The last running : screenplay / by John Graves. [2002].

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The last running : screenplay / by John Graves. [2002].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123937379

Two old-timers lock horns in this lean, affecting short story set in 1923 and permeated with nostalgia for the Old West. One is gruff, tobacco-chewing Tom Bird, a Texas rancher; the other a sullen Comanche ex-war-chief named Starlight. Years earlier, they squared off in near-fatal combat. Years later on a stopover from Oklahoma, Starlight and his party of eight Comanche men demand that Bird donate his largest bull, Shakespeare, for a sacrifice. What is unspoken between the two protagonists--mutual respect, a nascent fraternal bond--is at least as important as what is made explicit.

1 v. (126 leaves) ; 28 cm.

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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Graves, John, 1920-2013

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Born August 6, 1920 in Fort Worth, Texas, John Alexander Graves III grew up in that city until moving away to attend college in 1938. He graduated from Rice Institute (now Rice University), served as a Marine in World War II, and earned an M.A. at Columbia University in 1948. Graves taught English from 1948 to 1950 at The University of Texas at Austin, then left to pursue a career as a freelance writer. In November of 1957 Graves completed a three-week canoe trip down part of the Brazos River th...