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Robert J. Conley (1940–2014)

Auteur de Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears

58+ oeuvres 787 utilisateurs 15 critiques 1 Favoris

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Robert J. Conley was born in 1940 in Cushing Oklahoma. He is a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. He is noted for depictions of precontact and historical Cherokee figures. He is known for a series afficher plus of books called the Real People Series. The sixth of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995. He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story "Yellow Bird", and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Robert J. Conley

The Cherokee Nation: A History (2005) 55 exemplaires
Brass (1805) 33 exemplaires
The Gunfighter (2001) 32 exemplaires
The Way of the Priests (1992) 29 exemplaires
Nickajack (1992) 26 exemplaires
Geronimo (1994) 26 exemplaires
War Woman (1997) 24 exemplaires
The Cherokee Dragon (2000) 21 exemplaires
The Dark Way (1993) 21 exemplaires
The White Path (1993) 20 exemplaires
The Actor (1987) 18 exemplaires
The Devil's Trail (2002) 17 exemplaires
Cherokee (2002) 16 exemplaires
The Peace Chief (1998) 16 exemplaires
Medicine War (2001) 15 exemplaires
Ned Christie's War (1991) 15 exemplaires
The Dark Island (1995) 14 exemplaires
Wilder & Wilder (1988) 13 exemplaires
Colfax (1989) 12 exemplaires
A Cherokee Encyclopedia (2007) 12 exemplaires
Fugitive's Trail (2000) 11 exemplaires
The Long Way Home (1994) 11 exemplaires
The Way South (1993) 10 exemplaires
Barjack (2000) 10 exemplaires
Go Ahead Rider: Go Ahead Rider (1992) 9 exemplaires
Strange Company (1991) 9 exemplaires
The War Trail North (1995) 9 exemplaires
Broke Loose (2000) 8 exemplaires
Border Line (1993) 8 exemplaires
Crazy Snake (1994) 8 exemplaires
The Long Trail North (1993) 7 exemplaires
Incident at Buffalo Crossing (1998) 6 exemplaires
Back To Malachi (1986) 6 exemplaires
Spanish Jack (2001) 6 exemplaires
CAPTAIN DUTCH (1995) 6 exemplaires
Sequoyah (2002) 6 exemplaires
Barjack and the Unwelcome Ghost (2009) 6 exemplaires
Poems for comparison and contrast (1972) 5 exemplaires
The Saga of Henry Starr (1989) 5 exemplaires
Killing Time (1989) 5 exemplaires
Rio Loco (2011) 4 exemplaires
To Make a Killing (1994) 4 exemplaires
Outside the Law (1995) 4 exemplaires
Der Wind rief seinen Namen (1999) 1 exemplaire
Geronimo - Apache 1 exemplaire
The Brothers (2019) 1 exemplaire
Gerónimo (1995) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Red Threads (1939) — Introduction, quelques éditions307 exemplaires
Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974-1994 (1996) — Contributeur — 60 exemplaires
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (1983) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
The Best of the American West II (1999) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Stories for a Winter's Night (2000) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry (1994) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Essay: Structure and purpose (1975)quelques éditions5 exemplaires

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This was a nice, homely collection of stories, short & satisfying. I felt like my father-in-law could have been telling these tales. the trio of young rowdies in "Plastic Indian" reminded me of some buckaroos I've known, yet the closing thought was a foreshadowing of the internal politics which are more overtly portrayed in "Belle Starr". Primarily set in the 1800's, and generally in either Oklahoma or North Carolina, each tale demonstrates some aspect of Cherokee culture without being didactic. One aspect which impressed me the most was how the men would back off if a woman said she was going to do something. Women weren't often in the story, but they were strong, and they were acknowledged...a woman wasn't just somenone's wife, she had a name of her own, even when she was only a minor part in the tale.
Some stories were written in the first person, which made it easy to believe it was Conley himself that the story was about--until you notice the year, or until you read in his acceptance speech that "...writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, actors, dancers, bank robbers, boxers...the writer is the most fortunate of the bunch, for he can write himself into any or all of these characters."
Otherwise, the four included speeches were nothing special.
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juniperSun | Mar 29, 2020 |
The content of this book is solid and well-researched. The writing style is what left me wanting a little more. The majority of the sentences in this book follow the classic SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT. Standard 'vanilla' verbs were used, and there is not a lot of description of setting/place. For anyone reading this book who is not familiar with the southeastern portion of the United States, I don't think they will have distinct mental picture of the setting. Overall, I liked this book, but not a favorite.… (plus d'informations)
 
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tntbeckyford | 1 autre critique | Feb 16, 2019 |
Kid Parmlee, his Paw and his buddy Zeb ride into Fosterville for drink, food and sex, but are immediately accused of having robbed a stagecoach and killed the driver. While the sheriff was a friend of the Kid, the description of the three bandits fit to a T the three men facing a shotgun in the hands of the sheriff. The three break out of jail with assistance of a female friend of the Kid's leaving the sheriff stark naked in his own jail cell to be discovered and embarrassed by the local citizens.

Once out, they decide to search for the three stage robbers who are now also robbing banks. Their quest is interrupted when they befriend the citizens of a mining town who are being harassed by claim jumpers and the Kid and Zeb start a shooting war against the claim jumpers.

Often the heroes of western novels have few weaknesses but the Kid has a couple that prove very embarrassing to him in the story. His fear of heights freezes him on a ledge 100's of feet up and he looks down. The consequences of his rescue are very embarrassing as is his low tolerance for whiskey which sees him black out in front of a full saloon.

Conley's style is to never have a slow moment and he adds characters who really have no role in the narrative but add flavour to the atmosphere. Read this on a wilderness canoe/camping trip in Algonquin Park. Not even the many horse and deer flies could interrupt the story.
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lamour | 1 autre critique | Jul 17, 2018 |
Marshall Baijack tells this story in first person and what a story it is – although it might take you a bit to get into the dialect Baijack uses it is a fun read all in all.

Marshall Baijack is not a learned man but he has managed to clean up Asininity by the time Herman Sly “The Widowmaker” rides into town. Sly kills for money but never draws his gun first and more than one person in town thinks he might have come to kill them. The story has gunfights, fistfights, drunks, a whore with a heart of gold, and a whole lot more. Part of the story is the development of the friendship between Sly and Baijack and what an interesting friendship it is. If you are looking for a sometimes humorous bawdy brawling Western then this book might be one you should pick up.

Thank you to Endeavour Press for the copy of this book to read and review.
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CathyGeha | Feb 11, 2016 |

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