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Offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. Written by one of America's most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Ted Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

By examining how some of the best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. Writing at the Limit explores what it really means to be writing at print's media limit.

Standing Bear died in 1908, but his legacy and influence continue even up to the present.

Sports Journalism tells the full story of American sports journalism and the notable changes in technology that have dramatically changed how Americans consumed it.

Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder and personal journey toward the acceptance and management of this lifelong illness.

Heart of Lions recounts the development of bicycle racing in the United States, explains why its popularity faded, and profiles major American cyclists from the past through the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Rising from the Ashes explores continuing Native American survival, contemporary life, and sovereignty, with a focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce) anthropologist Archie M. Phinney.

A study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana has successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes since 1699.

Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland.

Part baseball nostalgia and part road trip travelogue, The Wax Pack follows Brad Balukjian as he tracks down players from a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 that had remained sealed for almost thirty years.

Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important new trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers' role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.

When Sunflowers Bloomed Red provides a synopsis of a Kansas style of radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement transformed and coalesced with socialist and syndicalist political movements to influence politics and culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

Storytelling and singing is a vital part of community life for Native peoples. This book gathers stories and songs from many Native groups in North America - including the Inupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far West, the Catawbas in the humid South, and the Maliseets of the rugged woods of the East.

Bighorn sheep graze on the last of the green grass on Gets-Struck-By-Lightning Mountain in the late fall. Two Hawk's father and older brother, Night Heron, set off through newly fallen snow to hunt with their dogs. Two Hawk is sad to be left behind, but he has heard the bull elk's mating call for seven seasons, too few to be old enough to hunt.

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, explorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, officer, hunter, and rancher. This book lets you join Kit Carson as he strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen, and witness his encounters with Indians in the Navaho and Southern Plains campaigns.

Includes stories like "The Snake" and "The Quick and the Dead" as well as the previously unpublished "Anniversary," which stirred a national controversy when it was censored by the University of Nebraska and barred from appearing in Prairie Schooner.

When Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords. This is a memoir of her years as a military wife as her husband's Eighth Regiment conducted Gen George Crook's expedition against the Apaches.

Offers an information about Dakota culture and a classic in its elegant clarity of insight. Beginning with a general discussion of American Indian origins, language families, and culture areas, the author focuses on her own people, the Dakotas, and the intricate kinship system that governed all aspects of their life.

More than 100 pieces in this surprising and impressive collection are drawn from a body of Willa Cather''s writing that was not known to exist until its recent discovery by the editor. Previous scholars have assumed that Willa Cather was inactive as a journalist during the year following her graduation from the university in June, 1895; the truth is, she not only continued to contribute drama criticism to Lincoln newspapers, but also, in Miss Slote''s words, had time to "consider thoughtfully and work out some of the guiding principles of fiction, the certain range in the Kingdom of Art which was becoming . . . her own."Miss Slote has focused on those of the 1893-1896 writings in which Willa Cather formulates and tests her critical attitudes, and on those--even more crucially relevant to her own situation--in which she asks the great questions: What makes an artist? How does one join the two selves of artist and person? Exactly how can one create the creation? Part I presents two essays by the editor: "Writer in Nebraska," incorporating new biographical material, and "The Kingdom of Art," a critical reassessment in the light of new findings. Part II consists of some 220 selections accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, grouped as follows: "The Individual Talent"--observations on artists who lives evoked Willa Cather''s sympathy, wonder, or respect, and who success or failure seemed to embody the principles of human endeavor; "The Way of the World"--on art in Philistia, the relations of things (e.g., poetry and football), and history in the arts; "Drama"--pieces on the playwright and his craft and the critic''s responsibilities, as well as lay reviews; "Literature"--major essays on Stevenson, Dumas, Poe, Wilde, Verlaine, Ruskin, and Pierre Loti, and shorter pieces on such writers as Hardy, James, Swinburne, Kipling, Burns, Zola, Tolstoi, and Whitman; and "Improvisations Toward a Credo, 1894-1896"--culminating in two statements in which as last, as the editor notes, "Willa Cather could recognize clearly the emerging form of the artist-self she had been seeking, and with it the individual talent in which all credos must begin."Bernice Slote, a distinguished Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her publications included editions of April Twilights (1903); Poems of Willa Cather (1962, 1968); The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather''s First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967); and Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather''s Uncollected Short Fiction (1973, 1986), all published by the UNP.

Risking Immeasurable Harm elucidates how the prospect of immigration restrictions affect diplomatic relations by analyzing U.S. efforts to place a quota on immigration from Mexico during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

As Siobhan Senier researches the ways Indigenous Americans in New England have sustained and developed various literary and cultural traditions, she considers anew the overlapping notions of sovereignty and sustainability and concerns of social sustainability, culture, literature, the environment, and economics.

Gunnar Olsson's tale follows an explorer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today, an attempt to codify the taken-for-granted, a struggle with the invisible powers that make us so obedient and so predictable.

Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole.

In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman "re-members" and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.

Different Strokes closely examines how Black Americans are collectively faring in tennis, on the court and off.

Patrick Madden's unconventional essays aim to make readers laugh while considering such abstract subjects as happiness and memory, reflecting the current zeitgeist with a touch of cleverness, a dash of humor, and a little help from his friends.