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Even as a pup, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunts, and his electioneering. His reputation as a b'ar hunter (he killed 105 in one season) sent him to Congress, and he was voted in and out as the price of cotton (and his relations with the Jacksonians) rose and fell. In 1834, when this autobiography appeared, Davy Crockett was already a folk hero with an eye on the White House. But a year later he would lose his seat in Congress and turn toward Texas and, ultimately, the Alamo.

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Davy Crockett and Thomas Chilton.......2007-02-09

Confusion about authorhip has followed "A Narrative" more than 170 years. It helps to understand that Thos. Chilton, Representative from Kentucky, shared living quarters with Crockett at Mary Ball's Rooming House. They were actual bedfellows, which was the custom of the times; Thos. Chilton was father, eventually, to 15 children. Thomas Chilton had a university education and wrote with recognized eloquence. He crafted "A Narrative" from Crockett's notes and dictation, using carefully the homespun dialogue of his friend.

Thos. Chilton, a skilled lawyer, was not fool enough to do all this this work for free. Davy Crockett arranged for his publisher to pay fifty percent of the book's royalties to Thomas Chilton, who agreed to have no mention of his name in the book. What remains rather obscure is the disposition of royalites after Crockett's death. Thomas Chilton died in 1854.

The role played by Thomas Chilton in "A Narrative" was lost to history for nearly a hundred years, except inside the Chilton Family.
-- Edward M. Chilton

Crockett's Narrative under the microscope.......2005-12-22

Davy Crockett's Narrative first appeared early in 1834 at the height of his political career. During the 1820s he had won a couple of terms in the Tennessee state legislature, and in 1827 he won a seat in Congress representing the western half of the state. He was a foe of Andrew Jackson and a political maverick; when he advocated for Indian rights he won the enmity of many in Congress and his constituents, and was voted from office in 1831. He licked his wounds and patched up differences, and was re-elected in 1833. To bolster his image, which was already taking on legendary aspects, this Narrative was written with his friend Thomas Chilton. Told in bold, humorous, boastful strokes, it is nonetheless a campaign biography and ends with sharp attacks on Jackson.

The way the Narrative is set up here is very useful for the reader. It appears in facsimile form, with wide margins set around it, in which Shackford explains, corrects, and separates fact from fiction in Crockett's assertions. It's almost like watching a movie on DVD along with critical commentary. Interestingly, many errors that appear in the Narrative were intentional and are often self-deprecating, making Crockett more unsophisticated and lowbrow than he really was in order to win votes with the farmers and backwoodsmen of western Tennessee. Most of the historical references he makes are quite accurate. As a campaign biography to help him win re-election in 1835, however, it was a failure, as he lost to a Jacksonian. After that, he set his eyes on Texas.

The format chosen here is what makes this book a success. The many annotations make this edition of the Narrative the most informative and "honest" in print. Highly recommended.

The Eternal Crockett.......2005-01-15

David Crockett found himself to have become mythologized in his own lifetime. Every indication is that he arrived at this place accidentally, but that once he recognized his own pop-culture status he took advantage of it and nurtured it at every turn. His Narrative, therefore, must be read with a certain amount of skepticism nevertheless it is still valuable as an historical record.

The narrative is a journey from start to finish; true Homeric stuff. He describes his journey into adulthood in pre-Mark Twain style, then his journey as an adventurer in the military, his journey across the state of Tennessee with his family, and finally his journey into politics. There may be many embellishments within his narrative, but considering the period in which it was written (while he contemplated a much larger political career) the topics he chose to describe actually seem prosaic and understated, as if he were deliberately trying to avoid bragging about himself. In this light, perhaps the Narrative is more accurate than is generally assumed. The Narrative may have been ghost-written by someone else, but there is enough Crockett in it to give it legitimacy. His jabs at Andrew Jackson are quaintly hilarious, but they are also true. In this pre-Alamo period of his life, his willingness to take a stand against Jackson might be the bravest thing he ever did.

Lastly, the language itself is fascinating. The Narrative may be laced with over-the-top phrases such as, "knocked his trotters out from under him", but at the same time he writes, "if a fellow is born to be hung, he will never be drowned..." This is classic southern wisdom, words I have heard with my own ears in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, so Crockett's Narrative is either very authentic or was itself the basis for an evolving southern culture. In this way, the Narrative should be considered classic American literature.

