The Implied Author as Protagonist: A Reading of Little Big Man	Jon Wallace
The Hill beyond the City: Elements of the Jeremiad in Edward Abbey’s “Down the River with Henry Thoreau”	John A. Murray
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature	Virgil R. Albertini
Research in Western American Literature 1986-1987	Jan Roush
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Frog Mountain Blues, by Charles Bowden	Robert A. Roripaugh
Nature First, Keeping Our Wild Places and Wild Creatures Wild, by Thomas McNamee	John A. Murray
The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays, by David Rains Wallace	Russell Burrows
Pioneer Conservationists of Eastern America, by Peter Wild	Jim Aton
We Need to Dream All This Again, by Bernard Pomerance	Richard Bodner
Out West: An American Jouney, by Dayton Duncan	Wayne R. Kime
The West of the Imagination, by William H. and William N. Goetzmann	William Bloodworth
Urban Options, photographs by William Pankey; The Texas Outback: Portraits of a Wildly Weird Country, by Caleb Pirtle III, photographs by Gerald Crawford	Lawrence Clayton
This I Can Leave You: A Woman’s Days on the Pitchfork Ranch, by Mamie Sypert Burns; Under the Texas Sun: Adventures of a Young Cowpuncher, by Anna Manns Dana	Richard Moseley
Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota, by William K. Powers	Donald E. Gribble
The Moccasin Maker, by E. Pauline Johnson	Elizabeth Hanson
Cowgirls: Women of the American West, by Teresa Jordan	Karen S. Langlois
Land of the Burnt Thigh, by Edith Eudora Kohl; Sand in My Eyes, by Seigniora Russell Laune	Margaret A. Lukens
The Women’s West, edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson	Pamela R. Howell
Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman, by Emily French	Penelope Reedy
Traveling West: 19th Century Women on the Overland Route, by Martha Mitten Allen	Ruth Alexander
The Blizzard Voices, by Ted Kooser	Steven Pugmire
The Nearness of You, by Carolyn Kizer	Dolph Corradino
The Enchanted Room, by Maurya Simon	David A. Carpenter
Headlong, by James McKean	Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot
Texasville, by Larry McMurtry	Ann Ronald
Picture Bride, by Yoshiko Uchida	Susan Sunada
Antelope Springs, by G. Clifton Wisler	Perter Bischoff
The Haunted Mesa, by Louis L’Amour	Robert L. Gale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 1988 (vol. 23, no. 1)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

