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[ 299 ]Introduction1. The Dust Bowl, directed by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan, PBS Dis-tribution, 2012.2. HRC 52.3.3. Douglas Wixson, “Introduction” to Sanora Babb, The Lost Traveler (Muse Ink, 2013), xvii.Chapter 1. Cheyenne Riding Like the Wind1. Babb describes this scene in her memoir An Owl on Every Post (Muse Ink, 2012). She also describes a fictionalized version of this scene in the 1938–39 draft of her novel Whose Names Are Unknown. First draft with handwritten corrections; also clippings, 1938, 1955 (original removed to box 92: restricted due to fragile condition, digital copy available for use), Sanora Babb Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (hereafter HRC) 7.10.2. Babb kept these moccasins her entire life, and they can be found in the Sa-nora Babb Collection, HRC’s Personal Effects Collection.3. Babb, Owl, 7.4. The text of this letter is included in the 1938–39 draft of Whose Names Are Unknown. Dorothy Babb also recounts this letter in her autobiography draft “Looking Back”: “Sell everything, Asa will help you. Letter soon.” HRC 70.1.5. Asa’s dialogue comes from Dorothy Babb’s autobiographical story “Look-ing Back,” HRC 70.1.Notes
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[ 299 ]Introduction1. The Dust Bowl, directed by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan, PBS Dis-tribution, 2012.2. HRC 52.3.3. Douglas Wixson, “Introduction” to Sanora Babb, The Lost Traveler (Muse Ink, 2013), xvii.Chapter 1. Cheyenne Riding Like the Wind1. Babb describes this scene in her memoir An Owl on Every Post (Muse Ink, 2012). She also describes a fictionalized version of this scene in the 1938–39 draft of her novel Whose Names Are Unknown. First draft with handwritten corrections; also clippings, 1938, 1955 (original removed to box 92: restricted due to fragile condition, digital copy available for use), Sanora Babb Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (hereafter HRC) 7.10.2. Babb kept these moccasins her entire life, and they can be found in the Sa-nora Babb Collection, HRC’s Personal Effects Collection.3. Babb, Owl, 7.4. The text of this letter is included in the 1938–39 draft of Whose Names Are Unknown. Dorothy Babb also recounts this letter in her autobiography draft “Looking Back”: “Sell everything, Asa will help you. Letter soon.” HRC 70.1.5. Asa’s dialogue comes from Dorothy Babb’s autobiographical story “Look-ing Back,” HRC 70.1.Notes
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents xi
  3. Acknowledgments xiii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1 Cheyenne Riding Like the Wind 5
  6. 2 A Dugout on the High Plains 24
  7. 3 The House on Horse Creek 43
  8. 4 “Study Like a House Afire” 50
  9. 5 Finding Venus 67
  10. 6 The Poet of Kansas 80
  11. 7 “Fling This Wild Song” 97
  12. 8 The Writers’ Congress 120
  13. 9 “I Demand You Write More Shamelessly and Nakedly” 135
  14. 10 “You Can’t Eat the Scenery” 156
  15. 11 Whose Names Are Unknown 171
  16. 12 The Changed World 186
  17. 13 She Felt Like the Wind 203
  18. 14 “Follow That Furrow” 220
  19. 15 “I Do Not Wish to Be Less than I Am” 239
  20. 16 The Lost Traveler 248
  21. 17 “Dust on [Her] Own Hills” 257
  22. 18 An Owl on Every Post 270
  23. 19 The Recovery of Whose Names Are Unknown 285
  24. Epilogue 293
  25. Notes 299
  26. Bibliography 333
  27. Index 343
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents xi
  3. Acknowledgments xiii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1 Cheyenne Riding Like the Wind 5
  6. 2 A Dugout on the High Plains 24
  7. 3 The House on Horse Creek 43
  8. 4 “Study Like a House Afire” 50
  9. 5 Finding Venus 67
  10. 6 The Poet of Kansas 80
  11. 7 “Fling This Wild Song” 97
  12. 8 The Writers’ Congress 120
  13. 9 “I Demand You Write More Shamelessly and Nakedly” 135
  14. 10 “You Can’t Eat the Scenery” 156
  15. 11 Whose Names Are Unknown 171
  16. 12 The Changed World 186
  17. 13 She Felt Like the Wind 203
  18. 14 “Follow That Furrow” 220
  19. 15 “I Do Not Wish to Be Less than I Am” 239
  20. 16 The Lost Traveler 248
  21. 17 “Dust on [Her] Own Hills” 257
  22. 18 An Owl on Every Post 270
  23. 19 The Recovery of Whose Names Are Unknown 285
  24. Epilogue 293
  25. Notes 299
  26. Bibliography 333
  27. Index 343
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