Title Nineteenth-century American western writers / edited by Robert L. Gale

Published Detroit : Gale Research, ©1997

Online access available from: Dictionary of Literary Biography Online (Gale)    View Resource Record

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 469 pages) : illustrations Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 186 Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 186 Contents Gertrude Atherton / Charlotte S. McClure -- Adolph F. Bandelier / James H. Maguire -- Ambrose Bierce / M.E. Grenander -- Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson) / John O. West -- George Catlin / Joseph R. Milichap -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) / Hamlin Hill -- Ina Coolbrith / Abe C. Ravitz -- Dan De Quile (William Wright) / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Thomas J. Dimsdale / John D. Nesbitt -- Timothy Flint / Charles Duncan -- Mary Hallock Foote / Christine Hill Smith -- John Charles Frémont / Andrew Rolle -- Hamlin Garland / Joseph B. McCullough -- Lewis H. Garrard / Richard H. Cracroft -- Josiah Gregg / Richard H. Cracroft -- Bret Harte / Gary Scharnhorst -- Washington Irving / Wayne R. Kime -- Helen Hunt Jackson / Mary Louise Briscoe -- Charles King / Peter Wild -- Alfred Henry Lewis / Abe C. Ravitz -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark / Thomas W. Dunlay -- Charles F. Lummis / Robert E. Fleming -- Edwin Markham / Charles Duncan -- Joaquin Miller / Benjamin S. Lawson -- John Muir / John P. O'Grady -- Frank Norris / Joseph R. McElrath Jr. -- Bill Nye / David B. Kesterson -- Francis Parkman / Michael J. Mullin -- John Wesley Powell / James M. Anton -- Frederic Remington / Colleen Marie Tremonte -- Theodore Roosevelt / David Teague -- George Frederick Ruxton / Richard H. Cracroft -- Charles Sealsfield (Carl Post) / Walter Grünzweig -- Charles A. Siringo / Donald A. Barclay -- Charles Warren Stoddard / M.E. Grenander -- Frederick Jackson Turner / David M. Wrobel -- John C. Van Dyke / Peter Wild -- Owen Wister / Loren D. Estleman Summary Essays on American western writers of the nineteenth century. Many of these writers defy easy categorization, as some were soldiers, journalists, poets, fiction writers, naturalists and historians as well as artists. Conspicuous in their absence are dramatists. Discusses the many styles employed by the authors, including historical, scientific, military, realistic, naturalistic, powerful and humorous Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- 19th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries American literature -- West (U.S.) -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.) -- Dictionaries Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries Western stories -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- In literature -- Dictionaries West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Dictionaries Genre/Form Bio-bibliography. Biographies. Dictionaries. Form Electronic book Author Gale, Robert L., 1919- LC no. 97040333

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