Dancing Ghosts: Native American and Christian Syncretism ...
Hoyer, Mark T.
How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in the West come to create one of the most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature? Hoyer draws on his own rich knowledge of biblical religion and Native American cultures to explore Mary Austin's creation of the "mythology of the American continent" she so valued.Austin lived in and wrote about the parts of California and Nevada that were home to the Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Interi...