River Road: A Story of Abraham Lincoln

Meridel Le Sueur

Sagebrush Education Resources

North Star Country explores country stores and county fairs, labor unions and dusty roads traveled by peddlers and truck drivers, and farms where families toil. Written in 1945 by acclaimed activist and writer Meridel Le Sueur, this unconventional history shines an uncommon light on the lives of ordinary people in the Upper Midwest.
In the tradition of James Agee and John Dos Passos, Le Sueur creates a mosaic from the fabric of everyday life, including newspapers clippings, private letters, diaries, and lyrics from popular songs. Each quotation and brief vignette opens a window to an entire lifetime or a way of life. North Star Country highlights the struggles of American Indians and offers a fresh sensibility, untangling the history of the Upper Midwest, sorting it out and returning it to the common people, to common readers.

North Star Country

History

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

This tale remains as fresh and satisfying as when it was first published by Knopf in 1951. Crockett was as fun-loving and restless as he was courageous and honest, a folk-symbol of the early American spirit, standing firm against both harsh Nature and corrupt politics. Here he marches up the Wilderness Road straight to Congress and later stands defiant to the last hour at the Alamo.Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) was a storyteller, poet, and activist who lived in Hudson, Wisconsin.Also available by Meridel Le SueurLittle Brother of the WildernessPB $7.95, 0-930100-71-9 • CUSANancy Hanks of Wilderness RoadPB $7.95, 0-930100-73-5 • CUSAThe River RoadPB $7.95, 0-930100-77-8 • CUSASparrow HawkPB $10.95, 0-930100-86-7 • CUSA

Chanticleer of Wilderness Road: A Story of Davy Crockett

Children's Books

Biographies

Holy Cow! Press

This tale remains as fresh and satisfying as when it was first published by Knopf in 1951. Crockett was as fun-loving and restless as he was courageous and honest, a folk-symbol of the early American spirit, standing firm against both harsh Nature and corrupt politics. Here he marches up the Wilderness Road straight to Congress and later stands defiant to the last hour at the Alamo.Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) was a storyteller, poet, and activist who lived in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Biographies & Memoirs

Holy Cow Pr

Girl

Literature & Fiction

West End Press

The Girl

In November 1978, West End Press published The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur, a rewritten version of a novel the author had first completed in 1939. The original story told of women struggling to survive a harsh winter in St. Paul after having suffered the loss of their male companions in a failed bank robbery. According to Le Sueur, it was a collective work: We had a writer's group of women in The Workers Alliance and we met every night to raise our miserable circumstances to the level of sagas, poetry, cry-outs. The rewritten version emphasized the fate of the farm girl of the title as she struggled to survive the death of her lover and give birth to another girl, the hope of a new and better generation. 
The Girl is the most popular title published by West End Press, with over 24,000 copies sold. It has been adopted for courses in over a hundred colleges and universities, published in three foreign editions, and optioned for movie rights. This edition includes an afterword by editor John Crawford, The Book's Progress: The Making of The Girl. 
The author, emerging from the political blacklist of the McCarthy Period, was honored after its publication with a Senior Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979. Meridel Le Sueur died in 1996 at the age of ninety-six.

Contemporary

This with My Last Breath

Midwest Villages & Voices

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