Waters, Frank - Charles L. Adams (essay date 1987)
Charles L. Adams (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Frank Waters," in A Literary History of the American West, Texas Christian University Press, 1987, pp. 935-57.
[An American educator, Adams is the founder of the Frank Waters Society and the editor of the series "Studies in Frank Waters." Acquainted with Waters since 1971, he coedited Waters's 1982 edition of W. Y. Evans-Wentz's Cuchama and Sacred Mountains and was the editor of Frank Waters: A Retrospective Anthology (1984). In the following essay, he provides an overview of Waters's literary career.]
… a primary concern of all peoples everywhere is their relationship to their land. This has been the basic source of conflict between the White and Red races on this continent…. This theme of their conflicting relationships to their earth has provided something of a thematic continuity in all my books, novels and nonfiction. [Frank Waters, "The Western Novel: A...
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