Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
Prologue: Annie's Gaze -- A Note on the Editing -- Introduction: Stories That Matter, the Matter of Stories -- A Story of the Diary -- Intertext: The Year 1881 -- Time, Days, and Page -- Intertext: The Year 1882 -- Putting Things to Right Generally -- Making Ordinary Writing.
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Krutch's trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environment of Arizona's Sonoran Desert turn to weighty questions about humanity and the precariousness of our existence, putting lie to Western denials of mind in the "lower" forms of life: "Let us not say that this animal or even this plant has 'become adapted' to desert conditions. Let us say rather that they have all shown courage and ingenuity in making the best of the world as they found it.
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Extraordinary work of ordinary writing.
0877458332
Ray, Annie,active 19th century
Sinor, Jennifer,1969-Family.
Ray, Annie,active 19th century.
Sinor, Jennifer,1969-
Autobiography-- Authorship.
Diaries-- History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life-- United States.
Women pioneers-- United States, Diaries.
Autobiography-- Authorship.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Women.
Diaries.
Families.
Frontier and pioneer life.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Composition & Creative Writing.