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(0)Joseph Amato
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph A. Amato follows his own poor, obscure, and truly "mongrel" family through seven generations, revealing their place in the key events of America's past. Using powerful family traditions to clarify his personal connection to the larger stories of our nation, Amato advocates for the power of the history closest at hand in building personal identity and resisting mass culture.
Author
Publisher
Crossings Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
""Buffalo Man" is serious fun. It is about a giant child's growing body and awakening mind. In the spirit of Rabelais and Swift, "Buffalo Man" is the story of a Gargantuan child, aptly nicknamed ٢Gar٣-who was born out of the sky in 1848. He lands in the pasture of a Métis trading post along the Minnesota River. The following chapters record Gar's upbringing, baptism, adventures, and education as a physical phenomenon and a dawning prodigy. Episodic,...