The Great Prairie Fact and Literary ImaginationUniversity of New Mexico Press, 1989 - 301 páginas |
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... seen in these plains . A small animal , as a wolf or a turkey , sometimes appears of the magnitude of a horse , on account of an erroneous impression of distance . Three elk , which were the first we had seen , crossed our path at some ...
... seen in these plains . A small animal , as a wolf or a turkey , sometimes appears of the magnitude of a horse , on account of an erroneous impression of distance . Three elk , which were the first we had seen , crossed our path at some ...
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... seen before , into wide forests , and the outline of wooded river banks , far beyond unassisted vision , rise to view . It must be seen at sunset , when , just as the huge ball of fire is dipping below the horizon , he throws a flood of ...
... seen before , into wide forests , and the outline of wooded river banks , far beyond unassisted vision , rise to view . It must be seen at sunset , when , just as the huge ball of fire is dipping below the horizon , he throws a flood of ...
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... seen it smitten by all the plagues of Egypt . He had seen it parched by drought , and sogged by rain , beaten by hail , and swept by fire , and in the grasshopper years he had seen it eaten as bare and clean as bones that vul- tures ...
... seen it smitten by all the plagues of Egypt . He had seen it parched by drought , and sogged by rain , beaten by hail , and swept by fire , and in the grasshopper years he had seen it eaten as bare and clean as bones that vul- tures ...
Contenido
Explorers Traders and Travelers | 13 |
Artistic Visitors | 55 |
Prairie as Nineteenth | 103 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accounts Alfred Jacob Miller American Literature Ántonia artist beautiful Bentley Bodmer Brackenridge buffalo Canadian prairie Castañeda Catlin characters conventions Cooper Coronado critics define depiction describes discussion dramatize dust bowl earth edition effect esthetic European expedition experience explorers feelings Frontier Garland grass Grove Hansa Henry herds horizon imaginative Indian introd Irving's James Fenimore Cooper John journal Kane land Lewis literary Margaret Laurence McClelland and Stewart Melville miles Missouri Mountains Narrative Natty North notes novel numbers offers Oregon Trail overland painting Parkman passage Paul Kane perspective Pike plains prairie fiction prairie landscape prairie space prairie writing reaction reader River Robert Kroetsch Rölvaag romantic Rosowski Ross Ross's Saskatchewan scene seems seen Stegner story sublime Subsequent references suggests symbolic technique tion Toronto Tour trees trip Univ vast Washington Irving West western wild Willa Cather William wind women Wright Morris wrote York
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Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire Tom Chaffin Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |