Question
In a foreword to Doña Barbara, Larry McMurtry compared Venezuela’s Llanos (“YAH-nos”) to the Llano Estacado that inspired his novels in this genre, such as Lonesome Dove. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this genre of Elmore Leonard’s Hombre, Owen Wister’s The Virginian, and Jack Schaefer’s Shane.
ANSWER: Westerns [or Western literature or Western fiction; accept revisionist Western or anti-Western; prompt on adventure novels]
[10m] The polyglot outlaw Francisco Morez pretends not to understand English in this Western novel set in Nevada. Two cowboys join a lynch mob in response to cattle rustling in this novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
ANSWER: The Ox-Bow Incident
[10h] This Baja California-born author prefigured both Western and Chicana literature in the 1872 novel Who Would Have Thought It? This author examined the results of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in The Squatter and the Don.
ANSWER: María Ruiz de Burton [or María Amparo Ruiz de Burton or María Amparo Maytorena Ruiz; prompt on de Burton or Maytorena]
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Team Name Think Detail | The Canadians | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |