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1977–1985

Spring 1977 (vol. 12, no. 1)

“Post Mortem”: “The Poet Is Dead”	Frederic I. Carpenter
John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row: A Reconsideration	Jackson J. Benson
Riders of Judgement: An Exercise in Ontological Criticism	Max Westbrook
Sons of Oliver Edwards; or, The Other American Hero	Michael D. Butler
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Southwest Classics: The Creative Literature of the Arid Lands; Essays on the Books and Their Writers, by Lawrence Clark Powell	Tom Pilkington
In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of Robinson Jeffers, by James Shebl	Frederic I. Carpenter
The Collected Poems: 1956-1974, by Edward Dorn; Gathering the Tribes, by Carolyn Forché	L. L. Lee
Selected Writings of Edward S. Curtis: Excerpts from Volumes I-XX of the North American Indian, edited by Barry Gifford	Brian W. Dippie
Mark Twain’s Notebooks and Journals, Volume I, edited by Frederick Anderson, Michael B. Frank, and Kenneth M. Sanderson	Max Westbrook
Climbing in North America, by Chris Jones	Thomas J. Lyon
Mountain Sheep and Man in the Northern Wilds, by Valerius Geist	Merrill Lewis
The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London	Richard W. Etulain
The Long Trail: How Cowboys & Longhorns Opened the West, by Gardner Soule	Orlan Sawey
Windsinger, by Gary M. Smith	Mary Ellen Ackerman
B. Traven: An Introduction, by Michael L. Baumann	Robert B. Olafson
The Selected Poems of Gwendolen Haste	Martin Bucco
James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest, by Albro Martin	Howard Lachtman
The Names: A Memoir, by N. Scott Momaday	Elton Miles

Summer 1977 (vol. 12, no. 2)

Emerson Hough as Conservationist and Muckraker	Delbert E. Wylder
Robinson Jeffers: Apocalypse and His “Inevitable Place”	Edward A. Nickerson
Predators in Literature	Gerald Haslam
Fascists in Fiction: Two Early Novels of Mari Sandoz	Scott L. Greenwell
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Land of Clear Light, by Michael Jenkinson	Edward Abbey
The Cowboy: Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex, edited by Charles W. Harris and Buck Rainey	Richard D. Keller
Folklore of Canada, by Edith Fowke	Orlan Sawey
Tales of the Big Bend, by Elton Miles	Edwin W. Gaston, Jr.
A Taste of the Knife, by Marnie Walsh	Joseph B. McCollough
Hearts Made Glad: The Charges of Intemperance against Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet (and Folkes that Dronken ben of Ale), by LaMar Petersen	Levi S. Peterson
Poets West: Contemporary Poems from the Eleven Western States, edited by Lawrence Spingarn; New and Selected Poems, by Peggy Pond Church	Alice G. Hart
Lewis and Clark: Historic Places Associated with Their Transcontinental Exploration (1804–06), by Roy E. Appleman	Starr Jenkins
Airlift to Wounded Knee, by Bill Zimmerman	Thomas J. Lyon
ARCHETYPE WEST: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region, by William Everson	Gerald Haslam
Shabegok, by Jaime de Angulo, edited by Bob Callahan; How the World Was Made, by Jaime de Angulo, edited by Bob Callahan	Barry Gifford
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, from the Winchester Manuscripts fo Thomas Malory, by John Steinbeck	Robert E. Morsberger
The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter	Orlan Sawey
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven, by Barry Holstun Lopez	Mary Ellen Ackerman
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, by Douglas C. Jones; Wind on the Buffalo Grass: The Indians” Own Account of the Battle at the Little Big Horn River and the Death of Their Life on the Plains, collected and edited by Leslie Tillett	James V. Holleran
Song of the Pedernales: A Novel of Reconstruction in Texas, by John L. Mortimer	Orlan Sawey
Los Angeles: Biography of a City, by John and LaRee Caughey	Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.
“I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Raccoon,” edited by Eliot Wigginton	Hector H. Lee

Fall 1977 (vol. 12, no. 3)

The East-West Theme in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy	Martin Bucco
Francis Parkman on the Oregon Trail: A Study in Cultural Prejudice	L. Hugh Moore
Martin Eden: Jack London’s “Splendid Dream”	Sam S. Baskett
Natural, Tribal, and Civil Law in Cooper’s The Prairie	Mary E. Rucker
Essay Reviews	Reviewed By
Dear Judas and Other Poems, by Robinson Jeffers, edited by Robert J. Brophy; The Double Axe and Other Poems, edited by William Everson and Bill Hotchkiss; The Women at Point Sur and Other Poems, by Robinson Jeffers, edited by Tim Hunt; Jeffers: The Sivaistic Vision, by Bill Hotchkiss	Edward A. Nickerson
Jack London: The Man, the Writer, the Rebel, by Robert Barltrop; Jack London: A Reference Guide, by Joan Sherman	Dale L. Walker
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Westen Writers Series, edited by Wayne Chatterton, James H. Maguire and Dale K. Boyer (no. 21–25): Edward F. Ricketts, by Richard Astro; Bill Nye: The Western Writings, by David B. Kesterson; Gertrude Atherton, by Charlotte S. McClure; Hamlin Garland: The Far West, by Robert Gish; John G. Neihardt, by Lucile F. Aly	Martin Bucco
Truck, by John Jerome	Craig George
Masks, by Gerald Haslam	Tom Pilkington
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko	Jack L. Davis
Seeing Castaneda: Reactions to the “Don Juan” Writings of Carlos Castaneda, edited by Daniel C. Noel	Thomas J. Lyon
Petroglyphs, by Sam Hamill; The Catch, by George Bowering; Selected Poems, by Lucien Stryk	Gary Nabhan
John Steinbeck: A Dictionary of His Fictional Characters, edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi	Elroy Bode
Rivertrip, by Rita Deanin Abbey, introduction by Frank Waters	Charles L. Adams
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West, by Edward Abbey; The John McPhee Reader, edited by William L. Howarth	Thomas J. Lyon
Shifting World: Social Change and Nostalgia in the American Novel, by David C. Stineback	Martin Bucco
Lone Star Universe: The First Anthology of Texas Science Fiction, edited by George W. Proctor and Steven Utley	Don Graham
The Mystery of B. Traven, by Judy Stone	Robert B. Olafson
Charles F. Lummis: Crusader in Corduroy, by Dudley Gordon; Charles F. Lummis: The Man and His West, by Thurbesé Lummis Fiske and Keith Lummis	Sidney Jenson
The Mesa of Flowers, by Harold Courlander	Orlan Sawey
Fred Rosenstock: A Legend in Books and Art, by Donald E. Bower, foreword by Frank Waters	Sam Weller
Buffalo and Other Stories, by Wayne Ude	Salley McCluskey

Winter 1978 (vol. 12, no. 4)

“The Thing Not Named” in The Professor’s House	Barbara Wild
The Bear‘s Son Folk Tale in When the Legends Die and House Made of Dawn	Nora Baker Barry
Learning the Hard Way in James Dickey’s Deliverance	Don Kunz
Annual Bibliography	Richard D. Keller
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Mind-Reader: New Poems, by Richad Wilbur; The Compass Flower, by W. S. Merwin	L. L. Lee
The Taste of Time, by Ferol Egan	Richard C. Poulsen
The Killdeer Crying: Selected Poems of William Barney, edited and introduced by Dave Oliphant	Don Graham
Who Is Teddy Villanova? by Thomas Berger	Warren French
Learn to Love the Haze, by Robert Roripaugh; Sundance at Dusk, by Al Purdy	Morton L. Ross
Dance Me Outside, by W. P. Kinsella	Terry Andrews Lasansky
Cumberland Station, by Dave Smith	Veneta Nielsen
Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains, by Alexander B. Adams	Jack Hafer
A Fringe of Leaves, by Patrick White	Stephen Tatum
On Us, by Douglas Woolf	L. L. Lee
Stephen Crane’s Artistry, by Frank Bergon	Robert Glen Deamer
Solitudes, by R. G. Vliet	Don Graham
A Study Guide to Steinbeck’s THE LONG VALLEY, edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi	Arthur Frietzsche
Farther Off from Heaven, by William Humphrey	George D. Hendricks
The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole, by Gerald Rosen	Barry Gifford
Gary Snyder, by Bob Steuding	Bert Almon
The Last Cattle Drive, by Robert Day	James F. Hoy
Western Writers of America: Silver Anniversary Anthology, edited by August Lenniger; Spurs: Western Writers of America, introduction by S. Omar Barker	Dale L. Walker
Fresh Meat/Warm Weather, by Joyce Eliason	Alan Crooks
The Manly-Hearted Woman, by Frederick Manfred	Mick McAllister
Wilderness Calling: The Hardeman Family in the American Westward Movement, 1750–1900, by Nicholas Perkins Hardeman	Robert L. Hungarland
The Way to the Old Sailors Home, by Thomas Baird; The Badgers of Summercombe, by Ewan Clarkson	Robert A. Roripaugh
Hamlin Garland’s Observations on the American Indian, 1895–1905, edited by Lonnie E. Underhill and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.	Patricia Ann Owens

Spring 1978 (vol. 13, no. 1)

Jack Schaefer: The Writer as Ecologist	Fred Erisman
Sex on the Lone Prairee	C. L. Sonnichsen
You Can’t Go Home: Jeremiah Johnson and the Wilderness	Mick McAllister
Zane Grey: A Literary Reassessment	Gary Topping
Change of Purpose in the Novels of Louis L’Amour	John D. Nesbitt
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Twentieth-Century American West: A Potpourri, by Gene M. Gressley	Robert G. Athearn
The Thin Mountain Air, by Paul Horgan	Mary Washington
The Genuine Article, A. B. Guthrie Jr.	Robert Gish
Nevada, A History, by Robert Laxalt	Ann Ronald
Light Years, by J. M. Ferguson, Jr.	Dowling G. Campbell
The Old Ways, by Gary Snyder	Thomas J. Lyon
The Wishing Bone Cycle, by Howard A. Norman	John Trimbur
Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest in American Literature, by Cecil Robinson	Rudolph Gomez
Fig Tree John: An Indian in Fact and Fiction, by Peter G. Beidler	Wayne Ude
A British Ranchero in Old California: Henry Dalton and the Rancho Azusa, by Sheldon G. Jackson	Arthur Frietzsche
The Texans, by James Conaway	Max Westbrook
Indian Dances of North America, by Reginald and Gladys Laubin	Thomas J. Lyon
The Bradbury Chronicles; Harlan Ellison, Unrepentant Harlequin; Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in His Own Land, by George Edgar Slusser; John D. MacDonald and the Colorful World of Travis McGee, by Frank D. Campbell Jr.	Robert E. Morsberger
In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, by Galen Rowell	Thomas J. Lyon
Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway, by David A. Remley	Geary Hobson
Headlands, Rising, by Robert Krieger; Winter Constellations, by Richard Blessing; Corners in the Glass, by Ralph Gustafson	Hemant Kulkarni
Survival: Life and Art of the Alaskan Eskimo, by Barbara Lipton	Jim Green
Crinoline to Calico, by Nan Heacock	Roy W. Meyer
A World by Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Cooper’s Fiction, by H. Daniel Peck	Michael D. Butler
The Midland: A Venture in Literary Regionalism, by Milton M. Reigelman	Richard W. Etulain
Selected Writings of Joaquine Miller, edited with intro and notes by Alan Rosenus	Richard W. Etulain

