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      The Enemy Gods

      Oliver La Farge

      In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Laughing Boy, La Farge presented a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. He later returned to the Navajo scene with The…

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      The Man with the Calabash Pipe

      Oliver La Farge

      From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge wrote weekly columns for The Santa Fe New Mexican. This edition collects the writings as edited by…

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      Cochise of Arizona

      Oliver La Farge

      A fictionalized biography of Cochise who, aided by his friend and interpreter Tom Jeffords, works hard to negotiate a peace treaty between white men and his people, the Chiricahua Apaches.

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      A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories: Facsimile of 1957 edition

      Oliver La Farge

      La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these 16 stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys adjusting to…

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      The Mother Ditch

      Oliver La Farge

      This story of the acequias (main water line) in Spanish and English details how this mother ditch was the life-line for people living in northern New Mexico.

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      Raw Material: The Autobiographical Examination of an Artist’s Journey into Maturity

      Oliver La Farge

      In his autobiography, Father wrote a superior account of one man’s life … the account of how the raw material of one boy grew into a man whose life both…

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      Behind the Mountains

      Oliver La Farge

      Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge died in 1963. Of his many books, this work has earned the affection of Santa Feans and New Mexicans, who continue to regard it as a…

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      Laughing Boy

      Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy…

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      Oliver La Farge and the American Indian: A Biography

      Robert A. Hecht

      Oliver La Farge was a Pulitzer-prize winning writer, an anthropologist specializing in Mayan Indians, and a major figure in 20th-century American Indian welfare and reform. Because of La Farge’s long…

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      Oliver La Farge and the American Indian: A Biography

      Robert A. Hecht

      Oliver La Farge was a Pulitzer-prize winning writer, an anthropologist specializing in Mayan Indians, and a major figure in 20th-century American Indian welfare and reform. Because of La Farge’s long…

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      In Beauty It Is Finished: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver La Farge

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      In Beauty It Is Finished: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver La Farge is a hybrid biography of an American author best known for his novel Laughing Boy…

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