In order to preserve his traditional culture, this Sioux seer related its values and traditions to the winder world. Acounts of his visions and of the tribal dances he carried out according to those visions are particularly vivid and notable. Still very influential today. - "Earth works - recommended fiction and non fiction about nature and the environment for adults and young adults."

A look at the public life of the man known as a boy Indian-slayer, champion buffalo-hunter, brave soldier, daring scout, intrepid frontiersman, and famous exhibitor and also a son devoted to his widowed mother.

Completely revised for its fourth edition, National Parks: The American Experience tells the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Lavishly illustrated with period photographs,...

Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Pony Express, etc.

Comprised of more than 250 selections from Henry James's stories about writers, his critical and speculative essays, his Notebooks, Prefaces, and letters, this collection brings together for the first time, in a single, systematic volume, all the important passages in James's work which have implications for or ideas about his theory of fiction. The result is the most comprehensive, exhaustive, and innovative volume of fictional theory ever published;...

Includes thirty pages of notes on source material.