Summer 1978 (vol. 13, no. 2)

From ‘Mythic’ to ‘Fictive’ in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth	Jarold Ramsey
Endings in Contemporary American Indian Fiction	David B. Espey
Willa Cather’s Archbishop: A Western and Classical Perspective	John J. Murphy
Joseph Wood Krutch: Persistent Champion of Man and Nature	Paul N. Pavich
“Gravy Says A Lot”: The Poetry of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel	Gerald Haslam
Essay Review	Reviewed By
Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country, compiled and edited by Jarold Ramsey	Barre Toelken
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Alaska Crude: Visions of the Last Frontier, by Kenneth Andrasko	Margaret E. Murie
Wallace Stegner, by Forest G. and Margaret G. Robinson	Kerry Ahearn
31 Letters and 13 Dreams, by Richard Hugo	Michael Allen
Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle, by Katie Lee	Louie W. Attebery
Thoreau and the American Indians, by Robert F. Sayre	Thomas J. Lyon
No Other Country, by Al Purdy	Brian W. Dippie
John G. Neihardt: A Critical Biography, by Lucile F. Aly	Billie Wahlstrom
The Language of the Railroader, by Ramon F. Adams	G. Franklin Ackerman
ESKIMO ART: Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska, by Dorothy Jean Ray; Indian Artists at Work, by Ulli Steltzer	Bart Robinson
The Reef Girl, by Zane Grey	Gary Topping
Shining Clarity: God and Man in the Works of Robinson Jeffers, by Marlan Beilke	Frederic I. Carpenter
A Dictionary of the Old West, by Peter Watts	Richard C. Poulsen
Good Life in Hard Times: San Francisco’s 20’s and 30’s, by Jerry Flamm	Kevin Starr
The Fork River Space Project, by Wright Morris	James K. Folsom
A Literary History of Iowa, by Clarence A. Andrews	Richard W. Etulain
Travels in Southern California, by John Xántus	Alan Kishbaugh
Garden in the Wind, by Gabrielle Roy, trans. Alan Brown	Dick Harrison
Memories of the Alhambra, by Nash Candelaria	Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
Taos, by Irwin R. Blacker	Richard Moseley
Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel, by John Moss	John Donahue
My Seasons, by Haniel Long	T. M. Pearce
Wyoming: A Bicentennial History, by T. A. Larson	Robert A. Roripaugh
Handbook for Poets, by M. K. O’Brien	Robert F. Richards
The Coyote: Defiant Songdog of the West, by Francois Leydet	Paul T. Bryant
Frost in the Orchard, by Donald R. Marshall; The Blue Door & Other Stories, by Lawrence P. Spingarn	Robert Gish
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprize beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving, edited by Richard Dilworth Rust	Wayne R. Kime
As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, edited by Barry Gifford	Dennis McNally
The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef, by Charles Reich	Starr Jenkins

Fall 1978 (vol. 13, no. 3)

The Authentic Western	Max Westbrook
The Tempered Romanticism of John Muir	Harold P. Simonson
Stephen Crane, Eastern Outsider in the West and Mexico	Jamie Robertson
One of Ours: Willa Cather’s Losing Battle	Marilyn Arnold
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Island Between, by Margaret E. Murie, illustrated by Olaus J. Murie	Jean Craighead George
Irving Stone’s Jack London: His Life, Sailor on Horseback (A Biography) and 28 Selected Jack London Stories, by Irving Stone and Jack London; Jack London, Sailor on Horseback: A Biography, by Irving Stone	Dale L. Walker
Western Writers Series 26–30: Edited by Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire: E. W. Howe, by Martin Bucco; George Catlin, by Joseph R. Millichap; Josiah Gregg and Lewis H. Garrard, by Edward Halsey Foster; Edward Abbey, by Garth McCann; Charles Warren Stoddard, by Robert L. Gale	Fred Erisman
Holy the Firm, by Annie Dillard	Bobbie Burch Lemontt
Arrest Sitting Bull, by Douglas C. Jones	James V. Holleran
Railroadin, Etc., by J. J. Greenbrier	George Venn
I, Leo:—An Unfinished Novel, by Lew Welch; On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and Philip Whalen	Albert Saijo
Utah: A History, by Charles S. Peterson	Richard C. Poulsen
Howbah Indians, by Simon J. Ortiz	Karl Kroeber
Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems, by Earle Birney	Kristoffer F. Paulson
Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction, by Dick Harrison	Roy W. Meyer
Patterns and Coincidences, a Sequel to All Is But a Beginning, by John G. Neihardt	John T. Flanagan
The Westering Experience in American Literature: Bicentennial Essays, edited by Merrill Lewis and L. L. Lee	Lucile F. Aly
Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy, by Jay Monaghan	Neal Lambert
Notes to a Bald Buffalo, by J. R. Milton	Robert F. Richards
The Bough of Summer, by Duane Carr; The Grass Creek Chronicle, by Pat Carr; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, by Forrest Carter; The Chisholms: A Novel of the Journey West, by Evan Hunter; Don Q: A Novel, by José López Portillo, translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger and Wilfrido Corral; Quetzalcoatl: A Novel, by José López Portillo, translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger and Diana S. Goodrich; Walks Far Woman, by Colin Stuart	Delbert E. Wylder
Transhominal Criticism, by E. R. Zietlow	Thomas J. Lyon
The Last Cowboy, by Jane Kramer	Olena H. Saciuk
In Time and Place, by Floyed C. Watkins	Max Westbrook
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., by Jack London, completed by Robert L. Fish	Howard Lachtman
Texas Liveoak, by Paul Foreman; Yarbrough Mountain, by Karl Kopp; Granite Station, by Don Thompson	Gerald Haslam
Bad Company, by Joseph Henry Jackson; Legends of the California Bandidos, by Angus MacLean	Gerald Haslam
Tsuga’s Children, by Thomas Williams	Sylvia Grider
Dreaming of Babylon, by Richard Brautigan	Bobbie Burch Lemontt
The Way of an Indian, by Frederic Remington	John W. Bailey

Winter 1979 (vol. 13, no. 4)

John G. Neihardt and the American Epic	Lucile F. Aly
Hawthorne’s Dream in the Forest	Robert Glen Deamer
Annual Bibliography	Richard D. Keller
Research in Progress	Richard Cracroft
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Dodge City: The Most Western Town of All, by Odie B. Faulk	Fred L. Lee
Heart Beat: My Life with Jack and Neal, by Carolyn Cassady	John T. Murphy
The Trader on the American Frontier: Myth’s Victim, by Howard R. Lamar	Joe B. Frantz
In Mediterranean Air, by Ann Stanford	Ronald Vierling
Larry McMurtry, by Charles D. Peavy	Alan F. Crooks
Jack: A Biography of Jack London, by Andrew Sinclair	Earle Labor
Fair Blows the Wind, by Louis L’Amour	William A. Bloodworth
Five on the Western Edge: An Anthology of Works from San Francisco, by Beau Beausoleil, Steve Brooks, Larry Felson, Hilton Obenzinger, and Stephen Vincent	Thom Tammaro
Guns, Gold, & Caravans: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Fred Meyer Schroder, by Robert Easton	Arthur Frietzsche
The Selected Poems of H. L. Davis, selected and edited by Orvis C. Burmaster, with a preface by Thomas Hornsby Ferril	Paul T. Bryant
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, by Fred R. Gowans	Alan Sandy
Southwest: A Contemporary Anthology, edited by Karl and Jane Kopp and Bart Lanier Stafford III	Dorys Crow Grover
The Worlds between Two Rivers: Perspectives in American Indians in Iowa, edited and with an introduction by Gretchen M. Bataille, David M. Gradwohl, and Charles L. P. Silet	Sally McCluskey
Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-91, edited by Kay Graber	William E. Koch
Sun Tracks Four: Native American Perspectives, edited by Larry Evers	Jack L. Davis
Desert Journal: Reflections of a Naturalist, by Raymond B. Cowles	Mary Ellen Ackerman
Climbing Ice, by Yvon Chouinard	Max Lyon
Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, by William Stafford; Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer’s Vocation, by William Staford	Bert Almon
The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey, photographs by John Blaustein, with A Journal by Edward Abbey, and an Introduction by Martin Litton	Jan Bakker
Words and Savages, by Ronald Robinson and Arthur Huseboe	Kathryn R. Johnson

Spring 1979 (vol. 14, no. 1)

