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Theodore Strong Van Dyke, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Few writers, no matter how popular in their day, can point to “firsts” in their literary careers. As to Theodore Strong Van Dyke, in the midst of the booming land sales of the 1880s, when trainloads of Midwesterners crowded into southern California to be fleeced by ready hucksters, Van Dyke sowed doubts about the direction which was applauded as progress. Particularly through his lightly sardonic novel Millionaires of a Day (1890), this friend of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt initiated an American uneasiness that the hoopla over the region, and over the American West generally, was false, “. . . …

White County Heritage 1995, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication
Mayor's Proclamation
Letter, Arkansas Historic Preservation
Searcy' First Armistice Day by Elbert "Flywheel" Morgan
WWII Veteran 50th Anniversary
Obituary: Maurice "Footsie" Britt (reprint from Ark. Democrat Gazette)
Letter from Lecil Brown
Toll Was Great on Merchant Ships by L.E. Brown
WW II Scrapbook (Property of Leister Presley)

• G.C. Davis Return Visit
• First GI's in Germany
• Also the Bulge
• Billy Angel Recalls Holocaust
• Rembering V-E Day by Modean Lowe
• He Can't Recall All by Dean Hunter
• Victory Division News
• Drake Spur Men in World War II by L. Presley

Secession Convention by Jesse Cypert (reprint from Arkansas …

A Different Destination: The American Journey Theme In The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Jill Holbrook

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

The mythic form of the American journey in American literature, which developed from the frontier experience of white male settlers, embraces separatism, escape and isolation as valid options for the exploration of personal identity. For people who are neither white nor male, this definition of journey and this exploration of identity prove an impossibly destructive dream. In her novels, Toni Morrison develops a different idea of journey, one which leads the journeyer back to his or her community and to the discovery of identity in relationship, rather than isolation. The journey back to the community is explored in Sula, Song …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, June Granatir Alexander, M. Mark Stolarik, Corinne Earnest, Klaus Stopp, Jobie E. Riley

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Fortune's Stepchildren: Slovaks in Pennsylvania
• Slovak Churches: Religious Diversity and Ethnic Communities
• Slovak Fraternal-Benefit Societies in Pennsylvania
• Early Fraktur Referring to Birth and Baptism in Pennsylvania: A Taufpatenbrief from Berks County for a Child Born in 1751
• The Solitary Sisters of Saron

Cowboy Wonderland, History, And Myth: 'It Ain't All That Different Than Real Life, William G. Simon, Louise Spence

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson was Robert Altman's bicentennial film. Released for the Fourth of July weekend in 1976, the film examines the western both as a national myth and as a commercial entertainment form; indeed, one might see the film's project as an expos? of the ideological functioning of the western, its white male hero, and the Native American in nearly 100 years of American popular culture.

Thomas And Elizabeth Savage, Sue Hart

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Although Elizabeth Fitzgerald and Thomas Savage were born on opposite sides of the country, from early on it seemed as if they were as destined for each other as they were for careers in writing.

Diners In America : An Evolutionary Process, Jill Gardner

Honors Theses

A diner is now, as it has always been, a restful spot. It is a restful spot that is currently branching out into chains to capitalize on this same sentiment all over the nation. It focuses on the caricature like qualities that people recognize in a diner. People are willing to pay a little more, not much more, but a little more, to get away from McDonald's. These restaurants have been built with old memories but with new conveniences and some new menus. Finally, with health food on the march, I have to ask--where else can you eat a big …

Pynchon, Dionysus And America: In Search Of The Pig That Got Away, Andreas Gerling

Masters Theses

This work seeks to analyze Western thought as a system. As a case study representative of this system, I have chosen the United States of America, as it started as a strange experiment in purely Apollonian thought, which has largely remained a closed system and has become the primary engine of cultural change in the twentieth century. As the tools for my analysis, I have chosen the dialectic represented in the mythical opposites Dionysus and Apollo and the counter cultural reaction by a number of post World War II authors, most notably Thomas Pynchon, to the "American Dream."

