Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen
Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen

Author: Matthew P. Mayo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1493018043

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Everyone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and belles alike. This collection offers twenty-four tales of petty bandits, sleazy bunko artists, and conniving conmen and –women who traveled West to seek their fortunes by preying on the men and women who went before them to settle and explore. These stories of who they were, what they did, and why they are remembered for their deeds include ample and engaging historic illustrations of the shady characters at work and at play.

Rethinking Colonial Pasts Through Archaeology
Rethinking Colonial Pasts Through Archaeology

Author: Neal Ferris

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0199696691

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This work explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by European colonial expansion over the last 600 years. Case studies from North America, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Ireland significantly revise conventional historical narratives of those interactions, their presumed impacts, and their ongoing relevance for the material, social, economic, and political lives and identities of contemporary indigenous and other peoples.

Reading Portland
Reading Portland

Author: John Trombold

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 0295997605

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Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.