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Author : Edward Lytton Wheeler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Deadwood Dick in Leadville, Or, A Strange Stroke for Liberty written by Edward Lytton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Lytton Wheeler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Phantom Miner, Or, Deadwood Dick's Bonanza written by Edward Lytton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry St. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Daring Davy, the Young Bear Killer, Or, The Trail of the Border Wolf written by Harry St. George and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300212801
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Calamity written by Karen Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin' tootin' "lady wildcat" of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America's most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary's life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary's career. Spanning Canary's rise from humble origins to her role as "heroine of the plains" and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive--and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152621
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph—and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity Jane’s life and legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives. Etulain begins with a brief biography of Martha Canary, aka Calamity Jane (1856–1903), then analyzes the origins and growth of her legends. The sources, Etulain shows, reveal three versions of Calamity Jane. In the most popular one, she was a Wild Woman of the Old West who helped push a roaring frontier through its final stages. This is the Calamity Jane who fought Indians, marched with the military, and took on the bad guys. Early in her life she also hoped to embody the pioneer woman, seeking marriage and a stable family and home. A third, later version made of Calamity an angel of mercy who reached out to the poor and nursed smallpox victims no one else would help. The hyperbolic journalism of the Old West, as well as dime novels and the stretchers Calamity herself told in her interviews and autobiography, shaped her legends through much of the twentieth century. Many of the sensational early accounts of Calamity’s life, Etulain notes, were based on rumor and hearsay. In illuminating the role of the Deadwood Dick dime novel series and other pulp fiction in shaping what we know—or think we know—of the American West, Etulain underscores one of his fascinating themes: the power of popular culture. The product of twenty years’ labor sifting fact from falsehood or distortion, this bibliography and reader’s guide includes brief discussions of nearly every item’s contents, along with a terse, entertaining evaluation of its reliability.
Author : James D. McLaird
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618311X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by James D. McLaird and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now. This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine. Always on the move across the northern plains, Martha was more camp follower than the scout of legend. A mother of two, she often found employment as waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl and was more likely to be wearing a dress than buckskin. But she was hard to ignore when she’d had a few drinks, and she exploited the aura of fame that dime novels created around her, even selling her autobiography and photos to tourists. Gun toting, swearing, hard drinking—Calamity Jane was all of these, to be sure. But whatever her flaws or foibles, James D. McLaird paints a compelling portrait of an unconventional woman who more than once turned the tables on those who sought to condemn or patronize her. He also includes dozens of photos—many never before seen—depicting Jane in her many guises. His book is a long-awaited biography of Martha Canary and the last word on Calamity Jane.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147873
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Author : Jeffrey M. Wallmann
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896724235
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (242 download)
Download or read book The Western written by Jeffrey M. Wallmann and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallmann's sweep through the western is a careful, incisive, and blessedly non-theoretical examination of the implications of the western from the beginning to the present, taking the reader deep into the heart of the subject and offering original and perceptive theories of how the western reflects the evolution of America."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bookseller Newsman Incorporated written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Facsimile Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book "Speaking of Operations--" and Other Humor written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vicki Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786483024
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Dime Novel in Children's Literature written by Vicki Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Author : Irvin S. Cobb
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479458384
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Irvin S. Cobb at His Best written by Irvin S. Cobb and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irvis S. Cobb—in his day the highest-paid newspaper columnist in the United States—had a viciously funny sense of humor. This collection assembled 6 of his best humorous stories. Included are: ‘SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS—’ EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES THE LIFE OF THE PARTY A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER ONE THIRD OFF THE YOUNG NUTS OF AMERICA
Author : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Works of Irvin S. Cobb...: Speaking of operations written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Lytton Wheeler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Deadwood Dick on Deck written by Edward Lytton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Irvin Cobb at His Best written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of the Kentucky humorist's best comic stories and short books.
