Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXXI No. 2 (Spring 2006)

Editors’ Page	v


*Nonfiction*

The Nature of Nature in Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful Robert W. Haynes	9

A Given Dot Betty Wiesepape	19


Fiction

Guadalupe and the Taxman Donald Lucio Hurd	27

Barrel Rider Lewis Schrager	35


*Poetry*

Santa Fe Healing Mary Diane Hausman	49

On a Green Patch Before Edcouch Rodney Gomez	50

Huitzilopochtli Rodney Gomez	51

Two in One Bradford Gray Telford	52

Night and Day Labor Bradford Gray Telford	53

Abandoned Malcolm Alexander	54

The Salt Journey Malcolm Alexander	55

Perverse Invertebrate Mark Smith	56

Colorscapes Mark Smith	57

Eating Melon from the Pecos Mark Smith	58

Four Tangos Mark Smith	60


*Reviews*

Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers edited by Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank Aaron A. Edstrom	67

Wars within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846-1848 by Irving W. Levinson Charles D. Grear	68

Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910 by Paul Hart Jeffrey K. Lucas	70

God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West by Todd M. Kerstetter Dick J. Reavis	72

Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women by Thomas H. Pauly Robert Murray Davis	74

The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark by Jackson J. Benson Jay Martin	76

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Robert Murray Davis	78

Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier by Sara L. Spurgeon John S. Hill	80

Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Oral Traditions by Alexander Posey, edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils Joel Minor	83

Two-Up: A Novel by Eric Miles Williamson Caroline Miles	85

Hear Him Roar: A Novel by Andrew Wingfield Jane Manaster	87

Drive: The First Quartet, New Poems, 1980-2005 by Lorna Dee Cervantes Crystal M. Kurzen	88


Contributors	92

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