Love Song to the Plains
Seiten
1966
Bison Books (Verlag)
9780803251724 (ISBN)
Bison Books (Verlag)
9780803251724 (ISBN)
Presents a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains. This title tells: of a story of men and women of many huesocourageous, violent, in-domitable, foolishotheir legends, failures, and achievements; of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; and, of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting.
Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues-courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish-their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.
Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues-courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish-their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.1966 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illus., map |
| Verlagsort | Nebraska |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 133 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780803251724 / 9780803251724 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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