The Resource The homesman, Glendon Swarthout
The homesman, Glendon Swarthout
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- Summary
- A "homesman" is a person charged with taking women who have been driven mad by the conditions of rural life in the 1850's to asylums in the East. Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she can't make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The homesman
- Title
- The homesman
- Statement of responsibility
- Glendon Swarthout
- Subject
-
- trueBooks to movies
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- trueGreat Plains (United States)
- trueHelpfulness in men
- Large type books
- truePioneer women
- trueSingle women
- trueSuicidal behavior
- Suicidal behavior -- Fiction
- trueSurvival
- trueThe West (United States)
- trueWesterns
- trueWomen
- Women pioneers -- Fiction
- trueWomen with mental illnesses
- Western fiction
- trueAmerican Westward Expansion (1803-1899) -- 1803 -- 1899
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A "homesman" is a person charged with taking women who have been driven mad by the conditions of rural life in the 1850's to asylums in the East. Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she can't make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs
- Summary
- A woman feeling desolate in Missouri returns to Iowa under the care of a young school teacher and a land-grabber whom she saved from lynching
- Award
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- Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (Long Novel), 1989.
- Western Heritage Award for Oustanding Western Novel, 1989.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 058347
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1918-1992
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Swarthout, Glendon
- Dewey number
- 813/.52
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3537.W3743
- LC item number
- H66 1989
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Suicidal behavior
- Women pioneers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The homesman, Glendon Swarthout
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19834535
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 364 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780896219229
- Isbn Type
- (lg. print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 89034696
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- The homesman, Glendon Swarthout
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19834535
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 364 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780896219229
- Isbn Type
- (lg. print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 89034696
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
Subject
- trueBooks to movies
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- trueGreat Plains (United States)
- trueHelpfulness in men
- Large type books
- truePioneer women
- trueSingle women
- trueSuicidal behavior
- Suicidal behavior -- Fiction
- trueSurvival
- trueThe West (United States)
- trueWesterns
- trueWomen
- Women pioneers -- Fiction
- trueWomen with mental illnesses
- Western fiction
- trueAmerican Westward Expansion (1803-1899) -- 1803 -- 1899
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