Tecumseh and the prophet: the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation

By Cozzens, Peter

Publishing Date: 2020

Classification: 900

Call Number: 977.004 COZ

"The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States"--

Becoming Los Angeles: myth, memory, and a sense of place

By Waldie, D. J.

Publishing Date: [2020]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.494 WAL

Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city. Waldie’s particular concern is commonplace Los Angeles, whose rhythms of daily life are set against the gaudy backdrop of historical myth and Hollywood illusion. It’s through sacred ordinariness that Waldie experiences the city’s seasons. In his exploration of sprawling Los Angeles, he considers how the city’s image was constructed and how it fostered willful amnesia about the city’s conflicted past. He encounters the immigrants and exiles, the dreamers and con artists, the celebrated and forgotten who became Los Angeles. He measures the place of nature in the city and the different ways that nature has been defined. He maps on the contours of Los Angeles what embracing—or rejecting—an Angeleno identity has come to mean. - (Gibbs-Smith) Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays. Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie. – Susan Brenneman, Los Angeles Times Deputy Op-Ed Editor

Going to extremes

By McGinniss, Joe

Publishing Date: 1980

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.8 MCG

An account of life in today's Alaska takes in whites, Eskimos, and Native Indians, cities, towns, and wilderness, industry and trapping, and the idiosyncrasies, dangers, vastness, and wonders of America's last frontier.