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Book Beautiful Swift Fox

Download or read book Beautiful Swift Fox written by Robert Gish and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Southwest has assumed the status of a cultural icon over the last few decades, and one of the writers who helped it to do so was Erna Fergusson, named by the Hopis Beautiful Swift Fox. An Anglo American whose travel writing featured the multi-ethnicity of her region, she popularized the culture and landscapes of her native New Mexico and its surrounding states in a range of writing that prefigured the genre-defying art that has come to be called the New Journalism.Much has been written about New Mexico's remarkable Fergusson family, especially brother Harvey and his novels. But Erna Fergusson's literary career has been largely overlooked. An iconoclast at the forefront of the Southwest Renaissance movement, Erna gained a wide reputation beginning in the 1930s for her "written versions of the Southwest," which embraced the complexities of regional culture and sympathetically and intelligently portrayed the Indian and Mexican influences.Distinguished Southwestern writer Robert Franklin Gish assesses Fergussons's literary contributions and unlocks the inner workings of the prose stylist who operated at the interstices of genres. With his postmodern reappraisal of the creative nonfiction forms she used, Gish prompts readers to reconsider how they view the art of nonfiction writing. Gish argues persuasively that Fergusson's identity as a native New Mexican and the region's singular landscape informed the attitudes and values present in her art. He explores the ways her entrepreneurial stint as a New Mexico tour guide during the 1920s and 1930s shaped the organizational strategies for her writing. He considers thoughtfully her various forms of writing and how she used travelogue, journalistic report, popular history, and persuasive essay to elevate the Southwest to prominence. Gish shows her writing as highly evocative, descriptive, and metaphorical, defying the conventions of the nonfiction forms she used and paving the way for America's school of New Journalism.Beautiful Swift Fox is not strictly biography; nor does it, in a traditional sense, seek to explicate a body of work. Rather, like its subject, it bridges genres, offering a meditation on one Southwestern writer's sense of place.

Book All Aboard for Santa Fe

Download or read book All Aboard for Santa Fe written by Victoria E. Dye and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007-01-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.

Book National Taxicab and Motorbus Journal

Download or read book National Taxicab and Motorbus Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dancing Gods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erna Fergusson
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 1988-04-01
  • ISBN : 082632763X
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Dancing Gods written by Erna Fergusson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most remarkable features of life in the Southwest is the presence of Native American religious ceremonies in communities that are driving distance from Sunbelt cities. Many of these ceremonies are open to the public and Dancing Gods is the best single reference for visitors to dances at the Rio Grande Pueblos, Zuni Pueblo, the Hopi Mesas, and the Navajo and Apache reservations. Fergusson's classic guide to New Mexico and Arizona Indian ceremonies is once again available in print. It offers background information on the history and religion of the area's Native American peoples and describes the principal public ceremonies and some lesser-known dances that are rarely performed. Here is information on the major Pueblo rituals--the Corn Dance, Deer Dance, and Eagle Dance--as well as various dances at Zuni, including the complicated Shalako. Fergusson also describes the Hopi bean-planting and Niman Kachina ceremonies in addition to the Snake Dance, the Navajo Mountain Chant and Night Chant, and several Apache ceremonies. "Still the best of all books about the Indian ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona. . . .perceptive and simple, reverent and lucid."--Lawrence Clark Powell, Southwest Classics

Book The Santa Fe Magazine

Download or read book The Santa Fe Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway

Download or read book The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway written by Heard Museum and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were prepared for a February 1996 symposium held in conjunction with the exhibit "Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art," organized at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The essays describe the Harvey/Santa Fe partnership, detailing the effects of the collaboration on tourism in the American Southwest, and showing how the lives of Native American artists and their communities were transformed by the massive scale on which the Fred Harvey Company bought, sold, and popularized American Indian art. Illustrated with small b & w historical photos.

Book The Place Names of New Mexico

Download or read book The Place Names of New Mexico written by Robert Julyan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

Book American Indian Painters

Download or read book American Indian Painters written by Jeanne Snodgrass King and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico

Download or read book Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico written by Marc Treib and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description and history of the early churches and missions in New Mexico.

Book Letters of John Wesley

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Wesley
  • Publisher : London, New York [etc.] Hodder and Stoughton
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Letters of John Wesley written by John Wesley and published by London, New York [etc.] Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1915 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women of the West

Download or read book Women of the West written by Max Binheim and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our South West

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  • Author : Erna Fergusson
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019964941
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Our South West written by Erna Fergusson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the beauty, history, and culture of the American Southwest with Our Southwest, a captivating travelogue that takes readers on a journey through the rugged landscapes and vibrant communities of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Written by noted historian and writer Erna Fergusson, this book offers a rich tapestry of stories, legends, and personal anecdotes that bring the region to life. Whether you're planning a trip to the Southwest or simply looking to deepen your appreciation for this unique corner of the country, Our Southwest is an essential read that you won't want to miss. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Native American Mythology A to Z

Download or read book Native American Mythology A to Z written by Patricia Ann Lynch and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beliefs of many Native American peoples emphasize a close relationship between people and the natural world, including geographical features such as mountains and lakes and animals such as whales and bison. Therefore, many of the myths of these peoples are stories of strange occurrences where animals or forces of nature and people interact. Native American Mythology A to Z, Second Edition presents detailed coverage of the deities, legendary heroes and heroines, important animals, objects, and places that make up the mythic lore of the many peoples of North America. This new edition is now in full-color for the first time. Coverage includes: Creation accounts from many Native American cultures Influences on and development of Native American mythology The effects of geographic region, environment, and climate on myths Core beliefs of numerous tribes Recurrent themes in myths throughout the continent.

Book The fifth   thirteenth  annual report

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  • Author : Juvenile association for promoting the education of the deaf and dumb poor of Ireland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1832
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book The fifth thirteenth annual report written by Juvenile association for promoting the education of the deaf and dumb poor of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Banta s Greek Exchange

Download or read book Banta s Greek Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldiers  and Sailors  Civil Relief Act

Download or read book Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: