Books with title Life among the Savages

Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Cheaper by the Dozen, and anything Erma Bombeck ever wrote will find much to recognize in Shirley Jackson's home and neighborhood: children who won't behave, cars that won't start, furnaces that break down, a pugnacious corner bully, household help that never stays, and a patient, capable husband who remains lovingly oblivious to the many thousands of things mothers and wives accomplish every single day."Our house," writes Jackson, "is old, noisy, and full. When we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books." Jackson's literary talents are in evidence everywhere, as is her trenchant, unsentimental wit. Yet there is no mistaking the happiness and love in these pages, which are crowded with the raucous voices of an extraordinary family living a wonderfully ordinary life.

John C. Cremony was the first white man to become fluent in the Apache language.This gave him unrivalled access and understanding of the Apache culture and society.Cremony had first entered the world of the Old West in 1846 when he left Massachusetts to serve in the Mexican-American War as a Spanish-language interpreter, rising to the rank of lieutenant.After a brief hiatus away from the West he returned in 1849 to serve as interpreter for the U.S. Boundary Commission which was at that time creating the border between Mexico and the United States.It was during this time that Cremony developed relationships with some Apache tribespeople, including two chiefs, Mangas Colorados and Cochise.Although it was often peaceful between the United States and the Apaches, relations sometimes broke down and Cremony records a number of incidents when violence erupted.Cremony’s Life Among the Apaches is a fascinating book that takes the reader into the heart of the old west when American troops and settlers, Apache Native Americans and Mexicans, fought, survived and co-operated in these wild lands."Like most frontiersmen of the mid-nineteenth century, John C. Cremony looked on Indians as unredeemable savages. But he knew Apaches first hand and was a keen and highly literate observer. For all its ethnocentrism, his narrative remains unsurpassed for accuracy and vivid detail among contemporary views of the Apaches. In the literature of the American West Life among the Apaches endures as a classic." — Robert M. UtleyJohn C. Cremony was an American soldier who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and later became a newspaperman in San Francisco. Cremony authored Life Among the Apaches, published in 1869, in which he described his experiences with the tribe. He passed away in 1879.

Published by Time-Life from 1980-1984 in leather binding. The Classics of the Old West series is one of the most remarkable undertakings of Time-Life Publications. Each title and author was especially selected to represent the stories of or works about the Old West as written by those who actually lived it. Each volume is a reprint of an original Old West book including illustrations, plates, and even errors. Each book measures about 8 ½ by 6 inches, and together, cover almost 4 linear feet of shelf space. Time-Life issued these hardcover books with genuine leather binding