River of Paradox: John McPhee’s “The Encircled River”	Philip G. Terrie
A. B. Guthrie’s Fair Land, Fair Land: A Requiem	Thomas W. Ford
Mary Austin and the Houghton Mifflin Company: A Case Study in the Marketing of a Western Writer	Karen S. Langlois
Essay Reviews	Reviewed By
The Woman at Otowi Crossing by Frank Waters	Charles L. Adams
A Literary History of the American West, sponsored by the Western Literature Association	John Milton
Books Reviewed	Reviewed By
Wild Westerns: Stories from the Grand Pulps, edited by Bill Pronzini	Edward C. Lynskey
Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860-1960, by Christine Bold	John D. Nesbitt
The Best of the West, by Joe R. Lansdale	Kenneth W. Scott
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, by Janet Lewis	Deanna L. Kern Ludwin
The News of the World, by Ron Carlson	Janet L. Jacobsen
Golden Days, by Carolyn See	Charles L. Crow
The Earth Abideth, by George Dell	Joseph J. Wydeven
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, edited by Frank MacShane	Ernest Fontana
“The Tools of My Trade”: Annotated Books in Jack London’s Library, by David Mike Hamilton	George H. Tweney
Jack London’s California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings, edited by Sal Noto; With a Heart Full of Love: Jack London’s Presentation Inscriptions to the Women in His Life, edited by Sal Noto	Earle Labor
Beats & Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation, by Ann Charters	Richard Ardinger
The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook, edited by Arthur and Kit Knight	M. Gilbert Porter
The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart, by Nell Shipman	Sharon Kahin
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, Vol. II; and The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 25, 1804-April 6, 1805, Vol. III, both edited by Gary E. Moulton	Rex E. Robinson
Escape from Death Valley, As Told by William Lewis Manley and Other ’49ers, edited by Leroy and Jean Johnson	David Wellenbrock
Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, by Sharon O’Brien; Cather’s Kitchens: Foodways in Literature and Life, by Roger L. and Linda K. Welsch, foreword by Susan J. Rosowski	George F. Day
A History of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, by Tom Mangesldorf	Robert E. Morsberger
Classics of Texas Fiction, by James Ward Lee	Lawrence Clayton
Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth, by James M. Marshall	Penelope Reedy
Stories from the Country of Lost Borders, by Mary Austin, edited by Marjorie Pryse	Thomas W. Ford
Stories We Listened To, by John Haines	Robert Hedin
The Men in My Life, by James D. Houston	David A. Carpenter
Stephen Crane, by Bettina L. Knapp	Donald E. Gribble
I See by My Get-Up, by Ron Querry	Robert Murray Davis
Images of America: Travelers from Abroad in the New World, by Robert B. Downs	Wayne R. Kime
The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women’s Writing and Art, edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk	Pamela R. Howell
Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by 14 Regional Authors, edited by Lex Runciman and Steven Sher; Owning It All, by William Kittredge	Carol S. Long
A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada, edited by Robert Leonard Reid	Orvis Burmaster
Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies, by Mark Abley	Peter Wild
In Condor Country, by David Darlington	Gerald Haslam
The Vanishing White Man, by Stan Steiner	Jack L. Davis
Last of the Breed, by Louis L’Amour	Starr Jenkins
The Treble V: The Legacy of a Cattle Baron of the Old West, by R. Guild Gray	John D. Nesbitt
Blood Moon, by K. Patrick Conner	Gerald Haslam
The Man Who Rode Midnight, by Elmer Kelton	Lawrence Clayton
The Western Writer’s Handbook, edited by James L. Collins	Dale L. Walker
Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music, by Robert Bringhurst; The Nootka Rose, by Sam Hamill	Steven Pugmire
Little Lucy’s Papa: A Story of Silverland, by Dan DeQuille/ William Wright	Charlotte M. Wright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer 1988 (vol. 23, no. 2)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Focus and Frame in Wright Morris’s The Works of Love	Joseph J. Wydeven
Unity and Point of View in The Distant Music	Richard H. Corning
The Minimal Western	Don D. Walker
Grafting onto Her Roots: Jean Stafford’s “Woden’s Day”	William Leary
Essay Review	Reviewed By
The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Tales, by W. P. Kinsella	Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner	Russell Burrows
Sam Shepard’s Metaphorical Stages, by Lynda Hart	Jasbir Jain
Howard Hawks: A Jungian Study, by Clark Branson	Mark Busby
Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom by Morgan Gibson	Steven Pugmire
Three Pacific Northwest Poets: William Stafford, Richard Hugo, and David Wagoner, by Sanford Pinsker	Paul Varner
Jack London: Adventures, Ideas, and Fiction, by James Lundquist	Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Willa Cather: A Literary Life, by James Woodress	Chapel Petty-Schmitt
Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters, edited by L. Brent Bohlke	Diane D. Quantic
On Mark Twain: The Best from American Literature, edited by Louis J. Budd and Edwin H. Cady	Dorys Crow Grover
Frank Norris: Collected Letters, edited by Jesse S. Crisler	Virgil Albertini
Zane Grey, Born to the West: A Reference Guide, by Kenneth W. Scott	Gary Topping
Prairies Within, by Harold P. Simonson	Arthur C. Huseboe
Western Writers Series No. 77-81: Gerald Haslam, by Gerald Locklin; Helen Hunt Jackson, by Rosemary Whitaker; Richard Brautigan, by Jay Boyer; Ole Edvart Rölvaag, by Ann Moseley; Lanford Wilson, by Mark Busby	Russell Burrows
The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez, by Fray Angelico Chavez, edited by Genaro Padilla	Robert Gish
Western Trails: A Collection of Short Stories by Mary Austin, edited by Melody Graulich	Peter Wild
Griever: An American Monkey King in China, by Gerald Vizenor	Dexter Westrum
Heart of a Western Woman, by Leslie Leek Durham	Scott Preston
Prettyfields, by William Eastlake; The Man Who Cultivated Fire and Other Stories, by Gerald Haslam	Gerald I. Locklin
Small Faces, by Gary Soto	Gerald W. Haslam
Prize Stories: Texas Institute of Letters, edited and with an introduction by Marshall Terry	David A. Carpenter
O. Henry’s Texas Short Stories, by O. Henry, edited by Marian McClintock and Michael Simms	Dick Heaberlin
The Interior Country: Stories of the Modern West, edited by Alexander Blackburn with Craig Lesley and Jill Landem	Robert A. Roripaugh
A Beautiful, Cruel Country, by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce	Judy Nolte Lensink
Voices of a Place, by Gerald Haslam	Penelope Reedy
Unassigned Territory, by Kem Nunn	Charles L. Crow
Ringer, by Marshall Terry	James Ward Lee
Dancing at the Rascal Fair, by Ivan Doig	A. Carl Bredahl
Rats Alley, by John H. Irsfeld	Lora K. Reiter
A Man in the Wheatfield, by Robert Laxalt	Dorys Crow Grover
Wanderer Springs, by Robert Flynn	Jim Stull
Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, by Albert Pike	Robert D. Harper
Night Freight, by Clyde Rice	Dale L. Walker
Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher, by Linda M. Hasselstrom	Kate Arneson
Plain Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains, by Jim Hoy and Tom Isern	George F. Day
At the Field’s End: Interviews with Twenty Pacific Northwest Writers, by Nicholas O’Connell	D. A. Hecker
Liquid City: Houston Writers on Houston, edited by Rita Saylors	Thomas W. Ford
Wingbone: Poetry from Colorado, edited by Janice Hays and Pamela Haines; City Kite on a Wire: 38 Denver Poets, edited by Ray Gonzalez	Robert D. Harper
Marking the Magic Circle: An Intimate Geography, by George Venn	Carol S. Long
The American West as Living Space, by Wallace E. Stegner	C. L. Rawlins
Entrepreneurs of the Old West, by David Dary; The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, by Patricia Nelson Limerick	Charles S. Peterson
Shrubs of the Great Basin: A Natural History, by Hugh N. Mozingo	Thomas J. Lyon
No Wild Dog Howled, by Bruce Embree	Scott Preston
To the Fierce Guard in the Assyrian Saloon, by Howard W. Robertson	S. S. Moorty
Indian Country: America’s Sacred Land, by Tony Hillerman, photographs by Béla Kalman; Tarahumara: Where Night Is the Day of the Moon, by Bernard L. Fontana, photographs by John P. Schaefer	Jean T. Groulx
The Good Red Road, by Kenneth Lincoln with Al Logan Slagle	Jack L. Davis
The Western Apache: Living with the Land before 1950, by Winfred Buskirk	Catherine S. Fowler
At Home in Texas: Early Views of the Land, by Robin W. Doughty	Lou Rodenberger
A Miner’s Christmas Carol, by Sam Davis	Charlotte S. McClure
Staying the Winter, by Nancy McCleery	Robert Hedin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 1988 (vol. 23, no. 3)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The Myth of Quetzalcoatl in Contemporary Setting: Mythical Dimensions/Political Reality	Rudolfo A. Anaya
The Problem of Knowledge in Jack London’s “The Water Baby”	Jeanne C. Reesman
American Indians and German Indians: Perspectives of Doom in Cooper and May	Martin Kuester
Essay Review	Reviewed By
One Life at a Time, Please, by Edward Abbey	Donn Rawlings
Book Reviews	Reviewed By
The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California, by David Wyatt	Charles L. Crow
The Oregon Trail: Yesterday and Today; A Brief History and Pictorial Journey along the Wagon Tracks of Pioneers, by William E. Hill	Patricia Ann Owens
Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film, edited by Archie P. McDonald	Jane Maddock
On Nature, edited by Daniel Halpern	Paul Lehmberg
Reach of Tide, Ring of History, by Sam McKinney	Don Scheese
Words for the Wild: The Sierra Club Trailside Reader, A Sierra Club Totebook, edited by Ann Ronald	Sanford E. Marovitz
A Trace of Desert Waters, by Samuel G. Houghton	Nancy J. Warner
Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy, edited by Thomas Tanner	SueEllen Campbell
Desert Sanctuary, by Hank Messick	Jim Harris
An Orange Grove Boyhood, by Lawrence Clark Powell	Gerald Haslam
Will James: The Life and Works of a Lone Cowboy, by William Gardner; Ride for the High Points: The Real Story of Will James, by Jim Bramlett	Pamela Kay Kett
The Best Western Stories of Lewis B. Patten, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg	Ann Ronald
The Vernacular Muse: The Eye and Ear in Contemporary Literature, by Dennis Cooley	Bert Almon
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up in the Little House, by Patricia Reilly Giff	Susan Naramore Maher
Time to Write: How William Sidney Porter Became O. Henry, by Trueman E. O’Quinn and Jenny Lind Porter	James T. F. Tanner
Lost in West Texas, by Jim W. Corder	Dick Heaberlin
Confessions of Johnny Ringo, by Geoff Aggeler	Robert E. Morsberger
Murder by Impulse, by D. R. Meredith	Ernestine P. Sewell
The Train to Estelline, by Jane Roberts Wood	Ann Putnam
Exile in Alaska, by John Mitchell	David A. Carpenter
The Oxtail Cocktail, by Shirley Hicks	Janet L. Jacobsen
Shoshone Mike, by Frank Bergon	Ann Ronald
Voces: Anthology of New Mexican Writers, edited by Rudolfo Anaya; Klail City, by Rolando Hinojosa	Lourdes Torres
The Long Season, by Sam Brown	Lawrence Clayton
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna, by John R. Jewitt	Elizabeth Willis
Blessed McGill, by Edwin Shrake	John T. Flanagan
Idaho+, Contemporary Poetry from the American West	Jim Harris
Unremembered Country, by Susan Griffin	Lex Runciman
Utah’s Wasatch Front, by Ted Wilson	Scott Cheney
Winter Count II, by Frederick Manfred	Max Westbrook
Frames of Reference, by Richard Dauenhauer	Scott Preston
Singing the Mozart Requiem, by Ingrid Wendt	Paul Varner
cloudline: landscript visions of the far western eye, edited by Scott Preston	Dave Engel
Lion’s Gate, Selected Poems 1963-1986, by Keith Wilson	Jim Harris
Twilights and Chants, poems by Ray Gonzales	Sam Hamill
Old Southwest/New Southwest: Essays on a Region and Its Literature, edited by Judy Nolte Lensink	Dorys Crow Grover
Masterpieces of the American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection, by Elizabeth Cunningham	Shelley Armitage
The Kingdom in the Country, by James Conoway	Peter Wild
You Must Revise Your Life and An Oregon Message: Poems, both by William Stafford	Keith Wilson
Curved Like an Eye, by George Perreault; The Country of Here Below, by Wyn Cooper	William H. Green
The Exact Place, by Mary Ann Waters	Harry Humes
Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing, edited by Birk Sproxton	Robert Thacker
Hemingway, A Psychological Portrait, by Richard E. Hardy and John G. Cull	Carl D. Cheney
European Perspectives on Hispanic Literature of the United States, edited by Genevieve Fabre; Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature, edited by María Herrera-Sobek and Helena María Viramontes	Ute Krauter
Haa Shuká. Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer	Suzanne Scollon
A Guide to Minnesota Writers, by Ron Barron	Thomas Pribek
Robert Duncan, by Mark Andrew Johnson	Paul Varner
World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth, edited by Bradford Morrow	Bert Almon
Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains, by Merrill Gilfillan	Peter Wild
Utah Wildlands, by Stewart Aitchison	Russell Burrows
A Long Way to See: Images and Voices of North Dakota, compiled by Wayne Gudmundson and Michael Moos	Patrick D. Morrow
Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle, by Douglas D. Scott and Richard A. Fox Jr.	Donald E. Gribble
Owen Wister’s West: Selected Articles, edited by Robert Murray Davis	Coralie Beyers
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico, by Stanley Crawford	L. Mikel Vause
The New North, by Agnes Deans Cameron, edited by David Richeson	Michael Peterman
Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend of the Sunset Crater Eruption, by Ekkehart Malotki with Michael Lomatuway’ma	Mary McBride
Thunder in the Dust: Classic Images of Western Movies, photographs by John R. Hamilton; text by John Calvin Batchelor	Lawrence Clayton
Madness in the Family, by William Saroyan	Peter Wild
These and Other Lands: Stories from the Heartland, edited by Heartlands Fiction Collective	Helen Winter Stauffer
In the Footsteps of John Wesley Powell: An Album of Comparative Photographs of the Green and Colorado Rivers, 1871-72 and 1968, by Hal G. Stephens and Eugene M. Shoemaker	Jim Aton
Crossing Open Ground, by Barry Lopez	Jim Aton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winter 1989 (vol. 23, no. 4)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

