Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXVIII No. 2 (Spring 2003)

Special Section: Louis Owens

Louis Dean Owens, 1948-2002 Jay Cox Hayward	6

Guest Editor’s Introduction: A Tribute to Louis Owens Jay Cox Hayward	9

Writing Where You Know Twister Marquiss	11

Memoir Cynthia Bodine	13

Who the Hell Is Donna Green? Linda Lizut Helstern	15

Louis Owens and “the Indian’s Escape from Gothic” David Mogen	21

Remembering Louis Owens Robert DeMott	29

Images of Louis Owens Margaret Dwyer	33

Shilup Crossing Michael Margherita	35

Louis Owens at Albuquerque International, July 24, 2002 Michael Johnson	36

Nalusachito Jay Ann Cox	37

Louis Owens Bibliography Compiled by Ryan Paul	41


*Fiction*

The Nine Ideas for a Happier Whole Amos Magliocco	53

Oasis Dublin Kari Stiller	65


Poetry

Uncle George and the Farm Aunt Martha Bought Walt McDonald	73

Boom Town in Montana Walt McDonald	74

Fire Drill at Mercymount Walt McDonald	75

Elegy (Ana, Eleven) Carol Guerrero-Murphy	76

Piñon Carol Guerrero-Murphy	78

Bones Larry D. Thomas	79


Reviews

Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 by Sherry L. Smith Daniel J. Herman	83

Photographing Navajos: John Collier Jr. on the Reservation, 1948-1953 photographs by John Collier Jr., text by C. Stewart Doty, Dale Sperry Mudge, and Herbert John Benally Gabrielle Snyder	85

True Tales from Another Mexico by Sam Quinones Andrea Tinnemeyer	86

Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico by Samuel Y. Edgerton Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez	88

Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital by Nathan F. Sayre James Kimmel	90

Gandydancer’s Children: A Railroad Memoir by Frank Wendell Call Jane Manaster	91

West of Empty: The Great Train Wreck by Bob Cherry Clay Reynolds	93

Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden David Cremean	96

Down by the Lemonade Springs: Essays on Wallace Stegner by Jackson J. Benson Susan Hanson	98

Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon by Byron E. Pearson James Kimmel	100

First to Fight by Henry Mihesuah, edited by Devon Abbott Mihesuah Alex Hunt	101

In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner edited by Patrick Burns Barbara J. Cook	103

Skin of the Earth: Stories from Nevada’s Back Country by Art Gibney Doug Werden	104

The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass edited by O. Alan Weltzein William B. Martin	106

Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey by Jack Loeffler Michael C. Ryan	108


Contributors	110

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