Dreams of Quivira: Stories in Search of the Golden West

Robert Gish's stories of the old and new West speak of the search for a region of the mind and heart, as much as the places where westerners live out their personal dramas. For some the West remains a destination of renewal and hope, like Coronado's Quivira, promising escape from wrong starts and thwarted desires, and holding out the possibility of transformation. For others it is the graveyard of expectations, or the entrance to a darker inner territory where desires are shaped by loss and...