| Description |
xiv, 447 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The origin of the robin : an oral allegory ; The forsaken brother : a Chippewa tale / Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-a-quay), (Rosa), (Leelinau) -- from A new home : who'll follow?, or, Glimpses of western life. Chapter X ; Chapter XI / Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland (Mrs. Mary Clavers), an actual settler -- Address to Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, May 28, 1851 ; Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage : Sojourner Truth ; from Elsie Magoon, or, The old still-house in the hollow : a tale of the past.. Chapter XXI / Frances Dana Barker Gage (Aunt Fanny) -- from Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Chapter 3 / Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- from Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, San Antonio's first American woman. Chapter VII / Mary Ann Adams Maverick -- California, in 1851. Letter third. A trip into the mines / Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) -- An order for a picture ; My grandfather / Alice Cary -- Our homestead ; Homes for all (plea for the homeless) ; The barefoot boy ; Granny's house / Phoebe Cary -- from Souvenirs of my time / Jessie Ann Benton Frémont -- Cheyenne Mountain ; from Echoes in the city of angels ; from Ramona : a story. Chapter II / Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson (H.H.), (Marah), (Saxe Holm) -- from A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains, letter VII / Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop -- from The squatter and the Don : a novel descriptive of contemporary occurrences in California. Chapter III / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (C. Loyal) -- from Personal studies of Indian life. Politics and 'pipe-dancing' ; Tribal life among the Omahas / Alice Cunningham Fletcher -- California ; In the Grand Cañon ; With a wreath of laurel ; Listening back / Ina Donna Coolbrith (Josephine Donna Smith) -- from Tenting on the plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas. Chapter XV ; from Boots and saddles, or, Life in Dakota with General Custer. Chapter XXIX / Elizabeth Clift Bacon Custer -- Letter from Sara Winnemucca, an educated Pah-Ute woman ; The Pah-Utes / Sara Winnemucca Hopkins -- from Vanished Arizona : recollections of my army life. Chapter XXIV; Chapter XXIX / Martha Dunham Summerhays -- The skeleton on Round Island / Mary Hartwell Catherwood -- from A California mining camp ; from Pictures of the far west / Mary Hallock Foote -- How the pump stopped at the morning watch / Mary Hallock Foote -- Curfew must not ring to-night ; from The white lady of La Jolla / Rose Hartwick Thorpe -- from Fifteen thousand miles by stage, chapter III / Carrie Adell Green Strahorn -- Nedawi / Susette La Flesche (Bright Eyes) -- The vengeance of Padre Arroyo / Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton -- from Summer cañons ; A cycle ; from Two sonnets of lost love. II. Before burial ; from The biography of a baby / Milicent Washburn Shinn (M.W.S.) -- California colors ; Santa Clara hills ; An honest woman / Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman -- Ashes of roses ; The wood-chopper to his ax ; Pima tales / Elaine Goodale Eastman -- Leaves from the mental portfolio of an Eurasian / Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far) -- preface to The land of little rain / Mary Hunter Austin -- Pahawitz-Na'an ; Neither spirit nor bird (Shoshone love song) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Out west (the West) ; His place ; Arizona ; The fruit of the yucca tree / Sharlot Mabridth Hall --- Prairie dawn ; Prairie spring ; from The Song of the lark, part IV ; The enchanted bluff / Willa Sibert Cather -- The song of the Hopi chief ; Lololomai's prayer / Natalie Curtis Burlin -- from Impressions of an Indian childhood. I. My mother ; VI. The ground squirrel ; from School days of an Indian girl. V. Iron routine ; VII. Incurring my mother's displeasure ; from An Indian teacher among Indians. III. My mother's curse upon white settlers / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) -- from Letters from a woman homesteader / Elinore Pruitt Rupert Stewart -- Red earth. Muy vieja mexicana ; On the acequia madre ; El rito de Santa Fe /Alice Corbin Henderson -- Candle-light and sun. Candle-light ; The mask ; Rain-prayer ; Fame ; Song of sunlight / Alice Corbin Henderson. |
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West (U.S.) -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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Women pioneers -- Literary collections.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Literary collections.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Literary collections.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-1922.
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| Subject |
American literature -- West (U.S.)
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-1920.
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Miller, Susan Cummins, 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sweet, separate intimacy. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606290162 |
| ISBN |
0874806372 alkaline paper |
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9780874806373 alkaline paper |
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0874806380 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780874806380 paperback alkaline paper |
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