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Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West. He was born in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah for a few years, but interrupted his education to serve in World War I. After the war, he attended Harvard University. January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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A historian is a person who studies history. ...
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The American West (or The West), is an informal but well-recognized name for the region comprising the 17 or 13 (depending on historical time period and authority) of the most western states in the continental United States. ...
Ogden sign over Washington Boulevard at the Ogden River; toward downtown Ogden is a city located in Weber County, Utah. ...
The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) was established by Mormon leader Brigham Young. ...
World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...
Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...
He began his career as an English instructor at Northwestern University and began to write articles and novels, which often provoked controversy for their liberal viewpoint. Sometimes he used the pseudonyms John August and Cady Hewes. After several years, DeVoto resigned from Northwestern and moved to Massachusetts with his wife. He began to devote himself to serious writing along with part-time instructing at Harvard. He wrote frequent articles for periodicals, with a regular column, "The Easy Chair," in Harper's Magazine from 1935 until his death. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The Arch, the main entrance to Northwesterns Evanston campus Northwestern University is a private university which has its main campus in Evanston, Illinois, on a 240-acre (970,000 m²) campus along the shore of Lake Michigan. ...
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State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th) - Land 20,317 km² - Water 7,043 km² (25. ...
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DeVoto became an authority on Mark Twain and served as a curator and editor for Mark Twain's papers. For a few years in the late 1930s he lived in New York City, where he was editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, and then returned to Massachusetts. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ...
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In DeVoto's later years, he gained fame for his popular histories of the West, starting with Across the Wide Missouri, and for his pugnacious and controversial defenses of land and water conservation and of civil liberties. Across the Wide Missouri is the title of a 1947 historical work by Bernard De Voto. ...
His son, Mark DeVoto, is a prominent music theorist and professor at Tufts University. Music theory is the name for a branch of study that includes many different methods for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music. ...
A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ...
Tufts University is a private university located in Medford, Massachusetts. ...
Selected works of Bernard DeVoto
- Mark Twain's America (1932)
- Mark Twain in Eruption (1940)
- Mark Twain at Work (1942)
- The Year of Decision: 1846 (1942)
- The Portable Mark Twain (1946)
- Across the Wide Missouri (1947)
- The Course of Empire (1952)
- The Journals of Lewis and Clark, editor (1953)
Across the Wide Missouri is the title of a 1947 historical work by Bernard De Voto. ...
Sources - Stegner, Wallace E. 2001, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto.
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