Paperback Plums
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann rpHE most influential piece of writing about the West in the Nineteenth Century was F. J. Turner's essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."...
...95 cents) Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, the Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin (1846-1847), edited by Stella M. Drumm (Yale University Press...
...95 cents) Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, by Wallace Stegner...
...2.45) Buckskin and Blanket, Memoirs of a Friend of the Indians, by Thomas Henry Tibbies (Bantam...
...95 cents) My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians, by Fanny Kelly...
...2.35) The Log of a Cowboy, by Andy Adams (Doubleday Dolphin...
...LAURENCE STERN is a reporter for The Washington Post...
...1.45) THE REVIEWERS JACK BARBASH is a professor of labor history at the University of Wisconsin...
...1.45) Culture on the Moving Frontier, by Louis B. Wright (Harper Torch-books...
...75 cents) The Westward Movement in the United States, by Ray Allen Billington (Anvil...
...Among other good paperbacks on Western Americana: Forth to the Wilderness, The First American Frontier (1754-1774), by Dale Van Every (Mentor...
...35 cents) Calamity Was the Name for Jane, by Glenn Clairmonte (Western Sage...
...1.85) Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg...
...1.95) Ordeal by Hunger, The Story of the Donner Party, by George R. Stewart (Ace Book...
...An excellent assemblage of Turner's work is Frontier and Section: Selected Essays of Frederick Jackson Turner, edited by R. A. Billington (Spectrum...
...50 cents) Jesse James Was My Neighbor, by Homer Croy (Dell...
...DONALD EMERSON teaches modern literature at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee...
...WILLIAM Mc-CANN reviews paperbacks regularly for The Progressive...
...Two volumes...
...1.95 each volume) Buffalo Bill and the Wild West, by Henry B. Sell and Victor Weybright ''Signet Key...
...1.50) The Humor of the American Cowboy, by Stan Hoig (Signet...
...He wrote "The Culture of Western Europe...
...1.50) Law West of Fort Smith, A History of Frontier Justice in the Indian Territory (1834-1896), by Glenn Shirley (Collier...
...Illustrated by the author...
...1.95) The West, Contemporary Records of America's Expansion Across the Continent (1607-1890), Edited with an introduction by Bayrd Still (Capricorn...
...Introduction by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Sentry...
...50 cents) Will James' Cowboy Stories...
...His most recent book is "Labor's Grass Roots...
...1.60) The Western Country in the 17th Century, The Memoirs of Antoine Lamothe Cadillac and Pierre Liette, edited by M. M. Quaife (Citadel Press...
...GEORGE MOSSE is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin...
...The 1844 edition, unabridged...
...50 cents) Reminiscences of a Ranchman, by Edgar Beecher Bronson (Bison...
...He edited one: "Ambrose Bierce's America...
...1.95) Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery, by John Bakeless (Appolo...
...50 cents) Cheyenne Campfires, by George Bird Grinnell...
...Introduction by Jules Zanger (Corinth...
...Scribner's Library...
...1.75) The Trampling Herd, by Paul I. Wellman (Doubleday Dolphin...
...60 cents) The Race West: Boom Town to Grhost Town, by Robert West Howard (Signet...
...1.65) The Last of the Indian Wars, by Forbes Parkhill (Collier...
...1.95...
...Introduction by Bernard De Voto (Sentry...
...Introduction by Archibald Hanna (Keystone...
...1.25) My Life on the Plains, by General George A. Custer (Citadel Press...
...Foreword by Omer C. Stewart (Yale University Press...
...1.45) Bent's Fort, by David Lavender (Doubleday Dolphin...
...1.95) The Year of Decision: 1846, by Bernard De Voto...
...PETER SCHRAG is assistant secretary of Amherst College, where he also teaches American Studies...
Vol. 27 • July 1963 • No. 7
