back next American Past Pieces in this gallery have been inspired by peoples of the American West and mezzo America.   They have fascinated Ms. Harkness since early childhood when her beloved father would take his wide-eyed young girl out under the same stars that the tribes saw and tell her the noble, sad, funny, wonderful stories of their greatness. From the High Desert of Oregon, east through Montana, Wyoming and Colorado and South to New Mexico, Arizona and Old Mexico, her thoughts are seldom far from their experience.