Richard Shelton: A Voice in the Wilderness	Victor Contoski
The Dual Nature of Art in The Song of the Lark	Ann Moseley
Jack Schaefer: The Evolution of Pessimism	Michael Cleary
Sacred Sources in The Canyon	Gerald Haslam
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Where the West Begins, edited by Arthur R. Huseboe and William Geyer	John Milton
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism, by Ronald Sanders	Jack L. Davis
Mystic Warriors of the Plains, by Thomas E. Mails	Reginald Laubin
The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen	Thomas J. Lyon
California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley, edited by Gerald Haslam and James Houston, illustrated by Clayton Turner	Howard Lachtman
The Horse Soldier 176-1943, vol. III, by Randy Steffen	John Taylor
Swimming Man Burning, by Terrence Kilpatrick	Tom Pilkington
Itinerary: Criticism, Essays on California Writers, edited by Charles Crow	Forrest Robinson
Cowboy, by Ross Santee	Stephen Tatum
Green Earth, by Frederick Manfred	Waring Jones
Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California, edited by Peter Berg	Kraig Klungness
H. L. Davis, by Paul T. Bryant	Jan Harold Brunvand
The Elements of San Joaquin, by Gary Soto	Jerry Bradley
American Indian Fiction, by Charles R. Larson	Wayne Ude
The Novels of Wright Morris, by G. B. Crump	Mary Washington
While Dancing Feet Shatter the Earth, by Keith Wilson	Alan Steinberg
Riders to Cibola, by Norman Zollinger	Geary Hobson
Captain Mayne Reid, by Joan Steele	Michael T. Marsden
New Directions in Chicano Scholarship, by Ricardo Romo and Raymund Paredes	Robert G. Lint
Triada, by Sam Hamill	L. L. Lee
America’s Frontier Culture: Three Essays, by Ray A. Billington	Lee Nash
In Search of Steinbeck, by Anne-Marie Schmitz	Sal Noto
History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad	Richard C. Poulsen
Decompressions: Selected Poems, by Philip Whalen; Off the Wall: Interviews with Philip Whalen, edited by Donald Allen	Albert Saijo
Wintu Trails, by Helen Hogue, edited by Margaret M. Kardell	Jacqueline Koenig
A Good Journey, by Simon J. Ortiz	Geary Hobson
Studio, by Thomas Maremaa	David M. Fine

Summer 1979 (vol. 14, no. 2)

The Roosevelt-Wister Connection: Some Notes on the Uses of History	Forrest G. Robinson
The Huck Finn Swindle	Barry A. Marks
Animals and Human Development in the Contemporary American Indian Novel	Peter G. Beidler
A Bibliography of Western American Drama	James H. Maguire
Essay Reviews	Reviewed By
Towards a New American Poetics, by Ekbert Faas	Max Westbrook
Western Women Writing: A Bride Goes West, by Nannie T. Alderson and Helena Huntington Smith; A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California, by Sarah Royce; Home below Hell’s Canyon, by Grace Jordan; A Lady’s Experience in the Wild West in 1883, by Rose Prender; Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart; Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866, by Mollie Dorsey Sanford; No Life for a Lady, by Agnes Morley Cleaveland	Ann Ronald
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Starship and the Canoe, by Kenneth Brower	Paul T. Bryant
Jack London: Essays in Criticism, edited by Ray Wilson Ownbey	Dale L. Walker
A Whaler and Trader in the Arctic, by Arthur James Allen	John Craighead George
Two in the Far North, by Margaret E. Murie, illustrated by Olaus J. Murie	Beatrice K. Morton
The Lewis and Clark Trail: Retracing America’s Most Adventurous Journey, by Archie Satterfield, illustrated by Marilyn Weber	Rex Robinson
Big Falling Snow, by Albert Yava	James R. Hepworth
The Paradox of Pancho Villa, by Haldeen Braddy; Border Patrol: With the US Immigration Service on the Mexican Boundary 1910-54, by Clifford Alan Perkins, assisted by Nancy Dickey, edited by C. L. Sonnichsen	Robert B. Olafson
From the High Plains, by John Fischer	June O. Underwood
Growing Up in Iowa, by Clarence A. Andrews	Robert Gish

Fall 1979 (vol. 14, no. 3)

Settlement Waves and Coordinate Forces in Shane	James C. Work
California Heartland: Voice from the Great Central Valley	Gerald Haslam
Woman on the Trail: Hough’s North of 36	Linda K. Downey
Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: The Fusion of Form and Content	Ronald J. Lee
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature, compiled by Michael Gnarowski; On the Road Again, by David McFadden; Ragged Horizons, by Peter Trower	Robert Thacker
Dakota Texts, edited by Ella C. Deloria, reprinted with deletions and with introductory notes by Agnes Picotte and Paul N. Pavich	Jarold Ramsey
Speaking of Indians, by Ella C. Deloria, introductory notes by Agnes Picotte and Paul N. Pavich	William Bloodworth
Of Wolves and Men, by Barry Holstun Lopez	Mary Ellen Ackerman
The Scorched-Wood People, by Rudy Wiebe	Delbert E. Wylder
Hanta Yo, by Ruth Beebe Hill	William Bloodworth
Familiar as a Sparrow, by Veneta Leatham Nielsen	May Swenson
Growing Up in North Dakota, edited by Patrick D. Morrow	Clarence A. Glasrud
The Dime Novel Western, by Daryl Jones	Gary Topping
The Last Good Kiss, by James Crumley	James K. Folsom
Always Merry and Bright: The Life of Henry Miller, by Jay Martin	Roger Jones
The Ghost Country: A Study of the Novels of Larry McMurtry, by Raymond Neinstein; Kerouac’s Town, by Barry Gifford; Zen in the Art of J. D. Salinger, by Gerald Rosen	Gerald Haslam
Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments: American Writers as Image Makers, by Wright Morris	Robert D. Harper
Wind in the Rock, by Ann Zwinger	Michael P. Cohen
Rock and Hawk: Robinson Jeffers and the Romantic Agony, by William H. Nolte	Jerry A. Herndon
Hispano Folklife of New Mexico, by Lorin W. Brown, with Charles L. Briggs and Marta Weigle	Lynn Moncus
Women, Women Writers, and the West, edited by L. L. Lee and Merrill Lewis	Helen Cox Thompson
Mirror for the Moon: A Selection of Poems by Saigyo (1118-1190), translated by William R. LaFleur	Bert Almon
The Van Gogh Field and Other Stories, by William Kittredge	Anthony Arthur
The Dark Range: A Naturalist’s Night Notebook, by David Rains Wallace	Sabine Kremp
Everybody Gets Something Here, by Ken Mitchell	Peter Stevens
Jack London: No Mentor But Myself, edited by Dale L. Walker	Sal Noto
From Hopalong to Hud: Thoughts of Western Fiction, by C. L. Sonnichsen	Tom Pilkington
Recapitulation, by Wallace Stegner	Howad Lachtman
The Fiction of Frank Norris: The Aesthetic Context, by Don Graham	Glen A. Love
The Surrounded, by D’Arcy McNickle, introduction by Lawrence W. Towner	Wayne Ude
An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie, by Lon Tinkle	Henry L. Alsmeyer Jr.

Winter 1980 (vol. 14, no. 4)

Carlyle’s Presence in The Professor’s House	Meredith R. Machen
Literary Extensions of the Formula Western	William Bloodworth
Annual Bibliography	Richard D. Keller
Research in Progress	Richard Cracroft
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Crayon Miscellany, by Washington Irving, edited by Dahlia Kirby Terrell	Wayne R. Kime
The Western: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by James K. Folsom	Delbert E. Wylder
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind, by Ivan Doig	David Remley
Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American and Canadian Western Literature, edited by Dick Harrison	Robert Thacker
Women Poets of the West: An Anthology, 1850-1950, edited by A. Thomas Trusky; introduction by Ann Stanford	Ann Ronald
Blanco, by Allen Wier	Don Graham
The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, edited by Peggy and Harold Samuels	William Gardner Bell
Benchmark and Blaze: The Emergence of William Everson, edited by Lee Bartlett	Gary Holthaus
Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael, by Paul Christensen, foreword by George F. Butterick	John Trimbur
The War, the West, and the Wilderness, by Kevin Brownlow	Thomas Sobchack
Boise Western Writers Series Nos. 31-35: Virginia Sorensen, by L. L. Lee and Sylvia B. Lee; Alfred Henry Lewis, by Abe D. Ravitz; Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), by Marion W. Copeland; Ruth Suckow, by Abigail Ann Hamblen; Don Berry, by Glen A. Love	Robert Gish
Mark Twain’s Last Years as a Writer, by William R. Macnaughton	Patrick D. Morrow
The Plains Across, by John D. Unruh Jr.	Don S. Bowers
Hello, La Jolla, by Edward Dorn; Cottonwood Moon, by Richard F. Fleck; The Dark Playground (Poems 1970-1978), by Lawrene P. Spingarn	S. S. Moorty (S. Murthy Sikha)
Greasybear Songs, by Charles John Greasybear, selected and edited by Judson Crews and A. Thomas Trusky, introduction by J. Whitebird	S. S. Moorty (S. Murthy Sikha)
Montana Gothic, by Dirck Van Sickle	Peter Stevens
History of Wyoming, by T. A. Larson	Gary Holthaus
Land’s End, by Kevin Starr	Howard Lachtman

Spring 1980 (vol. 15, no. 1)

Feeding and Consuming in Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads	David W. Hiscoe
Historical Fact and Literary Truth: The Problem of Authenticity in Western American Literature	Jackson K. Putnam
“Only the eternal nothing of Space”: Richard Hugo’s West	Michael Allen
Essay Review	Reviewed By
Who Shall Be the Sun? Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians, by David Wagoner	Jarold Ramsey
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Desperadoes, by Ron Hansen	Robert E. Morsberger
Pioneer Conservationists of Western America, by Peter Wild	Michael McCloskey
The Rockies: High Where the Wind Is Lonely, photographs by Shin Sugino	Rex E. Robinson
The Western Writings of Stephen Crane, edited by Frank Bergon	Chester L. Wolford
The Ancient Ones, by Janet Lewis, drawings by Daniel M. Mendelowitz	Charles L. Crow
A Study Guide to Steinbeck (Part II), edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi	Arthur Frietzsche
Jack London: Selected Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, annotated by Dick Weiderman, illustrated by Philip Craig Russell	Richard W. Etulain
Literature against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society, by Gerald Graff	William A. Bloodworth
Unnatural Axe: A Novel of Colorado, by Tom Huth	James K. Folsom
Dateline Fort Bowie; Charles Fletcher Lummis Reports on an Apache War, edited by Dan L. Thrapp	Arthur Frietzsche
Literary America, 1903-1934: The Mary Austin Letters, selected and edited by Thomas Matthews Pearce	James H. Maguire
Belle Starr, by Speer Morgan	William Bloodworth
Woman Chief, by Benjamin Capps	Jack Schneider
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930’s, by Donald Worster	Jack Hafer
A Pictorial Life of Jack London, by Russ Kingman	Howard Lachtman
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village, by Gary Snyder	Thomas J. Lyon
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, by Bill O’Neal	W. Eugene Hollon
Abbey’s Road, by Edward Abbey	Tom Pilkington
Photography and the Old West, text by Karen Current, photographs selected and printed by William R. Current	Stan Anderson
Hopi Painting: The World of the Hopi, by Patricia Janis Broder	Jack L. Davis
The American Walk Book, by Jean Craighead George; A Literary Guide to the United States: West and Midwest, by Rita Stein; A Literary Guide to the United States: South and Southwest, by Rita Stein	Robert Roripaugh
California and the West, by Charis Wilson and Edward Weston	Thomas J. Lyon

