The Homesman
“When her mother was a little girl she had heard women screaming all night long in the jail after the first spring thaw. Their husbands had brought them into town in wagons from the sod huts where they had spent the terrible Dakota winter; they were on their way to the insane asylum in Jamestown.”
—Abigail McCarthy, Private Faces, Public Places, 1972 My late father, Glendon Swarthout, got the idea for his other western masterpiece, The Homesman, from small scraps of information in his readin...gs of the few good histories or frontier memoirs from the 1850s, one of the somewhat forgotten decades in American history.
History is always written by the Winners, in this case the largely white migration of Americans who journeyed west by horse and wagon with American military help, to subjugate the Indian tribes and cross the Rocky Mountains to the gold fields and fertile farmlands along the west coast. That Manifest Destiny story has been well-told, many times.MoreLess
—Abigail McCarthy, Private Faces, Public Places, 1972 My late father, Glendon Swarthout, got the idea for his other western masterpiece, The Homesman, from small scraps of information in his readin...gs of the few good histories or frontier memoirs from the 1850s, one of the somewhat forgotten decades in American history.
History is always written by the Winners, in this case the largely white migration of Americans who journeyed west by horse and wagon with American military help, to subjugate the Indian tribes and cross the Rocky Mountains to the gold fields and fertile farmlands along the west coast. That Manifest Destiny story has been well-told, many times.MoreLess
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