The characters in Harvey Fergusson's _Wolf Song_ (1927) are
the Mountain Men of Kit Carson's time, and the city of their
soul is rollicky Taos. It is a lusty, swift song of the
pristine earth. Fergusson's _The Blood of the Conquerors_
(1931) tackles the juxtaposition of Spanish-Mexican and Anglo-
American elements in New Mexico, of which state he is a
native. _Grant of Kingdom_ (1850) is strong in wisdom
life, vitality of character, and historical values.
FRED GIPSON'S _Hound-Dog Man_ and _The Home Place_ lack the
critical attitude toward life present in great fiction but
they are as honest and tonic as creek bottom soil and the
people in them are genuine.
FRANK GOODWYN'S _The Magic of Limping John_ (New York, 1944,
OP) is a coherence of Mexican characters, folk tales, beliefs,
and ways in the ranch country of South Texas. There is
something of magic in the telling, but Frank Goodwyn has not
achieved objective control over imagination or sufficiently
stressed the art of writing.
PAUL HORGAN of New Mexico has in _The Return of the Weed_
(short stories), _Far from Cibola_, and other fiction coped
with modern life in the past-haunted New Mexico.
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