Robert F. Gish

Selected Works

Fiction
“The people are alive, striving, tragic, often humorous. These are authentic and poignant blues whose melodies will play in your mind long after the book is finished.”
--John Nichols
“Robert Gish has his finger on the pulse of the West. First Horses is a fine collection of stories about who we Westerners are, how we got here--and where do we go from now?”
--James Welch
Gish ranges through settings as diverse as the California coast and the ghost-haunted hills of Indian Territory in a narrative panorama of cultural diversity.

Course Titles, Lectures, Tours, and Editing

Tours:
High Road To Taos: Chimayo, Taos Pueblo, Rio Grande Gorge
and Rancho De Taos: Humble Travel, Saturday, May 26, 2012

Bishop's Lodge: Bishop Lamy's New Mexico Story: Story of New Mexico, dcu/​unm.edu




American Literature:
Violated Hearts: The Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Haunted Soul of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Macabre
American Homespun: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Huckleberry Finn and the "N" Word Controversy
Emerson and Thoreau: American Transcendentalism
Magic Realism



New Mexico Literature:
The Western Novel
The New Mexican Novel
Coyote and the Native American Trickster Tradition
Horses, Ethnicity, and the Western
Archbishop Lamy
Native American Renaissance
Albuquerque as Aztlan: The South Valley as Literary Inspiration
Famous New Mexico Murders and Mysteries
Animals and Allegory: New Mexico Myths, Tales and Poems
Paul Horgan and New Mexico
New Mexico Monster: Legends and Lore of the Chupacabra


Writing:
Creative Writing: Fiction and Non-Fiction
Writing about Home: New Mexico Places, Towns, and Neighborhoods
Imaginative Writings about New Mexico
The Politics of Persuasion: Making Your Point Through Editorial Commentary
Writing The Land: New Mexico Geology, Geography, and Setting
Telling Family Lives: Ways to Chronicle Kinship for Fun and Profit
Writing Short Stories From Start to Finish
New Mexico Spots of Time: Imagistic and Dream Writing
Telling Family Lives II: New Mexico Legacies
Walk, Look and Write: Descriptive Writing
New Mexico Word Maps: Elements of Centennial Travel Writing
Nature and New Mexico: Elements of Naturalist Writing
Writing A Biography of Place
Dog My Cats: Reading and Writing About Pets
Spontaneous Writing


Music
The Guitar: Musical Marvel
The History and Evolution of Jazz I & II
Jack Kerouac, Jazz and The Beat Generation

Quick Links

UNM Continuing Education/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute & The New Mexico Story
The Institute of Lifelong Learning
Courses by Robert F. Gish PhD
Jazz Inside Magazine
Textures, Notes on Writing & Jazz by Bob gish
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