Research Catalog

Title

A sweet, separate intimacy : women writers of the American frontier, 1800-1922 / edited by Susan Cummins Miller.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Miller, Susan Cummins, 1949-

Description

xiv, 447 pages; 23 cm

Summary

An anthology of writings by 34 American women of the frontier, covering a broad spectrum of genres and voices, including poetry, fiction, and writing by women of Native American, Hispanic, Anglo, and Chinese ethnicity.

Subject

• Geschichte 1800-1920
• Geschichte 1800-1922
• Frontier and pioneer life > Literary collections
• Women pioneers > Literary collections
• Indians of North America > Literary collections
• American literature > West (U.S.)
• American literature > Women authors
• American literature
• American literature > Women authors
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Indians of North America
• Women pioneers
• Frauenliteratur
• Quelle
• Anthologie
• Frau
• West (U.S.) > Literary collections
• West United States
• Frontier
• Wilder Westen
• USA

Genre/Form

• novels.
• poetry.
• Novels
• Fiction
• Literary collections
• Literature
• Poetry
• Fiction.
• Poetry.
• Literature.
• Novels.
• Anthologies.
• Romans.
• Poésie.
• Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-443) 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.

ISBN

• 0874806372
• 9780874806373
• 0874806380
• 9780874806380
• 0585316430
• 9780585316437

LCCN

99089836

OCLC

• ocm43095952
• 43095952
• SCSB-8408673

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library