Author: William Trotter PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Big Bear of Arkansas
Author: William Trotter PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Hive of "The Bee-hunter"
Author: Thomas Bangs ThorpePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Big Bear of Arkansas, and Other Sketches, Illustrative of Characters and Incidents in the South and South-west
Author: Carey & HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
THE BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS, AND OTHER SKETCHES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
Author: William Trotter PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Pinnell and Talifson, Last of the Great Brown Bear Men
Author: Marvin H. ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bear hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Details the lives of Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson, fur farmers in Montana, gold miners during the Great Depression, and renown Kodiak brown bear hunters.
The big bear of Arkansas
Author: William Trotter PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Arkansas/Arkansaw
Author: Brooks BlevinsPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 161075042X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For many in America these represent Arkansas more than any Arkansas success stories do. In 1931 H. L. Mencken described AR (not AK, folks) as the “apex of moronia.” While, in 1942 a Time magazine article said Arkansas had “developed a mass inferiority complex unique in American history.” Arkansas/Arkansaw is the first book to explain how Arkansas’s image began and how the popular culture stereotypes have been perpetuated and altered through succeeding generations. Brooks Blevins argues that the image has not always been a bad one. He discusses travel accounts, literature, radio programs, movies, and television shows that give a very positive image of the Natural State. From territorial accounts of the Creole inhabitants of the Mississippi River Valley to national derision of the state’s triple-wide governor’s mansion to Li’l Abner, the Beverly Hillbillies, and Slingblade, Blevins leads readers on an entertaining and insightful tour through more than two centuries of the idea of Arkansas. One discovers along the way how one state becomes simultaneously a punch line and a source of admiration for progressives and social critics alike.
Before Mark Twain
Author: John Francis McDermottPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A collection of thirty-seven stories, reprints from diaries and journals, and other materials published prior to the days of Mark Twain that depict Mississippi River life.
Go Down, Moses
Author: William FaulknerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307792145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.
The Sun Collective
Author: Charles BaxterPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984899716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to—and unmoored by—a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis. She checks the usual places— churches, storefronts, benches—and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.