Wondrous Times on the Frontier
America During the 1800s
A lively, anecdotal history of life in the American West during the nineteenth century Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, was hard, unpleasant most of the time, and lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts. And yet, tall tales were the genre of the day, and humor, both light and dark, was abundant. In this historical account, Brown examines the aspects of the frontier spirit that would come to assume so central a position in American mythology. Split into sections-Gambling, Violence, and Merriment, Lawyers, Newsmen, and Other Professionals, and Misunderstood Minorities-it is mindful in its correction of certain stereotypes of Weste…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4532-7422-4
- EAN: 9781453274224
- Produktnummer: 19297520
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'689 KB
Über den Autor
Dorris Alexander Dee Brown (1908-2002) was a celebrated author of both fiction and nonfiction, whose classic study Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is widely credited with exposing the systematic destruction of American Indian tribes to a world audience. Brown was born in Louisiana and grew up in Arkansas. He worked as a reporter and a printer before enrolling at Arkansas State Teachers College, where he met his future wife, Sally Stroud. He later earned two degrees in library science, and worked as a librarian while beginning his career as a writer. He went on to research and write more than thirty books, often centered on frontier history or overlooked moments of the Civil War. Brown continued writing until his death in 2002.
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