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atomic-chronoscaph · 4 months
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The Deerslayer - art by N. C. Wyeth (1925)
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awolfinpeopleclothes · 4 months
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Do American authors still write pages of one unbroken paragraph or was that more a 19th century thing? Either way, I hate it.
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kingbryancroidragon · 22 days
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I'm just saying, but I feel like the opening page for the Marvel Classic Comics adaptation of "The Last of the Mohicans" looks better than any poster, VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray cover for any screen adaptation. I also love how Chingachgook, who ultimately turns out to be the title character, is the American Indian character who we are drawn to first while his son Uncas, whom we are led to believe is the title character, is basically tucked away in the corner there with Cora. Then you have Hawkeye aka Leatherstocking, the protagonist of the Leatherstocking Tales as a whole, placed behind Chingachgook and that is a nice touch and does a better job than most screen adaptations, especially the 1992 film, whose posters and covers feature the protagonist, but not the title character, while here both title character and protagonist are present.
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✨️obligatory 2022 reading log ✨️
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yes i did give up on rating half-way through the year 💛 it's fine 😌
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gatheringbones · 1 year
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[“A deep psychosis inherent in US settler colonialism is revealed in settler self-indigenization.
The phenomenon is not the same as the practice of “playing Indian,” which historian Philip Deloria brilliantly dissected, from the Boston Tea Party Indians to hobbyists dressing up like Indians to New Age Indians. Settler self-indigenization’s genealogy can be traced to the period of the mid-1820s to 1840s, what historians call the Age of Jacksonian Democracy, marked by, among other phenomenon, the blossoming of US American literature.
The giants of the era are well known to every US high schooler who has had to suffer through American Lit classes—Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and dozens of others. Among them was James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), who conjured the United States’ origin story in his Leatherstocking Tales, made up of five novels featuring the hero Natty Bumppo, also called variously, depending on his age, Leatherstocking, Pathfinder, Deer-slayer, Hawkeye. Together the novels narrate the mythical forging of the new country from the 1754–1763 French and Indian War to independence to the settlement of the plains by migrants traveling by wagon train from Tennessee. At the end of the saga, Bumppo dies a very old man on the edge of the Rocky Mountains as he gazes east. But it is The Last of the Mohicans, subtitled A Narrative of 1757, that relates the self-indigenization myth that has endured. The Last of the Mohicans was a best-selling book throughout the nineteenth century and has been in print continuously since, along with a half dozen Hollywood movies, the first in 1911, plus several television series made in the US, Canada, and Britain. The most recent Hollywood production was a blockbuster that appeared in 1992, the Columbus Quincentenary.
Cooper conjured the birth of something new and wondrous, literally, the US American race, a new people born of the merger of the best of both worlds, the Native and the European, not a biological merger but something more ephemeral involving the disappearance of the Indian. Cooper has Chingachgook, the last of the “noble” and “pure” Natives, die off as nature would have it, handing the continent over to Hawkeye, the indigenized settler and Chingachgook’s adopted son. The publication arc of the Leatherstocking Tales parallels the Jackson presidency. For those who consumed the books in that period and throughout the nineteenth century—generations of young white men mainly—the novels became perceived fact, not fiction, and the basis for the coalescence of US American settler nationalism, the settler ideology that justified the fiscal-military state.”]
roxanne dunbar-ortiz, from not a nation of immigrants: settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion, 2021
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banjoforpleasure · 8 months
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Old Leatherstocking - O Death (Conversation With Death)
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Old Leatherstocking - Death and the Lady
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chronivore · 6 months
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Chingachgook
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ronnymerchant · 1 year
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THIS is the kind of stuff I was looking for in the old German film mags!
LEATHERSTOCKING (1922)- And that's Bela Lugosi as Chingachook!
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thebeautifulbook · 2 years
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THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES by James Fenimore Cooper (London: Routledge, c.1892). 5 black & white illustrations.
THE DEERSLAYER, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE PATHFINDER, THE PIONEERS, and THE PRAIRIE.
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queenlua · 2 years
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somehow, i’d never heard about Mark Twain’s planned-but-never-written sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn before:
An unsentimental literary treatment of the West—of the confrontation between savagery and civilization, the progress of “improvement,” and its devastating impact on earlier ways of life—demanded an imaginative suspension of the self-consciously cultivated point of view and development of a vernacular style, the “nervous lofty language” of Moby Dick or the colloquial rhetoric of Huckleberry Finn, that would make it possible to understand the frontier not as an “evanescent” stage of social development but as an object of continuing fascination.  These two books alone, among nineteenth-century novels, managed to escape the conventions of the wilderness myth by taking the myth itself as in some sense their subject: the energizing vision of escape to a realm of complete freedom, the megalomaniacal fantasy of self-sufficiency underlying it, its inevitable defeat, and the moral havoc released by its attempted realization.
