2 Quotes & Sayings By Hillman Curtis
Hillman Curtis, a.k.a. Hillman, is a writer and teacher of English, specializing in the literature of the American West. Born in Salt Lake City, he has lived in Montana, California, Oregon and Nevada. He has taught at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, where he received his M.A
in English in 1968. He was editor of The Western Humanities Review from 1968 to 1970 and is the author of five novels: The Lure of the West (1970), A Stranger in Our Midst (1973), Bright Serpent Rising (1976), The Four Winds (1978) and Blood on the Mountain (1980). His nonfiction books include Southern Oregon Country: An Autobiography of a Life in the Oregon Country (1981), A Man Called Snowbird: The Life and Times of John A.
Widtsoe (1984) with John L. Widtsoe's widow Frances; Drifting Down Wind: Indians on the Lower Columbia River (1988); Old Wives Tales: Stories That Tell Themselves (1990); A Century of Letters From Our Readers (2000); Frontier Sentimentality: The Literature of the Oregon Trail (2002) and Lassoing the Sun: The Writings of Hillman Curtis (2004).