Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXXII No. 1 (Fall 2006)

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*Special Section: J. Frank Dobie*

J. Frank Dobie at Columbia University, 1913-1914: His Letters and Diary Catherine Supple & James Supple	9

Dobie’s Dream and That “Indigenous and Regional Fling”: Southwest Review, 1927-1932 Scott Robinson	37

Eros in Dobie Country Steve Davis	49

J. Frank Dobie’s Reputation and Influence: A Brief Overview Tom Pilkington	57

Whatever Happened to J. Frank Dobie? Paul Stone	65

Who Wrote A Vaquero of the Brush Country? A Strange Case of Demoted Authorship Don Graham	71

J. Frank Dobie: Who Replaced Him? Mark Busby	79


*Poetry*

Where Nothing Waits Carol Hamilton	95

somewhere between las vegas and cedar city David L. White	96

The Skull Larry D. Thomas	98

Piñata Larry D. Thomas	99

Tumbleweed Robert Faguet	100


*Reviews*

Grand Canyon: Little Things in a Big Place by Ann Zwinger Jane Manaster	103

Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935 by Martin Padget Jay Martin	104

Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez: 1893-1923 by David Dorado Romo James Wright	106

D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico: “The Time is Different There” by Arthur J. Bachrach Robert Murray Davis	109

Inferno by Charles Bowden, photographs by Michael P. Berman David Cremean	110

Warlock by Oakley Hall, with a new introduction by Robert Stone David Cremean	112

The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras: Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature and Criticism by Tey Diana Rebolledo Lacey Donohue	114

The Late Sooner by Sally Jadlow Susan K. Jaeger	116

The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas by Rob Johnson David Hadbawnik	117

Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy by Don Henry Ford, Jr. Joel Minor	119

Louis Owens by Linda Lizut Helstern David Mogen	120

Our House on Hueco by Carlos Nicolás Flores Jane Manaster	122

The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories by Rudolfo Anaya James Wright	123

Homer’s Place: A Novel by Harlan G. Koch Jay Martin	126

The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook Steve Davis	128

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Michael Madsen	129

Blue, Candled in January Sun: Poems by Sybil Pittman Estess Jan Epton Seale	132


Contributors	134

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