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Sacagawea's Nickname.(Brief Article)

The New Yorker

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Sacagawea's Nickname, by Larry McMurtry (New York Review Books; $19.95). In twelve essays, the novelist contrasts the West of the American imagination -- "an eternal pastoral, very beautiful but usually unpeopled, except for the Marlboro Man" -- with the West of the historical record. He tells us about cowboys and Indians, but he also describes ...

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