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Book Grave on the Prairie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen J. Chicoine RSCJ
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 1532052227
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Grave on the Prairie written by Maureen J. Chicoine RSCJ and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Philippine Duchesne and four religious companions of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus came from France to Louisiana in 1818 with the express desire of working among Native Americans to bring them knowledge of the love of Jesus Christ for them. After many years of educating the children of European settlers, Philippine finally realized her dream when she was sent to an encampment of the Potawatomi at Sugar Creek, Kansas. Her time among them was limited to one year; however, her sisters, the Religious of the Sacred Heart, continued to work among the Potawatomi for thirty-eight more years. This book is a carefully researched account of the life and work of these sisters among the Native Americans, the difficulties of adaptation of European women to frontier conditions, and the movement across Kansas with their people as the Potawatomi were pushed westward. Although the life of Saint Philippine has been studied extensively, until Maureen Chicoine undertook the research for this book, no complete account of the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart to the Potawatomi existed. The book will shed light on a little known apostolic ministry of the Society in America in the nineteenth century.

Book From the Grave  A Roadside Guide to Colorado  39 s Pioneer Cemeteries

Download or read book From the Grave A Roadside Guide to Colorado 39 s Pioneer Cemeteries written by and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grave on the Prairie

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  • Author : Maureen J. Chicoine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781532052217
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Grave on the Prairie written by Maureen J. Chicoine and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Philippine Duchesne and four religious companions of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus came from France to Louisiana in 1818 with the express desire of working among Native Americans to bring them knowledge of the love of Jesus Christ for them. After many years of educating the children of European settlers, Philippine finally realized her dream when she was sent to an encampment of the Potawatomi at Sugar Creek, Kansas. Her time among them was limited to one year; however, her sisters, the Religious of the Sacred Heart, continued to work among the Potawatomi for thirty-eight more years. This book is a carefully researched account of the life and work of these sisters among the Native Americans, the difficulties of adaptation of European women to frontier conditions, and the movement across Kansas with their people as the Potawatomi were pushed westward. Although the life of Saint Philippine has been studied extensively, until Maureen Chicoine undertook the research for this book, no complete account of the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart to the Potawatomi existed. The book will shed light on a little known apostolic ministry of the Society in America in the nineteenth century.

Book Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies

Download or read book Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies written by Natalie Kononenko and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Canada is home to one of the largest Ukrainian diasporas in the world, little is known about the life and culture of Ukrainians living in the country’s rural areas and their impact on Canadian traditions. Drawing on more than ten years of interviews and fieldwork, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies describes the culture of Ukrainian Canadians living in the prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Despite powerful pressure to assimilate, these Ukrainians have managed both to preserve their sense of themselves as Ukrainian and to develop a culture sensitive to the realities of prairie life, creating their own uniquely Ukrainian Canadian traditions. The Ukrainian church, an iconic though now rapidly disappearing feature of the prairie landscape, takes centre stage as an instrument for the retention of Ukrainian identity and the development of a new culture. Natalie Kononenko explores the cultural elements of Ukrainian Canadian ritual practice, with an emphasis on family traditions surrounding marriage, birth, death, and religious holidays. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies gives voice to a group of everyday people who are too often overlooked, highlighting their accomplishments and their contributions to Canadian life.

Book Cowboy Songs  and Other Frontier Ballads

Download or read book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Folk Songs of the South

Download or read book Folk Songs of the South written by John Harrington Cox and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1925 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prairie Kaddish

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  • Author : Isa Milman
  • Publisher : Coteau Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781550503883
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Prairie Kaddish written by Isa Milman and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isa Milman uses historical and personal awakening, and archival sleuthing, to create a "kaddish" - a Jewish prayer of mourning and commemoration - for a prairie community that now exists only through remembrance. Prairie Kaddish begins with the author's serendipitous discovery of the Jewish graveyard at Lipton, Saskatchewan, a community whose existence she'd previously been unaware of. The incident triggers an exploration both archival and personal, for information about these people, and what their lives must have been like, and the resulting work of remembrance, which makes up this book. Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead, recited at the burial, during the seven days of mourning, and every year on the anniversary of the death. Every Jew knows Kaddish, it is the universal prayer. There are no more Jewish colonies, no more Jewish farmers on the prairies. Prairie Kaddish is an elegy for all that no longer exists, except through remembrance.

