Project Gutenberg 2009-05-04 Public domain in the USA. 182 Wister, Owen 1860 1938 Remington, Frederic 1861 1909 Remington, Frederic Sackrider Remington, Frederick Red Men and White Reading ease score: 81.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. Little Big Horn medicine -- Specimen Jones -- The serenade at Siskiyou -- The general's bluff -- Salvation Gap -- The second Missouri compromise -- La Tinaja Bonita -- A pilgrim on the Gila. Produced by D. Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Red Men and White" by Owen Wister is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The narrative explores the complexities of life on the Western frontier, particularly focusing on the interactions between white settlers and Native American tribes. The stories are connected thematically and feature overlapping characters, suggesting a rich and intertwined tapestry of life during a pivotal time in American history. The opening of the collection sets the stage for these narratives by highlighting the dynamic circumstances of the Crow Indians and their evolving relationship with white settlers and soldiers. It introduces characters like young Cheschapah, a Crow Indian who struggles between his ambition for leadership and duty to his people, and Lieutenant Stirling whose observations about the Indians reveal deeper nuances. As tensions arise with the Sioux tribe visiting the Crows and the calculations of superstitions that could ignite conflict, a stark portrait of life on the frontier is painted—a world of fragile peace overshadowed by the threat of violence, cultural misunderstanding, and the quest for identity and recognition. This sets the tone for a thoughtful exploration of the intersections of cultures, conflict, and human ambition that defines the Wild West. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Western stories Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Fiction 531156 531158 2024-10-12T10:56:39.745793 2023-09-12T13:11:35.248426 text/html text/html 557331 2009-05-04T11:19:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1137961 2009-05-04T11:19:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1207442 2024-10-12T10:56:47.417765 application/epub+zip 1213756 2024-10-12T10:56:41.047804 application/epub+zip 241876 2024-10-12T10:56:40.332784 application/epub+zip 1354634 2024-10-12T10:56:52.255724 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1318664 2024-10-12T10:56:46.818743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 348889 2022-09-13T10:32:28.478153 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477399 477210 2024-10-12T10:56:38.580810 2023-09-12T13:11:34.253414 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 477234 2009-05-04T11:19:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 187370 2009-05-04T11:19:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 477227 2009-05-04T11:19:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 187319 2009-05-04T11:19:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22917 2024-10-12T10:56:52.550713 application/rdf+xml 8676 2024-10-12T10:56:40.550776 image/jpeg 1617 2024-10-12T10:56:40.441771 image/jpeg 1141792 2024-10-12T10:56:39.836797 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia