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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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Before he ascended to the highest office in the land as the United
States youngest president, Theodore Roosevelt, with illustrations
by Frederic Remington, though a New York City man born and bred,
was a devotee of the Old West. In 1888, he published this charming
ode to the American frontier, from the rewarding hard work of a
rancher on the open plains to the pleasures of hunting the big game
of mountains high. Today, the inimitable prose and infectious
enthusiasm of Roosevelts writing here serves as much to limn a
unique aspect of the character of the nation as it sings an elegy
for a disappearing way of life. Includes numerous illustrations by
Frederic Remington. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Roosevelts
Letters to His Children, A Book-Lovers Holidays in the Open,
America and the World War, Through the Brazilian Wilderness and
Papers on Natural History, The Strenuous Life: Essays and
Addresses, and Historic Towns: New York Politician and soldier,
naturalist and historian, American icon THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
(18581919) was 26th President of the United States, serving from
1901 to 1909, and the first American to win a Nobel Prize, in 1906,
when he was awarded the Peace Prize for mediating the
Russo-Japanese War. He is the author of 35 books.
In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary "I have at
length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which
seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together
their beautiful traditions as whole." What emerged the next year
was "The Song of Hiawatha," a composite of legends, folklore, myth,
and characters that presents, in short, lilting lines (who can
forget "By the shore of Gitche-Gumme / By the shining Big-Sea
Water"?) the life-story of a real Indian, who provides the focus
for the narrative thread of this epic drama of high adventure,
tragedy and conflict.The aim was not to tell a particular or
specific story but to unite the strands of various Indian legends,
to present a sympathetic portrait of many Native American tribes,
and especially to disclose their profound relationship with the
natural world. This when both government policies and an expanding,
land-hungry population were just beginning their inexorable
campaign of displacement and annihilation.The poem received a
decidedly mixed reception. Our own "Boston Traveller" revealed its
biases: "We cannot help but express our regret that our own pet
national poet should not have selected as a theme of his muse
something better and higher than the silly legends of the savage
aborigines." Despite this, the poem entered into our canon of great
narratives, and was revived again in 1891 when Remington, surely
the most renowned artist of the West, provided with new pen and ink
drawings.This handsome new, and freshly reset, edition (the only
unabridged version in print) presents the full text, includes all
400 of the original Remington illustrations, and provides an index
of the Indian names and their meanings.
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Cuba in War Time
Richard Harding Davis, Frederic Remington
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Cuba in War Time
Richard Harding Davis, Frederic Remington
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