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Benjamin Capps and the South Plains : A Literary Relationship Texas Writers Series ; No. 2
author
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Clayton, Lawrence.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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0929398092
print isbn13
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9780929398099
ebook isbn13
:
9780585281674
language
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English
subject
Capps, Benjamin,--1922- , Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Western stories--History and criticism, Authors, American--Texas--Biography, Indians in literature, Texas--Historiography, Texas in literature, Texas--Biography.
publication date
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1990
lcc
:
PS3553.A59Z62 1990eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Capps, Benjamin,--1922- , Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Western stories--History and criticism, Authors, American--Texas--Biography, Indians in literature, Texas--Historiography, Texas in literature, Texas--Biography.
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Benjamin Capps and the South Plains:
A Literary Relationship
by Lawrence Clayton
Texas Writers Series
Number Two
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TEXAS WRITERS SERIES NUMBER TWO
General Editor James Ward Lee
Copyright 1990 by Lawrence Clayton All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition, 1990
Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to the University of North Texas Press, P.O. Box 13856, Denton, Texas 76203-3856.
The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clayton, Lawrence. Benjamin Capps and the south plains : a literary relationship / by Lawrence Clayton. p. cm. (Texas writers series ; no. 2) Includes bibliographical references (p. ISBN 0-929398-09-2 : $19.95 1. Capps. Benjamin, 1922 . 2. Texas in literature. 3. Indians in literature. 4. Western storiesHistory and criticism. 5. Authors, Ameriean20th centuryBiography. 6. Authors, AmericanTexasBiography. 7. TexasHistoriography. 8. Texas Biography. I. Title. II. Series. PS3553.A59Z62 1990 813'.54dc20 8970725 CIP
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Contents
Introduction
1
Capps the Man
5
The Anglo Novels
24
The Indian Novels
79
The Historical Nonfiction
117
The Writer on His Craft
136
Conclusion
158
Bibliography
162
Index
189
Page 1
Introduction
C.L. Sonnichsen says that Benjamin Capps writes "not better Westerns but better fiction about the West" ("New Style Western" 28). Certainly, Capps has varied from the traditional treatment of western material, emphasizing instead the conflict among the various cultures caught up in the continuous turmoil that characterized the settling of the West. He is fascinated by more than a century and a half of the mixing and mingling of various peoples and has found that cultural ferment a rich vein to mine as the basis for his writing.
Capps feels that fascinating people and events critical to the development of life as we know it are found in the annals of history outside the Indian wars and cattle kingdoms. He believes that writers have barely touched much of the subject matter that is available to the writer interested in the western United States and also believes that the traditional Westerns have overworked some phases of life there while ignoring others equally as important, especially from a human perspective.
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Capps's books can be divided into three categories. Those dealing with the Anglo experience in the West from the early encroachment onto the Plains to the present are Hanging at Comanche Wells, The True Memoirs of Charley Blankenship, The Trail to Ogallala, Sam Chance, The Brothers of Uterica, and The Heirs of Franklin Woodstock. He has produced three works from the Indian perspectiveWoman Chief, A Woman of the People, and The White Man's Roadall perceptive and sympathetic depictions of the life of the Indian in the West ranging from before white intrusion into Indian life to the early days of the twentieth century when Anglo domination changed forever the old ways of the Native Americans. In addition, Capps deals with Indians and whites in The Warren Wagontrain Raid, an unusual historical account of a raid by Kiowa Indians in North Texas near where Capps was later born and reared. Only the first of his books, Hanging at Comanche Wells, is even close to what most people think of as a traditional "Western."
The emphasis on characterization, historical background, and folklore makes these works perceptive studies of plausible characters in situations that demanded much of them physically and psychologically. This kind of material is the basis of good fiction, regardless of the setting. These books also demonstrate the diversity of Capps's interests and efforts. He is definitely not a writer of formula Westerns, and
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