Of chiles, cacti, and fighting cocks
Subtitle: notes on the American West
By: Frederick Turner ; [introduction by William Kittredge].
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Fulcrum Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Golden, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Legends -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Notes: Originally published: [San Francisco, Calif.] : North Point Press, 1990.
Table of contents: title: Encountering a real West; title: Life on the line : along the 100th meridian; title: Purple Kid; title: The life of dry spaces; title: Wind on the buffalo grass; title: Roping a dream; title: Triumph of the "bascos"; title: Beseda at Deming; title: A lot like it hot; title: Time and the river; title: A custom of the country; title: Buying the West; title: and selling it : two versions; title: Georgia O'Keeffe : her conquest of space; title: Tasunke Witko, Crazy Horse; title: and Still a strange man; title: Winter counts; title: Visions of the Pacific.