Product Description: Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars. Yet the details of the Battle of Pine Creek (or Tohotonimme) and its aftermath remain subjects of debate...read more

Product Description: In more than 30 novels, several short stories, graphic novels, movies, plays and poems, Ernest Hemingway has been introduced or "appropriated" as an important fictional character. This book is an inquiry into that phenomenon from various perspectives--including that of fan fiction--and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this biographical fiction adds to the dialogue about America's best known and most talked about writer...read more

Product Description: The Confluence American Authors Series publishes criticism, interviews, manuscript selections, bibliographies, letters and other materials concerning important contemporary and modern American writers. In James Welsh, the first volume of the series, nine noted authors and critics, including Jack L Davis, Robert Gish, A...read more

Product Description: "Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy...read more

Product Description: In Understanding James Welch, Ron McFarland offers analysis and critical commentary on the works of the renowned Blackfeet-Gros Ventre writer whose first novel, Winter in the Blood, has become a classic in Native American fiction and whose book of poems, Riding the Earthboy 40, has remained in print since its initial publication in 1971...read more

Product Description: The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature. Since 1970, however, American memoirs have revealed themselves as a respectable literary genre, distinct with an inimitable literary voice and a unique capacity to intersect narration and reflection...read more

Product Description: Ron McFarland is a poet of meticulous detail and strong vision. He sees into the lives of the unremarkable people around us- the spinsterish school teacher, the gypo logger, the woman who collects the blossoms of her lovers- with remarkable clarity and compassion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ten of Maclean's previously uncollected speeches and essays, two fantastic interviews, family photos, and contributions by Studs Terkel, William Kittredge, Wendell Berry, Wallace Stegner and others. First edition. Great gift.

Product Description: Book by McFarland, Ron