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Hine, Robert Van Norden was born on April 26, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Robert Van Norden and Elizabeth (Bates) Hine.
( This imaginative story of Sarah Royce and her gold rush...)
This imaginative story of Sarah Royce and her gold rush journey to California brings depth and passion to a woman hitherto known only through her journal, A Frontier Lady. Robert Hine, historian of the American West, probes Sarah's stern piety to reveal her moral and physical struggles. Travel across desert and mountains by covered wagon was especially arduous for the Royce family because they were determined to observe the Sabbath, slowing their progress to the West. The harsh physical realities of poverty, disease, fire, flood, and childbirth are enlivened with passionate love, a mysterious murder, and a vicious lynching. "Robert Hine has imagined his way into the world of nineteenth-century westering Americans in a story deepened by his extensive and sensitive understanding of the complexities of Western history. . . . The settings, in particular, are brilliantly done. . . . Moreover, we have a very vivid sense of how people actually lived and died in their bodies."--Virginia Scharff, author of Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the American West
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(Novel based on the life of Job Harriman, socialist candid...)
Novel based on the life of Job Harriman, socialist candidate for mayor in Los Angeles in 1911, and co-founder of the Llano Colony in northern L.A. County. Harriman was a well-known free speech lawyer and, in 1911, becamse the Socialist Party's candidate for mayor of Los Angeles. This is a fictionalized account of his life in the utopian Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony which Harriman helped to establish north of Los Angeles in 1914.
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(A survey of frontier history, tracing the story from the ...)
A survey of frontier history, tracing the story from the first Columbian contacts between Indians and Europeans to the multicultural encounters of the modern southwest. It provides details about topics such as western landscapes, environmental movements, literature, arts and film.
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(Illustrated. Cloth binding, xii+292pp including Illustrat...)
Illustrated. Cloth binding, xii+292pp including Illustrations, Bibliography, and Index. University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.
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Hine, Robert Van Norden was born on April 26, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Robert Van Norden and Elizabeth (Bates) Hine.
Bachelor, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1948. Master of Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1952.
Instructor history, University of California, Riverside, 1954-1955; assistant professor, University of California, 1955-1961; associate professor, University of California, 1961-1966; professor, University of California, 1966-1990; professor emeritus, University of California, since 1990; professor recalled, University of California, Irvine, since 1990.
( This imaginative story of Sarah Royce and her gold rush...)
(A survey of frontier history, tracing the story from the ...)
(Novel based on the life of Job Harriman, socialist candid...)
( He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate sc...)
(Book by Hine, Robert V.)
(Book by Hine, Robert V.)
(Book by Hine, Robert V.)
(Book by Hine, Robert V.)
(Little, Brown & Co. #364398)
(Illustrated. Cloth binding, xii+292pp including Illustrat...)
Member of Western History Association (life honorary 1990, Award of Merit 1996), Book Club of California (Lifetime Achievement award 2006), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Shirley M. McChord, June 24, 1949. 1 child, Allison.