Fur Oklahoma City
Deftones Around The Fur / Lotion (Oklahoma City 5/29/10)
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Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairie / Astoria / The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (Library of America) $16.94 Americas 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 ey… |
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Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors: A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri $34.95 A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitorsâamong them the German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and America… |
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Kiss of the Fur Queen: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) $13.09 “In his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, noted playwright Tomson Highway tells the story of two Cree brothers who were severely abused at a Catholic residential school, and he uses the full transformative power of magic and myth, as well as a compelling traditional novel plot, to restore to them their dignity and, by implication, that of their people.”—Toronto Globe and Mail”Highway’s nove… |