Canaan: A Novel

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2007 - 426 頁
A saga of post-Civil War America, from the defeat of the Confederacy to the Battle of Little Bighorn, "Canaan" fills a vast canvas stretching north, south, and west from Appomattox. This is the story of America over 20 years of its most turbulent history.

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How a Man Is Made
17
TWO TAN EGGS
27
LETTER FROM SAMUEL GATEWOOD
31
LOW DOG DREAMING
33
A BIG PLUM
35
INDEPENDENCE DAY
42
A HINCTY NIGGER
53
THE ATLANTIC MISSISSIPPI OHIO
64
IMPEACHMENT
210
A HAPPY OCCASION
215
CIRCLING THE KETTLE
222
LETTER FROM MRS EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS MOLLY SEMPLE
227
A SQUAW MAN
232
MR STUART ARGUES FOR COMPROMISE
237
LETTER FROM THOMAS BYRD TO SAMUEL GATEWOOD
238
THE CANDIDATE FROM MARSHALL WARD
241

ADDRESS FROM THE COLORED CITIZENS OF VIRGINIA TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
75
THE COCINERO
79
LETTER FROM MRS DUNCAN GATEWOOD TO MRS SAMUEL GATEWOOD
82
COURT DAY
85
RAINY DAY STEW
90
THE LOYAL LEAGUE
94
SONOFABITCH STEW
101
AN OPIUM EATER
126
WHAT RAVEN SAW
131
DISPATCH FROM COLONEL HENRY CARRINGTON
134
LETTER FROM EDWARD RATCLIFF TO JESSE BURNS
136
A FORMER LOVER
139
THE SUPPLICANT
144
MILITARY DISTRICT 1
151
INCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND DANVILLE RAILROAD
152
TERRAPIN À LA DELMONICO
157
IN THE HAYFIELD
170
THE ATLANTIC MISSISSIPPI OHIO RAILROAD
177
A PHILADELPHIA SANITARIUM
179
LETTER FROM JESSE BURNS TO EDWARD RATCLIFF
184
LETTER FROM THOMAS BYRD TO SAMUEL GATEWOOD
187
THE IRONCLAD OATH
190
KI YA MANI YO
191
MENU FOR A BANQUET HONORING MR CHARLES DICKENS
205
LETTER FROM EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS PAULINE BYRD
207
GHOSTOWNING
246
GENERAL MAHONES SIGNAL VICTORY
248
IMMIGRANTS
253
BLACK FRIDAY
266
WASHITU STRAWBERRIES
272
IN THE VALLEY OF THE GREASY GRASS
281
LIGHT BROTH AND A CODDLED EGG
283
IN THE TERRITORY
289
A TREASURE TROVE
300
A CADAVER
308
RATION DAY
320
ON THE SCOOT
326
PANIC
340
MRS S T GATEWOODS BOARDINGHOUSE BRUNSWICK STEW
348
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE
357
THE BONE GAME
361
IN THE MOON OF RIPENING BLACKBERRIES
364
HOKA HEY
366
LETTER FROM RANDOLPH HOWLAND TO MRS EBEN BARNWELL
374
ORDERS TO GENERAL GEORGE CUSTER JUNE 22 1876
376
KILL SONGS
377
AMERICAS TEMPERANCE DRINK
415
Epilogue
423
Acknowledgments
425
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Donald Robert McCaig was born in Butte, Montana on May 1, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Montana. He served two years in the Marine Corps and pursued graduate studies at the University of Waterloo and Wayne State University. During the 1960s, he worked as a copy chief for an advertising agency in New York. In 1971, he bought a Virginia sheep farm. He wrote historical novels, books about Border collies, and two authorized follow-ups to Gone with the Wind. His fiction works included Jacob's Ladder, Canaan, The Butte Polka, Nop's Trials, Nop's Hope, Rhett Butler's People, and Ruth's Journey. His nonfiction works included An American Homeplace; Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men; and Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies. He died on November 11, 2018 at the age of 78.

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