One to add to a "Crockett" Library.......2003-10-23

Penned during the ORIGINAL Crockett "craze" of the 1830's, this is the Tennessean's own story in his "own" words. (Much of this book was heavy edited and, some would say, ghost written by one of Crockett's supporters.) Still, it's worth adding to a "Crockett" Library. Parts of the book have an almost "Dickens" like feel, especially the stories about the poverty and hardship suffered by the young David. Sprinkled through-out this book are hunting stories, scrapes with bears and panthers, a little romance, skirmishes with hostiles, frontier wit and humor. An annoying part of the narrative are the corny pseudo backwoods expressions, like "burst my boilers" and "knocked his trotters out from under him". Evidently the author(s) tired of this excessive hoakum too because it abruptly stops. (Thank You!) Much has been written about the legendary "Davy" but this brings the real man into more perspective. Even if you have little interest in Crockett lore, the NARRATIVE is still worth reading for it's glimpse into early 19th Century America.

David Crockett, a review.......2000-04-14

It is a great book, a real whopper. And I'll be skinned alive and burned by an injun if it aint one of the moost enthralling books I've read. Colonel Crockett didn't have the greatest spelling, or punctuation, but it was a great book. In the 1830's, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a review of the book, criticizing its grammar, but what he forgot to say was how it was exciting, and easy to read. At the time, it was the bestselling book in the nation.

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A rousing and true biographical account.......2003-02-07

Polar Extremes: The World Of Lincoln Ellsworth is the historic and engagingly written saga of Lincoln Ellsworth's impressive and hazardous struggle to make aviation history by flying over the earth's Poles. From his 1926 attempt to fly across the North Pole in a dirigible, to flying his custom-made plane over Antarctica in 1935 and discovering a mountain range now called the Ellsworths, Polar Extremes is a compelling biography of a daring and adventures life driven by death-defying passions. Polar Extremes is highly recommended as a rousing and true biographical account and a welcome contribution to the growing library of Aviation History.

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Granlund...RELAX

Biased and therefore inaccurate as well as incomplete

Superb book

Victorio, A must.

In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
Eve Ball , and James Kaywaykla
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Granlund...RELAX.......2005-12-28

This book is as good a read as any JFK biography that OMITS his multiple infidelities, and other 'bad' behavior. As the title states..."Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache" It is not assumed to be an 'unbiased' biography, therefore if we read this it is because we want to know what Kaywaykla has to say not someone named Cremony. This section is for a general review, not for writing our own novels....short and sweet!

Biased and therefore inaccurate as well as incomplete.......2005-12-10

This book is both good and bad. In some instances its quite good, but in others it is exceptionally bad and here's why. The narrative by the Apache, James Kaywaykla as given to Eve Ball, contains what must be considered as truthful facts concerning locations of camps, social customs, and SELECTIVE ASPECTS of the life the Apaches led while at war. I say "SELECTIVE ASPECTS" because the Apache narrator conveniently omits all details which would place his tribesmen in a negative light in the mind of non-Apache the reader. By this I mean details concerning how the Apaches delighted in torturing captives and how the Apaches would deliberately raid small settlements, mines, travel routes, etc. even while being offered support in terms of food, clothing, and shelter by the United States government, and much much more. This is a highly biased book in this respect. The Indians are portrayed here as simply people who had the misfortune of being besieged by larger, more technologically-advanced forces and Victorio is made into something of a tragic and heroic figure of frontier history.

Yes it is certainly true that you can get good amount of detail connected to tribal ranges, camping spots, war trails, and how many Indians chose to follow any particular leader at any given time during Kaywaykla's early life, but that's all you're going to get. You won't get any detail whatsoever about the relentless, murderous conflict that Apache had with the Comanche. You won't get any detail as to why the Apache were highly aggressive toward ALL other peoples - Whites, Indians, Mestizos, and how this aggression was literally "built-in" to their culture of "perpetual war for perpetual plunder". You won't get any detail concerning the way the Apache butchered, tortured, mutilated, and slaughtered their captives, or how they kept their captives alive in a condition of the most abject misery until these captives were exchanged for Apaches being held by the US Army. You won't get any detail regarding the FACT that toward the end of his career as a leader, Victorio was considered as a mad man by a good many of his own tribesmen, who then left him...thereby shrinking his fighting force and in so doing, making him and his remaining followers easy prey for the Mexican Armed forces which finally exterminated them. No, all this was just not mentioned by Kaywaykla and Ball, and this is precisely what is wrong with this type of book. Without ALL the facts, the reader is left with what can only be described as a sort of fragmented "Sob Story" offered by a member of a defeated fighting force - a story entirely biased and therefore inaccruate in the extreme.

