Dakotah : : The Return of the Future / / Charles Bowden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Bowden, Charles,
• TeilnehmendeR: Tempest Williams, Terry.
• MitwirkendeR: Williams, Terry Tempest,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (169 p.)

“On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free.” When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed “Unnatural History of America.” Bowden uses America’s Great Plains as a lens—sometimes sullied, sometimes shattered, but always sharp—for observing pivotal moments in the lives of anguished figures, including himself. In scenes that are by turns wrenching and poetic, Bowden describes the Sioux’s forced migrations and rebellions alongside his own ancestors’ migrations from Europe to Midwestern acres beset by unforgiving winters. He meditates on the lives of his resourceful mother and his philosophical father, who rambled between farm communities and city life. Interspersed with these images are clear-eyed, textbook-defying anecdotes about Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and, with equal verve, twentieth-century entertainers “Pee Wee” Russell, Peggy Lee, and other musicians. The result is a kaleidoscopic journey that penetrates the senses and redefines the notion of heartland. Dakotah is a powerful ode to loss from one of our most fiercely independent writers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword: Two Worlds -- My Piece of round -- Heartland -- Andrew Jackson -- Lewis and Clark -- Dakotah -- Heartland -- Jude -- Heartland -- Dakotah -- Jude -- Heartland -- Jude -- Bo -- Heartland -- Delta -- Heartland -- Dakotah -- Daniel Boone -- Disney -- My Piece of round -- Jude and Bo -- Bo -- Dakotah -- Daniel Boone -- Dakotah -- Lewis and Clark -- Dakotah -- Daniel Boone -- Heartland -- Jude and Bo: Two -- Dakotah -- Lewis and Clark -- Dakotah -- Lewis and Clark -- Dakotah -- Disney -- Daniel Boone -- Dakotah -- Jude and Bo: Part III -- Dakotah -- Daniel Boone -- Dakotah -- Daniel Boone -- Delta -- Dakotah -- Lewis and Clark -- Jude and Bo: Part IV -- Notes -- About the Author