The Rise of Silas Lapham: The Western Dimension	Martin Bucco
The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues	Rudolf Erben
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature	Virgil R. Albertini
Research in Western American Literature 1987-1988	Jan Roush
Essay Review
Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by Robinson Jeffers, edited by Robert Hass; Robinson Jeffers and the Critics, 1912-1983: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources with Selective Annotations, by Jeanetta Boswell; Robinson Jeffers, Poet of California, by James Karman; The Enduring Voice: A Tor House Journal, by John Dotson.	Robert J. Brophy
Books Reviewed	Reviewed By
From Timberline to Tidepool: Contemporary Fiction from the Northwest, edited by Rich Ives	Dan Whipple
Once a Legend, by Jack Cummings	Bob J. Frye
The Graywolf Annual Four: Short Stories by Men, edited by Scott Walker	Jerry R. Dickey
Big Horn Gunfighter; Long Henry; Wind River Kill; Wyoming Gunsmoke--all by Robert Kammen	John D. Nesbitt
Dusk, by John Salter	Peter Wild
Family Attractions, by Judith Freeman	Janet L. Jacobsen
A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman	Barbara Waters
Dan De Quille: Dive and Lazarus. Their Wanderings and Adventures in the Infernal Regions, edited and introduced by Lawrence I. Berkove	Richard Dwyer
Prime Fathers, by Frederick Manfred	George F. Day
Deadly Virtues, by Francois Camoin	Susan Elizabeth Gunter
Big Sky, Fair Land: The Environmental Essays of A. B. Guthrie, Jr., edited by David Petersen	Thomas W. Ford
California Childhood: Recollections and Stories of the Golden State, edited by Gary Soto	Michael Kowalewski
The Pursuit of American Character, by Rupert Wilkinson	Sam B. Girgus
A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Forrest Shreve, by Janice Emily Bowers	Peter Wild
Sailing to Corinth, by Irene Wanner	John Purdy
Pound as Wuz, byJames Laughlin	Michael Jennings
Larry McMurtry’s Texas: Evolution of the Myth, by Lera Patrick Tyler Lich	Kate Arneson
The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxom, 1940-1952, edited and with an introduction by Paul Tiessen with the assistance of Nancy Strobel	Frances W. Kaye
Dallas Stories, by Marshall Terry	James W. Byrd
Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel over the Great Central Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866, by Merrill J. Mattes, with a foreword by James A. Michener	Wayne R. Kime
Rainbow’s End, by Genaro González; Schoolland, by Max Martínez; … y no se lo tragó la tierra / and the earth did not devour him, by Tomás Rivera	Carl R. Shirley
The Adventures of Barney Tullus, by Don D. Walker	Professor Tully Barnous
Black Ash, Orange Fire, Collected Poems 1959-1985, by William Witherup	Charles H. Daughaday
Break the Mirror, by Nanao Sakaki	Thomas J. Lyon

