Mohave Runner

Abstract

Continuing the search for alternative forms of representation in anthropology and history that has marked most of my career, and believing that there is more than one way to see and to show things, and therefore to know them, this article both cuts through and combines key elements of anthropology, history, ethnography, fiction, and poetics. The data are ethnographically correct and the lines are metered. Imagination is the glue, in this case applied precisely to personal experience with the physical landscapes described and to reporting as accurately and reliably as possible when faced with the challenges of knowing other people, especially when the prospects reach across boundaries of time and culture.