Character Types of the Southwest as Delineated in New Mexico Fiction and Presented in Such Order as to Show the Development of this State

Author

Bonnidell Sisson Roberts

Publication Date

Winter 1-1-1932

Abstract

To present to the reader the development of New Mexico as portrayed in its widely varied character types, and to show its Empire Builders through the mirror of fiction is the goal in which this thesis has in view.

A secondary purpose will be accomplished if, by means of the excerpts presented, interest in reading the books in their entirety shall lead to a broader knowledge of the growing bibliography of Southwestern fiction.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Thomas Matthews Pearce

Second Committee Member

George St.Clair

Third Committee Member

John W. Diefendorf

Language

English

Keywords

New Mexico, Fiction, Mary Austen, Adolf Bandelier, Sarah Warner Brooks, Willa Cather, Alida Sims Malkus, Harvey Fergusson, Stanley Vestal, Robert Reynolds, Dorothy Scarborough, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Sarah Warner Brooks

Document Type

Thesis

Recommended Citation

Roberts, Bonnidell Sisson. "Character Types of the Southwest as Delineated in New Mexico Fiction and Presented in Such Order as to Show the Development of this State." (1932). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/188