Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXIV No. 2 (Spring 1999)

Editors' Pages	iv


Nonfiction

The Early Years of Texas Monthly: The Correspondence of Founding Editor William Broyles, Jr. Steve Davis	7

The Dialect Joke Rides the Range: The Emergence of Dialect Humor in Cowboy Poetry Rebecca Matthews	23

Self-Reflexive Storytelling and Narrative Borders in Dagoberto Gilb’s The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña Peter Donahue	33

More Texas Women Writers: Anita Richmond Bunkley Sylvia Ann Grider	41

Of Apricots, Orchids, and Wovoka: An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko Robin Cohen	51

Making a Dam in Segovia Paul Ruffin	73


*Fiction*

Preservation Paul Bowers	77


*Poetry*

Farm Fable Allen Braden	87

Emily Greer, Along the Snake River, the Oregon Trail, 1846 Robert Cooperman	88

Aztec Exhibit: The World of Motecuhzoma Katie Kingston	89

From An Inexplicable Hotel Errol Miller	90

Duchamp’s Golden Girl Frances Neidhardt	91


Reviews

Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko Robin Cohen	95

Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920 by Linda Williams Reese Ramona Ford	97

The Birds of Sonora by Stephen M. Russell and Gale Monson Greg W. Lasley	99

Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers by Richard W. Slatta James A. Wilson	100

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry John Tiefenbacher	101

Of Time and Change by Frank Waters Thomas D. Meyers	103

Vintage Colorado Short Stories: When Past Met Present edited by James B. Hemesath Billy Bob Hill	107

El Camino del Rio and A West Texas Soapbox by Jim Sanderson Laurie Champion	108

Dancing Ghosts: Native American and Christian Syncretism in Mary Austin’s Work by Mark T. Hoyer Michael P. Branch	110

The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence by Alison Hawthorne Deming Prudence Arceneaux	112

Lone Star Swing: On the Trail of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys by Duncan McLean Susan Rosen	114


Contributors	116

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