tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post368486137247979809..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Cowboys and Indians by Katherine WebbMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-82757574198028419392017-01-19T21:15:11.564+00:002017-01-19T21:15:11.564+00:00How have I never heard of Days Without End?! Thank...How have I never heard of Days Without End?! Thanks very much for writing about it, Katherine - it's gone straight onto my Goodreads wishlist. Ever-so slightly ashamed to admit that a recent binge-watching session of Westworld may have something to do with my burgeoning interest in frontier fiction (I'm sure I'm not the only one, though!)...XYZabchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06995779637987206477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-44707114487030886092017-01-19T18:07:12.466+00:002017-01-19T18:07:12.466+00:00Sue, could it be 'I Will Fight No More Forever...Sue, could it be 'I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War' by Merrill D Beal, 1964? Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-3694532156896939782017-01-19T14:52:24.739+00:002017-01-19T14:52:24.739+00:00Although not strictly about the Wild West, you wou...Although not strictly about the Wild West, you would probably enjoy Frances Trollope's 'Domestic Manners of the Americans'. This was published in 1832, and shows an Englishwoman's view of a very new raw country. Many of the things she mentions would not be noted by the inhabitants, such as the fact that log cabins were surrounded by tree stumps - the builders had enough to do without dragging timber from a great distance. She often sounds rude to modern ears, but at least she was honest, and gives an interesting insight into early post colonial America.Michelle Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499490029910905577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-44259954772150954842017-01-19T13:06:37.742+00:002017-01-19T13:06:37.742+00:00Bird Cloud is quite an odd book, a stoical lament ...Bird Cloud is quite an odd book, a stoical lament for all the practical aspects of a dream house scheme that doesn't quite work, but then suddenly the writing becomes much more about the geography and ecology and history of the area.<br /><br />"Accordion Crimes" is one I plan to read, but feel I may need to be in a strong state to face it. btw, there's a Paris Review Interview with Proulx online if you are interested.<br /><br />Hope you trace your book, Sue. There seemed to be several books about what's known as The Trail of Tears, but these were mostly about the Cherokee, and there was no title that old.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-72706448827964295302017-01-19T12:33:51.813+00:002017-01-19T12:33:51.813+00:00Thanks, Penny! I do love Annie Proulx, but I'v...Thanks, Penny! I do love Annie Proulx, but I've not read 'Bird Cloud' - I'll add it to my TBR pile. Have you read 'Accordion Crimes'? Astonishing book.Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031215564445403747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-82197161575775851942017-01-19T12:22:57.878+00:002017-01-19T12:22:57.878+00:00Really interesting post and list of titles, Kather...Really interesting post and list of titles, Katherine, including Barry's new book. <br /><br />I have just been reading the pages towards the end of Annie Proulx's BIRD CLOUD - her book about building a house in Wyoming - where she writes about early American/settler history, including bitter words about the English elite whose huge hunting expeditions destroyed wild-life, the role of the railway companies in land allocation, about cattle ranching & sheep farming, and much about the despicable treatment of the native tribes. <br /><br />Very much not the version retold in the heroic westerns my father loved.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-11387911580267710502017-01-19T12:03:01.175+00:002017-01-19T12:03:01.175+00:00How intriguing, Susan...I wonder what that book wa...How intriguing, Susan...I wonder what that book was? Did the chapters have names. do you remember?Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031215564445403747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-10850049798312871362017-01-19T11:37:41.841+00:002017-01-19T11:37:41.841+00:00Thank you for this. I'll look up those books.
...Thank you for this. I'll look up those books.<br /><br />Dee Brown's 'Wounded Knee' is indeed a wonderful and heartbreaking book, but there was an earlier book which detailed every 'damning, heart-breaking history of every bloody battle, every broken promise, every casual cruelty and ignored treaty of the Indian Wars.'<br /><br />I know because I read my Dad's old, battered paperback copy of it as a teenager and was devastated, especially by the long march and betrayal of the Nez Pierce. Unfortunately, it had lost both its cover and copyright pages - the first page of its first chapter was hanging on by a few shreds of paper and it didn't have title and author at the top of the pages. I was so impressed by it that I made it a new cover to protect it, but was only able to write on the cover 'A Book About Native Americans by Somebody.' Now even that has gone missing.<br /><br />I think it was probably published in the 50s. If anyone has any idea of its title and/or author, I'd really like to try and find a new copy.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com