How to scare a bear / Tewa myth -- My Toscaya / Sandra Cisneros / The Grand Canon -- Wild at heart / Barry Gifford -- Eagle in New Mexico / D.H. Lawrence -- The Pueblo Indians / Carl Jung -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Motel chronicles / Sam Shepard -- The Hopi boy and the sun / Hopi myth -- Lonesome dove / Larry McMurty -- Welcome to Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson -- Devil deer / Rudolph Anaya -- Shootout at O. K. Corral / Walter Noble Burns -- Azimuth / Alison Moore -- How it was / Edward Abbey -- A desert rat / Henry Miller -- New Mexico letters / Georgia O'Keeffe -- Coyote steals the sun and moon / Zuni myth.