Research Catalog

Title

One-smoke stories / Mary Austin ; critical introduction by Noreen Groover Lape.

Author

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934

Publication

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2003].

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Details

Description

lxvi, 177 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

One-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the bestselling writers of her day, Mary Austin. One-Smoke Stories introduces us to a multicultural treasury of character types: lovers, hunters, bandits, shepherds, miners, ranchers, homesteaders, missionaries, government offcials, and supernatural beings. Through folk tales, animal tales, and other genres of popular lore, Mary Austin acquaints readers with the spirituality, humor, and intercultural conflicts of the Southwest. Some stories are overtly political, critiquing the homesteader's conquest of nature, the assimilation policies of Christian missionaries, and the abuses of colonial government. Others use marriage, friendship, community, or religion to illustrate the values and traditions of people in the mainstream and at the margins of American culture. Originally published in 1934, One-Smoke Stories is one of several early-twentieth-century works that bridged the oral and literary realms by intertwining folklore and fiction. Introduced by Noreen Groover Lape, this new edition of One-Smoke Stories, like Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman, Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, stands as an important work in the multicultural canon.--Amazon.com.

Subject

• Immigrants > Fiction
• Indians of North America > Fiction
• Southwestern States > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.

Note

• Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The way of a woman -- The man who lied about a woman -- The woman who was never satisfied -- Sayings of the ancient men -- Lone tree -- The Governor's eye -- The coyote song -- A'wa Tseighe comes home from the war -- The man who walked with the Trues -- The Devil in Texas -- Papago Kid -- The man who made people laugh -- The shade of the arrows -- Instruction to the young -- The Spirit of the Bear Walking -- The conversion of Ah Lew Sing -- Speaking of bears
• The medicine of Bow-Returning -- Sayings of the ancient men II -- The bandit's prayer -- La visita -- The Alcalde of Ojo Verdoso -- Sayings of the sons of the conquistadores -- The politeness of Cuesta La Plata -- Stewed beans -- Wolf People -- The canoe that the partridge made -- White wisdom -- Business at Cuesta La Plata -- Sayings of Spanish New Mexico -- A telling of the love of Winnedumah for Pahwanike -- The man who was loved by women -- Hosteen Hatsanaf recants -- Approaching day -- Papago wedding -- Pan and the pot-hunter -- The Colonel's bear -- The last antelope -- Mixed blood.

ISBN

0804010617 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2003050563

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library