Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXIII No. 1 (Fall 1997)

Editors' Pages	4


*Nonfiction*

Sam Chamberlain's Judge Holden and the Iconography of Science in Mid-19th Century Nation-Building Rick Wallach	9

Helen Hunt Jackson's "Hobby": The Sentimental Novel and Political Reform in the 19th-Century West Robyn M. Gronning	19

Dos Colorados Verne Huser	27


Fiction

To Buy a Knife Jerry Craven	35

Tattered Coat Upon a Stick Paul Ruffin	43


*Poetry*

How the Wax Churches of Los Aztecas Bloom Jan Epton Seale	63

Texas Time Elaine Woodruff	66

Closer to Home Elaine Woodruff	67

New Wood Robert A. Ayres	69

Insomnia Sarah Wolbach	70

Cowboy Cemetery, La Parra Ranch Sarah Wolbach	71

Notes toward a prairie paleontology Charles A. Peek	72

Icons of Passing Charles A. Peek	74


*Reviews*

Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith H. Basso Norman M. Whalen	77

The Fatal Confrontation: Historical Studies of American Indians, Environment, and Historians by Wilbur R. Jacobs James A. Wilson	78

With Custer on the Little Bighorn: A Newly Discovered First-Person Account by William 0. Taylor	79

Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer by Jeffry D. Wert	79

Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer by Louise Barnett Dorys Crow Grover	79

Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster Al Lowman	81

On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions by Jim Barnes Jane Manaster	83

Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush by Paul H. Carlson Jim Harris	85

Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West by Gary Holthaus Christopher Propst	87

Texas Iconoclast Maury Maverick, Jr. edited by Allan 0. Kownslar Robert Flynn	90

Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work by Jackson J. Benson Chris Robertson	92

Cather Studies, Volume 3 edited by Susan J. Rosowski J. Gerard Dollar	94

William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha by Thomas S. Hines John S. Hill	95

Updating the Literary West edited by Thomas J. Lyon and others Mark Busby	97

Gunfight: Thirteen Western Stories edited by James C. Work Roger W. Jones	98

The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew Mallory Young	99

Breathing Between the Lines: Poems by Demetria Martinez Susan M. Lucas	101

Southwestern Women: New Voices edited by Caitlin L. Gannon Myrna Zanetell	103


Contributors	105

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