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No president in American history has suffered a stranger fate at the hands of posterity than Theodore Roosevelt. The kindest criticism of Roosevelt holds that by good luck and good advice he was able to avoid disaster; the unkindest that he was an international adventurer who posturing misled may an admirer.

When President-elect Abraham Lincoln was preparing to go to Washington he appealed to his old friend and law partner Ward Hill Lamon: 'I want you to go along with me... In fact I must have you. This book features Lamon's notes that describe the phantom-like train trip to Washington in 1861, and a visit to Charleston during the secession crisis.

A collection of thirty-two myths centering around the Pueblo of Isleta on the Rio Grande. This work tells about Antelope Boy, the fabled coyote, the man who married the moon, the snake-girls, the sobbing pine, the feathered barbers, the hero twins, the revengeful fawns, and other natural and supernatural entities.

Introducing history of Wyoming, this title presents an overview of frontier events in Wyoming.

When young the author heard about a job in the town of Los Angeles more than a century ago, he walked all the way to it - across the plains, up Pike's Peak, down Devil's Gorge, through the Grand Canyon, over the desert. This title tells of losing his way in a blizzard, setting his own broken arm in the wilderness, and other rugged adven-tures.

Offers a comparative and theoretically informed look at the religious interactions between Native and colonial European cultures throughout the Americas. Religion was one of the most contentious, dramatic, and complex arenas of confrontation between Natives and Europeans during the colonial era. This volume fully explores the significance of colonial religious encounters.

Demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather's work, suitable for the informed reader or the specialized student. This title, featuring 14 essays, examines Cather's Catholic Progressivism, her literary relations with William Faulkner, and her place in the multicultural canon of American literature.

Dr. A. C. Breckenridge is professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, where he was for a number of years Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculties. He is the author (with J. G. Henberg) of Law Enforcement in Missouri (1942), (with Lane W. Lancaster) of Readings in American State Government (1950), and of One House for Two: A Study of Nebraska's Unicameral Legislation (1957).

O. K. Bouwsma, one of America's foremost Wittgensteinians, was also an extraordinarily dedicated and effective teacher. The present collection, assembled posthumously from his papers, includes twelve essays, all but one previously unpublished and all characterized by the humor, common sense, and wisdom that marked his classroom lectures. Ranging in subject matter from topics in Wittgenstein to Descartes to aesthetics, the pieces all show the influence of Wittgenstein. Some of the questions they raise deal with the traditional and historical background of twentieth-century philosophy¿"Am I dreaming?" "Is what I see real?" "Are there material objects?"¿while others relate to considerations peculiar to thinkers today, for example, "What is Wittgenstein doing in his writing?" "What does philosophy have to do with language?"Bouwsma wants first to understand the philosophical questions¿to unknit the knit eyebrows it produces. Accordingly, his major concern is how we as thinkers, readers, writers, and speakers, separate what we understand from what we do not understand: hence his consideration, in the opening essay, of "a new sensibility in the matter of our language." Always approaching the subject as a practical problem rather than as an abstract, theoretical issue, these essays demonstrate, with patience and wit, ways to achieve clarity on puzzles long thought intractable.

Michigan, like most of the states formed from the old Northwest, originated as a state of farmers, fishermen, and lumbermen and remained so until Detroit emerged as a major industrial center at the turn of the twentieth century. This book focuses on Michigan's need to cope with its vacillating economy.

Boy Life on the Prairie was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland¿s A Son of the Middle Border. The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R. McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of Boy Life, has overshadowed the ¿earlier and better book of reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland¿s boyhood experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote Boy Life on the Prairie Garland was much closer to the subject than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in nineteenth-century Americäthose of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and Howells, for example¿one is impressed with the thoroughness and precision of Garland¿s book. Aside from Main-Travelled Roads, Boy Life, is probably the best single book that Garland ever wrote.¿The Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction addressed ¿To My Young Readers¿ and the ¿Author¿s Notes¿ which appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn & Bacon. The forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W. Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction, Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of Boy Life and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were Garland¿s first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with A Son of the Middle Border.

A journal for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early 19th century. It includes entries which look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. It focuses on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on various aspects of Cherokee politics and religion.

Surveys the practice of counterpoint and musica ficta, codifying each in six rules.

Explores the relationships among literature, religion, and politics in Renaissance England. The author demonstrates how one of the great masterpieces of English literature, Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene", reproduces, criticizes, parodies, and transforms the discourses of England during that remarkable political and literary era.

Presents a social and economic history of the foreign settlers who emigrated to the Volga region in Russia in the eighteenth century. Concentrating on the years 1860 to 1917, a period of rapid change in Russia, this work looks at life in the lower Volga valley and the history of the multinational Russian Empire.

Presents the history of American Indian activist movement from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century. This book discusses such key issues as the nature of the original Red Power protest; tribal identity, self-determination, and sovereignty; land claims and economic development; and, cultural traditions and spirituality.

During the 1980s the rich got richer while the poor got poorer. In 1981 alone, 70 percent of the $35 billion cut from the federal budget came from programs for the poor. This work follows the rise, decline, and partial resurgence of poor Americans' representation from the War on Poverty to the Reagan Revolution.

Surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century, this study examines individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. It presents Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, and Charles the Fat's journey through an otherworld to an uncertain constitutional future.

Not the least remarkable feature of this collection is the range and variety of forms and subject matter--reviews (of books, plays, operas, concerts, art exhibits, lectures), feature stories, interviews, straight reportage, columns of miscellaneous comment, and travel letters. Seemingly, with no apparent effort Willa Cather could adjust her sights to any assignment and any audience. And if it is astonishing that she could write so much about so many matters at so many levels, it is perhaps even more astonishing that so much of it was so good. Undeniably, however, the chief interest to the general reader and the peculiar value to the scholar of these journalistic writings reside in their manifold and crucial connections with Cather's later work and in the unparalleled insights they afford into the process by which a gifted writer becomes a great artist.

Not the least remarkable feature of this collection is the range and variety of forms and subject matter--reviews (of books, plays, operas, concerts, art exhibits, lectures), feature stories, interviews, straight reportage, columns of miscellaneous comment, and travel letters. Seemingly, with no apparent effort Willa Cather could adjust her sights to any assignment and any audience. And if it is astonishing that she could write so much about so many matters at so many levels, it is perhaps even more astonishing that so much of it was so good. Undeniably, however, the chief interest to the general reader and the peculiar value to the scholar of these journalistic writings reside in their manifold and crucial connections with Cather's later work and in the unparalleled insights they afford into the process by which a gifted writer becomes a great artist.