WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE INDIAN NATION; Writings from America's Heartland.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. First printing. Paperback. 5 x 9, 253 pgs, b&w illustrations. A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairies. The author creates a brilliant tableau of America's heartland with sixteen essays reflecting the finest examples of Wallis's writing and harkening back to a time before fast food and malls replaced family-owned diners along Route 66. From tales of the notorious Oklahoma panhandle, where "the only law was the colt and the carbine," to the fate of Woody Guthrie's mother Nora, who, burdened by depression, set fire to her kids and spent the last years of her life in an asylum, Brings to life some of Oklahoma's most memorable characters, the famous and infamous, the ordinary and down-home. Very Good+. Item #29576
ISBN: 9780806138244
Price: $9.00