By the way, I see there is a review here offered by an Apache woman who mentions this book is worth reading in order to see "what the Apache had to endure". Well, fair is fair. If this book shows "what the Apache had to endure", it should also explain ALL facts and provide all the details about WHY they had to endure it! Equally, a book like this should thoroughly explain ALL facts and details concerning what other people had to endure at the hands of the Apache and WHY the Apache made them endure it. But, of course, this book does not do that. Instead you get a simplistic and slanted piece of information which tells you that the Apache had their habitat and hunting areas invaded, and because of this the Apache went to war in an attempt to drive the intruders out, which is entirely FALSE in respect to the greater picture of Apache history and the region as a whole.

The historic facts surrounding the White/Apache struggles mentioned in this book were rooted in a point in time BEFORE Whites from eastern American States began moving westward. This was a time when the majority of Apache tribes existed on the plains of what is now eastern New Mexico and most of Texas - almost as far north as what is now Oklahoma. It was a time when those very large Apache tribal groups preyed upon the more peaceful Indians of the region and upon the Spanish who were trying to establish settlements amd missions. Those large and numerous Apache tribal units were also making sport of the Mexican mestizo peons who worked for the Spanish. However, the Comanche eventually appeared after being driven south by the Blackfoot and Crow of what is now Montana, and these fierce Comanche groups literally destroyed the Apaches while driving them from the southern plains and into the mountains of northern Mexico and what is now western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. When settled in their new habitat, the Apache were far less in number than they had previously been while living on the southern plains thanks to being slaughtered by the Comanches, but this reduction in their numbers had no impact on their aggressiveness, and the Apache immediately began raiding Spanish settlements, Mestizo villages, and peaceful Indians, like the Zuni and others. Their predatory outrages against the little towns and missions got so bad that the Spanish authorities actually hired many Comanche tribes to enter Mexico and exterminate the Apaches (6 pesos were offered by the Spanish for an Apache scalp and this brought the Comanches a total of over 18,000 pesos in just one year of war on the Apaches in one province of Northern Mexico). Naturally, the Apache tribal populations dwindled even more in numbers, but they nevertheless kept up their "war for plunder and profit" culture regardless, and they also took up guerilla tactics in their warfare since their tribes no longer had sufficient amounts of warriors to offer head-on battle with opposing forces. It was during their "guerilla phase" that the northern-most goups of Apaches began encountering the Anglo-Euro settlers and the US Army.

These are the kinds of details on the history and background of the Apaches and their life habits which Kaywaykla simply does not bother to mention and he, being an Apache, would know about such details and all aspects connected to them better than anyone! That's why I say this book certainly does NOT offer anywhere near a complete view of the Apache and their existance - it does not even offer a complete view of Victorio and his particular band (a splinter group of what was once a large and numerous tribe) and what brought this tribal fragment to their eventual end.

But this book does contain enough material that would easily be considered as POLITICALLY CORRECT in today's nutty view of frontier history, so that's probably why people who are "Dances With Wolves" enthusiasts like it so much. It endulges their beloved ideal of the North American Indian as being a victimized, almost helpless soul who "endured" and suffered at the hands of unreasonable foreign invaders - an ideal which merely happens to be the exact opposite of the truth.

For much better information on these particular Indians, read LIFE AMONG THE APACHES, by John Cremony. Its available right here at amazon.com and it is a first-hand, eye-witness narrative from someone who was present during the conflict between the sparse volunteer forces (the famed California Volunteers) and the Apaches under Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and others (Victorio was not yet a recognized leader at this point in Apache history and only became one upon the deaths of Mangas Coloradas and other notables). Cremony was THERE and dealing with the Apache before Kaywaykla was even born, and Cremony certainly does not leave out details like Kaywakla has a habit of doing.

