Research Catalog

Title

Co=ge=we=a, the half-blood : a depiction of the great Montana cattle range / by Hum-ishu-ma, "Mourning Dove", author of "The Okanogan sweat house", Honorary member, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Life member, Washington State Historical Society ; given through Sho-pow tan ; with notes and biographical sketch by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, author of "The crime against the Yakimas", "Border settlers of Northwestern Virginia", "The discards", etc.

Author

Mourning Dove, 1888-1936.

Publication

• Boston : Four Seas Company, Publishers, [1927]
• Boston, Mass., U.S.A. : The Four Seas Press
• ©1927

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sho-pow-tan.
• McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944
• Four Seas Press, printer.

Description

302 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : frontispiece (portrait); 20 cm

Summary

"One of the first known novels by a Native American woman. Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech."--Amazon

Alternative Title

Cogewea : the half-blood

Subject

• Okanagan Indians > Fiction
• Indians of North America > Montana > Fiction
• Indians of North America
• Okanagan Indians
• Syilx > Fiction
• Montana > Fiction
• Montana

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction.
• Fiction.

Note

• Includes frontispiece portrait
• First edition
• Errata slip inserted

Indexed In (note)

• Smith, C.W. Pacific Northwest (3rd ed.)

Contents

Cogewea, the half-blood -- The roundup at Horseshoe Bend -- A range idyl -- Cogewea hires the tenderfoot -- The tenderfoot's broncho riding -- The Fourth of July -- The "ladies" and the "squaw" races -- The Indian dancers -- Under the whispering pines -- Lo! The poor "breed" -- At the tepee fireside -- On Buffalo Butte -- A visit to Stemteema's tepee -- The dead man's vision -- The superior race -- On the old buffalo grounds -- Frenchy, toy of the cowboys -- Swa-Lah-Kin: the Frog Woman -- The story of Green-blanket Feet -- A tragedy of the range -- A "geezar" in camp -- Back to the ranch -- The basket social -- The second coming of the Shoyapee -- Voice of the autumn leaves -- Stemteema consults the sweat house -- The forked tongue of the shoyahpee -- The sentinel at the rock -- Stemteema's dream of the Soma-Ash-Hee -- The cost of knowing -- A voice from the buffalo skull -- Notes.

LCCN

28013788

OCLC

• 2311879
• ocm02311879
• SCSB-808504

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library