Summer 1980 (vol. 15, no. 2)

Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Ken Kesey Passed by Here	Mark Busby
A Critical Approach to Plains Poetry	James R. Saucerman
Gary Snyder’s Descent to Turtle Island: Searching for Fossil Love	L. Edwin Folsom
Remarks on the Western Stance of Stephen Crane	Robert Glen Deamer
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Gertrude Atherton, by Charlotte S. McClure	Forrest G. Robinson and Margaret G. Robinson
Filaree, by Marguerite Noble	Bobbie Burch Lemontt
Bret Harte, Literary Critic, by Patrick D. Morrow	Henry Hahn
The Executioner’s Song, by Norman Mailer	Mark Royden Winchell
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, by Gregory Bateson	Thomas J. Lyon
The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in 19th-Century American Fiction, by William J. Scheick	Warren French
Readings in American Folklore, edited by Jan Harold Brunvand	Patricia Gardner
Lawrence, Greene, and Lowry: The Fictional Landscape of Mexico, by Douglas W. Veitch	Robert B. Olafson
Steinbeck and Covici, The Story of a Friendship, by Thomas Fensch	Robert E. Morsberger

Fall 1980 (vol. 15, no. 3)

“Bubbs Creek Haircut”: Gary Snyder’s “Great Departure” in Mountains and Rivers without End	Anthony Hunt
The Art of Ruth Suckow’s “A Start in Life”	Fritz Oehlschlaeger
Cultural Regionalism and Chicano Literature	Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
Finding the Center of the Earth: Satire, History, and Myth in Little Big Man	Michael Cleary
Essay Review	Reviewed By
Ten Poets: A Review	Dale K. Boyer
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Continental Drift, by James D. Houston	Gerald Haslam
So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America, 1865-1895, by Norton Juster; Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880, by Julie Roy Jeffrey	Billie J. Wahlstrom
The Death of Jim Loney, by James Welch	Paul N. Pavich
The Alaskan Bird Sketches of Olaus Murie, with excerpts from his field notes, compiled and edited by Margaret E. Murie	Gary Holthaus
The Collected Stories of Amado Muro, by Amado Jesus Muro	Gerald Haslam
The Wind Blows Free, by Frederick Manfred	George F. Day
History of the Westward Movement, by Frederick Merk	Gary Topping
Folklore from Kansas: Customs, Beliefs, and Superstitions, by William E. Koch	Jan Harold Brunvand
Jack London’s Scorn of Women: World Premiere Booklet, edited by Marlan Beilke	Howard Lachtman
The River Between, by Lawrence Clark Powell; People of the Sun: Some Out-of-Fashion Southwesterners, text by Marc Simmons; photography by Buddy Mays; foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell	Richard Moseley
Shaman’s Daughter, by Nan F. Salerno and Rosamond M. Vanderburgh	Mary Ellen Ackerman
The Holdouts, by William Decker	Delbert E. Wylder
There Ain’t No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales, by Bill Brett	James M. Day
Jack London’s First Editions: A Chronological Reference Guide, by James E. Sisson III and Robert W. Martens	Richard W. Etulain
The American Indian in Short Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, by Peter G. Beidler and Marion F. Egge; American Indian Poetry, by Helen Addison Howard; American Indian Literature: An Anthology, edited and with an introduction by Alan R. Velie	Wayne Ude
At the Home Altar, by Robert Hedin	Gary Holthaus

Winter 1981 (vol. 15, no. 4)

The Pattern of Willa Cather’s Novels	Susan J. Rosowski
The Fool Figure in Willa Cather’s Fiction	Paul Comeau
Annual Bibliography	Richard D. Keller
Research in Western American Literature	Richard H. Cracroft
Essay Review	Reviewed By
Discovering Pacific Northwest Writing: Contemporary Northwest Writing, edited by Roy Carlson; An Anthology of Northwest Writing 1900-1950, edited by Michael Strelow; Northwest Perspectives: Essays on the Culture of the Pacific Northwest, edited by Edwin R. Bingham and Glen A. Love	Merrill Lewis
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Southwest, by David Lavender	Edwin W. Gaston
Track of the Grizzly, by Frank C. Craighead Jr.	Coralie Beyers
Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie (1943-1972); Book of Friends, by Henry Miller; Joey, by Henry Miller	Roger Jones
Plains Song: For Female Voices, by Wright Morris	Jack Hafer
Aransas, by Stephe Harrigan	William Bloodworth
Selected Poems, by Richard Hugo	Michael Allen
Peckinpah: The Western Films, by Paul Seydor	Mark Busby
Inyo-Sierra Passage, by Jack Rowe	Paul T. Bryant
White Center, by Richard Hugo; The Right Madness on Skye, by Richard Hugo	Michael Allen
Secret Go the Wolves, by R. D. Lawrence	George H. Tweney
Vision Quest, by Terry Davis	William Bloodworth
Vienna Blood & other poems, by Jerome Rothenberg; To the Natural World, by Genevieve Taggard; Water and Stone, by R. G. Vliet; Country Boy, by Max Westbrook	James R. Saucerman

Spring 1981 (vol. 16, no. 1)

Poetry and History in Neihardt’s Cycle of the West	Lucile F. Aly
The Inhumanism of Robinson Jeffers	Frederic I. Carpenter
William Eastlake’s First Novel: An Account of the Making of Go in Beauty	Don Graham
James Kirke Paulding: Myth and the Middle Ground	Leland S. Person Jr.
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979, by Gary Snyder, edited by Scott McLean	Bert Almon
Only One Point of the Compass: Willa Cather in the Northeast, by Marion Marsh Brown and Ruth Crone	Susan J. Rosowski
Jack London on the Road: The Tramp Diary and Other Hobo Writings, edited by Richard W. Etulain	Howard Lachtman
Jacob Hamblin: Mormon Apostle to the Indians, by Juanita Brooks; Sixshooters and Sagebrush: Cowboy Stories of the Southwest, by Rowland W. Rider	Charles S. Peterson
The Novel of the American West, by John R. Milton	Max Westbrook
A Day Late, by Carolyn Doty	Janis Helbert
The Life and Adventures of John Muir, by James Mitchell Clarke	William F. Kimes
In the Strong Woods: A Season Alone in the North Country, by Paul Lehmberg	Mary Ellen Ackerman
American Roads, by Freya Manfred	Robert Gish
The Masks of Drought, by William Everson	Marlan Beilke
Is This Naomi? And Other Stories, by L. D. Clark	Mildred R. Bennett
Blue Sunrise, by Bert Almon	Sam Hamill
No Time but Place: A Prairie Pastoral, by Jeff and Jessica Pearson, photographs by John W. Manos	Paul Lehmberg
Easy Favors, by Neil Claremon	Paul Varner
Creek Mary’s Blood, by Dee Brown	Paul Pavich
An Apache Odyssey: Indeh, by Eve Ball with Nora Henn and Lynda Sanchez	Gretchen Ronnow
Sinclair Ross, by Lorraine McMullen	Peter Stevens
Sign of a Promise, by James C. Schaap	Terry Andrews Lasansky
Appaloosa Rising: The Legend of the Cowboy Buddha, by Gino Sky	James H. Maguire
Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885, by Weston J. Naef	Shelley Armitage
Gold Dust, by Donald Dale Jackson	William F. Kimes
Grand Canyon: An Anthology, compiled by Bruce Babbitt, illustrations from the Emery Kolb Collection	Jacqueline Koenig
Jack Smith’s L.A., by Jack Smith	John Trimbur
Anna’s Song, by Arthur Oberg	Samuel Iriving Bellman
Mary Hallock Foote, by Lee Ann Johnson	James H. Maguire
Ride South!, by C. H. Haseloff	John D. Nesbitt
The Women Who Made the West, by the Western Writers of America	Ann Ronald
Wind from an Enemy Sky, by D’Arcy McNickle	Jack W. Schneider

Summer 1981 (vol. 16, no. 2)

“Moderate Extremism”: Edward Abbey and “The Moon-Eyed Horse”	Jerry A. Herndon
The Inconsistent Octopus	Robert E. Morsberger
Ambivalent Warriors in The Octopus	Robert Micklus
Manfred’s Elof Lofblom	Nancy Nelson McCord
Essay Reviews	Reviewed By
White Corn Sister, by Peter Blue Cloud	Clem Rawlins
The Kerouac Boom: The Beat Generation, by Bruce Cook; Kerouac: A Biography, by Ann Charters; Visions of Kerouac, The Life of Jack Kerouac, by Charles E. Jarvis; Jack Kerouac, Prophet of the New Romanticism, by Robert A. Hipkiss; Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation, by John Tytell; Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee; Jack Kerouac, by Harry Russell Huebel; Desolate Angel: A Biography of Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America, Dennis McNally	David Stanley
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit against the Wilderness, by Frederick Turner	Joan Nice
Good News, by Edward Abbey	Jerry A. Herndon
Zane Grey--Born to the West: A Reference Guide, by Kenneth W. Scott	Gary Topping
The South Corner of Time: Hopi, Navajo, Papago, Yaqui Tribal Literature, edited by Larry Evers et al.	Jack L. Davis
The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation, by Henry Miller	Donald Gutierrez
Sons of Adam, by Frederick Manfred	Beatrice K. Morton
The Don Juan Papers, by Richard de Mille	Thomas J. Lyon
Incident at Eagle Ranch: Man and Predator in the American West, by Donald G. Schueler	Paul T. Bryant
Idle Weeds, The Life of a Sandstone Ridge, by David Rains Wallace	Sabine Kremp
Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by Ella E. Clark and Margot Edmonds	Rex E. Robinson
The Secret of the Sierra Madre: The Man Who Was B. Traven, by Will Wyatt	Robert B. Olafson
This Song Remembers, edited by Jane B. Katz	James R. Hepworth
Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West, text and catalogue raisonné by Carol Clark	William Gardner Bell
Bret Harte: A Reference Guide, by Linda D. Barnett	Patrick D. Morrow
New Native American Drama: Three Plays, by Hanay Geiogamah	Tom King
Woman Poet, edited by Carolyn Kizer; Selected Poems, by Hazel Hall	Veneta Leatham Nielsen
Man Meets Grizzly: Encounters in the Wild from Lewis and Clark to Modern Times, gathered by F. M. Young and edited by Coralie Beyers	Karl E. Young
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years, by Robert Bly	James R. Saucerman
The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest, by Donald Worcester	Stan Steiner
Yellowfish, by John Keeble	Robert B. Olafson
The Wolf and the Buffalo, by Elmer Kelton	Dorys Grover
Music for Chameleons, by Truman Capote	Mark Royden Winchell
Big Sioux Pioneers, edited by Arthur R. Huseboe	Kathryn E. R. Johnson
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America, by Ivan Doig	Harold P. Simonson
Ursus Major, by Roberta Smoodin	Katharine M. Morsberger

