Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory
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Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory By Jo ...

Chapter 1:  Historical Erasure and Recovery in Gretel Ehrlich’s“The Solace of Open Spaces” and Janet Campbell Hale’S “Bloodlines”: “Odyssey of a Native Daughter”
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Chapter 1

Historical Erasure and Recovery in Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces and Janet Campbell Hale’S Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter

Autobiographical Adaptations of the Western in The Solace of Open Spaces

Snow had drifted against the tree, and the horse was buried up to his shoulder. McKay began digging, working his hands the way dogs do, while the horse looked on quizzically. Blocks of snow fell away, exposing a foreleg, a shoulder, then a shuddering flank.