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James W. Parins

John Rollin Ridge

His Life and Works

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John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well. A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic poet who made things happen, and Joaquin Murieta, the legendary bandit he would immortalize, John Rollin Ridge was a controversial, celebrated, and self-cast exile. Ridge was born to a prominent Cherokee Indian family in 1827, a tumultuous and violent time when the state of Georgia was trying to impose its sovereignty on the Cherokee Nation and whites were pressing against its borders. James W. Parins places Ridge in the circle of his family and recreates the circumstances surrounding the assassin… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8032-8780-8
  • EAN: 9780803287808
  • Produktnummer: 1544206
  • Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 262 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B12.2 cm x D1.5 cm 318 g
  • Abbildungen: Illus.
  • Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor


James W. Parins is a professor of English and director of the American Native Press Archives at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

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