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2001 essay collection by Larry McMurtry

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Sacagawea's Nickname

Author	Larry McMurtry
Genre	Essay collection
Publication date	2001

Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West is a collection of essays by the American writer Larry McMurtry. It was published in 2001 by New York Review Books, and consists chiefly of articles, book reviews and also some interesting tidbits about the young woman that had appeared in the publishing house's affiliated magazine The New York Review of Books (NYRB) between 1997 and 2001. The book was generally well received by reviewers.

McMurtry dedicated the book to Barbara Epstein, editor of the NYRB.

The West Without Chili
Inventing the West
Chopping Down the Sacred Tree
A Heroine of the Prairies
Zuni
Cookie Pioneers
Powell of the Colorado
Pulpmaster
Janet Lewis
The American Epic
Sacagawea's Nickname
Old Misery

Reception

Kirkus Reviews wrote critically that the essays at times had an "ephemeral, dashed-off feel", but that fans of McMurty would enjoy them. Publishers Weekly gave a starred review, calling the essays "brilliant", and concluded "this collection is a fine performance from a man who, excepting perhaps Cormac McCarthy, is our most talented and important chronicler of the West."

References

"SACAGAWEA'S NICKNAME | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. 1 September 2001. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
"SACAGAWEA'S NICKNAME: Essays on the American West by Larry McMurtry, L. McMurtry". Publishers Weekly. 22 October 2001. Retrieved 22 November 2024.

v t e Larry McMurtry
Novels	Horseman, Pass By (1961) Leaving Cheyenne (1963) The Last Picture Show (1966) Moving On (1970) All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972) Terms of Endearment (1975) Somebody's Darling (1978) Cadillac Jack (1982) The Desert Rose (1983) Lonesome Dove (1985) Texasville (1987) Anything for Billy (1988) Some Can Whistle (1989) Buffalo Girls (1990) The Evening Star (1992) Streets of Laredo (1993) Pretty Boy Floyd (1994) Dead Man's Walk (1995) The Late Child (1995) Comanche Moon (1997) Zeke and Ned (1997) Duane's Depressed (1999) Boone's Lick (2000) Sin Killer (2002) The Wandering Hill (2003) By Sorrow's River (2003) Folly and Glory (2004) Loop Group (2005) Telegraph Days (2006) When the Light Goes (2007) Rhino Ranch: A Novel (2009) The Last Kind Words Saloon (2014)
History	Crazy Horse: A Life (1999) The Colonel and Little Missie (2005) Oh What a Slaughter! (2006) Custer (2012)
Memoirs	Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999) Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000) Paradise (2001) Books: A Memoir (2008) Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009) Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)
Essays	In a Narrow Grave (1968) Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987) Sacagawea's Nickname (2001)
Films written	The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988) Montana (1990) Memphis (1992) Falling from Grace (1992) Streets of Laredo (1995) Johnson County War (2002) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Joe Bell (2020)
Adaptations	Hud (1963) The Last Picture Show (1971) Lovin' Molly (1974) Terms of Endearment (1983) Lonesome Dove (1989) Texasville (1990) Return to Lonesome Dove (1993) Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994-95) Streets of Laredo (1995) Buffalo Girls (1995) Lonesome Dove: The Series (1995–96) Dead Man's Walk (1996) The Evening Star (1996) Comanche Moon (2008)
Other	Diana Ossana

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