Home in the West: An Inquiry Into My Origins"A distinguished novelist (The Life of Riley, Wolf Song, In Those Days) and a man who has made the Southwest his own in his books as well as in his life, here tells the story of his boyhood and youth. It was a fabulous youth, lived in a country still half wilderness and filled with heroic memories of Spanish conquerors, Apaches, scouts, and bad men. But pioneers and pioneering were more than a memory to the author, for his adventurous grandfather freighted and fought Indians on the Santa Fe trail, and his father, a romantic product of the old south, was a pioneer lawyer and politician who followed the railroad west." Dust jacket. |
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HOME IS A COUNTRY | 3 |
A GERMAN IMMIGRANT TAKES | 14 |
A SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN GOES WEST | 48 |
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