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Blood, Power, And Hypocrisy: The Murder Of Robert Imbrie And American Relations With Pahlavi Iran, 1924, Michael Zirinsky
Blood, Power, And Hypocrisy: The Murder Of Robert Imbrie And American Relations With Pahlavi Iran, 1924, Michael Zirinsky
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
On Friday, July 18, 1924, Robert W. Imbrie, United States Consul in Tehran— and personal friend and special agent of Allen W. Dulles, Chief of the State Department's Near Eastern Affairs Division—was brutally killed. Imbrie was beaten to death by a mob led by members of the Muslim clergy and including many members of the Iranian Army. In the weeks preceding July 18, there had been several outbreaks of anti-Bahai violence. Imbrie and Melvin Seymour had gone that morning to investigate a miraculous watering place in central Tehran that figured in the anti-Bahai excitement. According to contemporary accounts, a Bahai …
An Ethno-Historical Shoshone Narrative Pɨe Nɨmmɨn Naakkanna "How We Lived Long Ago", Jon P. Dayley
An Ethno-Historical Shoshone Narrative Pɨe Nɨmmɨn Naakkanna "How We Lived Long Ago", Jon P. Dayley
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
The text that follows is a narrative of reminiscences in the Shoshone language by Josephine Thorpe. The reminiscences are about the way Mrs. Thorpe's own group of Northern Shoshone used to live when she was a girl in prereservation times.
Westering, Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Westering, Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Ahsahta Press
Thomas Hornsby Ferril, 1896-1988, was a major figure in literary circles of the American West for nearly half a century. Winner of the 1926 Yale Younger Poets award for High Passage, and honored by such poets as Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, Ferril created poetry that is musical, metrical, and meant to be read aloud. Westering was Ferril’s second collection of poetry, originally published by Yale University Press in 1934 and reprinted by Ahsahta in 1986. Ahsahta Press also brought out Ferril’s 1983 book Anvil of Roses, his sixth and final book of poems.
Tatape Pekkappɨh Sun Killer (Cottontail And The Sun), Jon P. Dayley
Tatape Pekkappɨh Sun Killer (Cottontail And The Sun), Jon P. Dayley
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
COMMENTS: The following Shoshone tale, Tatape Pekkappɨh "Sun Killer," also known as "Cottontail and the Sun, " was told to me in 1968 at Fort Hall, Idaho, by Mrs. Myrtle Nevada. I recorded the tale on tape and later transcribed, translated, and linguistically analyzed it with the aid of Mrs. Nevada's niece, Mrs. Lillian Vallely. Mrs. Nevada was a well-known storyteller and had been telling tales like this for many years. She was in her late seventies in 1968, and unfortunately, like most of the other great Shoshone natɨkwinnawappinnɨɨ "storytellers," she has since passed away. The tale was told in …
Elmer Kelton, Lawrence Clayton
Elmer Kelton, Lawrence Clayton
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Although Elmer Kelton is well known as a livestock journalist, he has produced twenty-six novels in which—with two exceptions—he has chronicled the settlement of the Texas frontier. He begins his study with the days of early settlement by Anglos in the Stephen F. Austin Colony in southeast Texas and includes the war with Mexico, the Civil War, and the burgeoning of the cattle kingdom. He ends his Texas saga in the modem period with an aging rancher battling drought and federal bureaucracy.
Simon Ortiz, Andrew Wiget
Simon Ortiz, Andrew Wiget
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
The emergence of a contemporary literature written in English by Native Americans has forced yet another reassessment of what constitutes a “Western American” literature. That Native American writers like Leslie Silko, N. Scott Momaday, and James Welch have been well-received both by academe and the mass market suggests on the one hand that these Native American writers have a good deal in common with Anglo-American literary traditions, both canonical and popular. On the other hand, the fact that they can be identified as “Native American” because of their preoccupation with particular themes or attitudes toward their art suggests that there …
John Nichols, Peter Wild
John Nichols, Peter Wild
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Liza Minnelli leaps into most people’s minds at the mention of The Sterile Cuckoo. Starring in the film released by Paramount in 1969, she played a teenager at turns vivacious and vulnerable, always intriguingly unpredictable. Even now, much of the public retains the image of endearing, if somewhat fey, co-ed Minnelli bubbling through the bittersweet adventures of a campus love affair. Her performance, perhaps more than the novel of the same title published four years earlier, launched John Nichols’ career by ingratiating the author with an American audience easily spellbound by youthful verve.
John Gregory Dunne, Mark Royden Winchell
John Gregory Dunne, Mark Royden Winchell
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
In the January 1981 issue of Horizon, John Lahr writes: “California is a state of amateur outdoorsmen—of runners, of swimmers, of bikers, of sailors, and of golfers. Here, the surface of life can be enjoyed without analysis. Amidst the sun, surf, and caesar salads, intellectual stimulation is never a high priority.” He goes on to trash those who “never question the consequences of Los Angeles or the California scene . . . —the general absence of community, the moral stupor, the greedy self-aggrandizement, and the emotional impoverishment that characterize and enchant the place” (“Entrepreneurs” 39). These comments, so typical …