SOURCE: "The Vanishing American," in The American Western Novel, College University Press, 1966, pp. 141-76.
In the following excerpt, Folsom examines Garland's treatment of Native American assimilation into Euro American society. The critic finds that most of the stories in The Book of the American Indian promote the idea that "the Indian must change, " but that "The Story of Howling Wolf" illustrates the difficulty of this process.
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