| | 301 | Author: | Edwardy, William M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Navajo Indians  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FORT WINGATE, the largest military post in the Southwest, is
situated some three miles south of the line of the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad, and not many miles from the Arizona border.
Department head-quarters are situated here, and a garrison of nine
companies, mostly of the Sixth United States Cavalry, and one
company of Indian scouts is constantly maintained. This large
force is considered necessary to guard against any possible
outbreak of the Navajo Indians, who roam over an extensive
reservation, embracing nearly twenty thousand square miles of
territory in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 307 | Author: | Far, Sui Sin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Autumn Fan | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FOR two weeks Ming Hoan was a guest in the house of Yen Chow, the
father of Ah Leen, and because love grows very easily between a youth
and a maid it came to pass that Ah Leen unconsciously yielded to Ming
Hoan her heart and Ming Hoan as unconsciously yielded his to her.
After the yielding they became conscious. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 312 | Author: | Finley, William L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Trail of the Plume-Hunter | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ALL the morning we plodded the level stretch of sand and sage
in the heat that danced and quivered over the floor of the valley.
In the afternoon we reached the base of the high headland that cuts
like the prow of a huge ocean liner into the heart of Harney
Valley. The trail led straight over a shaled-off pile of boulders,
and zig-zagged up the slope. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 315 | Author: | La Flesche, Suzette | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nedawi | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "NEDAWI!" called her mother, "take your little brother while I go
with your sister for some wood." Nedawi ran into the tent,
bringing back her little red blanket, but the brown-faced, roly-poly baby, who had been having a comfortable nap in spite of being
all the while tied straight to his board, woke with a merry crow
just as the mother was about to attach him, board and all, to
Nedawi's neck. So he was taken from the board instead, and, after
he had kicked in happy freedom for a moment, Nedawi stood in front
of her mother, who placed Habazhu on the little girl's back, and
drew the blanket over him, leaving his arms free. She next put
into his hand a little hollow gourd, filled with seeds, which
served as a rattle; Nedawi held both ends of the blanket tightly in
front of her, and was then ready to walk around with the little
man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 316 | Author: | Foreman, Grant | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Last of the Five Tribes | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE year 1906 marks the last page in the life history of the five
civilized tribes of Indians. These once powerful tribes have abandoned
their identity and institutions, and have severed the bonds which for
many years have held the individuals together as tribes. Their
condition was not brought about by their own desires; it is but a
melancholy repetition of history—the inevitable result of close
contact of the white man with the red man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 317 | Author: | Fox, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hell fer Sartain and Other Stories | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAR was a dancin'-party Christmas
night on “Hell fer Sartain.” Jes tu'n
up the fust crick beyond the bend thar,
an' climb onto a stump, an' holler about
once, an' you'll see how the name come.
Stranger, hit's hell fer sartain! Well,
Rich Harp was thar from the head-waters, an' Harve Hall toted Nance
Osborn clean across the Cumberlan'.
Fust one ud swing Nance, an' then
t'other. Then they'd take a pull out'n
the same bottle o' moonshine, an'—fust
one an' then t'other—they'd swing her
agin. An' Abe Shivers a-settin' thar
by the fire a-bitin' his thumbs! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 319 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Criss-cross | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SELMA WHEELOCK sat in her accustomed place beside a front window.
She swayed gently in her hair-cloth rocker. She leaned her head
back and sidewise, and gazed out at the prospect with an expression
almost absurdly tragic. Tragedy did not sit comfortably upon those
mild features in that long, sweet face, softly curtained with folds
of thin, blond hair which had not turned gray, although Selma was
almost an old woman. However, tragedy, hawk-like, unswerving, did
look from Selma's blue eyes. She might, from her expression, have
been gazing at some scene of horror instead of at her own tidy,
square front yard with its gravel walk bordered with leafless
shrubs, with a leafless cherry-tree standing stark upon one side,
and a leafless horse-chestnut on the other. Beyond the front yard
with its prim fence was the main street of the village; opposite
was Maria Hopkins's house. When Selma's eyes roved beyond her own
front yard and the main street, and fastened upon Maria Hopkins's
house, the tragedy deepened. It seemed about to swoop, fierce
beaked and clawed. There was seemingly nothing exasperating about
the opposite house. It was a plain white structure with a door in
the middle front and two windows on each side of the door. The
house was raised upon terraces over which clambered rough stone
steps. Upon each of the terraces were two trees—cherry upon the
upper, horse-chestnut upon the lower. Two of the windows at the
front displayed slants of lace curtains, two plain white shades. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 320 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Emancipation | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OLD Billy Thomas sat beside the window. He had the weekly
religious newspaper on his knee. He was not reading it. He never
read it. If questioned, he could not have told why he so
apparently cherished it. There was certainly no affectation about
Billy, and least of all affectation with regard to religion. He
was a very good old man, leavened to his own amusement with a
queer, childish mischievousness bordering upon the malicious. This
leaven might not have developed had it not been for his daughter
Esther, who all unwittingly was especially fitted to produce such
development. Now Esther was not at home. She had gone down street
on an errand. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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