introduction bison books (7 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. R.W. Boeche (Cover Illustration and Design) (illustratore). 1st Bison Books Printing. 175 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. An Ex-Barnard College-Library-Book with all the usual and standard signs (stamps, stickers, envelope, etc.).

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Paprocki, Greg - Cover Illustration and Design (illustratore). First Bison Book Printing. 361 Pages Indexed. A pristine, new book with flawless interior text pages. There are 32 Illustrations mostly photographs and portraits. A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C. Fremont, the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets of Washington, love bloomed. Always passionately devoted to the controversial explorer, soldier, and politician, Jessie bore John five children, maintained a family life, charmed and campaigned on his behalf, and helped him write the popular reports of his western trailblazing. These pages, filled with public figures such as Kit Carson and Abraham Lincoln, present a lively and fearless woman. The author's family knew Jessie Fremont during her last years in Los Angeles, had access to private letters. Introducing this Bison Book edition is Christine Bold, an assistant professor of English at the University of Guelph, and the author of Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960. Contents: The Widow Benton's Settlement, Colonel McDowell's to the Mountain Top, A Washington Childhood, An Elopement, Jessie Fremont Topographical Reporter, Government Orders in a Sewing Basket, All of Which I Saw and Part of Which I Was, Under the Gun of Fremont's Court-Martial, A Forty-Niner via Panama, In Search of Health, Wife of the First Senator from California, A Guest at the Courts of England and France, Our Jessie the Toast of the Nation, Life at Mariposa and Black Point, Civil War Duty Western Department, There Is a Time to Do and a Time to Stand Aside, Pocaho Salon, The Governor's Lady, Los Angeles Retreat, and Chapter's End. Plus Appendix: Personal Recollections of Jessie Benton Fremont, Bibliography, Periodicals and Pamphlets, Newspapers, Fremont Family Papers, Publications of Jessie Benton Fremont , and Birth and Death Dates of the Fremont Family.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0803289618. Trade Paperback. Reprint edition. Very good to near fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book, slight shelfwear to cover corners. No Signature.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0803298404. Trade Paperback. First Printing Thus. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with with small red remainder stamp to bottom edge, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ISBN 0803266219. Trade Paperback. First Printing thus. Very good plus condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book except for red remainder stamp to bottom edge of book.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Printing. 549 Pages Indexed. Book has a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Store sticker on back cover. Book has a few dog eared pages and minor wear to edges that is difficult to see in scans. There is a Contents listing for Volume 2 however the book includes only Volume 1. The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion. The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, Cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages. In volume I she discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions, and a wide range of rituals. The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture is also apparent in volume II, which presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and harvesting ceremonies, as well as games, animal dances, and offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains central to studies of Pueblo religious life. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good Plus. 1995 paperback. 22x13.5cm. xxxiii+372 pages with index. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F657. Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century (Blacks in the American West) by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs; Introduction By Booker T. Washington; Intro to the Bison Books Edition by Tom W. Dillard.