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Poetic exploration of historical records of the Frog Lake Massacre (1885) links past to present.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada :
The University of Alberta Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First electronic edition, 2013. |
| Colección: | Robert Kroetsch series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""I Prologue""; ""Tape A""; ""II The Mound-Builders""; ""The work is a plain one""; ""In the Long Knives' country""; ""A Maundy Thursday""; ""Blood-red the sun""; ""Sun-red, the blood or, The sun pushed a huge crimson shoulder above the skyline""; ""Red the sun blood or, She has but half a smoke to live""; ""The red-blood sun or, The sun had scorched its green roofing leaves was sinking""; ""The ordinary red man""; ""Among the valuable things""; ""Entering the lodge of a Wood Cree""; ""Oh, Sun""
- ""All that remained of the H.B. Co's business at Frog Lake""""Bullets""; ""The curtain drop on the last scene in this grim, emotional drama""; ""Tape B""; ""III That Little Hamlet by the Creek""; ""Solomon says""; ""Eyes""; ""I peeked over the bank of his horrible-looking head and my scalp felt very loose""; ""not the desire of the author of this work to publish""; ""A most unmelodious""; ""Write a cold, matter-of-fact statement of the event""; ""Gathered up a few that were scattered around in the dirt and saved them when no one was looking""
- ""Without giving expression to sentiments of sorrow""""Had I only the language at my command""; ""That little hamlet by the creek""; ""When one has nothing to write about it is hard to fill up pages""; ""Tape C""; ""IV The Inadvertent Poetry of Major-General Thomas Bland Strange""; ""The Queen is the supreme power in the Realm The message thus being transmitted:-""; ""Our Jingo found himself on the deck of a steamer""; ""Our jingo and B Battery reach the ice cone at Montmorency""; ""Rough Work: Rumour to-night Indians being tampered with""; ""The fibre of the iron had crystallised""
- ""Rough Work: Endeavouring to secure additional mountain guns""""Not a blade of grass for a hundred miles""; ""Rough Work: The safety and peace in this country will be jeopardized""; ""Jingo's house""; ""Rough Work: If wheat and seed come by boat they will be in time""; ""Jingo's speech at Frog Lake on The Queen's birthday""; ""Rough Work: Some justifiable measure should be made to prevent escape of Riel and following""; ""I fear I should have lost my small army in this very big country""; ""Rough Work: Three french half breeds blundered south""; ""With field-glasses could be detected""
- ""I have seen miles of territory just south of the line""""Tape D""; ""V The Trial""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua""; ""And I could not refuse them, I dare not refuse them, because they would have just a likely as not blown my brains out""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear""; ""According to W.J. Maclean, sworn""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner""; ""According to Henry R. Halpin, sworn""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner""; ""And unofficially""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock""