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WorksWalking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path
Raised by Indian mothers, educated by white missionaries, daughters of mixed marriages find different paths to fulfillment. Drawn to medicine, music, crafts, the classroom, the lecture hall, the stage, the written word – they walked strong and tall, helping their people find a place in a hard new future. People of the Moonshell:
A Western River Journal Encompassing 44 stories of natives and newcomers, “Nancy Peterson’s dynamic narrative of the Westward Migration is expressed in terms of its simplest common denominator – the individual men and women who effectively symbolize its successive chapters, that is to say, the People of the Moonshell.” --Merrill Mattes, Western Historian People of the Troubled Water: A Missouri River Journal
The Missouri’s log-laced waters and galloping sandbars inspired men to give it many labels -- Old Misery, River Sticks; to compare its lower waters to hog puddles, its upper reaches to a rainwater creek. It was a barrier to some, an unwilling highway for others. It changed nearly everyone who challenged it. People of the Old Missury: Years of Conflict
"Nancy M. Peterson. . .has three marvelous books. . . . Peterson makes great use of journals and first-hand accounts in telling the stories of pioneer travel on these great rivers and the people who helped make them -- and the era -- famous: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John C. Fremont, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Colter, Hugh Glass, Sitting Bull and Spotted Tail and many others." Denver Woman's Press Club founder, reporter Minnie J. Reynolds, lightheartedly prohibited all bores from membership. One hundred years later a dynamic, creative and entertaining medley of playwrights, poets, novelists, physicians and legislators composed its roster of members. Pulizter Prize winning author Mary Coyle Chase of Harvey fane, sob sister Polly Pry and Dr. Florence Sabin are just a few of the writers included in this award-winning Denver history. Writing, etc. More than 250 tips on craft, marketing and the writer's life from the Colorado Authors' League. Writer's Block: "When I am stuck on dead center, I find it helpful to pick up a book of poetry and read poems aloud. The rhythm and figures of speech inspire me." Style and Technique: "Be conscious of your sentence length. Short, factual sentences increase the pace and tension. Long, leisurely sentences give your reader time to savor the moment." |
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