Dakotah

Name: Dakotah
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
SKU: 9781477334300
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESSISBN: 9781477334300

The Return of the Future

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By Charles Bowden, Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Release Date: July 8, 2026
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
Weight: 450 g
Pages: 184

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"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free." When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed "Unnatural History of America." Bowden uses America's Great Plains as a lens-sometimes sullied, sometimes shattered, but always sharp-for observing pivotal moments in the lives of anguished figures, including himself. In scenes that are by turns wrenching and poetic, Bowden describes the Sioux's forced migrations and rebellions alongside his own ancestors' migrations from Europe to Midwestern acres beset by unforgiving winters. He meditates on the lives of his resourceful mother and his philosophical father, who rambled between farm communities and city life. Interspersed with these images are clear-eyed, textbook-defying anecdotes about Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and, with equal verve, twentieth-century entertainers "Pee Wee" Russell, Peggy Lee, and other musicians. The result is a kaleidoscopic journey that penetrates the senses and redefines the notion of heartland. Dakotah is a powerful ode to loss from one of our most fiercely independent writers.

Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper's, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.

Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams My Piece of Ground Heartland Andrew Jackson Lewis and Clark Dakotah Heartland Jude Heartland Dakotah Jude Heartland Bo Delta Heartland Dakotah Daniel Boone Disney My Piece of Ground Jude and Bo Dakotah Daniel Boone Dakotah Lewis and Clark Dakotah Daniel Boone Heartland Lewis and Clark Dakotah Lewis and Clark Dakotah Disney Daniel Boone Dakotah Jude and Bo: Part III Daniel Boone Dakotah Daniel Boone Delta Dakotah Lewis and Clark Jude and Bo: Part IV Notes

"Dakotah is about hope, disappointment, impermanence and erasure...This is a meditation Bowden fans will not want to miss." - Arizona Daily Star "This posthumous work continues Bowden's uniquely ecocritical writing-starting from human common ground and ending with the ground itself-and allows us to hear his voice long past his own time in earth. It is a worthy offering." - Western American Literature

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