Three western narratives : a tour on the prairies ; Astoria ; The adventures of Captain Bonneville /

Three western narratives : a tour on the prairies ; Astoria ; The adventures of Captain Bonneville /

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Author / Creator:	Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Imprint:	New York : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Books, c2004.
Description:	998 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The library of America ; 146 Library of America ; 146.
Subject:	Astor, John Jacob, -- 1763-1848 Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, -- 1796-1878 Astor, John Jacob, -- 1763-1848. Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, -- 1796-1878. Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century. Explorers. Fur trade. Indians of North America. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Travel. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Fur trade -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century. Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography. West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848. West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. Oklahoma -- Description and travel. Astoria (Or.) -- History. Oklahoma. Oregon -- Astoria. United States, West. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8434658

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Varying Form of Title:	3 western narratives
Other title:	Tour on the prairies. Astoria. Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
ISBN:	1931082537 (alk. paper) 9781931082532 (alk. paper)
Summary:	From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and inhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating the frontiersman's "secret of personal freedom," Irving published his account of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies, an early and distinctly American depiction of the young nation's borderland and its native inhabitants. Irving followed up this eyewitness account with two works that chart the dramatic and tumultuous history of the early American fur trade, very much in the spirit of James Fenimore Cooper's Leather stocking Tales. Astoria (1836) recounts John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish a commercial empire in the Pacific Northwest. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837) is a lively saga of exploration among the mountains, rivers, and deserts of the Far West. While working closely from original documents, Irving wrote also as a mythologist of the vast spaces traversed by "Sindbads of the wilderness." In these three compelling narratives he opened up a crucial region of the American literary imagination influencing such authors as Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.
Other form:	Online version: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Three western narratives. New York : Library of America : Distributed in the US by Penguin Putnam, c2004

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