The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West
Author: Candy Vyvey Moulton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money.

Everyday Life in the Wild West

Everyday Life in the Wild West
Author: Candy Mouton
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781582972114

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Everyday Life in the Wild West shows you firsthand what it was like to tame the praries, fight the battles and build the boomtowns. From the vittles people ate (including boudins and buffalo humps) to what they wore (such as linsey-woolsey, caliso and duck), this book is packed with historical accounts, maps and photographs to give you a complete perspective of this fascinating era.

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s
Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1993-03-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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The wonderful and fascinating details of the 1800s have been gathered into one interesting volume, in which McCutcheon has included quotes from 19th-century citizens concerning or describing hairstyles and fashion, favorite swear words and slang, jokes of the period, courtship and marriage rituals, and more. A must for both fiction and nonfiction historical writers.

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II
Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Intended for writers who need authentic background for their writing, but makes a hipper-dipper read for the rest of us palookas, too. Covers popular slang as well as the terms and lingo specific to Prohibition, the Depression, WWII, the crime world, transportation, fashion, radio, and music and dance. Includes chronologies of events, movies, books, and songs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995-03-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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Gives an overview of life in Northwestern Europe from 500 to 1500 and provides details for writers to portray the lives and times of the Middle Ages accurately.

Everyday Life in the 1800s

Everyday Life in the 1800s
Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-03-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781582970639

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Provides information about many aspects of everyday life in the 1800s, covering speech and slang, transportation, household goods, clothing, occupations, money, health and medicine, food and tobacco, amusements, courtship and marriage, slavery, the Civil War, crime, and the wild west.

Everyday Life Among the American Indians

Everyday Life Among the American Indians
Author: Candy Vyvey Moulton
Publisher: Cincinnati, OH : Writer's Digest Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

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The portrayal of native Americans and the role they played in American history has been riddled with stereotypes and falsehoods. Moulton attempts to correct decades of misinformation with insightful scholarship on the real story. Includes maps, illustrations, chronologies and reference sources.

The Wister Trace

The Wister Trace
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 080614775X

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"The Wister Trace: Second Edition" will be a work of literary criticism consisting of the twenty-nine original essays on classic western novels found in the first edition and additional essays of commentary and criticism on such authors as Larry McMurtry, Cormack McCarthy, Willa Cather, Jane Smiley, St. Clair Robson, Dorothy Johnson, Margaret Coel, Tony Hillerman, Richard Wheeler, and Don Coldsmith. The new edition will consist of at least 25% new material. This new edition serves as a unique and informative critique of western fiction authors and offers a much updated version of the original"--

Cowboy Lingo

Cowboy Lingo
Author: Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780618083497

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Here in one volume is a complete guide to cowboy-speak. Like many of today's foreign language guides, this handy book is organized not alphabetically but situationally, lest readers find themselves in Texas at a loss for words.

Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit
Author: Betty DeRamus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2005-12-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743482646

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A collection of true love stories from the American slavery period relates the experiences of slave, free, and black-and-white couples who risked their lives in order to be together, from a Georgia couple who fled bounty hunters for England to a Missouri slave who escaped to Canada to be with his white Mormon love. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.