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: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1927

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United States (Country of Origin)

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Novel

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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 19th early 20th 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 by Mourning Dove (Humishima) and published with notes and a biographical sketch of…

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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://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25853, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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