books about: pie-biter (literature vigilantes activities)

books about: pie-biter

books:

Pie-Biter (English, Chinese and Spanish Edition)
Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Shens Books, 1998

Based on real characters in the 1800s, Hoi, a young Chinese immigrant, was left to his own devices after the Continental Railroad was finished. With the help of Spanish Louis, he turned his creativity into success by way of good-old American pies. Initially published in 1983 as the Chinese American answer to Paul Bunyan, the story is now re-published in a new design and a tri-lingual format.

Come An' Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook
Ramon F. Adams

University of Oklahoma Press, 1972

Come an’ Get It was the most familiar and welcome call on the range era of the great trail drives following the Civil War. In this entertaining volume, Ramon F. Adams, author of the popular Western Words, tell the story of the old cowboy cooks, and the result is another highly original contribution to the folklore of the cattle country. Although the cowboy cleared the Southwestern frontier of savage Indians and opened the land for settlement, ...

God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana
Carol Buchanan

BookSurge Publishing, 2008

Winner of the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel by the Western Writers of America, as a “work whose inspirations, image and literary excellence best represent the reality and spirit of the American West." December 1863. Daniel Stark, New York lawyer and radical abolitionist, has come to the gold fields of Alder Gulch, in what will become Montana, to get enough gold to make restitution to the clients whose assets his father gambled away ...

Daily Discoveries for November: Thematic Learning Activities for Every Day
Elizabeth Cole Midgley

Teaching & Learning Company, 2005

In this creative book, which is another in the popular Daily Discoveries series, you'll find reasons to celebrate every day of November in your classroom. Special days include: National Sandwich Day, American Art Day, Math Madness Day, Children’s Book Day, Mickey Mouse's Birthday, Family Day and many more. The fun activities can be plugged into your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and ...

The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West
Christopher Corbett

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010

When gold rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco on their way to seek their fortunes. They were called sojourners, for they never intended to stay. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a little-known legend from Idaho lore as a lens into this Chinese experience. Before 1849, the Chinese in the United States were little more than curiosities. But as word spread of the discovery of ...

Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon
Tanfer Emin Tunc

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

This ground-breaking edited volume includes chapters which explore the past, present and future position of Chinese American authors within the framework of what Bloom identifies as the 'Western literary canon.' These selections, which simultaneously represent the exciting 'transnational turn' in American literary studies, not only examine whether or not Chinese American literature is inside or outside the canon, but also question if there is, ...

Théâtre complet (French Edition)
Alex. Dumas

BiblioBazaar, 2009

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our ...