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  • The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer

    Susan Kalter presents seventeen previously unpublished short stories by John Joseph Mathews and skillfully intertwines literary analysis, author biography, and archival research with his journals and personal correspondence. Mathews is considered one of the founders and shapers of the twentieth-century Native American novel, yet literary history has largely ignored his work.An Osage writer from ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Our Osage Hills

    Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century

    This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from “Our Osage Hills,” a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews. Signed only with the initials “J.J.M.,” Mathews’s column featured regularly in the Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital during the early 1930s. While Mathews is best known for his novel Sundown (1934), the pieces gathered in ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Twenty Thousand Mornings

    An Autobiography

    Series series American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
    When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965-67 but only recently ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

    Series series American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
    The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction are coyotes, mountain lions, deer, owls, sandhill cranes, prairie chickens—and human beings, who sometimes kill their ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Wondrous Times on the Frontier

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    de Dee Brown ...
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    A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

    Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willowbrings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.For more than seventy years, ... Leer más

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