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Here Lies Hugh Glass

A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

By: Jon T. Coleman

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Here Lies Hugh Glass

A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

By: Jon T. Coleman

In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass's fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass's injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, the caretakers quickly lost their nerve. They fled, taking Glass's gun, knife, and ammunition with them. But Glass wouldn't die. He began crawling toward Fort Kiowa, hundreds of miles to the east, and as his speed picked up, so did his ire. The bastards who took his gear and left him to rot were going to pay. Here Lies Hugh Glass springs from this legend. The acclaimed historian Jon T. Coleman delves into the accounts left by Glass's contemporaries and the mythologizers who used his story to advance their literary and filmmaking careers. A spectacle of grit in the face of overwhelming odds, Glass sold copy and tickets. But he did much more. Through him, the grievances and frustrations of hired hunters in the early American West and the natural world they traversed and explored bled into the narrative of the nation. A marginal player who nonetheless sheds light on the terrifying drama of life on the frontier, Glass endures as a consummate survivor and a complex example of American manhood. Here Lies Hugh Glass, a vivid, often humorous portrait of a young nation and its growing pains, is a Western history like no other.

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Hill and Wang

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1429952954

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9781429952958

The American West: A New Interpretive History

Second Edition

By: Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher,Jon T. Coleman

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The American West: A New Interpretive History

Second Edition

By: Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher,Jon T. Coleman

A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth century.

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520

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Yale University Press

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0300231784

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9780300231786

Nature Shock

By: Jon T. Coleman

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Nature Shock

By: Jon T. Coleman

An award-winning environmental historian explores American history through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of getting lost The human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book, environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses the trailblazers so often described in American history to follow instead the strays and drifters who went missing. From Hernando de Soto's failed quest for riches in the American southeast to the recent trend of getting lost as a therapeutic escape from modernity, this book details a unique history of location and movement as well as the confrontations that occur when our physical and mental conceptions of space become disjointed. Whether we get lost in the woods, the plains, or the digital grid, Coleman argues that getting lost allows us to see wilderness anew and connect with generations across five centuries to discover a surprising and edgy American identity.

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356

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Yale University Press

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0300227140

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9780300227147

Vicious

Wolves and Men in America

By: Jon T. Coleman

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Wolves and Men in America

By: Jon T. Coleman

Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.

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Yale University Press

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0300133375

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9780300133370

The Power of Ignorance

14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance

By: Chris Gibbs,Ti-Jon David Dawe

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The Power of Ignorance

14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance

By: Chris Gibbs,Ti-Jon David Dawe

Join certified Ig-master Vaguen on the road to bliss. You might think that ignorance comes naturally, but on the contrary, the world conspires to cram our heads full of useless and dangerous know-ledge every day. Fall off this know-ledge into the safe and comforting world of oblivio(n/ousness) by discovering The Power of Ignorance. In his seminars, Vaguen has helped successful people, wealthy people, good-looking people, and people just like you to attain the heights/depths of ignorance. For the first time, his secrets are revealed between the covers of a book. Purchase this reasonably-priced volume and join the ranks of those who understand that a lack of understanding is unimportant. Based on original material and characters by Jeff Sumerel and Sam Reynolds.

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Brindle and Glass

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1897142137

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9781897142134

Nature Shock

By: Jon T. Coleman

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Here Lies Hugh Glass

A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

By: Jon T. Coleman

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A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

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Book's by Jon T. Coleman

Here Lies Hugh Glass

Here Lies Hugh Glass

The American West: A New Interpretive History

The American West: A New Interpretive History

Nature Shock

Nature Shock

Vicious

Vicious

The Power of Ignorance

The Power of Ignorance

Nature Shock

Nature Shock

Here Lies Hugh Glass

Here Lies Hugh Glass

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