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Show Wednesday, September Books 11, When Thomas Sanchezs Rab- American Indians ironic vision of the white man as savage, waster, tourist and thief. But it is more than that. It is an extraordinary novel (by a tremen- dously gifted young writer) about the death of a dream the dream of the American Indian as seen through the four generations of a small tribe, the Washo. As Sanchez tells it, the Washo were a hunting people 'who roamed the Lake Tahoe area. Democratic and chiefless, they tended to heed one tribal elder, the man with the special power to track game in his dreams. Aside from this distinguishing feature, the Washo were typically Indian: relating directly to nature, talking to birds and counseled by the winds. Sanchezs four Washo are descendents of the Rabbit Boss. Of them, Gayabuc is the first to encounter the white man. While hunting in the Sierra one winter morning, he happens on a group non-disturbe- pale-skinne- strange, d, ferocious men feeding on human Donner party, flesh (the of course). Horror-strickehe races back to his people with the news that the Fax of the Earth, the Musege, or the power of Evil, has come into the World. And so begins the Washo legend that white men are cannibalistic. ill-fat- ed n, As far as his tribe is concerned, Gayabuc is literally correct, for with the coming of the whites, the Washo rapidly disintegrate. Gayabucs son, Captain Rex, is an alcoholic, hired by the railroad to drive his people along g the track as a gang. Rexs son, Hallelujah Bob, becomes a fundamentalist Christian preacher who, in happier moments, eats peyote and dreams of a restored landscape and resurrected wildlife. Panes -- By C Rooks bit Boss appeared last fall in hard cover, it was hailed as a rare and wonderful novel about the of an 1374 that when hes framed for the murder of a rancher. While hidings in the mountains, he mistakes a party of deer hunters for a posse and starts running. Ironically, they mistake him for a deer and shoot him in the leg. Delirious and he stumbles into a train tunnel in the middle of the night, and the next morning is awakened to the cyclopean roar of an oncoming train. And so it goes. On and on Chevron half-starve- d, and mi . But its not just the symbolic locomotive or the Donner party legend that makes this an important novel. Much of the importance lies in the language of the frontier, skillfully inverted from the innocent hyperbole to the language of demons. For example, when Captain Rex is about to be lynched by a mob of miners, a man at the back of the crowd speaks up: "You cant hang him to a tree because there aint no trees. Damned if he aint right, an old man stamped his foot in the dust. There aint a tree within thirty mile any direction...They all been cut to the ground years ago to build the town. And it is this Gabby Hayes quality of irony that makes Rabbit Boss what it is. What it is, in my opinion, is one of the three most important books dealing with the acculturation theme to be written. First there was Little Big Man, then House Made of Dawn, and now Rabbit Boss. As Jack Crabbe said, this is what really happened. Read it. This and other books available at DOLLYS. FARK CITY OBITUARY Robert Browning Cunningham Sr., 73, 1320 E. 5th South, died Sept. 4, 1974 at home. Mr. Cunningham Sr. was bom August 21, 1901 in Park City to John F. and Christina Franklin Cunningham. He married Josie Cummings on July 16, 1932. A retired employee of the Utah State Road Commission, he also served as a member for the Park City Volunteer fire department. Mr. Cunningham Sr. is survived by his wife, Josie; a son, Lt. Cmdr. Robert B. Jr., of Port Hueneme, CA.; 3 grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Lillian Bir-chmsha- w of Park City. The funeral services were held Monday, September 9th, at 10 AM in the Evans and Early Mortuary in Salt Lake City. Private family burial services were held in the Park City Cemetary. are weed-pullin- The last of the line is Joe Birdsong. He is something of a Rabbit Boss. He has the ignominious distinction of being hired by two rich ranchmen to keep the rabbit population down. He even loses Ml EMERGENCY NUMBERS UJ Police 649-956- 1 Marshall 649-936- 1 649-921- 1 Flra Ambulance 1 649-92- 1 murm ra CITY BUSINESS ONE YEAR Questions concerning water, sewer, garbage, streets, etc., S6.00 in state S10.00 state. out-o- f please call: NAME 1 City Hall 1 City Recorder 4 City Manager and Building Inspector 1 City Justice of the Peace till 4 a.m. from 8 thru are p.m.) Friday (above open Monday After normal office hours 5 Mayor John Price, 325 Park Ave 6 Councilman Leon Uriarte, 354 Main SL . . . . 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