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Co=ge=we=a, the half-blood : a depiction of the great Montana cattle range / by Hum-ishu-ma, "Mourning Dove" ... ; given through Sho-pow-tan ; with notes and biographical sketch by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mourning Dove, 1888-1936, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Okanagan Indians--Fiction.
- Okanagan Indians.
- Indians of North America--Montana--Fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Montana--Fiction.
- Montana.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Rydberg, Opal Wilson Eaton, 1904-2004 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Boston, Mass., U.S.A. : The Four Seas Press
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Cogewea : the half-blood
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Four Seas Company, Publishers, [1927]
- Summary:
- "One of the first known novels by a Native American woman. Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech."--Amazon
- Contents:
- Cogewea, the half-blood
- The roundup at Horseshoe Bend
- A range idyl
- Cogewea hires the tenderfoot
- The tenderfoot's broncho riding
- The Fourth of July
- The "ladies" and the "squaw" races
- The Indian dancers
- Under the whispering pines
- Lo! The poor "breed"
- At the tepee fireside
- On Buffalo Butte
- A visit to Stemteema's tepee
- The dead man's vision
- The superior race
- On the old buffalo grounds
- Frenchy, toy of the cowboys
- Swa-Lah-Kin: the Frog Woman
- The story of Green-blanket Feet
- A tragedy of the range
- A "geezar" in camp
- Back to the ranch
- The basket social
- The second coming of the Shoyapee
- Voice of the autumn leaves
- Stemteema consults the sweat house
- The forked tongue of the shoyahpee
- The sentinel at the rock
- Stemteema's dream of the Soma-Ash-Hee
- The cost of knowing
- A voice from the buffalo skull
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Includes frontispiece portrait.
- Errata slip inserted.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mrs Opal Eaton 608- No- 60 Seattle 3") of Opal Edith Eaton (née Wilson; later Rydberg; 1904-2004) in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Smith, C.W. Pacific Northwest (3rd ed.), 7125
- OCLC:
- 2311879
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