Also, as an excellent antidote to the rampant and insane Political Correctness spread by such atrocities as the motion picture "Dances With Wolves" and Dee Brown's book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", I recommend that you read THREE YEARS AMONG THE COMANCHES ( a first-hand narrative by a White Texas Ranger who was held captive and see what he HAD TO ENDURE!) and also read SCALP DANCE, which is the best book available on Indian warfare on the high plains. All three of these books are far superior to this one and available right here at amazon.com.

Superb book.......2002-11-12

Anyone interested in the Apache and the history of the American Southwest needs to read this book. You will likely consider the events and participants of this controversial period of history in a new light when you hear the "other side of the story" from one who was there. I wouldn't be surprised if you measure all other accounts of the "Apache Wars" period against Mr. Kaywaykla's testimony.

Victorio, A must........2001-12-06

As an apache woman, this is one book I would highly recommend. Not only does it tell of what The Warm Springs Apache had to endure, but of what they felt and of the internal conflicts amonst the apache people. In this book not only do they focus on Chief Victorio but all that surrounded him.
I recommend all to read this book and see what it was like from the Apache point of veiw.

In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache

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In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
Eve Ball
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Personal-finance guru Andrew Tobias slams online trading and praises the Roth IRA in his newly revised The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need. This investment bible remains as stimulating and meaningful as it was when it was first published 20 years ago. It's packed with ideas about stocks, living beneath your means, tax planning, retirement, and just about everything else in the financial world. And all of it is presented with Tobias's trademark brevity and ingenuity.

Last revised in 1995, the guide takes aim at a new game in town--online trading. By all means, use the Internet for buying a car or for research, Tobias says. But avoid cyberspace brokers, he says. Point and click enough and you will get slaughtered by commissions, spreads, taxes, and human nature. "It's so easy to click 'OK' a few times and make a $10,000 bet," he warns. "Look how mesmerized we become on a stool in front of a slot machine. Internet investing positively teases you to play." Tobias's favorite new entry is the Roth IRA, which allows you to withdraw your money tax-free when you retire. It's far better than a traditional IRA, he asserts. "Save yourself the trouble of agonizing over the choice and go with the Roth IRA," he writes. "Forget the worksheets." Sometimes caustic and always a skeptic, Tobias believes readers can shape their own financial futures. Just stick to the basics, he says. "By and large, you should manage your own money, via no-load mutual funds," he writes. "No one is going to care about it as much as you." It doesn't matter if it's 1978, 1998, or even 2008. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need still is exactly that. Some things never change. --Dan Ring

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For readers who are wondering how new tax laws might affect their own personal investments, or how to trade on the stock market with a broker or on their own with a computer, or how to set up a college fund mindful of state regulations, or countless other personal finance questions, it's time to turn to Andrew Tobias and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need. For more than twenty years this book has been America's bible for personal money management. Now it is even more indispensable. Fully updated to cover new legislation, and expanded to include the Internet world, America's favorite finance guide covers every aspect of investing and answers every question about managing money smartly and safely. Concise, witty, and truly understandable, this book offers the best personal finance information for every income level.
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The Gift of a Lifetime.......2007-10-18

When I was a young lieutenant, my uncle gave me a copy of this book. I always had a pretty good attitude towards money, and over the years I grew rich. My secrets? Hard work, savings, investments. All of them are outlined here.

Now I am an uncle. Each niece and nephew get this book when they graduate.

Each copy has a nice little check inside too.

Trite.......2007-10-17

Not an interesting read. Reads like an encyclopedia. Everything is there. A reference, not a strait through read!

Very Conservative Approach.......2007-10-05

A better title for this book would be " The Only Really, Really Conservative Investment Guide You'll Ever Need." In the author's preface. Mr Tobias marvels how the world has changed since the original publication in 1978. The Guide has been updated frequently so that you will not find any outdated references. In fact, you will be referred to numerous websites in the course of the author's discussions.
Mr Tobias is an advocate of "minimal risk" which is to say he thinks the majority of us would be better off saving rather than trying to get rich by investing. Well there is nothing new about that and it is presented in a flippant and I thought condescending tone.
So the first half of the book is very conservative advice although why he advocates Timber as an investment is beyond me. I think the same argument could be made for soybeans or for sod.
The second half is an excellent primer on the stock market which I feel
is worth the price of the Guide alone. I would recommend this book for anyone looking for a basic investment guide with the understanding that it is not a get rich quick reference.

