Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXV No. 2 (Spring 2000)

Editors' Pages	iv


*Nonfiction*

Gene Autry, Oklahoma: Different Slants Robert Murray Davis	7

Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop: The Weight of Orientalism Kathleen Godfrey	15

Willa Cather and Oliver LaFarge’s Laughing Boy Janis P. Stout	31

Used to Be Places Gwendolyn Wooten Scott	39


*Fiction*

Ghosts and Empty Sockets Don Graham	51

Sierra Blanca Greg Garrett	59


Poetry

Truchas Rosary, 1997 Michael Schlemper	67

The Death Artist—Dallas, TX Joel B. Peckham Jr.	69

Carnations Larry D. Thomas	70


*Reviews*

The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources by Donald L. Fixico Mona Ford	73

Baby Precious Also Shines: Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas edited by Kay Turner John Reep	75

A Patriot After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet by Juan Ramirez Sherry York	76

Seasons in the Desert: A Naturalist’s Notebook by Susan J. Tweit Diane Thomas	78

Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens Barbara J. Cook	80

The Cold-and-Hunger Dance by Diane Glancy June Chase Hankins	82

Dreams of Quivira: Stories in Search of the Golden West by Robert Franklin Gish Verne Huser	84

Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories by Simon J. Ortiz Glenn Dayley	85

The Buckskin Line by Elmer Kelton Becky Matthews	86

The Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger Clay Reynolds	88

Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo Don Melichar	90

The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcalá Rachel Wright	91

Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women’s Writing by Krista Comer Mark Busby	92


Contributors	94

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