| The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland Contributor(s): Ladow, Beth (Author) |
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ISBN: 041592765X ISBN-13: 9780415927659 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $32.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: Along the borders between Canada and Montana lies one hundred miles of the most desolate terrain in America, the point where three nations were fated to come together in a contest for land, wealth, and ultimately survival. In this complex history of the borderland, known as "the medicine line" to the Indians who live there, we come across the likes of Sitting Bull, Lewis and Clark, railroad magnate Jim T. Hill, and border refugee Chief Joseph. Relying on letters, diaries, and autobiographies of these great pioneers, LaDow has written an immensely rich history of a place and an insightful meditation on the subject of national identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 978.615 |
| LCCN: 00042496 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.6" W x 8.52" (0.92 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - Alberta - Geographic Orientation - Montana - Geographic Orientation - Saskatchewan |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North AmericanBorderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000) |