Southwestern American Literature

Volume XVIII No. 2 (Spring 1993)

Editors' Page	iv


*Nonfiction*

A Song Not-So-Plain, Not-So-Unknown Charles A. Peek	7

Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child Marie Schein	9

Plantation Owner or Rancher: Texas Literature and Racial Myths Ron Cabal	27


Fiction

The Reluctant Truth Robert Flynn	35

Cosmic Blues Jim Finley	45

Wedding Party Greg Garrett	57

A High Place Donley Watt	67


Poetry

Old Bulls in Summer Walter McDonald	77

1898/1992 Rising Star, Texas Carol Cullar	78

The Cafe Terrace At Arles At Night (1888) Lynn D. Gilbert	79

Sin of Piscinity Charlotte Renk	80


Reviews

Letters of Mari Sandoz by Mari Sandoz Dorys Crow Grover	85

The Texas Folklore Society 1909-1943 (Vol. 1) by Francis Edward Abernethy Rollo Newsom	86

The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber Rebekah Thacker	89

The Destruction of California Indians by Robert F. Heizer (ed.) The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California by C. Hart Merriam (coll. and ed.) Domino Perez	90

Between Towns: Poems by Laurie Kutchins Amy Lay	92

Nellie Cashman: Prospector and Trailblazer by Suzanne Ledbetter Jaime Armin Mejía	94

The Useless Servants by Rolando Hinojosa Jaime Armin Mejía	96

Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle by Pat Mora Jaime Armin Mejía	98

The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene by Reg Saner Scott Slovic	99


Contributors	102

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