Southwestern American Literature

Volume XIX No. 2 (Spring 1994)

Editors' Page	v


*Nonfiction*

The Theology of Survival: The Identity of Forrest/Asa Carter and Religion in His Fiction Lawrence Clayton	9

Special Section on J. Frank Dobie Guest Editor's Introduction Richard A. Holland	21

Harry Ransom and J. Frank Dobie: The University of Texas Brings a Renegade Back into the Fold Richard A. Holland	25

Carl Hertzog and J. Frank Dobie: Portrait of a Productive Friendship Al Lowman	35

Orality Against Text: The Central Tension in J. Frank Dobie's Literary Career Paul C. Stone	45


*Fiction*

Navy Blue and Gold James Ward Lee	55

Hunger Pangs Dana Leigh Daniel	61


*Poetry*

Grandma's Anecdote Chip Dameron	71

Scraps for a Ghost Chip Dameron	72

Don Diablo Chip Dameron	73

An Upcorrung Birth David Stevenson	74

A Soliloquy for Mentone, Texas Billy G. Moore	75


Reviews

The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb Jay Ann Cox	79

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Mark Busby	80

Alligator Dance by Janet Peery Steve Davis	81

Horton Foote's Three Trips to Bountiful by Barbara Moore and David G. Yellin eds. Nancy Grayson	83

Walls Rise Up by George Sessions Perry Clay Reynolds	85

Scene from the Movie Giant by Tino Villanueva Jaime Armin Mejia	86

The Newton Boys: Portrait Of an Outlaw Gang by Claude Stanush and David Middleton eds. Ramons Lucius	88

A Month of Sundays by Kent Biffle Elmer Kelton Country: The Short Nonfiction of a Texas Novelist by Elmer Kelton Dick Heaberlin	89

Apache Reservation: Indigenous Peoples and the American State by Richard J. Perry John S. Hill	91

Los Comanches by Stanley Noyes Clay Reynolds	92

Ella Deloria's "Iron Hawk" by Julian Rice Black EUc Holy Man of the Ogalala by Michael Steltenkamp Domino Perez	94

Forgotten Frontier: The Story of Southeastern New Mexico by Carol Larson Jim Harris	96

Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico by Malcolm Ebright John S. Hill	98

North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origin, Diffusion, and Differentiation by Terry G. Jordan Bell Ranch: Cattle Ranching in the Southwest, 1824-1947 by David Remley Lawrence Clayton	99

The Mississippi Kite: Portrait of a Southern Hawk by Eric G. Bolen and Dan Flores Robert O'Connor	100

Birds - Other Wildlife of South Central Texas: A Handbook by Edward A. Kutac and S. Christopher Caran Dick Heaberlin	102

Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion by Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr. Priscilla Leder	103

The Burden of Southern History by C. Vann Woodward Jose Alfredo Bach	104

A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano by Ruben Navarrette, Jr. Jaime Armin Mejia	105


Contributors	109

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