Homecoming in the California Visionary Romance	Charles L. Crow
An Interview with Ann Zwinger	Paul W. Rea
Edward Abbey and Environmental Quixoticism	Paul T. Bryant
Jim Burden and the Structure of My Ántonia	John L. Selzer
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver	William Kittredge
Born Brothers, by Larry Woiwode	Kenneth C. Mason
Anything for Billy, by Larry McMurtry	Clay Reynolds
Tracks, by Louise Erdrich	Suzanne Shane
Edward Warren, by William Drummond Stewart, edited by Bart Barbour	Levi S. Peterson
The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne, by Nash Candelaria	Patricia De La Fuente
Desperate Measures, by James Hannah	Joseph M. Flora
The Homesman, by Glendon Swarthout	Nancy Owen Nelson
A Little House Sampler, by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane	Ann Romines
The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, by Barbara Hochman Frank Norris and The Wave: A Bibliography, by Joseph J. McElrath Jr.	Barbaranne Schuyler
The New Native American Novel: Works in Progress, edited by Mary Dougherty Bartlett	Linda M. Hasselstrom
Pilgrim in the Sun, by C. L. Sonnichsen	John R. Milton
Section Lines: A Manitoba Anthology, edited by Mark Duncan	Reginald Dyck
Crossing the River, edited by Kristjana Gunnars	Helen Beach Cannon
A Ruth Suckow Omnibus, by Ruth Suckow	Roy W. Meyer
William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus,by Lee Bartlett	David A. Carpenter
Sketches of California in the 1860s: The Journals of Jesus Maria Estudillo, edited and annotated by Margaret Schlichtmann	Malcolm Margolin
A Writer’s Eye: Field Notes and Watercolors, by Paul Horgan Under the Sangre de Cristo, by Paul Horgan A Certain Climate: Essays in History, Arts, and Letters, by Paul Horgan	Robert F. Gish
The Coyote: Defiant Songdog of the West, by Francois Leydet	Margaret Pettis
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, vol. 1: 1920-1928, edited by Tim Hunt The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure, by William Everson	Patrick D. Murphy
Selected Poems 1938-1988, by Thomas McGrath	Christopher Buckley
Amplitude: New and Selected Poems, by Tess Gallagher	Lex Runciman
Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family’s History and Lore, by Shannon Applegate	George Venn
Listening for Coyote: A Walk across Oregon’s Wilderness,by William L. Sullivan	Glen A. Love
Worship of the Visible Spectrum,by Judith Skillman	Ona Siporin
Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, by Robert J. Nelson	Margaret Doane
The Illustrated Dictionary of Western Literature, by Michael Legatt	Charlotte M.Wright
Ranch Rodeos in West Texas,by Lawrence Clayton	Kenneth W. Davis
The Letters of Jack London,edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz III and I. Milo Shepard	Dale L. Walker
Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets,by Gary Soto	Gerald Haslam
The Death of Jean-Paul Sartre and Other Poems, by Gerald Locklin Children of a Lesser Demagogue, by Gerald Locklin A Constituency of Dunces, by Gerald Locklin	James H. Maguire
Elements,by James Galvin	Susan Elizabeth Gunter
Mezcal,by Charles Bowden	Dick Kirkpatrick
The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western, by Jon Tuska	Jane Maddock

