Eric Anderson pursues his inquiry through an unprecedented range of cultural texts. These include the Roswell spacecraft myths, Leslie Marmon Silko's , Wendy Rose's poetry, the outlaw narratives of Billy the Kid, Apache autobiographies by Geronimo and Jason Betzinez, paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, New West history by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Frank Norris' , Mary Austin's , Sarah Winnemucca's , Willa Cather's , George Herriman's modernist comic strip , and A. A. Carr's Navajo-vampire novel .