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title	:	The Sharpest Sight American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series ; V. 1
author	:	Owens, Louis.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806125748
print isbn13	:	9780806125749
ebook isbn13	:	9780585100272
language	:	English
subject	Choctaw Indians--Fiction, Detective and mystery stories.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS3565.W567S52 1995eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Choctaw Indians--Fiction, Detective and mystery stories.

Page i American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Gerald Vizenor, General Editor

Page iii The Sharpest Sight

Page iv Also By Louis Owens (with Tom Colonnese) American Indian Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel Wolfsong Bone Game

Page v The Sharpest Sight by Louis Owens University of Oklahoma Press Norman

Page vi Excerpts from The Sharpest Sight first appeared in Mary Bartlett, ed., The New Native American Novel: Works in Progress (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 6577; Albuquerque Living (January 1988): 4244; and Wicazo Sa Review (Fall 1990): 714. Text and jacket design by Patsy Willcox Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Owens, Louis. The sharpest sight / by Louis Owens. 1st ed. p. cm. (American Indian literature and critical studies series : v.1) ISBN 0-8061-2404-0 (cloth) ISBN 0-8061-2574-8 (paper) 1. Choctaw Indians Fiction. I. Title. II. Series PS3565. W567S52 1991 813 .54 dc2091-33072 CIP The Sharpest Sight is Volume 1 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 1992 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition, 1992. First paperback printing, 1995. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Page vii For my parents, Ida and Hoey

Page viii I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts, and to the University of California at Santa Cruz, for the time and support that allowed me to complete this novel.

Page 2 The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight can't discern them.

Page 3 One The rain came toward the headlights in long, curving lines. Mundo flipped the switch on the spotlight to let the beam sweep across the edge of the road. Metal fence posts danced in and out of the light, the thick brush reaching between strands of wire toward the car and then leaping away. Rain caught the light in racing lines along the barbed wire. He turned the spotlight off and let the car pick up speed down the side canyon. Now, without the big white oaks over the road, the rain sliced toward him as if it would come through the windshield. To his right, the hillside rose like a wall, oak darkened and heavy, while on his left the road fell away to the river a hundred feet below. In the darkness down there he could sense the river, swollen at flood-stage, nervous and out of control. Except for the muted sounds of the car and rain, the night was absolutely quiet. The road leveled off and the brush retreated. He slowed and stopped where the gravel met a thin asphalt strip, the blacktop a glimmering line in the lights. To his left now the river was a weight that pulled at him so that he kept one foot on the brake and both hands clenched on the steering

Page 4 wheel. He let the engine idle and, feeling the muscles of his shoulders bunch with the effort, he glanced to his right at the lighted windows of the Nemi ranch house where it hunkered under a cluster of four- and five-hundred-year-old oaks close to the road. From the light of the porch and windows he could see the flaky pattern of the bark on the trees. Viejos, he thought, damned near as old as the old man. He shifted his eyes to the big, light-framed barn door, thinking that ranchers didn't keep hours like other people. Then he looked at the large-caliber holes dotting the stop sign in front of the patrol car, and he remembered the time that even he, Mundo Morales, whose family had owned it all once, had celebrated a dark night by putting a couple of holes in the sign. Beer and a buddy and a lever-action thirty-thirty and a night without moon or stars. Before Vietnam and the job at the high school, before becoming Amarga's deputy sheriff.

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