Wild Harvest: A Novel of Transition Days in OklahomaWhite House, 1925 - 299 pàgines Wild Harvest, one the most important debuts of modern Native American writers, may rightfully be called the first Native American novel of the modern era. The author, John Milton Oskison, 1874-1947, was born near Tahlequah, Indian Territory to a part-Cherokee mother and a white father. He was a member of the first graduating class from Willie Halsell College in 1894, and later editor and editorial writer for the New York Evening Post and associate editor and finance editor for Collier's Weekly. He was a World War I veteran. |
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Pàgina 10
... herds . The steers which Forest meant to ship up would be held in the name of Jake Quickrabbit , tribal law still forbidding white ownership . After hitching Bess to a post and drawing water in a tin bucket to fill the chickens ...
... herds . The steers which Forest meant to ship up would be held in the name of Jake Quickrabbit , tribal law still forbidding white ownership . After hitching Bess to a post and drawing water in a tin bucket to fill the chickens ...
Pàgina 11
... herd went off to market , there would be enough money to send her to college in St. Louis to study elocution . Nan would be past seventeen then . Meanwhile , she would try to get into the Academy that was to open at Big Grove in October ...
... herd went off to market , there would be enough money to send her to college in St. Louis to study elocution . Nan would be past seventeen then . Meanwhile , she would try to get into the Academy that was to open at Big Grove in October ...
Pàgina 49
... herd of prehistoric beasts , each carefully penned against the time when its substance should melt away under heaving pitch- forks , to be spread for hungry cattle . If only the cattle came ! But Nan harbored no doubt . Fine , clean hay ...
... herd of prehistoric beasts , each carefully penned against the time when its substance should melt away under heaving pitch- forks , to be spread for hungry cattle . If only the cattle came ! But Nan harbored no doubt . Fine , clean hay ...
Pàgina 62
... herd of longhorns that followed the Little Walnut Road and disappeared from sight near the Engel place . And while Nan dreamed that night of Tom Winger coming to buy the hay with a pocketful of greenbacks , the steers were taking the ...
... herd of longhorns that followed the Little Walnut Road and disappeared from sight near the Engel place . And while Nan dreamed that night of Tom Winger coming to buy the hay with a pocketful of greenbacks , the steers were taking the ...
Pàgina 64
... up to go , Winger asked : " How's Miz Dines and Nan ? " " Fine ; they're over at Ches's place this mornin ' . " " We'll ride herd on them steers till Gabe comes an ' makes some kind of arrangement for feedin ' . I 64 WILD HARVEST.
... up to go , Winger asked : " How's Miz Dines and Nan ? " " Fine ; they're over at Ches's place this mornin ' . " " We'll ride herd on them steers till Gabe comes an ' makes some kind of arrangement for feedin ' . I 64 WILD HARVEST.
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ain't arms asked Aunty baler baling began Bess Big Grove Bill Ridge Billy Dines Billy's brother Buster called cattle cheeks Ches Forest cowboy dance Davis Dines's door Dunkin face farm father folks Gabe Horner girl goin grinned hand Harve Harvey Stokes Harvey's head heard Henry Bear's herd Homeville honey lamb Honeywell horns Indian Jack Hayes Jennie Joe Tiger Julia Ellery Jumbo Kate Kearns kiss kitchen laughed listened long grass country longhorns look Madden Nan's eyes Nancy Nigger horse night old woman outfit pistol prairie pulled quirt ride rode rose Ruby Engel Ruby's saddle Sam Davis Shorty smile somethin stack steers stood supper sure Susan Dines talk tell Texas things thought thump-hah Thunder Creek Tom Winger Tom's turned Uncle Billy Vergil voice wagon wait Walnut Creek watched whispered Winger young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 20 - Yes, we'll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful river — Gather with the saints at the river That flows by the throne of God.
Pàgina 38 - Bible states that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children.
Pàgina 133 - Father, dear father, come home to me now, The clock in the steeple strikes One with a concealed chorus of sentimental lady singers in the background.
Pàgina 19 - Wait till the clouds roll by, Jennie, Wait till the clouds roll by !