Bibliograph

The dying grass, William T. Vollmann

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The dying grass, William T. Vollmann

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1271-1351)

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mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The dying grass

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

910866825

Responsibility statement

William T. Vollmann

Series statement

Seven dreams, a book of North American landscapes, 5th dream

Summary

"In this new installment in his acclaimed 'Seven Dreams' series of novels examining the repeated collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled nearly twelve hundred miles from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border before surrendering. Collmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, a brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. in this novel we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer, in an ever-altering myriad of relations with soldiers, scouts, and 'hostiles.'" -- from publisher's description

Table Of Contents

List of Maps -- Grass-Texts: A Speech and a Report (1877-78) -- The Dying Grass -- I. Indian Service (1805-77) -- II. Edisto (1862-74) -- III. The Burial of Lieutenant Theller (June 1877) -- IV. I Am Flying Up (June-July 1877) -- V. The Rest of My Days (July-August 1877) -- VI. Very Beautiful and Almost Automatic (August-September 1877) -- VII. Detached Pictures (September-October 1877) -- VIII. I Raised My Eyes (1877--78) -- IX. The Americans Are Your Friends (1877-1904) -- Dinosaurs and Cycads (1878-2013) -- A Chronology of the Seven Ages of Wineland: V. The Age of Dying Grass -- Glossaries -- 1. Glossary of Personal Names -- 2. Glossary of Orders, Isms, Nations, Professions, Hierarchies, Divisions, Races, Shamans, Tribes and Monsters -- 3. Glossary of Places -- 4. Glossary of Texts -- 5. Glossary of Calendars, Currencies, Forms, Legalisms and Measures -- 6. General Glossary -- Orthographic Notes -- Sources [and a Few Notes] -- Acknowledgments

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Dying grass, a novel of the Nez Perce WarNovel of the Nez Perce War

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