Summer 1989 (vol. 24, no. 2)

Bazarov, Prince Hal, and the Virginian	Max Westbrook
Valuing Surface	A. Carl Bredahl
Frank Waters’s The Lizard Woman and the Emergence of the Dawn Man	Alexander Blackburn
Rethinking the Literary Review	Charlotte M. Wright
Blue Plums and Smoke: Loren Eiseley’s Perception of Time	Robert G. Franke
Essay Reviews:
Essay Review on Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, edited by Robert DeMott, and on The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road toThe Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, with an introduction by Charles Wollenberg	James D. Houston
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
The History of the Sierra Club 1892-1970, by Michael P. Cohen	Ann Ronald
Old Utah Trails, by William B. Smart	Russell Burrows
Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian, by Levi S. Peterson, woodblock prints by Royden Card, foreword by Charles S. Peterson	William Mulder
Dreamers and Defenders: American Conservationists, by Douglas H. Strong	Peter Wild
From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains: Major Stephen Long’s Expedition, 1819-1820, edited by Maxine Benson	Dave Engel
Meditations with the Hopi, by Robert Boissiere Meditations with the Navajo, by Gerald Hausman	Pamela Kay Kett
John C. Van Dyke. The Desert, by Peter Wild D’Arcy McNickle, by James Ruppert Kenneth Rexroth, by Lee Bartlett Edward Dorn, by William McPheron Ernest Haycox, by Richard W. Etulain	Connie White
Understanding Chicano Literature, by Carl R. Shirley and Paula W. Shirley	Américo Paredes
John Steinbeck: A Study of Short Fiction, by R. S. Hughes	John Ditsky
Frontier’s End, by Robert F. Gish	Dick Heaberlin
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories, by Robert J. Conley	Julian Rice
How to Write Western Novels, by Matt Braun	Michael T. Marsden
Nebraska, by Ron Hansen	Kerry Ahearn
Faraway Places, by Tom Spanbauer	James H. Maguire
The Wake of the General Bliss, by Edward Lueders	Keith Wilson
Cactus Thorn, by Mary Austin, with a foreword and afterword by Melody Graulich	Rae G. Ballard
Mamaw: A Novel of an Outlaw Mother, by Susan Dodd	David Hecker
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation, by John Ehle	Robert E. Morsberger
Yellow Sun, Bright Sky: The Indian Country Stories of Oliver La Farge, edited with an introduction by David L. Caffey	Louis Owens
Rough and Rowdy Ways: The Life and Hard Times of Edward Anderson, by Patrick Bennett	Ernestine P. Sewell
Haunted by Home: The Life and Letters of Lynn Riggs, by Phyllis Cole Braunlich	James H. Maguire
Writing to Survive: The Private Notebooks of Conrad Richter, edited by Harvena Richter	Charles L. Adams
Journal of an Aleutian Year, by Ethel Ross Oliver	Carolyn Servid
Idaho’s Poetry: A Centennial Anthology, edited by Ronald E. McFarland and William Studebaker	James H. Maguire
Willie: An Autobiography, by Willie Nelson with Bud Shrake	Richard Dwyer
Crossing the River: Poets of the Western United States, edited by Ray Gonzales	James R. Saucerman
Lima Beans and City Chicken: A Memoir of the Open Hearth, by Martina Durbin	Robert E. Morsberger
Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale, by Marilyn Berg Callander	Margaret Doane
From a Distant Place, by Don Carpenter	David M. Fine
The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology, by Rita Parks	Paul Skenazy
Alaska: Reflections on Land and Spirit, edited by Robert Hedin and Gary Holthaus	John A. Murray
Letters from the Southwest: September 20, 1884, to March 14, 1885, by Charles Lummis, edited by James W. Byrkit; Some Strange Corners of Our Country: The Wonderland of the Southwest, by Charles Lummis	Peter Wild
Earthen Wayfarer. Selected Poems: 1972-1987, by Richard F. Fleck The Abalone Heart, by Barbara Meyn	Deborah Clifford Gessaman
Blossoms & Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Christopher Buckley	Charles H. Daughaday
Literature and Belief, Willa Cather Issue, edited by John J. Murphy	Dana Brunvand
Willa Cather Handbook, compiled by John March	Dana Brunvand
Blood and Bones, poems by Clifton Snider	Gerald Locklin
The Roundup Quarterly, edited by Judy Alter	Dana Brunvand
Lady of No Man’s Land, by Jeanne Williams	Marina Hall

