Lancelot in the Desert

Lancelot in the Desert

The Last Westernerby chilton williamson jr.386 pages, st. augustine’s press, $19.95 In his dedication to The Last Westerner, Chilton Williamson Jr. remembers his friend Edward Abbey and hopes that he “would have enjoyed this book.” Abbey died in 1989, but if he had lived, he would have loved it. Not since Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, which I read several years ago, have I experienced this keen a sense of the American Southwest—both the charac…