Book Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery

Download or read book Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Life on the Range

Download or read book My Life on the Range written by John Clay and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy

Download or read book The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gathering Strays

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  • Author : Jim Hoy
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2023-02-21
  • ISBN : 070063410X
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Gathering Strays written by Jim Hoy and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated folklorist and author Jim Hoy has spent most of his life living in the heart of the famed Flint Hills of Kansas and documenting and celebrating his fellow Kansans and plains folk. Like rounding up stray cattle in a rolling pasture, Hoy has gathered over a hundred stray stories, tales without a single theme or unified narrative, and corraled them up here for the very first time. Branding these stories in sections like Cattle Towns, Outlaws, and Cowboy Music, Hoy’s vignettes teach, excite, charm, and instill a deep pride in anyone fortunate enough to have lived on the Great Plains. In Gathering Strays, Hoy gives us a collection of stories about Kansas, the Great Plains, and Western life that reflect his life-long love of the land, experience, and history of the region. Hoy introduces us to folks like Elmer McCurdy, a failed train robber whose arsenic-embalmed body went on tour and made money for the undertaker, and Ame Cole, who scolded Russian Grand Duke Alexis on his table manners. Writing as an easygoing storyteller, Hoy covers familiar areas like rodeos and cattle drives, takes us from Dodge City to Beer City and everywhere in between, explains why Kansas has the best state song in the nation, and expands our picture of cowboys with stories of Australian drovers, Black cowboys, and Mexican vaqueros. Throughout, his easy-to-read yet authoritative style describes the people, places, and events that make the region so distinctive and celebrated. Gathering Strays will be hailed by anyone interested in the heroes and villains, towns and ranges, and myths and legends of the West.

Book In a Narrow Grave  Essays on Texas

Download or read book In a Narrow Grave Essays on Texas written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father’s ranch. From literature to rodeos, small-town folk to big city intellectuals, McMurtry explores all the singular elements that define his land and community, revealing the surprising and particular challenges in the “dying . . . rural, pastoral way of life.” “The gold standard for understanding Houston’s brash rootlessness and civic insecurities” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), In a Narrow Grave offers a timeless portrait of the vividly human, complex, full-blooded Texan.

Book Out West

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  • Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1174 pages

Download or read book Out West written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.

Book Jumbo Easy Guitar Songbook

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  • Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2001-08-01
  • ISBN : 1495034151
  • Pages : 791 pages

Download or read book Jumbo Easy Guitar Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Guitar). Beginners will love this immense collection of more than 240 super songs that they can actually play! Includes easy arrangements in notes and tab for gems in various genres, including: After You've Gone * Amazing Grace * Anchors Aweigh * Auld Lang Syne * Avalon * Baby, Won't You Please Come Home * The Banana Boat Song (Day Oh) * Beale Street Blues * Blue Danube Waltz * Canon in D * Cielito Lindo * Clementine * Cockles and Mussels * Down by the Old Mill Stream * Eine Kleine Nachtmusik * The Entertainer * Give Me That Old Time Religion * Give My Regards to Broadway * The Glow Worm * Greensleeves * Hail to the Chief * Hava Nagila * House of the Rising Sun * I Ain't Got Nobody * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * La Golondrina * Little Brown Jug * Loch Lomond * Marine's Hymn * Memories * 'O Sole Mio * Ode to Joy * Paper Doll * Peg O' My Heart * Scarborough Fair * Sidewalks of New York * St. Louis Blues * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * Toreador Song * Wedding March * and more!

Book Gleanings From Western Prairies

Download or read book Gleanings From Western Prairies written by William Ernest Youngman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Book Territories of Empire

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  • Author : Andy Doolen
  • Publisher : Oxford Studies in American Lit
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199348626
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Territories of Empire written by Andy Doolen and published by Oxford Studies in American Lit. This book was released on 2014 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Doolen's monograph reorients literary history, turning to the neglected Western writings that shaped the distinctive process of US expansionism in the years following the Louisiana Purchase.

Book The Texas Lowcountry

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  • Author : John R. Lundberg
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2024-06-18
  • ISBN : 1648431763
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Texas Lowcountry written by John R. Lundberg and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas he terms the lowcountry—an area encompassing the lower reaches of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries as they wend their way toward the Gulf of Mexico through what is today Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties. In the two decades before the Civil War, European immigrants, particularly Germans, poured into Texas, sometimes bringing with them cultural ideals that complicated the story of slavery throughout large swaths of the state. By contrast, 95 percent of the white population of the lowcountry came from other parts of the United States, predominantly the slaveholding states of the American South. By 1861, more than 70 percent of this regional population were enslaved people—the heaviest such concentration west of the Mississippi. These demographics established the Texas Lowcountry as a distinct region in terms of its population and social structure. Part one of The Texas Lowcountry explores the development of the region as a borderland, an area of competing cultures and peoples, between 1822 and 1840. The second part is arranged topically and chronicles the history of the enslavers and the enslaved in the lowcountry between 1840 and 1865. The final section focuses on the experiences of freed people in the region during the Reconstruction era, which ended in the lowcountry in 1895. In closely examining this unique pocket of Texas, Lundberg provides a new and much needed region-specific study of the culture of enslavement and the African American experience.