TY  - GEN
T1  - Dakotah : the Return of the Future.
A1  - Bowden, Charles
A2  - Tempest Williams, Terry
LA  - English
PP  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1117624169
AB  - "On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free." When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed "Unnatural History of America." Bowden uses America?s Great Plains as a lens?sometimes sullied, sometimes shattered, but always sharp?for observing pivotal moments in the lives of anguished figures, including himself. In scenes that are by turns wrenching and poetic, Bowden describes the Sioux?s forced migrations and rebellions alongside his own ancestors? migrations from Europe to Midwestern acres beset by unforgiving winters. He meditates on the lives of his resourceful mother and his philosophical father, who rambled between farm communities and city life. Interspersed with these images are clear-eyed, textbook-defying anecdotes about Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and, with equal verve, twentieth-century entertainers "Pee Wee" Russell, Peggy Lee, and other musicians. The result is a kaleidoscopic journey that penetrates the senses and redefines the notion of heartland. Dakotah is a powerful ode to loss from one of our most fiercely independent writers.
OP  - 185
CN  - F591 .B69 2019
SN  - 1477319972
SN  - 9781477319970
SN  - 9781477319963
KW  - Bowden, Charles, : 1945-2014 : Family.
KW  - Bowden, Charles, : 1945-2014 : Travel.
KW  - Bowden, Charles, : 1945-2014
KW  - Great Plains : History.
KW  - Great Plains : Social conditions.
KW  - United States : History.
KW  - Indians of North America : History.
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life : Great Plains.
KW  - Grandes Plaines : Histoire.
KW  - Grandes Plaines : Conditions sociales.
KW  - États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
KW  - Families
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Travel
KW  - Great Plains
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
KW  - Anthologies.
ER  -