous work, ‘The Virginian’, would later become a TV series starring Doug McClure, and filmed for the silver screen, most recently in an adaptation starring Ron Perlman. Wister died in Rhode Island, at the age of 78.
Western Stories
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Author : Jon Tuska
language : en
Publisher: Wings
Release Date : 1999
Western Stories written by Jon Tuska and has been published by Wings this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
A collection of western stories from American authors, presented in chronological order.
The Western Story
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Western Story written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Bus lines categories.
The Western Story Fact Fiction And Myth
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Author : Philip Durham
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Release Date : 1975
The Western Story Fact Fiction And Myth written by Philip Durham and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Fiction categories.
A Century Of Great Western Stories
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Author : John Jakes
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2001-06-23
A Century Of Great Western Stories written by John Jakes and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-23 with Fiction categories.
Presents western stories by both legendary and contemporary authors of the genre, such as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, Loren Estleman, Marcia Muller, and Bill Pronzini.
The Complete Western Stories Of Elmore Leonard
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Author : Elmore Leonard
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Complete Western Stories Of Elmore Leonard written by Elmore Leonard and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned. Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. In these classic tales that span more than five decades—including the first story he ever published, “The Trail of the Apache”—Elmore Leonard once again demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that have made him one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.
The Water Hole
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Author : Zane Grey
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Release Date : 2014-12-15
The Water Hole written by Zane Grey and has been published by Blackstone Audio Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with Fiction categories.
It would seem that the end of every war has been followed in the United States by social and moral changes, mostly for the worse. Zane Grey certainly felt that way about the effects of the Great War, and to show these changes and how to cope with them became the impulse behind what he called The Water Hole. However, before magazine publication, changes were made in his text, including the names of all the characters. Fortunately Grey's original handwritten manuscript has survived, so now this story can be told with his characters named and presented as he intended them to be. In 1925 widowed businessman Elijah Winters brings his daughter, Cherry, from Long Island to stay at a trading post in a remote area some distance from Flagstaff, Arizona. Removed from the country clubs and speakeasies, Cherry is at first bored with simple ranch life, and to entertain herself she flirts with several of the cowboys, not realizing they are very different from the young men she knew back east. Also very different is Stephen Heftral, a young archaeologist who is searching for an ancient and lost kiva of a primitive Indian tribe that disappeared centuries before in what became the land of the Navajos. Heftral believes that this lost kiva is most probably in a desert fastness called Beckyshibeta, the Navajo word for water hole. Elijah colludes with Heftral to awaken Cherry to a new and healthier way of life by taking her, by force if necessary, to the site. Cherry resents being kidnapped but comes to forget the luxury of her past in the beauty and dangers of the canyons—and in the thrill of making an important archaeological discovery.
The Western Story
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Author : Jon Tuska
language : en
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The Western Story written by Jon Tuska and has been published by Ulverscroft Large Print this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Large type books categories.
This is the landmark anthology of Western stories, first published in 1982 and substantially revised in 1995, now being published in Large Print in two volumes. The first volume covers the period from 1892 up to the start of World War II in 1939 and includes 10 classic Western stories.The second volume covers World War II to 1994 and includes a further 10 classic Western stories.