Gerald W. Haslam > Quotes

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”
― Gerald W. Haslam, Western Writing

“My mother's mother's family moved north from Mexico having migrated from Spain, from Portugal, from Ireland, and likely from an Indian village somewhere.”
― Gerald W. Haslam, Coming of Age in California: Personal Essays