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Wyoming

Author : JP Gritton
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793535
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Wyoming written by JP Gritton and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 Pick! A cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself. It’s 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He’s broke, he’s been fired from his construction job, and his ex-wife has left him for their next door neighbor and a new life in Kansas City. The only opportunity on his horizon is fifty pounds of his brother’s high-grade marijuana, which needs to be driven from Colorado to Houston and exchanged for a lockbox full of cash. The delivery goes off without a hitch, but getting home with the money proves to be a different challenge altogether. Fueled by a grab bag of resentments and self punishment, Shelley becomes a case study in the question of whether it’s possible to live without accepting yourself, and the dope money is the key to a lock he might never find. JP Gritton’s portrait of a hapless aspirant at odds with himself and everyone around him is both tender and ruthless, and Wyoming considers the possibility of redemption in a world that grants forgiveness grudgingly, if at all.

Bird Cloud

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171718
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Bird Cloud written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there. “Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on it—a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that house—with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor, and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region—inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho, and Shoshone Indians—and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.

The American Songbag

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The American Songbag written by Carl Sandburg and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1927 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred and eighty songs and ballads trace the growth of America.

Chili Queen

Author : Marian L. Martinello
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875656218
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Chili Queen written by Marian L. Martinello and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It happened on the plaza that never slept—my favorite place in the whole of the city,” writes Lupe Pérez, to begin her memoir. A mix of historical fact, vintage photos and maps, recipes, music, folklore, and south Texan culture, Lupe’s story offers an eyewitness account of life on Military Plaza in San Antonio during the 1880s. Facing the impending failure of her family’s chili stand, Lupe is certain she can improve profits. But her older sister and hostess, Josefa, resists Lupe’s arguments—until Tom O’Malley, an itinerant vaudeville actor, arrives. By default, Lupe becomes Chili Queen, but each new venture presents new challenges for the struggling chili stand. Peter Meyer comes to town from the Hill Country to pursue his dream of becoming a shopkeeper. Despite their cultural differences, he and Lupe are drawn to one another by more than romantic feelings. They share a common entrepreneurial dream, and Peter helps Lupe grow in her business savvy. Just as business improves, word spreads of a new city hall on the plaza and the subsequent eviction of all chili stands. Where will they go? What will they do? The choice is Lupe’s to make. And her response is bold.

The Daily Coyote

Author : Shreve Stockton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416592180
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Daily Coyote written by Shreve Stockton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed from her tremendously popular blog, this book offers the inspiring and beautifully illustrated account of the author's experiences raising an orphaned coyote as a beloved pet. Full-color photographs throughout.

Public Waters

Author : Anne MacKinnon
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826362427
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Public Waters written by Anne MacKinnon and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming’s colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West. The state’s rich history of managing this valuable natural resource provides insights and lessons for the twenty-first-century American West as it faces drought and climate change. Public Waters shows how, as popular hopes and dreams meet tough terrain, a central idea that has historically structured water management can guide water policy for Western states today. Drawing on forty years as a journalist with training in water law and economics, Anne MacKinnon paints a lively picture of the arcane twists in the notable record of water law in Wyoming. She maintains that other Western states should examine how local people control water and that states must draw on historical understandings of water as a public resource to find effective approaches to essential water issues in the West.

Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play-Party in Oklahoma.--B. Botkin. Folk-Lore Relating to Texas Birds.--J. Strecker. Tall Tales for the Tenderfeet.--A. Penn. Fishback Yarns from the Sulphurs.--J. Deaver. Paul Bunyan:Oil Man.--J. Brooks. Pipeline Days and Paul Bunyan.--A. Garland. Le Loup Blanc of Bolivar's Peninsula.--P. Tucker. Pioneer Folk Tales.--M. Atkinson and J. Dobie. The Corn Thief-A Folk Anecdote.--J.raddock. The Texas Pecan; The Man in the Moon.--G. Bludworth. Follow the Drinking Gourd.--H. Parks. Some Negro Folk-Songs of Texas.--M. Bales. Six Negro Folk-Songs.--N. Smith. Confidences from Old Nacogdoches.--M. Emmons. The Ghosts of Lake Jackson.--B. Dobie. How Mr. Polecat Got His Scent.--K.O'Connor. De Pot-Song.--P. Throop. Notes on Some Recent Treatments of Negro Folk-Lore.--R. Law. Some Characteristics of Cowboy Songs.--N. Gaines. More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk.--J. Dobie.

