Abstract
How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in West come to create one of most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature? In this study, Hoyer draws on his own knowledge of biblical religion and Native American cultures to explore Austin's creation of mythology of American continent she so valued. Austin lived in and wrote about the land of little rain, semiarid and arid parts of California and Nevada that were home to Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Interior Chumash, and Yokut peoples. Hoyer makes new and provocative connections between Austin and spiritual figures like Wovoka, prophet of Ghost Dance religion, and writers like Zitkala-sa and Mourning Dove, and he provides a particularly fine reading of Cogowea.
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