Death Stalks the Red River
Title | Death Stalks the Red River PDF eBook |
Author | Jack LaFountain |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-12 |
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ISBN | 9781685960612 |
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." There's a new preacher in town. He carries a gun on his hip and his sermons are striking--literally. He arrives with the full moon and Vern and Polly Carson's son thinks he's the boogieman. Whatever he may be, the terror that stalks by night and the pestilence that walks in darkness has returned to Carson's Lazy L and the town of Texumma.
Death Stalks the River
Title | Death Stalks the River PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1945 |
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Death Stalks the River
Title | Death Stalks the River PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Williams (novelist.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1945 |
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Death Stalks the Yakama
Title | Death Stalks the Yakama PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford E. Trafzer |
Publisher | MSU Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0870139606 |
Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the state of Washington. The work contains a valuable discussion of Indian beliefs about spirits, traditional causes of death, mourning ceremonies, and memorials. More significant, however, is Trafzer's research into heretofore unused parturition and death records from 1888-1964. In these documents, he discovers critical evidence to demonstrate how and why many reservation people died in "epidemics" of pneumonia, tuberculosis, and heart disease. Death Stalks the Yakama, takes into account many variables, including age, gender, listed causes of death, residence, and blood quantum. In addition, analyses of fetal and infant mortality rates as well as crude death rates arising from tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart disease, accidents, and other causes are presented. Trafzer argues that Native Americans living on the Yakama Reservation were, in fact, in jeopardy as a result of the "reservation system" itself. Not only did this alien and artificial culture radically alter traditional ways of life, but sanitation methods, housing, hospitals, public education, medicine, and medical personnel affiliated with the reservation system all proved inadequate, and each in its own way contributed significantly to high Yakama death rates.
Serials and Series
Title | Serials and Series PDF eBook |
Author | Buck Rainey |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2015-06-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476604487 |
While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that many foreign studios also produced serials, though few made it to the United States. The 471 serials and 100 series (continuing productions without the cliffhanger endings) from the United States and 136 serials and 37 series from other countries are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes title, country of origin, year, studio, number of episodes, running time or number of reels, episode titles, cast, production credits, and a plot synopsis.
Death Stalks the Waterway
Title | Death Stalks the Waterway PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Dewes |
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Release | 1946 |
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Updating the Literary West
Title | Updating the Literary West PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | TCU Press |
Pages | 1072 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780875651750 |
"Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of creating a new western myth." The editors of the Literary History of the American West (TCU Press, 1987) hoped that the first volume would begin, not conclude, their exploration of the West's literary heritage. Out of this hope comes Updating the Literary West, a comprehensive reference anthology including essays by over one hundred scholars. A selected bibliography is included with each piece. In the ten years since publication of LHAW, western writing has developed a significantly larger presence in the national literary stream. A variety of cultural viewpoints have developed, along with new tactics for literary study. New authors have risen to prominence, and the range of subjects has changed and widened. Updating the Literary West looks at topics ranging from western classics to cowboys and Cadillacs and considers children's literature, ethnicity, environmental writing, gender issues and other topics in which change has been rapid since publication of LHAW. This volume again affirms the West's literary legitimacy--status hard earned by the Western Literary Association--and the lasting place of popular western writing as part of the growing and changing literary--and American--experience. An excellent reference for a wide range of readers and an invaluable resource for scholars and libraries. Selected list of contributors: James Maguire Fred Erisman Susan J. Rosowski Gerald Haslam Tom Pilkington A. Carl Bredahl Richard Slotkin John G. Cawelti Robert F. Gish Ann Ronald Mick McAllister