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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.
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 Roosevelt 's 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: Roosevelt
's Letters to His Children, A Book-Lover 's 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 YorkPolitician and soldier,
naturalist and historian, American icon THEODORE ROOSEVELT, (1858
1919) 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.
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Cuba in War Time
Richard Harding Davis, Frederic Remington
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R839
Discovery Miles 8 390
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Cuba in War Time
Richard Harding Davis, Frederic Remington
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R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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No one knew how the blue-eyed, blond-haired white baby came to be
abandoned, but the Crow tribe that found him raised him as one of
its own. As he grew into adolescence, White Weasel was taken to
Crooked-Bear, a white man who had long ago abandoned society for a
solitary mountain existence and who acted as counselor to the Crow
elders. Under Crooked-Bear's tutelage, White Weasel was schooled in
white ways and rechristened John Ermine. Frederic Remington's
compelling tale relates Ermine's successful reintroduction into
white society, his heroic exploits as a scout in the military, and
his growing interest in a white lady, Miss Katherine Searles. In
his love for Katherine, Ermine must face the complexities and
inequalities of American society. Although American culture may
well laud Ermine's military prowess and personal integrity, since
he is "wild" he can never truly rise through the ranks of society.
It is inevitable that Ermine's story ends in tragedy.
"John Ermine of the Yellowstone" is both an epic Western in the
classic sense and a complex tale that captures the conflict between
European Americans and Native Americans in the Wild West. John
Ermine is the tragic character caught between two cultures, unable
to assimilate fully into either. Famed artist Frederic Remington
uses his pen to convey the irreparable stalemate between two groups
of people in an untamed West while making a moving argument for the
preservation of a truly wild western front.
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