Research Catalog

Title

Understanding O pioneers! and My Antonia : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Sheryl L. Meyering.

Author

Meyering, Sheryl L., 1948-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xv, 223 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series, 1074-598X

Uniform Title

Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.

Subjects

• Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 > My Ántonia > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Nebraska > In literature
• Historical fiction, American > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 > My Antonia > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 > O pioneers! > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Women pioneers in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Fleeting Moments of Beauty: A Literary Analysis of O Pioneers! and My Antonia -- 2. Everyday Life on the Plains. "All about Homesteads" (1871). W. G. Edmundson, "Prairie Farming - Breaking the Sod" (1852). John Turner, "Marble and Sod Houses" (1903). John Turner, "The Big Blizzard of '73" (1903). Albert Watkins, History of Nebraska (1913). John Turner, "Grasshopper Plague and Aid to Sufferers" (1903). "A Grasshopper Story" (1875). George W. Slade, "Pioneering in Boone County" (1922). J. E. Green, "Pioneering in Boone County" (1923) -- 3. The Coming of the Railroad. A. T. Andreas, "Railroads" (1882). Lloyd Lewis and Stanley Pargellis, Granger Country (1949). John R. Buchanan, "The Great Railroad Migration into Northern Nebraska" (1902). "Letter from William Hagge" (1875). "Letter from R. W. Hazen" (1875). "Letter from James Jackson" (1875). "Railway Regulation: The Necessity of Enacting a Stringent State Law" (1884). Willa Cather, A Lost Lady (1923) --
• 4. Another Country, Another Language: Foreign-Born Pioneers. Rose Rosicky, A History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska (1929). Ivan Dubovicky, "Czech-Americans: An Ethnic Dilemma" (1993). Sarka B. Hrbkova, "Bohemians in Nebraska" (1919). Joseph Alexis, "Swedes in Nebraska" (1919). Ole Oleson, Letters to His Brother in Sweden (1890). John Thompson, Letters to His Mother in Sweden (ca. 1890). Mabel Cooper Skjelver, Webster County: Visions of the Past (1980). D. Aidan McQuillan, "French-Canadian Communities in the Upper Midwest during the Nineteenth Century" (1983). Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (1977) -- 5. Women on the Frontier. Rebecca Culbertson Hutchinson, Letters Home (1885-86). Julia Baptist, Letters Home (1885-88). Martha Thomas Oblinger. Letters Home (1873-74). Mary Margaret Pike Harpster. Personal Diary (1885-89). "The Ladies" (1885). A. T. Andreas, "The Woman Suffrage Question" (1882).
• Ada Bittenbender, History of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Nebraska (1892) -- 6. The Disappearance of the Family Farm. U.S. Department of Agriculture, History of American Agriculture, 1776-1990: Farmers and the Land (2001). Jeffrey L. Pasley, "The Idiocy of Rural Life" (1986). Charles Hatcher, "The Future of Family Farming" (1985). Garland Thompson, "The Future of Family Farming" (1985). Donnie Doles, "The Future of Family Farming" (1985). Neal Talton, "The Future of Family Farming" (1985). Louis Forbes: A Personal Interview (2000). Steven Forbes: A Personal Interview (2000).

ISBN

0313313903 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001050103

OCLC

• ocm47989986
• SCSB-4298279

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries