Figures in a Western Landscape (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Stevenson
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1830-1903
- Setting: The northern Rocky Mountains
- Principal Characters: Meriwether Lewis, Osborne Russell, John Kirk Townsend, John Owen, Father Pierre Jean De Smet, James, Thomas Dimsdale, Henry Plummer, George Crook, Pretty-Shield, Nannie Alderson, Paris Gibson, Charles M. Russell, Calamity Jane
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Nature, Art or artists, Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, War, Southwest, Catholics or Catholic Church, Westerns, Hunting or hunters, Vigilantes
- Locales: Rocky Mountains
Elizabeth Stevenson is Candler Professor of American Studies, Emeritus, at Emory University. She was born in Montana in 1919 to one of “a colony of six related families transplanted from the yeoman farming country of hilly north Georgia” and left Great Falls in 1932, when her family returned to Georgia. Her Montana childhood shaped her imagination for life, and in 1979 she returned to the region “to look at a remembered landscape and see it again with a kind of critical questioning.” She approached history as biography and explains of Figures in a Western Landscape: Men and...
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