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Robert Franklin Gish
, 1940-
Robert Gish was born 1940, in Albuquerque, NM. He received his Ph.D from the University of Mexico in 1972. Gish firmly believes that it is through the rediscovery of the land and its indigenous peoples, and through understanding of minority cultures and viewpoints, that the Anglo-European culture of the United States will adapt and evolve. He was professor of English and Literature at the University of Northern Iowa from 1967-91, and has most reciently has retired as Director of Ethnic Studies and Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University.
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of New Mexico, 1992
(Photo courtesy of Robert F. Gish
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Books by Robert Franklin Gish:
Gish, Robert Franklin. Bad boys and black sheep : fateful tales from the West
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1996.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 181 p. ; 24 cm.
Series : Western literature series.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0874172802
Gish, Robert Franklin. Beautiful swift fox : Erna Fergusson and the modern southwest
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
Genre: Biography
Description: 205 p. ; 24 cm.
Series : Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no.7. Includes bibliographical references and index. Historians--Southwest, New--Biography. Authors, American--Southwest, New--Biography. Travelers' writings, Amercan--Southwest, New--History and criticism.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0890957199
Gish, Robert Franklin. Beyond bounds : cross-cultural essays on Anglo, American Indian & Chicano literature
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 170 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical reference and index. Contents : Charles F. Lummis and isleta Pueblo -- Erna Fergusson's travels toward exoticism -- Harvey Fergusson's legacy--Witter Bynner, poet in adobia -- The word medicine of James Welch -- Listening to Ray A. Yound Bear -- La Llorona, magic realism, and the frontier -- Curanderismo and witchery in the fiction of Rudolfo A. Anaya -- America as Aztlan : landscape, myth, and ethnicity in Rudolfo Anaya's Heart of Aztlan and Albuquerque, and Jimmy Santiago Baca's Martin and Meditations on the South Valley -- Jimmy Santiago Baca : writing the borderlands of ethnic and cultural crisis. American literature--Southwest (New)--History and criticism. Mexican Americans in literature. Indians in literature.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0826317154
Gish, Robert Franklin. Dreams of Quivira
Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers, 1996.
Genre: Fiction
Description: Western stories.
West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0940666979
Gish, Robert Franklin. First horses : stories of the new West
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1993.
Genre: Short Stories
Description: 134 p. ; 24 cm.
Series : Western literature series. Western stories. West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0874172101 / 087417211x
Gish, Robert Franklin. Frontier's end : the life and literature of Harvey Fergusson
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Genre: Biography
Description: 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliography and index. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. Western stories--History and criticism. Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0803221215
Gish, Robert Franklin. Hamlin Garland : the Far West
Boise, Idaho : Boise State University, 1976.
Genre: Essays
Description: 48 p. ; 21 cm. Bibliography: p. 45-48.
Boise State University Western writers series ; no. 24 Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940--Criticism and interpretation. Western stories--History and criticism.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0884300234
Gish, Robert Franklin. Nueva Granada / Paul Horgan and the southwest
College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, 1994.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 139 p. ; 24 cm.
Series : Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities, no. 6. Includes bibliographical references and index. Horgan, Paul, 1903-New Mexico. New Mexico--In literature.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0890955400
Gish, Robert Franklin. Paul Horgan
Boston : Twayne, 1983.
Genre: Biography
Description: 143 p ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliography and index. Horgan, Paul, 1903---Criticism and interpretation.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0805773991
Gish, Robert Franklin. Retold Native American Myths
Logan, Iowa : Perfection Learning, 1994.
Genre: Folklore
Description: 167 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. 10 stories for youthful readers. Retold myths series. CONTENTS: Welcome -- Creation : The woman who fell from the sky -- The four worlds -- Romance : Scarface -- Oochigeas and the invisible hunter -- Heroes : Saynday gets the sun -- Two Feathers and Turkey Boy -- Tricksters : Coyote and the thundering rock -- The one who sets things right -- How and why : The vision quest -- Coyote and death.
Audience: Youth
ISBN: 0780732219
Gish, Robert Franklin. Songs of my hunter heart : a western kinship
Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1992.
Description: 150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Hunting--West (U.S.)
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0813807034
Gish, Robert Franklin. West Bound: Stories of Providence
UNM Press, 2005.
Genre: Short Stories
Description: p135
9.06x6.16x.47 in. .51 lbs. Literature--General
ISBN: 0975348647
Gish, Robert Franklin. When coyote howls : a lavaland tale
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Genre: Folklore / Fiction
Description: 138 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Coyote (Legendary character)--Fiction. Zoology--Rio Grande Valley--Fiction.
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 0826315283
Gish, Robert Franklin. William Carlos Williams : the short fiction
Boston, MA : Twayne Publishers, 1989.
Genre: Essays
Description: 215 p. ; 23 cm. Twayne's studies in short fiction ; no. 10. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 199-208.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963--Criticism and interpretation. Short story.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0805783075
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