Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXX No. 2 (Spring 2005)

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*Nonfiction*

The Art of Paradox and Contradiction in "Free Speech: The Cowboy and His Cow": Edward Abbey, Michel Montaigne, and the Essay Michael C. Ryan	9

Tasmin as an American Eve in Larry McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives Roger Walton Jones	19

Beauty and History in Clay Reynolds' Franklin's Crossing John Rothfork	29


Fiction

The Cactus House Larry Caldwell	47


*Poetry*

One-Room Schoolhouse Keith Ekiss	61

Last One Left John Grey	62

Poison Water-Hole John Grey	63

El eterno retorno (photograph) Bill Wittliff	64

Contemplating My Eternal Return Michele M. Miller	65

Drink Michele M. Miller	66


*Reviews*

The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest by David Roberts Don Melichar	69

Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition by George Wilkins Kendall, edited by Gerald D. Saxon and William R. Taylor Clay Reynolds	70

Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory by Virginia Kerns Doug Werden	74

Caddo Verb Morphology by Lynette R. Melnar Martin M. Jacobsen	76

The Southwest: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures edited by Mark Busby Jesse Alemán	78

Westward: A Fictional History of the American West edited by Dale L. Walker James Wright	80

Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present by Rosemary R. King Mark Busby	84

Silko: Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman by Brewster E. Fitz Robin Cohen	85

The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s by John M. Nieto-Phillips Martin M. Jacobsen	87

Adventures with a Texas Humanist by James Ward Lee James Gray	89

Let's Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers edited by Sylvia Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger Priscilla Leder	92

Hat Dance: A Novel by Michael A. Thomas Becky Matthews	94

Loop Group: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Clay Reynolds	95

Jemez Spring by Rudolfo Anaya Robert Murray Davis	98

Corpus Christi: Stories by Bret Anthony Johnston Michael Wolfe	100

Ant Farm, 1968-1978 by Constance M. Lewallen and Steve Seid Jeremey Cagle	101


Contributors	104

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