Fall 1981 (vol. 16, no. 3)

Max Brand’s West	William A. Bloodworth Jr.
Faking the Pumpkin: On Jerome Rothenberg’s Literary Offenses	William M. Clements
Ritual and Murder in Tony Hillerman’s Indian Detective Novels	Ellen Strenski and Robley Evans
Violence in Old Jules and Slogum House	Rosemary Whitaker
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Ranchers: A Book of Generations, by Stan Steiner	James F. Hoy
One Night Stand and Other Poems, by Jack Spicer; Enough Said: Poems 1974-79, by Philip Whalen	John Trimbur
The Wages of Sin, by Gerald Haslam	Bill Baines
Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film, by John H. Lenihan	Paul A. Hutton
Luke Short, by Robert L. Gale	John D. Nesbitt
Boise State Western Writer’s Series Nos. 41-45: Janet Lewis, by Charles L. Crow; Tom Robbins, by Mark Siegel; Joaquin Miller, by Benjamin S. Lawson; Dorothy Johnson, by Judy Alter; Leslie Marmon Silko, by Per Seyersted	Arthur Frietzsche
American Indian Archery, by Reginald and Gladys Laubin	Larry Dean Olsen
Bibliography of the Sioux, by Jack W. Marken and Herbert T. Hoover	Clyde A. Milner II
Nomad: George A. Custer in Turf, Field, and Farm, edited by Brian W. Dippie	William Price
Basin and Range, by John McPhee; Hiking the Great Basin, by John Hart	Thomas J. Lyon
Joaquin Murrieta and His Horse Gangs, by Frank F. Latta	Gerald Haslam
Klondike Lost: A Decade of Photographs by Kinsey & Kinsey, by Norm Bolotin	Bart Robinson
The Red Snow, by James Greiner	John C. George
Finding the Sky, by José	Paul Varner
South by West: A Galaxy of Southwestern and Western Scenes and Portraits, by Everett A. Gillis	Paul Varner
Animae, by Sam Hamill	J. Taylor
The Disputed Lands: A History of the American West, by Alexander B. Adams	J. K. Putnam
Lew Wallace: Militant Romantic, by Robert E. and Katharine M. Morsberger	Joseph C. Porter
Eagles over Big Sur, by Jack Curtis	David W. Madden
From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas, by John Graves	Sabine Kremp
Edward S. Curtis in the Land of the War Canoes: A Pioneer Cinematographer in the Pacific Northwest, by Bill Holm and George Irving Quimby	Thomas Sobchack
The Many-Forked Branch, by Ewan Clarkson	Ann Schimpf
Clearing of the Mist, by Richard F. Fleck	Bill Baines
Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest, by José Griego y Maestas, translated by Rudolfo A. Anaya	Robert G. Lint
On the Trail: The Life and Tales of “Lead Steer” Potter, by Jean M. Burroughs, original stories by Col. Jack Potter	Patricia Ann Owens
Will James: The Last Cowboy Legend, by Anthony Amaral	James R. Nicholl

Winter 1982 (vol. 16, no. 4)

Nietzschean Psychology in London’s The Sea-Wolf	Michael Qualtiere
Coordinate Forces in “The Leader of the People”	James C. Work
Annual Bibliography	Richard D. Keller
Research in Western American Literature	Richard H. Cracroft
Essay Review	Reviewed By
Charters and Poets: Winters, Swallow, Drummond: The Republic of Letters: A History of Postwar American Literary Opinion, by Grant Webster; New and Selected Poems 1938-1978, by Donald Drummond	Martin Bucco
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Bendigo Shafter, by Louis L’Amour; Comstock Lode, by Louis L’Amour	John D. Nesbitt
Interviews and Views, both by Edward Dorn, edited by Donald Allen; Later, by Robert Creeley	Dale K. Boyer
No Moving Parts, by Susan Strayer Deal	Katharine W. Cohen
Traditional Literatures of the American Indian, edited by Karl Kroeber; Karok Myths, by A. L. Kroeber and E. W. Gifford	Jack L. Davis
Thirteen Tales of Terror by Jack London, edited and introduced by John Perry	Howard Lachtman
The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies, edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Charles L. P. Silet; Images of the Mexican American in Fiction and Film, by Arthur G. Pettit, edited by Dennis E. Showalter	William A. Bloodworth Jr.
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier, by Joanna L. Stratton	Diane Quantic
The Medicine Calf, by Bill Hotchkiss	Robert E. Morsberger
Annapurna--a Woman’s Place, by Arlene Blum	Marjane Ambler
Winter of the Salamander, by Ray Young Bear	Paul N. Pavich
Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland, by James Fenimore Cooper, historical intro and notes by Robert E. Spiller and James F. Beard; The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper, historical intro and notes by James Franklin Beard; Gleanings in Europe: Italy, by James Fenimore Cooper, historical intro and notes by John Conron and Constance Ayers Denne; The Pathfinder, by Jame Fenimore Cooper, edited with a historical intro by Richard Dilworth Rust	Richard C. Poulsen
Jumping-Off Place, by Baine Kerr	Cynthia A. Carlisle
Concerning Western Poetry, edited by Merrill Lewis	Clinton Larson
American Genesis: The American Indian and the Orgins of Modern Man, by Jeffrey Goodman	Paul Riesman
To Touch the Water, by Gretel Ehrlich	Alice G. Hart
Cold Wind River, by Kent Nelson	James K. Folsom
National Parks: The American Experience, by Alfred Runte	John Robert Leo

Spring 1982 (vol. 17, no. 1)

A Willa Cather Issue

Cather’s Archbishop and Travel Writing	David Stouck
St. Peter and the World All before Him	Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Godfrey St. Peter and Eugene Delacroix: A Portrait of the Artist in The Professor’s House?	L. Brent Bohlke
Willa Cather’s Bodies for Ghosts	Mildred R. Bennett
Willa Cather and Catholic Themes	John J. Murphy
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Mountain Dialogues, by Frank Waters	Charles L. Adams
A River No More: The Colorado River and the West, by Philip L. Fradkin	Ann H. Zwinger
Writers in Residence: American Authors at Home, by Glynne Robinson Betts, with an introduction by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt	John J. Murphy
The Life of D. H. Lawrence, by Keith Sagar	Donald Gutierrez
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, edited by Robert Bly	Lee Bartlett
Will’s Boy: A Memoir, by Wright Morris	Mary Washington
Songs for the Harvester of Dreams, by Duane Niatum	L. L. Lee
Walt Whitman’s Western Jaunt, by Walter H. Eitner	James R. Nicholl
Ecotopia Emerging, by Ernest Callenbach	Thomas J. Lyon
Southwest Fiction, edited by Max Apple	David Johnson
On the Border: Portraits of America’s Southwestern Frontier, by Tom Miller	Dorothy Schmidt
Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest: “The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation,” by Robert J. Rosenbaum	Dorothy Schmidt
40 Years’ Gatherin’s, by Spike Van Cleve	Coralie Beyers
Slade’s Glacier, by Robert F. Jones	John Magee
Endless Life: Selected Poems, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	John Trimbur
Above Timberline: A Wildlife Biologist’s Rocky Mountain Journal, by Dwight Smith, edited by Alan Anderson Jr.	Paul T. Bryant
Talking with Texas Writers: Twelve Interviews, by Patrick Bennett	Dorys Crow Grover
Chrysalis, by Joyce Ellen Davis	Eileen Manwaring
Bounds Out of Bounds: A Compass for Recent American and British Poetry, by Roberta Berke	Lee Bartlett
The Collected Shorter Poems 1947-1977, by Robin Skelton	Sam Hamill
Poems Old and New: 1918-1978, by Janet Lewis	Tom Trusky
Ask Me Now, by Al Young	Geary Hobson
Speaking for Nature, by Paul Brooks	Coralie Beyers
An Annotated Bibliography of American Indian and Eskimo Autobiographies, by H. David Brumble III	Clyde A. Milner II
Catch the Wind, by James Grady	C. L. Rawlins
Legendary Ladies of Texas, edited by Francis Edward Abernethy	Dorys C. Grover
Joan Didion, by Mark Royden Winchell	Anthony Arthur

Summer 1982 (vol. 17, no. 2)

