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Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
Mourning Dove
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Description for Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
Paperback. A story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; and, between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. Num Pages: 302 pages, facsims.,1port. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the ... Read more
One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
334
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803281103
SKU
V9780803281103
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About Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove, the author of Cogewea, was an Okanogan of eastern Washington. She lived as a migrant farmworker and, after ten-hour days in the hop fields and apple orchards, faithfully returned to the battered typewriter in her tent. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, a respected and sympathetic student of Indian lore and history, encouraged her in her ambition to be a writer; ... Read more
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