Werner's Readings and Recitations

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Werner's Readings and Recitations written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Werner's Readings and Recitations: Musical effects (c1911)

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Werner's Readings and Recitations: Musical effects (c1911) written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Nation

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742580237
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Folk Nation written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively reader traces the search for American tradition and national identity through folklore and folklife from the 19th century to the present. Through an engaging set of essays, Folk Nation shows how American thinkers and leaders have used folklore to express the meaning of their country. Simon Bronner has carefully selected statements by public intellectuals and popular writers as well as by scholars, all chosen for their readability and significance as provocative texts during their time. The common thread running throughout is the value of folklore in expressing or denying an American national tradition. This text raises timely issues about the character of American culture and the direction of American society. The essays show the development of views of American nationalism, multiculturalism, and commercialism. Provocative topics include debates over the relationship between popular culture and folk culture, the uniqueness of an American literature and arts based on folk sources, the fabrication of folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan as propaganda for patriotism and nationalism, the romanticizations of vernacular culture by popularizers such as Walt Disney and Ben Botkin, the use of folklore for ethnocentric purposes, and the political deployment of folklore by conservatives as emblems of 'traditional values' and civil virtues and by liberals as emblems of multiculturalism and tolerance of alternative lifestyles. The book also traces the controversy over who conveyed the myth of 'America.' Was it the nation's poets and artists, its academics, its politicians and leaders, its communities and local educational institutions, its theme parks and festivals, its movie moguls and entertainers? Folk Nation shows how the process of defining the American mystique through folklore was at the core of debates among writers and thinkers about the value of Davey Crockett, John Henry, quilts, cowboys, and immigrants as symbols of America.

The Poetry Book

Author : Miriam Blanton Huber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry Book written by Miriam Blanton Huber and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads

Author : John Avery Lomax
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads written by John Avery Lomax and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads

Author : Various
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Poetry for Children

Author : James Joseph Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Modern Poetry for Children written by James Joseph Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Big Wonderful

Author : Kevin Holdsworth
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870819984
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Big Wonderful written by Kevin Holdsworth and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What begins with simple observations from a Utah transplant to Wyoming becomes an ode to family and place, and perhaps an elegy for it all.” —Jeffe Kennedy, author of Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel In this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth vividly portrays life in remote, unpredictable country and ruminates on the guts—or foolishness—it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment. Growing up in Utah, Holdsworth couldn’t wait to move away. Once ensconced on the East Coast, however, he found himself writing westerns and dreaming of the mountains he’d skied and climbed. Fed up with city life, he moved to a small Wyoming town. In Big Wonderful, he writes of a mountaineering companion’s death, the difficult birth of his son, and his father’s terminal illness—encounters with mortality that sharpened his ideas about risk, care, and commitment. He puts a new spin on mountaineering literature, telling wild tales from his reunion with the mountains but also relating the surprising willpower it took to turn back from risks he would have taken before he became a father. He found he needed courage to protect and engage deeply with his family, his community, and the wild places he loves. Holdsworth’s essays and poems are rich with anecdotes, characters, and vivid images. Readers will feel as if they themselves watched a bear destroy an entire expedition’s food, walked with his great-great-grandmother along the icy Mormon Trail, and tried to plant a garden in Wyoming’s infamous wind. Readers who love the outdoors will eagerly partake, as “Holdsworth invites us to sit down at his literary campfire and listen to vivid, unforgettable stories” (High Country News).

Adventures of a Ballad Hunter

Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477313710
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of a Ballad Hunter written by John A. Lomax and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up beside the Chisholm Trail, captivated by the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an African American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the foremost authorities on this fundamental aspect of Americana. Across many decades and throughout the country, Lomax and his informants created over five thousand recordings of America's musical heritage, including ballads, blues, children's songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. He acted as honorary curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, directed the Slave Narrative Project of the WPA, and cofounded the Texas Folklore Society. Lomax's books include Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, American Ballads and Folk Songs, Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly, and Our Singing Country, the last three coauthored with his son Alan Lomax. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is a memoir of Lomax's eventful life. It recalls his early years and the fruitful decades he spent on the road collecting folk songs, on his own and later with son Alan and second wife Ruby Terrill Lomax. Vibrant, amusing, often haunting stories of the people he met and recorded are the gems of this book, which also gives lyrics for dozens of songs. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter illuminates vital traditions in American popular culture and the labor that has gone into their preservation.