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The book is a first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux.
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.
George's ideas came to influence a number of his works, such as Main-Travelled Roads (1891), Prairie Folks (1892), and his novel Jason Edwards (1892). [6] Main-Travelled Roads was his first major success. It was a collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm.
The frontispiece and title page of Commerce of the Prairies A Map of the Indian Territory, published in Commerce of the Prairies. Gregg's book Commerce of the Prairies, published in two volumes in 1844, is an account of his time spent as a trader on the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1840 and includes commentary on the geography, botany, geology, and culture of New Mexico. [6]
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel [1] and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called " Edisonade " genre. [ 2 ]
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He is present in all the books except for The Prairie because he dies of old age after narrowly escaping a forest fire in The Pioneers. [23] Uncas, son of Chingachgook, "last of the Mohicans", [24] grew to manhood, yet he was killed in a battle with the hostile scout Magua. In actual history, a man named Uncas was a chief of the Mohegan in the ...