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Volume XXX No. 1 (Fall 2004)

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Nonfiction

Titles	Page Number
Willa Cather’s “River of Silver Sound”: Woman as Ecosystem in The Song of the Lark Matthew Wynn Sivils	9
Language and the Dance of Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian John Rothfork	23
That Truth Beyond Particulars: Silence in Rilla Askew’s The Mercy Seat Kenneth Hada	37

Fiction

Titles

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Horses
Jim Meirose

57

Poetry

Titles	Page Number
Barbed Wire Larry D. Thomas	69
Stampede Larry D. Thomas	70
Western Artist Larry D. Thomas	71
Rob in the Morning Jean Howard	72
Falsetto Sky Joey Nicoletti	73
Balloons Over the Sandias Joey Nicoletti	74
At the Trinity Site Joey Nicoletti	75
Whirlwinds Carol Hamilton	76

Reviews

Titles	Page Number
Eldorado: The California Gold Rush by Dale L. Walker Jean A. Stuntz	83
Maria Chabot-Georgia O’Keeffe: Correspondence, 1941-1949 edited by Barbara Buhler Lynes and Ann Paden Julia Drescher	84
Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 by Gilbert G. González James Wright	86
El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Mark Cameron Edberg James Wright	89
Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS by Lisa Magaña Angelica Grado-Wright and James Wright	92
Sam Peckinpah’s West: New Perspectives edited by Leonard Engel Ken Melichar	95
A Law for the Lion: A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands by Beatriz de la Garza Bob J. Frye	99
College Rodeo: From Show to Sport by Sylvia Gann Mahoney Jane Manaster	101
Louis Owens: Literary Reflections on His Life and Work edited by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick Emily Spiegelman	103
Icons of Loss and Grace: Moments from the Natural World by Susan Hanson Dickie Maurice Heaberlin	105
Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico by Alice Corbin edited by Lois Rudnick and Ellen Zieselman Robert A. Ayres	107
The Keepsake Storm by Gina Franco Dave Oliphant	110
In the Shadow of the Strip: Las Vegas Stories edited by Tina D. Eliopulos, Richard Logsdon, and Todd Moffet Sarah Faulkner	115
El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border by Richard Yañez Joseph McDade	117
Shambles: A Novel by Debra Monroe Gabrielle Snyder	119
Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond by Steven L. Davis Chad Hammett	121
Contributors	123