Even Huckleberry Finn conceded more to the Western myth than Twain probably intended.  As Slotkin says, it implied that the only alternative to a competitive, commercial society lay “in the personalities of young women, children, and childlike nonwhite races.”  Notwithstanding Twain’s scorn for Cooper’s “literary offenses” in sentimentalizing the frontier, Huckleberry Finn reproduced the central action if not the diction of the Leatherstocking novels: the flight of innocence in the face of civilization.  That Twain was not altogether satisfied with Huck’s final decision to “light out for the territory” may be indicated by is decision to undertake a sequel, Among the Indians, in which a realistic account of the Indian Territory would deflate the image of the noble savage and underline the impossibility of escape.  That the sequel was never completed, or even fairly begun, indicates that a fully developed treatment of the Western theme, one that would explore the significance of the West not merely as a place but as a national memory, continued to elude Twain’s grasp.
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theashen-fox · 7 months
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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
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ronmerchant · 8 months
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LEATHERSTOCKING (1922)-That’s Bela Lugosi as Chingachook!
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whimsywoo · 8 months
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Watch Old Leatherstocking - Death and the Lady on YouTube Music
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Hey, hey, hey! New York's giving some (much overdue) love to all its other regions and rolling out some regionally-unique license plates.
While there's around 10 out with official designs so far, they plan on introducing plates for additional regions such as the Adirondacks, Capital-Saratoga, Catskill, Central-Leatherstocking, Chautauqua-Allegheny, Finger Lakes, Niagara Frontier, and the Thousand Islands; many of these designs are set to come out sometime in June.
Now, even though I'm newyorkstate-official, I'm not gonna pretend to be a bootlicker; I don't exactly enjoy having to constantly pay for new plates when the New York DMV already loves to throw out fees for renewing plates as it is. That being said, I do not believe these are gonna be the new 'default' plate you'll HAVE to pay for when they come out. It's just something extra you can optionally pay for if you want to show off some regional pride. That, I think, is perfectly fine as long as it's being left up to individual choice.
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xtruss · 6 months
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Calamity Jane — Born Martha Jane Canary — Is a Legend of the American West. But was she a gunslinger? An Army scout? A rider for the Pony Express? After a century of half-truths and fabrications, historians are still struggling to separate fact from fiction in her life story. Photograph By Everett Collection, Bridgeman Images
Who Was The Real Calamity Jane? Historians Search For An Answer.
Her exploits became the stuff of legend, glamorizing life in the Old West. But Martha Jane Canary’s real life story bears little resemblance to the fictional heroine.
— By Heather Mundt | March 12, 2024
You would be forgiven in describing Calamity Jane as an iconoclast whose flouting of 19th-century female mores launched her into exceptional fame and fortune in a male-dominated American West.
It’s true the woman behind the fictional heroine—born Martha Jane Canary—was a buckskin-clad, gun-slinging, foulmouthed cowgirl whose affinity for alcohol was legendary, even among men. But that’s where facts diverge significantly from fiction.
Historians have spent decades trying to find her—methodically unraveling a century of mistruths, half-truths, and full-blown fabrication, many of them introduced by Calamity herself. She was also illiterate, leaving no letters or journals for analysis, not even a signature. So who was the real Calamity Jane?
The Creation of a Myth
“People, largely, are still in love with a romantic Old West," says Richard W. Etulain, former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico who’s written two comprehensive books on Martha Jane Canary.
It's been part of the country’s literary tradition from its inception around the early 19th century, he says. James Fenimore Cooper created the early framework for the Western as a genre in his groundbreaking Leatherstocking Tales, a five-novel frontier series that includes his famous 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans.
These were masculine stories featuring females as love interests, providing a formula for the early paperbacks called dime novels. Emerging around the start of the Civil War, the cheaply printed books sold on newsstands for no more than a dime.
With simple plots placing a hero or heroine in a dilemma, they were the perfect vehicle to spread myths about the real-life personalities of the American West—including Calamity Jane.
A Calamitous Early Life
Born around May 1, 1856, near Princeton, Missouri, Martha Jane Canary was the oldest of three children. Around 1863, the family sold their farm and headed west toward Montana, ostensibly drawn by the booming mining towns.
She told of the five-month overland journey in her autobiography, Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, a rare kernel of truth in what’s considered an exaggerated work of semifiction.
“I was at all times with the men when there was excitement and adventures to be had,” she said. “By the time we reached Virginia City, I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.”
The Trek Ended in Heartache.
Both of her parents died within four years of the move and, by 1867, her siblings were allegedly sent to live with Mormon families in Utah. Not yet a teenager, Etulain writes in The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane that she was adrift in a pioneer man’s world.
