Ruede Howard (40 results)

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Moderate edge wear on covers. Otherwise in very good condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps. 1st Edition. First PB Edition, 4th printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine and unmarked. 248pp inc. textual footnotes, Index 288 p. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Paperback Reprint. 248 Pages Indexed. This is a paperback reprint of the 1937 copyright with a new 1983 twenty-one page Foreword. Covers show very minor corner and edge wear and a small crease on back cover. There is a paste-on The Old West - Abiene Kansas on the front cover. Interior text pages are flawless. Howard Ruede's letters were collected by John Ise, while Ise was studying pioneer life in the late 1920s in Osborne County, Kansas. Ise used several different kinds of materials in assembling the collection. Part of what we have here consists of letters written by Ruede to friends and relatives back home in Pennsylvania. These letters, some of which were published in his hometown newspaper, were written during the first year of Ruede's homesteading efforts; in them he tried to explain the reality of pioneer life for others who were contemplating a move west. Ise also took materials from the Osborne County Farmer, a small newspaper for which Ruede set type and wrote. Ruede had expanded some of his original letters and notes and had published them in the Farmer. Ise then edited the letters, eliminating what he considered to be personal matters and combining materials from the Farmer with Ruede's letters to his friends and family in Pennsylvania. When Ise was preparing his own classic Sod and Stubble, published in 1936, a year before Sod-House Days came out, he drew on materials such as Ruede's interviews with Ise's mother and with people from Osborne County, as well as on articles in the Farmer. Ise's family had pioneered near what is now the town of Downs, Kansas, only a few miles from Howard Ruede's claim. Ise's book and Ruede's letters enrich one another touching on the same themes. This book is a moving account of life on the American frontier.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1983. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Reprint of the Columbia University original. Book Condition: Near Fine. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 248 pp. The homesteader Ruede possessed the ability of expressing himself clearly in writing with his word pictures giving vivid accounts of experiences gained in carving a farm from the Kansas plains. This is the story an ordinary person with heroic dimensions who is faced with drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and other disasters but kept trying again and again in a struggle against the environment. A clean and very presentable copy.…

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Paperback. fine trade paperback.

Condition: good. A former university library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. No dustjacket included, as pictured. The pages appear unmarked. Light staining on the page edges. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central Kansas. A young man of courage, common sense, and independence, Ruede was filled with the optimism and determination typical of the men and women who took up the challenge of homesteading on the prairie. Brought together by economist John Ise and first published in 1937, Sod-House Days is a collection of the letters Ruede wrote to his family in Pennsylvania chronicling his first year in Kansas. In minute detail these letters show the hard, wearying work faced by homesteaders in the 1870s, their almost unbelievable poverty, the hardships of poor food, inadequate clothing, crowding, unsanitary conditions, the lack of decent drinking water, the bedbugs and fleas, flies and mosquitoes. We see Ruede struggling to stay out of debt, walking miles to pick up the mail or to visit a neighbor, working until his bare feet are rubbed raw by the wheat stubble of the fields, going without meat because he hasn't been able to kill a jackrabbit, cooking biscuits in a kettle over his sod fireplace. Taken together, his observations constitute a careful and graphic picture of the pioneer community in which he lived, one that joins recent studies such as Sandra Myres's Westering Women and the Frontier Experience in presenting an accurate, if brutal, picture of life on the western frontier. In a perceptive new foreword, sociologist Scott G. McNall considers the context within which the story of Howard Ruede unfolded. He delineates the forces and factors that contributed to the rapid settlement of the Great Plains. He reads the dominant themes that run through Ruede's letters: an almost religious faith in progress and hard work, and a tremendous concern for the idea of community. He also addresses a central question: What made these people stay? McNall writes, ""The value of these materials has been not at all reduced by the passage of time. . . . [This] is the story of an ordinary person with heroic dimensions. Reading these letters, we see what values people had which allowed them to try, and then try again, after they had seen their efforts destroyed by drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and other disasters. . . . It is a story of struggle with the environment, of creative adaption to circumstance, of people as active participants in creating the society around them.…

vi+248pp. Minor rubbing to perimeters. VG.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 248 pages. End leaves are darkened near binding. Volume is otherwise tight and very clean. Dust jacket shows scattered light rubbing and a few small and light smudges. Jacket is otherwise bright and clean, and now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve.…

Hard. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Columbia Univ Press, 1937, first printing. 8vo., xii+248pp.Blue embossed cloth with gilt spine titles. Fine.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Columbia University Press, 1937. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with shelf wear and spotting to top page ends. No dust jacket. An excellent copy of this prolific and vintage biographical work.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central Kansas. A young man of courage, common sense, and independence, Ruede was filled with the optimism and determination typical of the men and women who took up the challenge of homesteading on the prairie. Brought together by economist John Ise and first published in 1937, Sod-House Days is a collection of the letters Ruede wrote to his family in Pennsylvania chronicling his first year in Kansas. In minute detail these letters show the hard, wearying work faced by homesteaders in the 1870s, their almost unbelievable poverty, the hardships of poor food, inadequate clothing, crowding, unsanitary conditions, the lack of decent drinking water, the bedbugs and fleas, flies and mosquitoes. We see Ruede struggling to stay out of debt, walking miles to pick up the mail or to visit a neighbor, working until his bare feet are rubbed raw by the wheat stubble of the fields, going without meat because he hasn't been able to kill a jackrabbit, cooking biscuits in a kettle over his sod fireplace. Taken together, his observations constitute a careful and graphic picture of the pioneer community in which he lived, one that joins recent studies such as Sandra Myres's Westering Women and the Frontier Experience in presenting an accurate, if brutal, picture of life on the western frontier. In a perceptive new foreword, sociologist Scott G. McNall considers the context within which the story of Howard Ruede unfolded. He delineates the forces and factors that contributed to the rapid settlement of the Great Plains. He reads the dominant themes that run through Ruede's letters: an almost religious faith in progress and hard work, and a tremendous concern for the idea of community. He also addresses a central question: What made these people stay? McNall writes, ""The value of these materials has been not at all reduced by the passage of time. . . . [This] is the story of an ordinary person with heroic dimensions. Reading these letters, we see what values people had which allowed them to try, and then try again, after they had seen their efforts destroyed by drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and other disasters. . . . It is a story of struggle with the environment, of creative adaption to circumstance, of people as active participants in creating the society around them.…