Wallace Stegner’s Family Saga: From The Big Rock Candy Mountain to Recapitulation	Forrest G. Robinson
How the Western Ends: Frnimore Cooper to Frederic Remington	Christine Bold
Gary Snyder’s Myth & Texts and the Monomyth	Lee Bartlett
Norman Maclean’s Two-Hearted River	Harold P. Simonson
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Jack London: An American Myth, by John Perry	Richard W. Etulain
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century, by Ray Allen Billington	Rodman W. Paul
Works for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke	Kim R. Stafford
American Places, by Eliot Porter, Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner	Forrest G. Robinson
Frederick Manfred: A Bibliography and Publishing History, by Rodney J. Mulder and John H. Timmerman	Joseph M. Flora
Morgana’s Fault, by Susan Lukas	Ann Ronald
Expeditions to Nowhere, by Paddy Sherman	Brian Patton
The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America, by Jamake Highwater	Karl Kroeber
Steinbeck’s Unhappy Valley: A Study of The Pastures of Heaven, by Joseph Fontenrose	Sanford E. Marovitz
The Piñon Pine: A Natural and Cultural History, by Ronald M. Lanner; with a section on Pine-Nut Cookery by Harriette Lanner	John Hart
A Closed Book, by Richard Blessing	L. L. Lee
Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978, by James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy	Geary Hobson
The Ambidextrous Historian: Historical Writers and Writing in the American West, by C. L. Sonnichsen	Charles S. Peterson
Enos Mills, by Peter Wild; Gary Snyder, by Bert Almon; Charles Marion Russell, by Robert L. Gale; Jack Kerouac, by Harry Russell Huebel; C. L. Sonnichsen, by Joyce Gibson Roach	George F. Day
Western Writers Series Nos. 46-50. George R. Stewart, by John Caldwell; Scandinavian Immigrant Literature, by Christer Lennart Mossberg; Clarence King, by Peter Wild; Benjamin Capps, by Ernest B. Speck; Charles F. Lummis, by Robert E. Fleming	Arthur R. Huseboe
Yosemite, Its Discovery, Its Wonders & Its People, by Margaret Sanborn	Shirley Sargent
Growing Up in the Midwest, edited by Clarence A. Andrews; A Bibliographical Guide to Midwestern Literature, by Gerald C. Nemanic	Abigail Ann Hamblen
Bartlett Richards, Nebraska Sandhills Cattleman, by Bartlett Richards Jr. with Ruth Van Ackeren	Mildred R. Bennett
Back in Keith County, by John Janovy Jr.	Clem Rawlins
So This Is the Map, by Reg Saner	Bill Tremblay
The Hardrock Miners: A History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863-1893, by Richard E. Lingenfelter	F. Ross Peterson
Wild Freedom, by Max Brand	John D. Nesbitt
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, by J. S. Holliday	James D. Houston
Texas Rhapsody: Memories of a Native Son, by Bill Porterfield	Jane Bouterse
Nightwind, by Roberta Jean Mountjoy	Susan Lukas
Mr. American, by George MacDonald Fraser	Raymond Schmudde
Converstions with Bullwhackers, Muleskinners, Pioneers, Prospectors, ’49ers, Indian Fighters, Trappers, Ex-Barkeepers, Authors, Preachers, Poets and Near Poets, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men, compiled and edited by Mike Helm	Lonnie L. Willis
The Land of the Long Shadow, by Oliver Lange	Robert Gish
Mapping My Father, by Ripley Schemm	Sam Hamill

Fall 1982 (vol. 17, no. 3)

The Genesis of the Rapist in The Octopus	John Jolly
Dorothy Johnson’s Short Fiction	Barbara H. Meldrum
Hamlin Garland’s Boy Life on the Prairie	Marcia Jacobson
A Supplement to An Annotated Bibliography of American Indian and Eskimo Autobiographies	H. David Brumble III
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Recollected Essays 1965-1980, by Wendell Berry	Harold P. Simonson
Literary San Francisco, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters	Arthur Frietzsche
The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country, by Gary Paul Nabhan	Peter Wild
A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924, by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins	Arnold Krupat
The Southern Cross, by Charles Wright	Veneta Leatham Nielsen
Sporting Blood: Selections from Jack London’s Greatest Sports Writing, edited by Howard Lachtman	Dale L. Walker
Emerson Hough, by Delbert E. Wylder	Robert L. Gale
The Ghosts of Elkhorn, by Kerry Newcomb and Frank Schaefer	C. L. Rawlins
Rhine Maidens, by Carolyn See	Janis Helbert
A Good Day to Die, by Jim Harrison	Glenn E. Selander
Galon Clark: Yosemite Guardian, by Shirley Sargent	Valerie P. Cohen
All titles by Frederick Manfred: This Is the Year, introduction by Max Westbrook; Conquering Horse, introduction by John R. Milton; Lord Grizzly, introduction by Joseph M. Flora; Scarlet Plume, introduction by Ted N. Weissbuch; King of Spades, intro by Frederick Manfred; Riders of Judgment, intro by Priscilla Oaks:	Delbert E. Wylder
A Brush with the West, by Dale Burk, with an introduction by Vivian Paladin	Robert Thacker
Home Ground, by Cecelia Holland	Melody Graulich
The Man in the Black Coat Turns, by Robert Bly	Charles Molesworth
Dark and Dashing Horsemen, by Stan Steiner	Olena H. Saciuk
Crazy Fox Remembers, by Don and Sue Preston	Fred L. Lee
Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: A Natural History of the US-Mexican Borderlands, by Frederick R. Gehlbach	Peter Wild
The Literary Guide to the United States, edited by Stewart Benedict	M. Gilbert Porter
MISTER, You Got Yourself a Horse: Tales of Old-Time Horse Trading, edited with an introduction by Roger L. Welsh	C. L. Rawlins
Going to Extremes, by Joe McGinniss	Valerie P. Cohen
Agua Negra, by Leo Romero	David Lee
Pre-Faces & Other Writings, by Jerome Rothenberg	Alan Steinberg
The Modern Cowboy, by John R. Erickson, photographs by Kris Erickson	Richard D. Keller
Corey Lane, by Norman Zollinger	Paul Skenazy
The Fifth Wind, by L. D. Clark	Lawrence Davis
Custer Legends, by Lawrence A. Frost	James V. Holleran

Winter 1983 (vol. 17, no. 4)

Self-Hatred and Spiritual Corruption in House Made of Dawn	Bernard A. Hirsch
Social Philosophy as Best-Seller: Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf	Susan Ward
Annual Bibliography	Richard D. Keller
Research in Western American Literature	Richard H. Cracroft
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey, by Lillian Schlissel, preface by Carl Degler	Roger E. Carp
The Texas Hill Country: Interpretations of Thirteen Artists, introduction by A. C. Greene, foreword by John Palmer Leeper	John O. West
The Eagle’s Gift, by Carlos Castaneda	Jane Holden Kelley
Holy Wind in Navajo Philosophy, by James Kale McNeley	C. L. Rawlins
A Suitable Church, poems by Jim Heynan	Gaymon Bennett
Hard Road West: Alone on the California Trail, by Gwen Moffat	Joanna Lloyd
Bobcat Year, by Hope Ryden	Paul T. Bryant
The Last Texas Hero, by Douglas Terry	Mark Busby
Life amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History, by Joaquin Miller, historical introduction by Alan Rosenus	Norma J. Engberg
Down the River, by Edward Abbey	Thomas J. Lyon
Death and the Good Life, by Richard Hugo	Michael S. Allen
A. B. Guthrie, Jr, by Thomas W. Ford	John D. Nesbitt
The Broken Face of Summer, by Michael Hogan	Sam Hamill
Collected Poems of Mongrel, by Kenneth Brewer	Sam Hamill
Rainbow, poems by Peter Wild, illustrations by Doug Hendrickson	Edward C. Lynskey
Original Sound, by Marya Manfred	George F. Day
Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction, by Tim Hunt; The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady, by William Plummer	Charles L. Crow
The Nirvana Blues, by John Nichols	Lynn Z. Bloom
Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries, by David Dary	J. R. Nicholl
Buckaroos in Paradise: Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada, by Howard W. Marshall and Richard E. Ahlborn	Albin J. Cofone
Nobody’s Angel, by Thomas McGuane	David W. Madden
Hannah’s Travels, by Richard Speakes; Laws of the Land, by David Baker	Gary Holthaus
Aleut and Eskimo Art: Tradition and Innovation in South Alaska, by Dorothy Jean Ray	C. L. Rawlins
Becoming Coyote, by Wayne Ude	Jack L. Davis
Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait, by Patrick White	Stephen Tatum

Spring 1983 (vol. 18, no. 1)

Every Husband’s Right: Sex Roles in Mari Sandoz’s Old Jules	Melody Graulich
“Wolf That I Am ...”: Animal Symbology in Lord Grizzly and Scarlet Plume	Mick McAllister
Essay Review	Reviewed By
The Naked Man. Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 4, by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman	Barre Toelken
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Fair Land, Fair Land, A. B. Guthrie Jr.	Fred Erisman
Journey Inward, by Jean Craighead George	Flo Krall
Cuchama and Sacred Mountains, by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, edited by Frank Waters and Charles L. Adams	Jack L. Davis
Ascent: The Spiritual and Physical Quest of Willi Unsoeld, by Laurence Leamer	Michael Cohen
“In vain I tried to tell you”: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics, by Dell Hymes	William Bloodworth
Birth of a Poet, by William Everson, edited by Lee Bartlett	David A. Carpenter
We Are Called Human: The Poetry of Richard Hugo, by Michael S. Allen	Donna Gerstenberger
One Way to Spell Man: Essays with a Western Bias, by Wallace Stegner	Kerry Ahearn
The Shingle Weaver’s Journal, by Carlos Reyes	C. L. Rawlins
The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn, by John Nichols	Donn Rawlings
Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, by Laurence M. Klauber, abridged by Karen Harvey McClung	Norma J. Engberg
Scratching the Beat Surface, by Michael McClure	Lee Bartlett
The Tent Peg, by Aritha Van Herk	Lynne Van Luven
Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho, by Margaret Coel	Charles Roberts
This Journey, by James Wright	William Geyer
Laurel & Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature, by Robert J. Higgs	Gerald Haslam
Clio’s Cowboys: Studies in the Historiography of the Cattle Trade, by Don D. Walker	Edwin R. Bingham
Literary L.A., by Lionel Rolfe	Janis Helbert
Elderberry Flute Song: Contemporary Coyote Tales, by Peter Blue Cloud	C. L. Rawlins
Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the New American West, by Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb	Joan Nice
Other Days, by John Haines	Lex Runciman
Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual, by William K. Powers	Jack W. Schneider
The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down Home Tales, by Blanche McCrary Boyd	James D. Houston
New Americans: The Westerner and the Modern Experience in the American Novel, by Glen A. Love	James W. Byrkit
Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle, by Sallie Reynolds Matthews; Lambshead before Interwoven: A Texas Range Chronicle, 1848-1878, by Frances Mayhugh Holden	Lawrence Clayton
The Clam Lake Papers, by Edward Lueders	Coralie Beyers
Solitary Comrade--Jack London and His Work, by Joan D. Hedrick	Carolyn Johnston
Thousand Pieces of Gold, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn	Billie Wahlstrom
Mexico Bay, by Paul Horgan	Max Westbrook
Encyclopedia of North American Railroading, by Freeman Hubbard	G. Franklin Ackerman
Wyoming, by Terry Treadway	David Wellenbrock
Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor, by Alan R. Velie	Robley Evans
Lambing Out and Other Stories, by Mary Clearman	Martha Scott Trimble
Storyteller, by Leslie Marmon Silko	Tom King
Sketches against the Dark, by Gracia Grindal	Paul Varner
Frederick Manfred, by Robert C. Wright	Mick McAllister
Walking Home from the Icehouse: Poems, by Vern Rutsala	Bill Tremblay
Of Solitude and Silence: Writings on Robert Bly, edited by Richard Jones and Kate Daniels	James R. Saucerman
The West as Romantic Horizon, by William H. Goetzmann and Joseph C. Porter, with artists’ biographies by David C. Hunt	Gunther Barth
Hemingway’s Nick Adams, by Joseph M. Flora	Delbert E. Wylder
Vision and Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains, edited by Virginia Faulkner with Frederick C. Luebke	Beatrice K. Morton
Platte Valley Homestead, by William Kloefkorn	Mark Sanders

