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Western star
Title
Western star / Stephen Vincent Benét.
Publication
New York ; Toronto : Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1943]
Manufacture
New York : Printed by H. Wolff.
Copyright Notice Date
©1943
Physical Description
viii, 181 pages ; 21 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z40 0124: Dust jacket.
Notes
"Jacket design by Hilda Scott"--Dust jacket.
Photograph of the author by Emelie Danielson on back of dust jacket.
Book one of a projected narrative poem in a series.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1944.
Summary
This is the first part of an American epic left unfinished at Benet's untimely death, about the western migration of peoples and more specifically the pioneers, first as they came to America and then as they spread out through America towards the West.
Other formats
Also available online.
Online version: Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Western star. New York, Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart [1943]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects
Genre/Form
Americana - West (U.S.)
History.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Western fiction.
Also listed under
Farrar & Rinehart, publisher.
H. Wolff, Inc., printer.
United States New York (State) New York.
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