"Land of the Burnt Thigh" by Edith Eudora Kohl is a captivating memoir that explores the author's experiences growing up in the American West. Through vivid storytelling, Kohl paints a picture of life on the plains, detailing the challenges and triumphs faced by her family. The narrative is rich with descriptions of the landscape, the harsh realities of rural life, and the deep connections formed within the community. Kohl's voice is both authentic and engaging, drawing readers into a worl...

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This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life."Interesting in its spirit and atmosphere, and it is told simply and well. . . This is an unusual record, well worth reading."—New York Times Book Review"Mrs. Kohl has told this story of South Dakota with a simplicity, a directness, and an understanding of its quietly heroic element which make her book an appealing as well as a significant contribution to th...

In "Land of the Burnt Thigh," Edith Eudora Kohl presents a vivid and poignant exploration of life in the early 20th-century American West, capturing the spirit of resilience among the agrarian communities of that era. The narrative is woven with rich, descriptive prose that immerses the reader in the stark beauty and harsh realities of pioneer life. Kohl's unique literary style marries humor and tragedy, echoing the complexities of human emotion against the backdrop of an unforgiving lands...

"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months." Edith and Ida Mary Ammons, two slightly-built young women raised on exciting stories of a glamorous Wild West, bade their father good-bye in St. Louis and boarded a steamboat up the Missouri river on their way to South Dakota, to make something of themselves on a prairie homestead. They set up near the “Land of the Burnt Thigh” — the Lower Brulé Indian Reservation...

“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life.After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Li...

Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willowbrings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-spea...

Yellowstone Kelly wasn't always a legend, but cast into the wilderness of the uncharted West , he finds he's a man with a talent for survivalBefore Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly was an unexpected hero of the Old West, he was a young greenhorn, cast out of the big city and onto the frontier. This sequel to Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout begins at the deathbed of Buffalo Bill Cody, where Yellowstone pl...

An epic journey through a vibrant new country! In 1905, the veteran war correspondent Ralph D. Paine set out to explore the American West, sending back his dispatches to Outing magazine. He saw towns appearing like magic on the North Dakota prairie, loggers tearing the heart out of the Cascade forests, and cowboys making their last roundup in Montana. He explored the Pacific Coast from Seattle to the "pleasure and health resort" of Los Angeles, where an electric t...

In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of the Great War and Native Americans who reme...

Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present-day North and South Dakota. In My Indian Boyhood he describes the home life and education of Indian children. Like other boys, he played with t...