Summer 1983 (vol. 18, no. 2)

Symbols: Meat for the Soul in Cheyenne Myth and Lakota Ritual	Julian C. Rice
Wallace Stegner’s Vision of Wilderness	Susan J. Tyburski
A Note on Japanese Allusions in Gary Snyder’s Poetry	Katsunori Yamazato
Essay Review	Reviewed By
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879, with an Epilogue 1969-1974, by Father Peter John Powell	Larry Evers
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Fifty Western Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, edited by Fred Erisman and Richard W. Etulain	Martin Bucco
Critical Essays on Wallace Stegner, edited by Anthony Arthur	Melody Graulich
The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared, edited by Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson	William F. Lye
The Beats, edited by Lee Bartlett	Regina Weinreich
The Fiddleback: Lore of the Line Camp, by Owen Ulph	C. L. Rawlins
Crucible for Conservation: The Creation of Grand Teton National Park, by Robert W. Righter	Philip M. Hocker
So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away, by Richard Brautigan	Ann Ronald
Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon, by Bruce Brown	Orvis Burmaster
Frederic Remington: A Biography, by Peggy and Harold Samuels	Ben Merchant Vorpahl
The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and US Indian Policy, by Brian W. Dippie	John W. Bailey
Nature and Madness, by Paul Shepard	Thomas J. Lyon
Death, Too, for The-Heavy-Runner, by Ben Bennett	C. L. Rawlins
Read This Only to Yourself: The Private Writings of Midwestern Women, 1880-1910, by Elizabeth Hampsten	Diane D. Quantic
American Frontier Tales, by Helen Addison Howard	Karl Ames
Siouxland Heritage: Eight Essays about Cultural Preservation in the Prairie West, edited by Arthur R. Huseboe	Robert C. Steensma
Horace McCoy, by Mark Royden Winchell; Will Henry/Clay Fisher, by Robert L. Gale; Jessamyn West, by Ann Dahlstrom Farmer; The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, by Paul Skenazy; Mabel Dodge Luhan, by Jane Nelson	Richard W. Etulain
Mark Twain and the Limits of Power: Emerson’s God in Ruins, by James L. Johnson	Joseph J. Wydeven
Talking to the Moon, by John Joseph Matthews	Reginald and Gladys Laubin
Sweet Cane, by Bruce McGinnis	Lou Rodenberger
Women and Western American Literature, edited by Helen Winter Stauffer and Susan J. Rosowski	Dorys Crow Grover
Tanaina Tales from Alaska, by Bill Vaudrin, with an introduction by Joan B. Townsend	Frank Buske
Santa Fe & Taos: The Writer’s Era, 1916-1941, by Marta Weigle and Kyle Fiore	Robert Gish
Happy Hunting Grounds, by Stanley Vestal	Reginald and Gladys Laubin
The Beauty of the Weapons, by Robert Bringhurst	Sam Hamill
The Pure Experience of Order: Essays on the Symbolic in the Folk Material Culture of Western America, by Richard C. Poulsen	Simon J. Bronner
Between Loaded Guns: A Historical Novel, by James R. Parrish	Richard Tuerk
Women in Texas: Their Lives, Their Experiences, Their Accomplishments, by Ann Fears Crawford and Crystal Sasse Ragsdale	Dorys Crow Grover

Fall 1983 (vol. 18, no.3)

Owen Wister’s Achievement in Literary Tradition	John D. Nesbitt
California Writing and the West	Gerald W. Haslam
Narrative Voice in Sandoz’s Crazy Horse	Helen Stauffer
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains, by Helen Winter Stauffer	Melody Graulich
Willa Cather: A Bibliography, by Joan Crane	David Stouck
The Canyons of Grace, by Levi S. Peterson	Joan Sanders
The Art of Grit: Ken Kesey’s Fiction, by M. Gilbert Porter	Ronald Curran
Other Lips and Other Hearts, by Joan Sanders	Robert E. Morsberger
How the West Was Drawn: American Art and the Settling of the Frontier, by Dawn Glanz	Robert Thacker
Selected Poems, 1969-1981, by Richard Shelton	Lee Bartlett
News from the Glacier: Selected Poems 1960-1980, by John Haines	Robert Hedin
Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic, by Jay Parini	Nancy McCleery
A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems, by William Stafford	J. Russell Roberts Sr.
A Place Made Fast, by Mark Halperin; The Leaf Path, by Emily Warn; Drinking and Driving, by David Lee	L. L. Lee
New Poetry of the American West, edited by Peter Wild and Frank Graziano	Stanford E. Marovitz
Brooks Range Passage, by David J. Cooper	Max Lyon
Now That the Buffalo’s Gone, by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.	Tom King
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915, by Sandra L. Myres	Carol A. O’Connor
Cowboy Life on the Texas Plains: The Photographs of Ray Rector, edited by Margaret Rector, introduction by John Graves; Last of a Breed: Portraits of Working Cowboys, by Martin H. Schreiber, introduction by Louis L’Amour	Lawrence Clayton
Carry the Wind, by Terry C. Johnston	Beatrice K. Morton
The Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest, by Victor Perera and Robert D. Bruce	David Johnson
The Hidden West: Journeys in the American Outback, by Rob Schultheis	James C. Work and Sharon Work
Many Strange Characters: Montana Frontier Tales, by James Willard Schultz	Winfred Blevins
A Family Likeness, by Janis Stout	Frances K. Foster
Man Descending, by Guy Vanderhaeghe	Aritha van Herk
The River Why, by David James Duncan	Peter Wild
Man and Beast in American Comic Legend, by Richard M. Dorson	Richard E. Meyer
Hold High Your Heads (History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada), by A.-H. de Tremaudan, translated by Elizabeth Maguet; The Ballad of Alice Moonchild—and Others, by Aleata E. Blythe; The Overlanders, by Florence McNeil; The Seventh Day, by Lewis Horne	Frances W. Kaye
Gleanings in Europe: England, by James Fenimore Cooper, historical introduction and explanatory notes by Donald A. Ringe and Kenneth W. Staggs; Wyandotte, or The Hutted Knoll: A Tale, by James Fenimore Cooper, historical introduction by Thomas and Marianne Philbrick; The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, by James Fenimore Cooper, historical introduction by James Franklin Beard	Richard C. Poulsen
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 12: American Realists and Naturalists, edited by Donald Pizer and Earl N. Harbert	Patrick D. Morrow

Winter 1984 (vol. 18, no. 4)

The Professor’s House and “Rip Van Winkle”	Patricia Lee Younger
In Defense of Lillian St. Peter: Men’s Perceptions of Women in The Professor’s House	Margaret Doane
Cather’s Confounded Conundrums in The Professor’s House	James C. Work
Annual Bibliography	Virgil Albertini
Research in Western American Literature	Richard H. Cracroft
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The New West of Edward Abbey, by Ann Ronald	James R. Hepworth
Frank Waters: A Bibliography with Relevant Selections from His Correspondence, by Terence A. Tanner	Charles L. Adams
Twentieth Century Interpretations of “The Grapes of Wrath,” edited by Robert Con Davis	Richard Astro
The Sea Runners, by Ivan Doig	Kerry Ahearn
A Novel Called Heritage, by Margaret Mitchell Dukore	Janis Helbert
Shiny Objects, by Dianne Benedict	Corinne Dale
The Silence of the Llano, by Rudolfo A. Anaya	Paul Skenazy
Home Firest, by David Long	Marjorie Jarrett
The Children of the Sun, by Oakley Hall	Charles Hood
The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux	Jack L. Davis
Headwaters: Tales of the Wilderness, by Ash, Russell, Doog, and Del Rio	Carol Long
Cowboy Riding Country, by John L. Sinclair, illustrated by Edmond DeLavy	Robert E. Fleming
Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981, by Stephen Tatum	Michael T. Marsden
The Code of the West, by Bruce A. Rosenberg	Richard C. Poulsen
Wilderness Visions, by David Mogen	James K. Folsom
With Good Intentions: Quaker Work Among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s, by Clyde A. Milner II	William Bloodworth
Frank Matsura, Frontier Photographer, by JoAnn Roe, introduction by Murray Morgan	Merrill Lewis
Californians: Searching for the Golden State, by James D. Houston	Gerald Haslam
The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, 1900-1942, by Arrell Morgan Gibson	T. M. Pearce
The Novels of Jack London--A Reappraisal, by Charles N. Watson Jr.	Carolyn Johnston
Twentieth-Century Western Writers, edited by James Vinson	John R. Milton
When It Rains: Papago and Pima Poetry, by Ofelia Zepeda	Robley Evans
Cheif Joseph of the Nez Perce, by Robert Penn Warren	Frederick Manfred
Requiem, by Sam Hamill	Lex Runciman
The Glow, by Robert Wrigley	David Baker
Coyote’s Journal, edited by James Koller, Peter Blue Cloud, “Gogisgi” Carroll Arnett and Steve Nemirow	Bill Baines
To Remember What Is Lost, by Kenneth Brewer	C. L. Rawlins
Heretics and Bitteroots, both by Peter Wild	David A. Carpenter
Anvil of Roses, by Thomas Hornsby Ferril	James R. Saucerman
Theodore Roethke: The Journey from I to Otherwise, by Neal Bowers	T. R. Hummer

Spring 1984 (vol. 19, no. 1)

