Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range

Type

Book

Authors

Mourning Dove

ISBN 10

0803281102

ISBN 13

9780803281103

Tags

Historical, Native American, Contemporary, Social Sciences, Literature

Description

One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech. - from Amzon

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