America began …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 16 (1995), Virginia Gunn, Kathryn W. Berenson, Ricky Clark, Naida Treadway Patterson, Merikay Waldvogel, Xenia E. Cord, Marlene O'Bryant-Seabrook, Carol Williams Gebel, Judy Elsley

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

Origins and Traditions of Marseilles Needlework by Kathryn W. Berenson

Ruth Finley and the Colonial Revival Era by Ricky Clark

Marion Cheever Whiteside Newton: Designer of Story Book Quilts, 1940-1965 by Naida Treadway Patterson

The Origin of Mountain Mist Patterns by Merikay Waldvogel

Marketing Quilt Kits in the 1920s and 1930s by Xenia E. Cord

Symbiotic Stitches: The Quilts of Maggie McFarland Gillispie and John Gillispie, Jr. by Marlene O'Bryant-Seabrook

Quilts in the Final Rite of Passage: A Multicultural Study by Carol Williams Gebel

Making Critical Connections in Quilt Scholarship by Judy Eisley

Authors …

"Murder And Mystery Mormon Style": Violence As Mediation In American Popular Culture, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

Terryl Givens's discussion of popular representations of Mormonism ("'Murder and Mystery Mormon Style': Violence and Mediation in American Popular Culture ) is a case in point, emphasizing the violence inherent in the acts of sociocultural and fictional mediation that have tried to contain the heretical challenge of Mormon theocracy. Mormonism has a complex cultural identity, as a religious group clearly outside the American mainstream and yet historically and ethnically American to the core. Nineteenth-century fictional representations of Mormonism tended to demonize the religion while at the same time deploring the violence of anti-Mormon bigotry; such representations mediated social violence …

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter-Spring 1995, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter-Spring 1995. Includes: Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck's Speculations on Manhood / Leland S. Person Jr.; Frank Norris and John Steinbeck: The Critical Reception of Naturalistic Art / Jesse Crisler

"Properly Presented": The Autobiography Of Parley P. Pratt, Taunalyn Ford Rutherford

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of the autobiography of Parley P. Pratt in light of current American autobiography research, intended to assert its worthiness for greater consideration by scholars of American culture. The findings suggest that the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt is comparable to other works now included in the canon of American autobiography such as Jonathan Edward's "Personal Narrative," Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Critical theories on the above autobiographies are applied to the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt in order to show its applicability to the current dialogue of American autobiography. Finally, the …

John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1994/1995, John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

John Muir Newsletter winter 19i4-9a university of the pacific volume 5, number 1 FOLLOWING MUIR'S FIRST SUMMER ROUTE by John Fiske (Editor's note: John Fiske, retired engineer and Muir aficionado, lives near Coulterville and has thoroughly explored the region, tracking Muir's 1869 route as described in My First Summer in the Sierra. A year ago he accompanied a group of Muir enthusiasts from Japan on an excursion that began near Snelling and ended in Tuolumne Meadows. Fiske's trail notes are reprinted below. His meticulous research, and his careful delineation of the current topography and nomenclature, are valuable contributions to modern …

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.15/16, No.10/1 (December/January 1994-1995), Northern Lambda Nord, Jim Fotter, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

10% 12/1994, 10% Enterprises

10% : Maine's monthly newspaper for lesbians & gay men (1994-1995)

No abstract provided.

Index 1 (1981-1994), Lawrence Wells

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - December 1994, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - November 1994, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Aids Project Newsline, Vol.7, No.2 (November 1994), Eve Cimmel, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsline (1991-1996)

No abstract provided.

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.15, No.9 (November 1994), Northern Lambda Nord, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

No abstract provided.

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Apex : A Point Of Departure, Vol.3, No.09 (November 1994), Annette Dragon, Naomi Falcone, Diane Matthews, Madeleine Winter

Apex : a point of departure (1992-1995)

No abstract provided.

10% 11/1994, 10% Enterprises

10% : Maine's monthly newspaper for lesbians & gay men (1994-1995)

No abstract provided.

Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge: Continued Archeological And Historical Research At El Capote Ranch Community, Hidalgo County, Texas, Douglas K. Boyd, Andres Tijerina, Karl W. Kibler, Amy C. Earls, Martha Doty Freeman

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Phase II cultural resources investigations for the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge currently under construction in Hidalgo County, Texas, were conducted by Prewitt and Associates, Inc. in September 1993 and June 1994. The work included additional survey and documentation of seven historic sites, testing and evaluation of three sites, archival and oral history research on the former Hispanic community of EI Capote, and collection of additional geoarcheological data. The seven historic sites (4IHG162-41HG168) represent former nineteenth- and twentieth-century housesites within EI Capote. Due to a lack of integrity, it is recommended that all seven sites be considered ineligible for listing on the …

Fall 1994, Wmpg 90.9 Fm

WMPG Program Guides

WMPG program guide for Fall 1994

Includes notes from Program Director, information on shows and events, and schedule.

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.15, No.8 (October 1994), Northern Lambda Nord, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

No abstract provided.

October 1994, Wmpg 90.9 Fm

WMPG Program Guides

WMPG program guide for October 1994

Includes notes from Program Director, information on shows and events, and schedule.

Community Pride Reporter, 10/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

10% 10/1994, 10% Enterprises

10% : Maine's monthly newspaper for lesbians & gay men (1994-1995)

No abstract provided.