Mourning Dove, Cogewea the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range

Lori Muntz (Iowa Wesleyan College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1927

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

A young woman—intelligent, beautiful, stubborn—must choose whether to follow her Okanogan way of life, to the degree it is possible to do so, or join the culture of Anglo-Americans. This protagonist, Cogewea, lives in the late 19^th early 20^th century on the H-B Ranch, a Montana cattle ranch owned by her Anglo brother-in-law and situated on land that belonged to her Native ancestors. Cogewea searches to define her own identity, to establish herself within community, and to find romantic love in a novel that mixes the sentimentality and spectacle of dime novels with the political acumen and passion of a manifesto. Cogewea, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range (1927) was written …

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Citation: Muntz, Lori. "Cogewea the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 March 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25853, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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