Vandover and the Brute: The Decisive Experience of Loss	Barbara Hochman
Wilderness as Salvation in Peterson’s The Canyons of Grace	Eugene England
The Husband of My Ántonia	Beth Bohling
Essay Review	Reviewed By
“Where Is the Voice Coming From?”: Toward a Western Canadian Aesthetic. RePlacing, edited by Dennis Cooley; Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry, edited by Dennis Cooley; Homage, Henry Kelsey: A Poem in Five Parts, by Jon Whyte; A Voice in the Land: Essays by and about Rudy Wiebe, edited by W. J. Keith; Sinclair Ross: A Reader’s Guide, by Ken Mitchell	Robert Thacker
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature, by Richard W. Etulain	Stephen Tatum
Passages toward the Dark, by Thomas McGrath	Frederick C. Stern
Sea Lanes Out, by Richard Hugo	Lex Runciman
Summits Move with the Tide: Poems and a Play, by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge	Alice G. Hart
Encyclopedia of Frontier and Western Fiction, by Jon Tuska and Vicki Piekarski	Richard W. Etulain
the discipline of crevices: poems of Yosemite, by June Dwyer	John Hart
What Was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society, by Leslie Fiedler	Stephen Tatum
The American West in Fiction, edited by Jon Tuska	John D. Nesbitt
Ride the Wind: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche, by Lucia St. Clair Robson	Diane Dufva Quantic
Hawk Flights: Visions of the West, by Gerald Haslam	Dorys Crow Grover
Not by the Sword, by Nash Candelaria	Robert Lint
Her Work: Stories by Texas Women, edited by Lou Halsell Rodenberger	Nancy Owen Nelson
El Vago, by Laurence Gonzales	Donald L. Zelman
The Bonner Boys: A Novel about Texans, by Campbell Geeslin	Gerald Haslam
Ride the River, by Louis L’Amour	Robert L. Gale
Mountains of the Middle Kingdom, by Galen Rowell	Thomas J. Lyon
The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, by David Rains Wallace, illustrations by Karin Wikstrom	Paul T. Bryant
Spiders and Spinsters: Women and Mythology, by Marta Weigle	Beverly Stoeltje
I-Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin, by Augusta Fink	Rae G. Ballard
Solo, by Wright Morris	Mary Washington
Western Films: A Complete Guide, by Brian Garfield	Ricard W. Etulain
Mark Twain in California: The Turbulent California Years of Samuel Clemens, by Nigey Lennon	Patrick D. Morrow
Charles A. Siringo, by Orlan Sawey	Thomas Fox Averill
Visionaries, Mountain Men & Empire Builders. They Made a Difference, by Fred Lockley, compiled and edited by Mike Helm	Gary Topping

Summer 1984 (vol. 19, no. 2)

Guest Editor: Gerald Haslam

Alternative Publishing in the West	Gerald Haslam
With Dreams or Sweat: Portrait of a Small Western Press	Frank Laureano
Necessary Ecstasy: An Afterword to Cawdor	James D. Houston
An Interview with John R. Milton	Gerald Haslam
A Checklist of Western Small Presses and Magazines	Kirk Robertson
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Poems & Stories, by Richard Blessing	L. L. Lee
The Shino Suite, Sansei Poetry by Ronald Tanaka	Albert Saijo
The Troll Garden, by Willa Cather, a Variorum Edition, edited by James Woodress	Mildred R. Bennett
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945-1975	Samuel Irving Bellman
Beyond Here, by Jim Green; Silence Like the Sun, by John Hicks	Peter Stevens
Dramatic W. O. Mitchell: Five Plays by W. O. Mitchell	John Ditsky
Cadillac Jack, by Larry McMurtry	Alan F. Crooks
When You and I Were Young, Whitefish, by Dorothy M. Johnson	Anthony Arthur
Eagle Song: An Indian Saga Based on True Events, by James Houston	Roscoe L. Buckland
A Flannel Shirt & Liberty: British Emigrant Gentlewomen in the Canadian West, 1880-1914, edited by Susan Jackel	Lois K. Smedick
Days without Weather, by Cecil Brown	Janis Helbert
Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux, by Raymond Wilson	Ward Churchill
The American Cowboy, by Lonn Taylor and Ingrid Maar	J. Wesley Clark
Willa: The Life of Willa Cather, by Phyllis C. Robinson	Kevin A. Synnott
Shadows of the Indian, by Raymond William Stedman	Tom King
Historians and the American West, edited by Michael P. Malone, foreword by Rodman W. Paul	Jackson K. Putnam
Native American Renaissance, by Kenneth Lincoln	Julian C. Rice
Legacy of the West, by David C. Hunt, with a contribution by Marsha V. Gallagher	Gunther Barth
Mark Twain’s Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images, by Susan K. Harris	Richard H. Cracroft
Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker, Master of the Frontier, by Bil Gilbert	Harvey L. Carter
The Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786, by Alexander Walker, edited by Robin Fisher and J. M. Bumsted	Roscoe L. Buckland
The Buffalo Book: The Saga of an American Symbol, by David A. Dary	Terry Nipper
Richard Bautigan, by Marc Chenetier	Tim Hunt
Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier, by Juanita Brooks, with an introduction by Charles S. Peterson	William Mulder
Radical Discontinuities: American Romanticism and Christian Consciousness, by Harold P. Simonson	William H. Shurr
Studies in American Indian Literature, edited by Paula Gunn Allen; Three American Literatures, edited by Houston R. Baker Jr.	Tom King
T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore, edited by Francis Edward Abernethy	Dorys Crow Grover

Fall 1984 (vol. 19, no. 3)

Chivalry and Modernity in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep	Ernest Fontana
Closing and Opening Western American Fiction: The Reader in The Brave Country	Stephen Tatum
Why the Lakota Still Have Their Own: Ella Deloria’s Dakota Texts	Julian Rice
The Entropic World of the Washo: Fatality and Self-Deception in Rabbit Boss	Sanford E. Marovitz
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, by Jackson J. Benson	Robert E. Morsberger
The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Greg Matthews	Mary Ann Lowry
The Vision Is Fulfilled, by Kay L. McDonald	June O. Underwood
Good Thunder, by John Solensten	Linda M. Hasselstrom
Making Certain It Goes On, by Richard Hugo	Michael S. Allen
Fragments of Perseus, by Michael McClure; Heavy Breathing, by Philip Whalen	Arthur Winfield Knight
A Country for Old Men and Other Stories, by E. R. Zietlow	Art Cuelho
The Clock of Moss, by Judson Crews; Ish River, by Robert Sund	J. Wesley Clark
First Light, by David Wagoner	Rebecca Pickett
Songs from This Earth on Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, edited by Joseph Bruchac	Sam Hamill
American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives, by Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands	Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature, by Wallace Stegner and Richard W. Etulain	Forrest G. Robinson
Reading the Fire: Essays in the Traditional Indian Literatures of the Far West, by Jarold Ramsey	Andrew Wiget
Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest, by Richard K. Nelson	Arnold Krupat
My Name Is Saroyan, by William Saroyan, compiled with a commentary by James H. Tashjian	Gerald Haslam
The Frontier Spirit and Progress, by Frank H. Tucker	Barbara Howard Meldrum
Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg	Lee Bartlett
The Favored Place: The Texas Hill Country, by Elroy Bode, photography by Frederick C. Baldwin and Wendy V. Watriss	Lawrence Clayton
Red & White: Indian Views of the White Man 1492-1982, by Annette Rosenstiel	Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.
Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899, by William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan	Ann Ronald

Winter 1985 (vol. 19, no. 4)

Frederick Manfred and the Anglo-Saxon Oral Tradition	Nancy Owen Nelson
The “Map of the Mind”: D’Arcy McNickle and the American Indian Novel	Louis Owens
Annual Bibliography	Virgil Albertini
Research in Western American Literature	Richard H. Cracroft
Essay Review	Reviewed By
The Wheel, by Wendell Berry; Axehandles, by Gary Snyder	Gary H. Holthaus
Book Review	Reviewed By
Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest, edited by William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross	Harold P. Simonson
Sundeck, by Jim Harris	Richard Tuerk
Unexpected Events: Poems from Writers in New Mexico, edited by Jim Harris	Dorys Crow Grover
The Texas Literary Tradition: Fiction, Folklore, History, edited by Don Graham, James W. Lee, and William T. Pilkington	Sylvia Ann Grider
Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems, 1942-1982, by William Stafford; Smoke’s Way: Poems from Limited Editions 1968-1981, by William Stafford	Bert Almon
Hopitutuwutsi/Hopi Tales, narrated by Herschel Talashoma, edited by Ekkehart Malotki	Laura Simms
Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, edited by Joseph Bruchac	James D. Houston
Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth-Century Poets and the Native American, by Michael Castro	Paul Pavich
William Everson: On Writing the Waterbirds and Other Presentations, edited by Lee Bartlett	David A. Carpenter
On Common Ground: The Poetry of William Kloefkorn, Ted Kooser, Greg Kuzma, and Don Welch, edited by Mark Sanders and J. V. Brummels	James R. Saucerman
The Illinois Suite, by Marine Robert Warden; Confrontations, by Max Westbrook	William Geyer
Not Working, by George Szanto	Jay Gillette
Season of Yellow Leaf, by Douglas C. Jones	Linda M. Hasselstrom
Steinbeck’s Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed, by Robert DeMott	Roy Simmonds
William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being, by David Stephen Calonne	Walter Shear
The Four Seasons of Success, by Budd Schulberg	Anthony Arthur
A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California, by Ann Zwinger	Carol S. Long
The Mother Ditch/ La Acequia Madre, by Oliver La Farge. English/ Spanish edition, illustrated by Karl Larsson	Robert Gish
Once a River: Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila, by Amadeo M. Rea, illustrated by Takashi Ijichi	Charles Hood
The Tenth Virgin, by Gary Stewart	David W. Madden
My Land is the Southwest: Peter Hurd Letters and Journals, edited by Robert Metzger	Joseph J. Wydeven
Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West, by Russell Martin	Louie W. Attebery
Willie, a Girl from a Town Called Dallas, by Willie Newbury Lewis	Lawrence Clayton
The Oxford Companion to American Literature, fifth edition; by James D. Hart	Martin Bucco
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, by Ron Hansen	Robert E. Morsberger
Ammahabas, by Bill Hotchkiss	Winfred Blevins
Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870, by Sylvia Van Kirk	Billie Wahlstrom
Famous All Over Town, by Danny Santiago, pseud. Daniel James	Charles L. Crow
God’s Fools: Four Plays, by Thomas Rogers	Aden Ross
A River Runs through It, by Norman Maclean	Peter Wild