Calamity Jane lived a nomadic life, taking jobs for a few weeks at a time before heading to the next spot whim took her. And that’s where her story begins to blend into myth.
Dime Novel Fame
By the time she’d reached age 20, Martha Canary was already well known in the “rough and ready settlements of the western plains for dressing in men’s clothes, a taste for liquor and wanderlust, and a tendency to shoot off her mouth and her guns,” writes historian Karen R. Jones in The Many Lives of Calamity.
Tthe genesis of her nickname is unclear. What is clear is that she was already known as Calamity Jane in the summer of 1876 when she sauntered down the dusty main street of Deadwood, South Dakota, on horseback in a suit of buckskin alongside Wild Bill Hickok.
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Calamity Jane gained fame in the 1870s after arriving on horseback in Deadwood, South Dakota, alongside Wild Bill Hickok. The two were likely mere acquaintances but dime novels and sensational newspaper stories published many a tall tale of their dubious exploits together. Photograph By Everett Collection, Bridgeman Images
She was traveling with the most famous gunman and lawman of the West, Etulain writes, having joined his wagon train of gold seekers as it headed north toward the Black Hills.
“Calamity Jane has arrived!” local newspapers proclaimed. From that moment, her name would be intertwined with Wild Bill’s in Old West lore. The news stories that followed, embellished and sensationalized in the era of yellow journalism, flung her into stratospheric fame.
She would be forevermore the wild woman of the West, often cast in dime novels as the love interest of notorious gunslinger Wild Bill. She was also often linked with another famous Bill—Buffalo Bill Cody, whose prowess in slaughtering buffalo had become dime novel legend. Stories abounded of her performances in his famous stage show, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
In her semifictional 1896 autobiography Life and Adventures of Calamity, Calamity also described herself as a rowdy plainswoman who rode for the Pony Express and served as General Custer’s scout.
For more than a century that followed, the depictions of Calamity Jane in media would make it even more difficult to unravel the truths of her life. In Cecil B. DeMille’s 1936 movie The Plainsman, she was a rip-roaring cowgirl who fought Native Americans alongside Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill. Some 70 years after that she was portrayed as the bawdy friend of Wild Bill and town drunk in HBO’s Western series, Deadwood.
The Real Calamity Jane
Many of the tall tales surrounding Calamity’s life are rooted in fact.
She may have served as an Army scout, her biographers found—just not for General Custer. Calamity did know Wild Bill, but not as his romantic partner. In fact, they would have been little more than acquaintances. (Hickok was assassinated at a poker game shortly after the group’s arrival in Deadwood.)
Calamity Jane was also cast in traveling shows but not Buffalo Bill’s Wild West production, says Jeremy M. Johnston, the Tate endowed chair of Western history at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, which houses what’s believed is her only remaining buckskin suit.
She was legally married once in 1888 but did shack up with several men whom she called "husband” along the way. She also gave birth twice: first in 1882 to a son, who died shortly after his birth, and in 1887 to daughter, Jessie Elizabeth. (However, whatever happened to her daughter remains debatable.)
Tales recounting Calamity’s nursing skills are also well-documented. “She really took care of anyone who was sick,” Johnson says. “Anyone who needed anything, she would step up and help them through their troubled times.”
Johnston’s own grandmother used to tell the story of Calamity Jane helping their family recover from an illness. To thank her, his great-great grandmother made Calamity a nice shirt. A few days later, however, onlookers found her in the streets intoxicated with the shirt covered in mud.
The Death of Calamity Jane
In fact, alcoholism was constant refrain throughout her life, McLaird writes, perpetuating her lifelong poverty. “Sadly, after romantic adventures are removed, her story is mostly an account of uneventful daily life interrupted by drinking binges,” he writes.
For the last seven-plus years of her life, Etulain writes in Life and Legends, she earned money as a performer and roaming saleswoman, peddling her autobiography and photos.
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Calamity Jane poses at the grave of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota, in this photograph taken by J.A. Kumpf circa 1903. The famous gunslinger died that year and was buried in the same cemetery. Photograph By Graphicaartis, Bridgeman Images
She died penniless at age 47 on August 1, 1903, likely from effects of alcoholism. She’s buried near Wild Bill in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood—and the misinformation that pervaded her life has followed in her death, Etulain writes, as even her tombstone displays an incorrect name, birthdate, and age.
But though her real life may have been more tragedy than adventure, Etulain argues that she remains an illuminating example of grit and determination.
“The loss of her parents before her teen years, the lack of education, and the downward push on many frontier women in the late nineteenth century—Calamity rose above these challenges as a young woman of energy, endurance, and fortitude.”
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