Fall 1989 (vol. 24, no. 3)

The Land and Language of Desire: Where Deep Ecology and Post-Structuralism Meet	SueEllen Campbell
Why Don’t They Write about Nevada?	Ann Ronald
“The Frontier Myth” on Stage: From the Nineteenth Century to Sam Shepard’s True West	Richard Wattenberg
Cadillac Larry Rides Again: McMurtry and the Song of the Open Road	Janis P. Stout
Rølvaag’s “Roguish Smile” in Peder Victorious	Dexter Martin
Essay Reviews:
Essay Review on The Terrible Threes, by Ishmael Reed, and on New and Collected Poems, by Ishmael Reed	Steven Jeffrey Jones
Essay Review on Sam Chance, on The Brothers of Uterica, and on The White Man’s Road, all by Benjamin Capps	Lou Rodenberger
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
Common Ground, by John Daniel	Ona Siporin
Not Vanishing, by Chrystos	Andrea Lerner
Emerald Ice, by Diane Wakoski	Bill Baines
Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884-1889, by Reuben B. Mullins, edited and with an introduction by Jan E. Roush and Lawrence Clayton	Robert A. Roripaugh
Literature & Lanscape: Writers of the Southwest, by Cynthia Farah	Stephen Trimble
This Incomparable Lande. A Book of American Nature Writing, edited by Thomas J. Lyon	Ann Ronald
Coyote’s Canyon, photographs by John Telford, text by Terry Tempest Williams	Margaret Pettis
Baja Journey: Reveries of a Sea-Kayaker, by Robin Carey	Rick Bass
A New Collection of Thomas Bangs Thorpe’s Sketches of the Old Southwest, by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, edited by David C. Estes	Robert Dodge
Life in Alaska: The Reminiscence of a Kansas Woman, 1916-1919, by May Wynne Lamb, edited by Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman	Carol Miles Petersen
Mexican-American Folkore, edited by John O. West	Ramon Sanchez
EATS: A Folk History of Texas Foods, by Ernestine Sewell Linck and Joyce Gibson Roach	Clay Reynolds
Cross a Wide River, by Paul R. Stevenson	Jean C. Alhinc
South of the Border, by John Byrne Cooke	Ann Putnam
Delia’s Song, by Lucha Corpi Oddsplayer, by Joe Rodriguez El Cóndor and Other Stories, by Sabine Ulibarri	Lourdes Torres
Chester’s Last Stand, by Richard E. Brown	M. Gilbert Porter
Range Wars: Heated Debates, Sober Reflections, and Other Assesments of Texas Writing, edited by Craig Clifford and Tom Pilkington	Charlotte M. Wright
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, edited by William Kittredge and Annick Smith	Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot
Misbegotten Muses: History and Anti-History, by Richard C. Poulsen	Brian W. Dippie
American Women Writing Fiction, edited by Mickey Pearlman	Shelley Armitage
Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critcal Readings, edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach	Patricia De La Fuente
A Life of William Inge: The Strains of Triumph, by Ralph F. Voss	James F. Maguire
Downstream from Trout Fishing in America. A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, by Keith Abbott	Floyd Salas
The Revolutionary Poet in The United States: The Poetry of Thomas McGrath, edited by Frederick C. Stern	James McKenzie
Elmer Kelton and West Texas: A Literary Relationship, by Judy Alter	Bob J. Frye

Winter 1990 (vol. 24, no. 4)

The Professor’s House: Cather, Hemingway, and the Chastening of American Prose Style	Glen A. Love
Odd Exception or Mainstream Tradition: “The Shot”” in Context	Lawrence H. Martin Jr.
Huck among the Indians: Mark Twain and Richard Irving Dodge’s The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants	Wayne R. Kime
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature	Virgil R. Albertini
Research in Western American Literature: 1988-89	Jan Roush
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
Margaret Atwood, by Barbara Hill Rigney	Helen Cannon
Selected One-Act Plays of Horton Foote, edited by Gerald C. Wood	James H. Maguire
Frederic Remington—Selected Letters, edited by Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete	Fred Erisman
Simon Ortiz, by Andrew Wiget John Nichols, by Peter Wild	Dick Heaberlin
Willa Cather: Writing at the Frontier, by Jamie Ambrose	Chapel Petty-Schmitt
Mother Earth: An American Story, by Sam D. Gill	Barre Toelken
Gringos in Mexico, edited by Edward Simmen The Children of the Sun: Mexican-Americans in the Literature of the United States, by Marcienne Rocard, translated by Edward G. Brown Jr.	Carl R. Shirley
Exploring Western Americana, by Austin E. Fife, edited by Alta Fife	David H. Stanley
Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter’s Season at the Grand Canyon, by Stephen J. Pyne	Don Scheese
Poets, Poems, Movements, by Thomas Parkinson	Michael Jennings
No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy, by Don Graham	Clay Reynolds
Stephen Crane: A Study of the Short Fiction, by Chester L. Wolford	Wendy Carse
James M. Cain, by Paul Skenazy	David Fine
Maverick Writers, by S. Jean Mead	John Milton
Siringo, by Ben E. Pingenot	Roscoe L. Buckland
Tracks in the Snow: Essays by Colorado Poets, edited by Ray Gonzales	Robert D. Harper
A Quilt of Words: Women’s Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1860-1960, by Sharon Niederman	Judy Nolte Lensink
Son of Old Jules: Memoirs of Jules Sandoz, Jr., by Caroline Sandoz Pifer and Jules Sandoz Jr.	Joseph J. Wydeven
Sisters of the Dream, by Mary Sojourner	James B. Hemesath
Winterchill, by Ernest J. Finney	Kerry Ahearn
No Resting Place, by William Humphrey	Robert E. Morsberger
The Scapeweed Goat, by Frank Schaefer	Clay Reynolds
The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg	Michael T. Marsden
Of America East & West: Selections from the Writings of Paul Horgan, by Paul Horgan	Robert F. Gish
Mattie, by Judy Alter	James Ward Lee
A Charge of Angels, by L. D. Clark	Rita Burleson Melendez

