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Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the
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. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in
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. Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany. Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the
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. He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West. His 1973 volume of poetry, ''Cochise'', a eulogy to the
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Indians and their leader
Cochise Cochise (; Apache: ''Shi-ka-She'' or ''A-da-tli-chi'', lit.: ''having the quality or strength of an oak''; later ''K'uu-ch'ish'' or ''Cheis'', lit. ''oak''; June 8, 1874) was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principa ...
, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. __NOTOC__


Bibliography

* Poetry ** ** ** ** ** ** (print and on-line) ** (print and on-line) ** ** ** ** (Editor, with Frank Graziano; print and on-line) ** * University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City (as editor) ** *** Republished as: ** ** ** (print and on-line) ** (print and on-line) * Boise State University ''Western Writers Series'' (BSUWWS #) –
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Alberto Ríos Alberto Álvaro Ríos (born September 18, 1952) is a US academic and writer who is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. Rios was named Arizona's first state poet laureate in August 20 ...
'' (#131). 1998. pp. 51. . ** ''
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'' (#101). 1991. pp. 51. . (print and on-line) ** '' Ann Zwinger'' (#111). 1993. pp. 51. . ** ''
Barry Lopez Barry Holstun Lopez (January 6, 1945 – December 25, 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. In a career spanning over 50 years, he ...
'' (#94). 1984. pp. 49. . ** ''
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'' (#48). 1981. pp. 46. . ** ''Desert Literature: The Early Period'' (#146). 2001. pp. 51. . ** ''Desert Literature: The Middle Period: J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, and Edwin Corle'' (#138). 1999. pp. 53. . ** ''Desert Literature: The Modern Period'' (#144). 2000. pp. 52. . ** '' Enos Mills'' (#36). Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. 1979. pp. 47. . ** ''
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'' (#93). 1990. pp. 52. . ** '' J. Ross Browne'' (#157). 2003. pp. 49. . ** '' James Welch'' (#57). 1983. pp. 49. . ** '' John C. Van Dyke: The Desert'' (#82). 1988. pp. 52. . ** '' John Haines'' (#68). 1985. pp. 51. . ** '' John Nichols'' (#75). 1986. pp. 52. . ** ''Theodore Strong Van Dyke'' (#121). 1995. pp. 54. . * The Shady Myrick Research Project – Johannesburg, California ** ** ** ** ** ** * Other publishers: ** (print and on-line) ** (print and on-line) ** '' Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier''. Van Dyke, Dix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 183. . (print and on-line)Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008)
"''Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town''
" ''Montana: The Magazine of Western History''. Montana Historical Society. and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997)
"Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave"
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Notes

* Peters, Robert (October–November 1974). "Mud Men Mud Women". ''Margins''. Vol. 14. pp. 57 ff. ** Republished in Robert Peters (1979). ''The Great American Poetry Bake-off''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 274. . (print and on-line) * Seavey, Ormond (Spring 1975). "Peter Wild: An Introduction". New York: ''Little Magazine''. Vol. 9, pp. 4–10. (Available i
the ''Little Magazine'' archive, 1965–1988
at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC): University of Texas at Austin, .)


External links


University of Arizona Archives: Papers of Peter Wild 1989–2004
– an index of Wild's research regarding John C. Van Dyke, * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wild, Peter 1940 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American historians 21st-century American historians 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets American academics of English literature American literary historians American male poets Historians of the American West Literary historians Poets from Arizona United States Army officers University of Arizona faculty University of California, Irvine alumni Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts Writers from Tucson, Arizona 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Historians from Massachusetts Military personnel from Massachusetts