''Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West,'' is a collection of essays by the American writer
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. . It was published in 2001 by
New York Review Books
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, and consists chiefly of articles, book reviews and also some interesting tidbits about the young woman that had appeared in the publishing house's affiliated magazine
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between 1997 and 2001. The book was generally well received by reviewers.
McMurtry dedicated the book to
Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein ( Zimmerman; August 30, 1928 – June 16, 2006) was a literary editor and founding co-editor of ''The New York Review of Books''.
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, editor of the NYRB.
Contents
# The West Without Chili
# Inventing the West
# Chopping Down the Sacred Tree
# A Heroine of the Prairies
# Zuni
# Cookie Pioneers
# Powell of the Colorado
# Pulpmaster
# Janet Lewis
# The American Epic
# Sacagawea's Nickname
# Old Misery
2001 non-fiction books
American essay collections
Books by Larry McMurtry
History books about the American Old West
Sacagawea
Books of literary criticism
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