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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Chronicles the attempts of a young Russian filmmaker to portray Catherine the Great, both before and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in projects that elude his ideas of the larger-than-life historical figure.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 405 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
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