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Title:

Where coyotes howl and wind blows free : growing up in the West / edited by Alexandra R. Haslam and Gerald W. Haslam.

Publisher:

University of Nevada Press,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

xiii, 201 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

West (U.S.)--Literary collections.
West (U.S.)--Literary collections.
English literature
United States

Other Authors:

Haslam, Alexandra R., 1963-
Haslam, Gerald W.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201).

Contents:

Creation of the animal people / Okanogan (trad.) -- Coyote and bullfish / Jo Bender -- Rolling head / Skye Mitchell -- Hunting and fishing / Darryl Babe Wilson -- Varmints / Arnold R. ROjas -- The three men / Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Basque hotel / Robert Laxalt -- The golden carp / Rudolfo Anaya -- A frontier boyhood / Wallace Stegner -- The newsboy / Levi Peterson -- Recognition if an artist ; Captives / Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel -- Blue Danube waltz / Robert Franklin Gish -- Rodeo life / Cyra McFadden -- Water witch / Louis Owens.
The new sidewalk / Dorothy Bryant -- Mal de Ojo / Gerald W. Haslam -- Papa's holiday spirit / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Peato / Rafael Zapeda -- Cousin Mandy / Mary Helen Ponce -- A juk-sing opera / Genny Lim -- Grocery shopping with Aunt Greta / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Dried snakeskins / Hisaye Yamamoto -- The way west / Clark Brown -- Stepping stones in America / Bao-Tran Truong -- Reparation candy / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Being mean / Gary Soto -- Animal rights / Jess Mowry -- Bowling to find a lost father / Mee Her -- The seamstress / Wanda Coleman -- School days / John H. Irsfeld -- Funeral child / Richard Brautigan -- Elegy / James D. Houston.

Summary:

A collection of stories, folktales, legends, and essays set in the American West.

ISBN:

9780874172553
0874172551

LCCN:

94038567

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)