Good updates.......2007-08-07

We were very pleased with the updates Mr. Tobias has made to his book. It lives up to its title. Well worth the price.

Ok.......2007-08-06

The book is decent but "A random walk down wall street" contains the same information this book does (and more). Random Walk is also written better with more details.

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An Unmotivated Hero?.......2001-05-31

Russell Duncan has done us a favor by making available, and editing meticulously, Colonel Shaw's letters. The problem lies with his bias: it's fashionable today to read the biographies of old-time heros with suspicion, running any plaudits they may have amassed through filters of class, race, politics, gender, and so on. The result usually debunks the hero, which is fashionable, too. This "hermeneutic of suspicion" can introduce a real Rob Shaw beneath all the canonization piled onto him, but here it has blended into what's called "presentism," whereby a historian judges the subject's classism, racism, politics, gendered outlook--or whatever--according to today's baseline. I have a problem with this approach, found in the preface and several footnotes (the adjective "gentlemanlike" seems to give Duncan a special problem whenever he meets it; he needs to find out what it meant, and didn't mean, in the 1860's). Further, his analysis of why Shaw decided to leave his beloved 2nd Massachusetts seems way off-base. Duncan seeks to present to us a hapless young man who "never understood,or fully dedicated himself to" the abolition of slavery. It seems Shaw braved ridicule from his friends and death from the enemy if captured, taking on the labors of raising, training, and leading something new, a black regiment, before dying in the middle of it to ensure its work would be recognized and other black soldiers appreciated by racists North and South, all this only because his mother's apron strings still held him tight. Meanwhile we need to notice that Duncan has left out letters which don't support these appraisals, for example Shaw's letters protesting the iniquitous pay decisions coming out of Washington (cutting the 54th's pay below the standards they had signed on to receive), or the letter in which he rebuffs his mother's plans for a "show wedding." I also disagree with Duncan's analysis of the Shaw family dynamic, because he seems unaware that gender and family norms then are different from ours now. These seem like serious problems for a serious historian; most are found in the biography and some footnotes. Otherwise Duncan lets Shaw speak for himself (in the letters he offers us)and Shaw does so articulately and often eloquently when given the chance. Buy the book for the letters, thank Duncan for making them accessible, and take his commentary with a grain of salt.

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An informative compendium of autobiographical essays.......2001-05-22

Placing Autobiography In Geography is a fascinating and informative compendium of autobiographical essays written by geographers at various stages of their professional careers and dealing with questions geographers were asking themselves at the turn of the century. The contributors utilized autobiography to document the history of geography , as a method of data collection, and as a mode of analysis which, taken as a whole, provide empirical examples of the ways geographers are engaging the critical questions raised by the continuing changes in their field of study. Highly recommended reading for students of geography, the essays include Writing One's Life (Pamela Moss); Home-Reach-Journey (Anne Buttimer); Been There, Done That, What's Next Did Theory Smother My Discipline When I Wasn't Looking (John Eyes); A Queer Journey To Queer Geography (Lawrence Knopp); A Self-Reflective Exploration Into Development Research (Robin Roth); A Journey Into Autobiography: A Coal Miner's Daughter (Rachel Saltmarsh); Autobiography, Autoethnography, And Intersubjectivity: Analyzing Communication In Northern Pakistan (David Butz); and Many Roads: The Personal And Professional Lives Of Women Geographers (Janice Monk).

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Silly, self serving wannabe.......2006-02-06

This book was a gift from a friend who knew how much I admired the talent of the great Gene Kelly. Instead of reading about this amazingly talented visionary, I found a bio of a woman who, while valiantly proclaming herself an intellectual, strings together vapid stories of stars she met, parties she attended and men who adored her. The image she creates is a yet another left leaning limousine liberal with a taste for five star hotels, exotic vacations and Beverly Hills House parties. She may have toasted the Soviet Union on New Year's Eve, but she sure enjoyed those capitalistic goodies. She talks about her concern for the down trodden, but Betsy takes good care of Betsy. The man she calls her "second and eternal hisband" (producer Karel Reisz) she apparently snatched away from his family, which included three small boys. Nice show of concern, Betsy! Pass on this one, folks. If, like me, you are a Gene Kelly fan, you will enjoy renting "Singin' in the Rain" so much more than this tripe.

