THE SOUTHWEST IN LIFE & LITERATURE

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Since the American Southwest is everybody's fabled land, it's no wonder C. L. Sonni has compiled so rich and robust a collection of regional writing from the best Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas has produced. Of course, nothing here approaches the style and literary significance of New England or Dixi dramatics, but for sheer you've and variety, resplendent color and sweep, this anthology and its selections goes From the popularizes (Elliot Arnold, Edna Ferber) to the no-nonsense (Frank Waters), from the hard to find seminal tome (Ruxton's Far West) to the (Man, Rose Santee), from the quality novelists (Richter, La Farge, ) right (Andy Adams, ""Teddy Blue"") the range is remarkable the Indian legacy (its myths, miseries, warrior culture, spiritual strength), the New World (Spanish , Anglo commercialism, Mexican exploitation), all Santa Fe (bull baiting vaqueros, rollicking traders), the Callie and ""names"" Wes Hardin, Billy the Kid, Earp, Dalton et. al.) One laments the absence of Cather, Guthrie, Traven or anthropologist John Callie but even a limits. A grand, gratifying entertainment.

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Publisher: Devin-Adair

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1962

Categories: NONFICTION