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Informationen zum Autor James W. Parins is a professor of English and the associate director of the Sequoyah Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author of John Rollin Ridge: His Life and Works (available in a Bison Books edition), coauthor of bibliographies of Indian writers and guides to Native publications, and editor of works by Indian writers, including Ke-ma-ha: The Omaha Stories of Francis La Flesche, also available in a Bison Books edition. Klappentext James W. Parins is a professor of English and the associate director of the Sequoyah Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author of John Rollin Ridge: His Life and Works (available in a Bison Books edition), coauthor of bibliographies of Indian writers and guides to Native publications, and editor of works by Indian writers, including Ke-ma-ha: The Omaha Stories of Francis La Flesche, also available in a Bison Books edition. Zusammenfassung Born into the influential Ridge-Boudinot-Watie family! Elias Cornelius Boudinot was raised in the East after the assassination of his father! who helped found the first newspaper published by an Indian nation. This is a biography of Boudinot! a half-Cherokee! half-white man who lived on the cultural border of the two societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Background and Boyhood; 2. The Young Man in Arkansas; 3. Confederate Soldier and Congressional Delegate; 4. Peace Negotiator; 5. The Tobacco Tycoon; 6. Railroad Man; 7. The Hotelier at Vinita; 8. The Washingtonian; 9. Missionary; 10. Lawyer! Rancher! Businessman