Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXIII No. 2 (Spring 1998)

Editors' Pages	v


*Nonfiction*

Writing With a Purpose: The 19th-Century Beginnings of Texas Women's Writing Sylvia Grider	9

Larry McMurtry's Buffalo Girls Novelizing the Historic West S. Renee Dechert	15

Right and False Suns: Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing and the Advent of the Atomic Age Alex Hunt	31


*Fiction*

Multiple Choice Robert Flynn	41

Deep Red Philip Heldrich	47


*Poetry*

Pastures Miles Away Walt McDonald	59

Driving Toward Houston Paul Christensen	60

Sketch in Charcoal William Bedford Clark	62

Where The West Begins Robert A. Fink	63

Mrs. Mary Clack Recounts The First Night Of Her Family's journey West, Camped On Rock Creek Robert A. Fink	64

Camped At Rock Creek, Mary Hampton Clack Hears A Man Singing in The Night Robert A. Fink	65

Incident Near Ranger Hill Robert A. Fink	66

Leaving The Hills, Mary And John Clack Begin The Last Leg Of Their Journey Robert A. Fink	67

Editing Sky Dave Parsons	68

A Second Letter David Taylor	70

87 Flat (homage to the Texas panhandle driving through) David Taylor	71


*Reviews*

The Bedbugs' Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter collected, translated, and edited by Ekkehart Malotki Dean Rader	75

Tales of the Wichitas by Basil Moss Chuck Peek	76

A Good Year to Die: Story of the Great Sioux War by Charles M. Robinson III John S. Hill	78

Ruger & His Guns: A History of the Man, the Company, and Their Firearms by R. L. Wilson Michael J. Pierson and Erika L. Pierson	80

Speakingfor the Generations: Native Writers on Writing by Simon J. Ortiz Paul Olson	81

The Desert Grassland edited by Mitchel P. McClaran and Thomas R. Van Devender Richard A. Earl	83

Fear Falls Away, & Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places by Janice Emily Bowers J. Gerard Dollar	84

Valley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu by Lesley Poling-Kempes Jeffrey S. Smith	85

Encounters with the Other: A Personal Journey by John Howard Griffin Mark Busby	87

Keepers of the Earth by LaVerne Harrell Clark Jim Harris	88

Sleeping with Random Beasts by Karin Goodwin Sherry Fay Clements	89

Photo & Word by David Robertson Michael P. Branch	90

A New Time for Mexico by Carlos Fuentes Josh Busby	92


Contributors	95

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