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Shorty Harris, or The Price of Gold by William W. Bevis (review)
- Western American Literature
- The Western Literature Association
- Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2000
- pp. 218-220
- 10.1353/wal.2000.0052
- Review
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2 1 8 WAL 3 5 .1 S u m m e r 2 0 0 0 fully treats this legendary cast. Kroetsch does not allow the story to be over whelmed by the images evoked by the Service poem, even as he employs them for their long associations with the Klondike. One wonders if Kroetsch might have been able to do without such props altogether, so rich is the vein of his tory from which The Man from the Creel