Naturalism

Featured author for this period...

Chief Joseph

• • Chief JosephNew Perspectives on The West: Chief Joseph - great resource from PBS 

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Speech: "I WIll Fight No More Forever"  -p. 614

  • Log-in to your londonderry.org account to access this resource from Gale: Chief Joseph

  • Learn about the Nez Perce- Chief Joseph's Tribe

  • Log-in to your londonderry.org account to access this resource from Discovery Education: Chief Joseph Leads Brilliant Nez Perce Retreat

Even more to explore...

Miriam Davis Colt  

• •  Went to Kansas; Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to That Fairy Land, and its Sad Results; Together with a Sketch of the Life of the Author and How the World Goes with Her by Mrs. Miriam Davis Colt - the full e-text from the Kansas Collection created by a retired professor of the University of Kansas.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • •   Excerpt from Diary: "Heading West" -p. 608   

Jack London

• • Jack London - his life and books - an interesting site from the Jack London State Historic Park in California.   

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Short Story: "To Build a Fire" -p. 620 

 Audio Book/MP3 

London's short story, "To Build a Fire", is available as "literature for your eyes and ears" throughLoudLit.org!

 John Wesley Powell 

• • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Nonfiction: "The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth" - p.301

Ezra Pound

• •  Ezra Pound- from the Academy of American Poets, biographical information as well as links to some of his works.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Essay: "A Few Don'ts" p. 727   

      • Poem: "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" - p.730   

      • Poem: "In a Station of the Metro" - p.732

Carl Sandburg

• •  Carl Sandburg: Chicago Poems - read the full e-text of Sandburg's Chicago poems here. 

  • Carl Sandburg - biographical information and e-texts from the Academy of American Poets.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "Chicago" - p.840 

      •  Poem: "Grass" - p.842

Overall "Text to World" & "Text to Text" Connections for this Literary Period

• • American Memory Timeline - from the Learning Page at The Library of Congress, this link will help you connect American history to American literature.

Work Cited

The American Experience. New Jersey.  Prentice Hall Literature, 1991.