Spring 1990 (vol. 25, no. 1)

Wright Morris, Author in Hiding	G. B. Crump
Wallace Stegner’s Version of Pastoral	Russell Burrows
“Eastering”: Wallace Stegner’s Love Affair with Vermont in Crossing to Safety	Jackson J. Benson
“The Lost Children” in James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney	Nora Barry
Essay Review:
Essay Review on Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone, by Douglas Thayer	Eugene England
Essay Review on Yellow, by Anne Pitkin Essay Review on All That Comes to Light, by Lisa Malinowski Steinman	George Venn
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
A New Path to the Waterfall, by Raymond Carver	L. L. Lee
“Constantly Risking Absurditty”: The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, by Michael Skau	Dan McLeod
The Washington 89, by George H. Tweney	Lee Nash
The Island Within, by Richard Nelson	Glen A. Love
Lizzie: The Letters of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864-1893, edited by Rex C. Meyers	Susanne George
Nuevos Pasos: Chicano and Puerto Rico Drama, edited by Nicolás Kanellos and Jorge A. Huerta Necessary Theater: Six Plays About the Chicano Experience, edited by Jorge Huerta	Rudolf Erben
Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier, by Elliot West	Peter Wild
I, Jesse James, by James R. Ross	Roscoe L. Buckland
Canoe Country, by Florence Page Jaques and illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques Snowshoe Country, by Florence Page Jaques and illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques	Mary Ellen Ackerman
The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature, edited by David Mogen, Mark Busby, and Paul Bryant	Robert F. Gish
The American West, by Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain	Wayne K. Hinton
The Checkerd Years, by Mary Dodge Woodward	Jane S. Bakerman
War on War, by Lowell Jaeger	C. L. Rawlins
An American Memory, by Eric Larsen	Diane Dufva Quantic
The Watch, by Rick Bass	Joan Sanders
In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain’s America, by Forrest G. Robinson	Alan Gribben
The Harvest: Short Stories by Tomás Rivera, by Tomás Rivera, edited by Julián Olivares	Patricia De La Fuente
Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems, editedby Eugene England and Dennis Clark	Keith Atwater
How Many Horses, by David Romtvedt	Ona Siporin
Letters from America: The Life and Times of O. E. Rølvaag, by Chris Craton and Tim Schwab	Frederick Manfred
Any Single Loss, by Marine Robert Warden The Signature of the Spiral, by Daniel Wells Schreck	Jim Harris
The Autobiography of Mildred Bennett, The Early Years: The Winter is Past, by Mildred Bennett	Harold P. Simonson
Back Before the World Turned Nasty, by Pauline Mortensen	Penelope Reedy
Joan Didion, by Mark Royden Winchell	John Whalen-Bridge
Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, and Gary Snyder: The Ecological Metaphor as Transformed Regionalism, by Lars Nordstrom	Bert Almon
Tony Hillerman, by Fred Erisman David Wagoner, by Ron McFarland Joseph Wood Krutch, by Paul N. Pavich David Henry Hwang, by Douglas Street John Graves, by Dorys Crow Grover	Jim Harris
Helen Hunt Jackson’s Colorado, edited by Katherine Scott Sturdevant	Martin Bucco
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, by Maxine Hong Kingston	Charles L. Crow
Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature, edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat	John Whalen-Bridge
Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987, by David Bromige	C. L. Rawlins
Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries, by David Dary	Blake Allmendinger
New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon, by A. Carl Bredahl, Jr.	James H. Maguire
The Heirs of Franklin Woodstock, by Benjamin Capps	Robert A. Roripaugh
The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land, by Louis Owens	Robert DeMott
The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination, by Robert Thacker	Roy W. Meyer
Pasó por Aqui: Critical Essays on the New Mexican Literary Imagination, 1542-1988, edited by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry	Carl L. Shirley
As Far As I Can See: Contemporary Writing of the Middle Plains, edited by Charles L. Woodward. Illustrated by Robert L. Hanna	Robert C. Steensma
Death Valley Lore,edited by Richard E. Lingdenfelter and Richard A. Dwyer	Mary Ellen Ackerman

Summer 1990 (vol. 25, no. 2)

