| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) |
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data file |
| Note |
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-311) and index. |
| Contents |
Desert places : 1868-1892 -- Owens Valley : 1892-1900 -- Independence : 1900-1905 -- Carmel : 1904-1907 -- In Italy and England : 1907-1910 -- New York : 1911-1914 -- The Village : 1914-1920 -- The call of the West : 1920-1924 -- Santa Fe : 1924-1929 -- Indian detours and Spanish arts -- Last years : 1929-1934 -- The accounting. |
| Summary |
Mary Austin (1868-1934)-eccentric, independent, and unstoppable-was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, ""changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be."" At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934.
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Austin, Mary, 1868-1934. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women and literature -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
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Western stories -- History and criticism.
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West (U.S.) -- In literature.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
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Western stories. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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Literature. |
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West United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Dawson, Carl.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mary Austin and the American West Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 0520246357 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2008027797 |
| ISBN |
9780520942264 ebook |
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0520942264 |
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0520246357 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520246355 cloth alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520942264 |
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