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Unfortunate Emigrants
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. …”
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Along Navajo Trails Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.…”
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