Betsy Blair is a born writer!.......2003-12-31

This is an absolutely brilliantly written book. If you're looking for a bio of Gene kelly, this isn't it. But if you want to read about an endlessly fascinating woman, run to the bookstore. Totally beguiling!

a rare, lively and moving tale.......2003-09-15

I loved, loved, loved this book, for several reasons.

First, it distinguishes itself from the hoards of Hollywood memoirs in that it is completely and uttlerly honest -- as honest as the day is long. Betsy Blair seemed bent on telling us a tale of fame, fortune and success, all without the hazy gauze so typical of Hollywood memoirs. Her eye is specific and sharp, her insights into people and places are clever and frequently dead on, and her honesty is so forthright, that she is able to freely admit she is the only one in the story who truly misbehaves.

Second it is a great theatrical tale. Blair, a talented and ambitious young woman, catches the eye of Gene Kelly, she was just 17, he was not much older, while hoofing it up at a New York nightclub. Their subsequent marriage and Gene's rise to movie stardom is magical and dreamy. But Blair knows this well, and she never loses her sense of self. Her ability to see her own life though her eyes, that of a hardworking and insightful actress, and not as someone who was born to win, lends an air of respectability and weight to the book that I very much admired. When the marriage fails, in part because of her of inability to live in such a wonderful cocoon, the sense of poignancy is deep, it also rare in such books.

Her later years, in Europe, as an actress and political activist, are some of the most interesting in the book. To leave one of the world's great movie stars is a feat in and of itself. To build a new and exciting life, as an actress. mother and then wife to one of the great realist film directors, Karel Reisz, makes it a thoroughly modern story, inspirational for all women who dream that both beauty and satisfaction in life can be there for the taking.

"I Love Lucy" without the humor........2003-08-26

The above detailed reviews all match my own opinions of this book,
and are generally better written than the book. What a ditsy dame!
The Hollywood frou-frou is from an old fan magazine, or some
such automatic input. Her perceptions of herself are just as
vague and silly. One would only read this in desperation to
try to find out more about Gene Kelly, genius of the dance.
Slim pickings indeed! And not even an "as told to" entry.
This book is without value on any level.

"I Love Lucy" without the humor........2003-08-26

The Memory of All That : Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris

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The Memory of All That : Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris
Betsy Blair
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXOAZ4

Book Description

"It was held a distinct adventure back in the demure 1880s for a properly brought-up New England girl to open a day school in a primitive Sioux village," Elaine Goodale Eastman recalled in later years. With boundless energy and dedication she had set out to teach the white man's ways to the Sioux. The Indian women called her "little sister" as she entered wholeheartedly into village activities.

She watched the emergence of the Ghost Dance religion, visited with Sitting Bull shortly before his death, and was at Pine Ridge during the last month of 1890—"a time of grim suspense." There she met her future husband, Dr. Charles Eastman, the agency physician and a mixed-blood Sioux. A short time later they shared in the heart-wrenching job of caring for the survivors of the Wounded Knee massacre.

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A Woman Before Her Time.......2001-10-04

Mrs. Eastman should be considered a pioneer in more ways than one. She was one of the first educators to teach in the Dakota territory. Mrs. Eastman advocated day schools which allowed the native children to remain with their families (a concept which was strongly discouraged by the church boarding schools of the time), she took the time to learn the D/Lakota language and conversed in it, and she lived within the community (as opposed setting herself against it). Mrs. Eastman worked many years while she was a single person (which was quite unusual). She also reported with accuracy what was really occuring on the reservations (often upsetting those in charge-including government and church officials).

Among many things within this book, one can learn about: what works and does not work when teaching individuals whose first language is not English, the Native Americans of the Dakotas, a Feminist before her time, and the account of The Wounded Knee Massacre from someone who tended the few left alive.

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Sister to the Sioux The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman 1885-91
Elaine Goodale Eastman
Manufacturer: Univ. Of Nebraska Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JLGK54

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