In The Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems 1961-1991 | Characters
The middle two sections, "The Strange and True Story of My Life with Billy the Kid" and "In the Presence of the Sun: A Gathering of Shields," focus on two disparate aspects of the American West: the legend of Billy the Kid and the material folklore behind the highly-decorated plains shields.
The Billy the Kid collection contains both poems and short stories In the preface "A Word on Billy the Kid." Momaday establishes the physical reality of the famous outlaw: his date and place of birth, family, aliases; he also establishes the facts regarding Sister Blandina, who met Billy the...
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