Southwestern American Literature

Volume XVIII No. 1 (Fall 1992)

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*Nonfiction*

Moo-vie Cows: The Trail to Hollywood Don Graham	1

R.C. Vliet's Soledad: Rewriting the Southwest Kay Hetherly Wright	13

Tom Lea's Cloudrock Country Dorys Crow Grover	31

True Western: Sam Shepard's Early Plays Rudolf Erben	37


Fiction

The Battle of the Alamo Rafael Castillo	51

Woman of the Region James Hoggard	59

Can You Get There from Here? Donley Watt	67


Poetry

Inside the Riddle Naomi Shihab Nye	81

Feather Naomi Shihab Nye	82

Among the Many Friends of God Was One: Naomi Shihab Nye	84

Last Flight Out Jerry Bradley	86

If and Weather Jerry Bradley	87

Vultures Paul Ruffin	88

Burying Paul Ruffin	89


Reviews

Tirades and Evidence of Grace by Susan Bright how many moons by Mary Esther Frederick, Elaine O'Brien, Cynthia J. Harper, Pamela Rutherford, and Hazel Ward Tiny Stories by Dennis Ciscel Rene LeBlanc	93

This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World by Naomi Shihab Nye Roger Jones	95

The News From Brownsville: Helen Chapman's Letters from the Texas Military Frontier, 1848-1852 by Caleb Coker (ed.) James W. Pohl	97

War Scare on the Rio Grande: Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Border Conflict, 1913-1916 by Frank N. Samparano and Paul J. Vanderwood James W. Pohl	99

The Evening Star by Larry McMurtry Mark Busby	100

Final Harvest and Other Convictions and Opinions by C.L. Sonnichsen Sam Pendergrast	102

Franklin's Crossing by Clay Reynolds Kenneth W. Davis	104

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (No.1) by Lynn Gilbert and Pamela Cook (eds.) Roger Jones	106

Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya Jaime Armin Mejía	108

Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef by Stephen Harrigan Scott Slovic	110


Contributors	112

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