Dakotah

The Return of the Future

Charles Bowden (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2026
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3430-0 (ISBN)

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“On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free.”

When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed “Unnatural History of America.” Bowden uses America’s Great Plains as a lens—sometimes sullied, sometimes shattered, but always sharp—for observing pivotal moments in the lives of anguished figures, including himself.

In scenes that are by turns wrenching and poetic, Bowden describes the Sioux’s forced migrations and rebellions alongside his own ancestors’ migrations from Europe to Midwestern acres beset by unforgiving winters. He meditates on the lives of his resourceful mother and his philosophical father, who rambled between farm communities and city life. Interspersed with these images are clear-eyed, textbook-defying anecdotes about Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and, with equal verve, twentieth-century entertainers “Pee Wee” Russell, Peggy Lee, and other musicians. The result is a kaleidoscopic journey that penetrates the senses and redefines the notion of heartland. Dakotah is a powerful ode to loss from one of our most fiercely independent writers.

Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.

Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams
My Piece of Ground
Heartland
Andrew Jackson
Lewis and Clark
Dakotah
Heartland
Jude
Heartland
Dakotah
Jude
Heartland
Bo
Delta
Heartland
Dakotah
Daniel Boone
Disney
My Piece of Ground
Jude and Bo
Dakotah
Daniel Boone
Dakotah
Lewis and Clark
Dakotah
Daniel Boone
Heartland
Lewis and Clark
Dakotah
Lewis and Clark
Dakotah
Disney
Daniel Boone
Dakotah
Jude and Bo: Part III
Daniel Boone
Dakotah
Daniel Boone
Delta
Dakotah
Lewis and Clark
Jude and Bo: Part IV
Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.3.2026
Einführung	Terry Tempest Williams
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4773-3430-0 / 1477334300
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-3430-0 / 9781477334300
Zustand	Neuware