The New Historicism and the Old West	Forrest G. Robinson
Margaret Fuller, an Engendered West, and Summer on the Lakes	Susan J. Rosowski
Casting Flies and Recasting Myths with Norman Maclean	Helen Lojek
The Night John Wayne Danced with Shirley Temple	Max Westbrook
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
Red Line, by Charles Bowden	Jim Harris
Keep The Change, by Judith Henry Wall	Dorys Crow Grover
Ghost Dancing, by James Magnuson	Barbara Waters
Prior Convictions, by Dave Hickey	Clay Reynolds
Windfall and Other Stories, by Winifred M. Sanford	Bob J. Frye
Lasting Attachments, by Annette Sanford	D. L. Wright
The Admirations, by Lex Runciman	James R. Saucerman
Mapping the Distance, by Alicia Hokanson	Ann Putnam
The Ripening Light: Selected Poems 1977-1987, by Lucile Adler	James R. Saucerman
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, vol. 2: 1928-1938, edited by Tim Hunt	Patrick D. Murphy
The Night Hank Williams Died: A Play in Two Acts with Incidental Music, by Larry L. King	Clay Reynolds
Headed Upstrem: Interviews with Iconoclasts,by Jack Loeffler	Jack Turner
Major Canadian Authors. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, by David Stouck	Michael Peterman
My Ántonia: The Road Home, by John J. Murphy	David Stouck
In a Far Country: Jack London’s Tales of the West, edited by Dale Walker	Howard Lachtman
Critical Essays on Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, edited by John Ditsky	Robert S. Hughes, Jr.
Looking for Steinbeck’s Ghost, by Jackson J. Benson	R.S. Hughes
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Rising to Heroism, by M. Gilbert Porter	Mark Busby
Natives in Exile, by Dirk Harman	Peter Wild
Writing Natural History, edited by Edward Lueders	Ann Ronald
Thomas Berger, by Brooks Landon	L. L. Lee
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited and with an introduction by Frank Bergon	Marina Hall
Resist Much, Obey Little: Some Notes on Edward Abbey, edited by James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee	Dana Brunvand

Fall 1990 (vol. 25, no. 3)

Revaluing Nature: Toward An Ecological Criticism	Glen A. Love
A Western Sun Sets in the East: The Five “Appearances” Surrounding John C. Van Dyke’s The Desert	Peter Wild
“The Picture Written in the Dirt”: The Old and New West in Dan O’Brien’s Spirit of the Hills	Tim Poland
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
Pastoral in Antebellum Southern Romance, by Jan Bakker	J. F. Kobler
The Plains of North American and Their Inhabitants, by Richard Irving Dodge, edited by Wayne R. Kime	Diane Quantic
Beyond the Frontier. Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place, by Harold P. Simonson	Peter Bischoff
A Story that Stands Like a Dam, by Russell Martin	Dick Kirkpatrick
Preserving the Game, by J. R. Jones	Kevin Holdsworth
The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America, by Kenneth Lincoln with Al Logan Slagle	Tim Poland
The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin, by Stephen Trimble	Steven R. Simms
A Guide to Exploring Oak Creek and the Sedona Area, by Stewart Aitchison	Russell Burrows
Seasonal: A Life Outside, by Ed Engle	Peter Wild
Home is the Heart, by Roberta Gibson	Marie M. Schein
Monterey in 1786: The Journals of Jean Francois La Perouse, edited by Malcolm Margolin	W. H. Hutchinson
Libby, The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880, a presented by her Granddaughter Betty John, edited by Betty John	Terrence Cole
American Indian Autobiography, by H. David Brumble III	Alanna Kathleen Brown
Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday, by Charles L. Woodward	Pamela Kay Kett
Trail: the stroy of the lewis & clark expedition (sic), by Louis Charbonneau	George H. Tweney
Some Can Whistle, by Larry McMurtry	Judith Hagan
Caverns, by O.U. Levon, with introduction by Ken Kesey	Bill D. Toth
The Sounds of Rescue, The Signs of Hope, by Robert Flynn. Introduction by Robert Flynn, Afterword by Fred Erisman	Max Westbrook
Bulow Hammock: Mind in a Forest, by David Rains Wallace	Sean O’Grady
The Wedding, by Mary Helen Ponce	Rita Burleson Melendez
The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben	Thomas J. Lyon
Hollywood, by Charles Bukowski	Janis Helbert
Greetings from Wisdom, Montana, by Ruth Rudner	Kerry Ahearn
Coming of Age in California, by Gerald Haslam	Gary Soto
Boomer: Railroad Memoirs, by Linda Niemann	Thomas Madden
Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic Writers, by Henry Nash Smith	Charles H. Adams
The Sun Is But a Morning Star: Studies in West Coast Poetics, by Lee Bartlett	Bert Almon
Theodore Roethke’s Far Fields--The Evolutions of His Poetry, by Peter Balakian	Nancy McCleery
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, by Paula Gunn Allen	Wayne Ude
The Singing Spirit: Early Short Stories by North American Indians, edited by Bernd C. Peyer	Wayne Ude
A Farm Under a Lake, by Martha Bergland	Diane Dufva Quantic
Oil Notes, by Rick Bass	Dick Kirkpatrick
The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred, 1931-1954, edited by Arthur R. Husboe and Nancy Owen Nelson	Gary Topping
Line of Fall, by Miles Wilson	Robert F. Gish
Stories of the Early American West, edited by Peter Bischoff	Wayne R. Kime
a/long prairie lines: An Anthology of Long Prairie Poems, edited by Daniel S. Lenoski	James McKenzie
The Breaking Edge, by Michael Umphrey	Deborah Clifford Gessaman
The Droning Shaman, by Nora Marks Dauenhauer	Carolyn Servid
Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography, by Mourning Dove, edited by Jay Miller	Charles Ballard
For Earth’s Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower, by David Brower	Peter Wild
No Woman Tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey, Pioneer Naturalist, by Harriet Kofalk	Nancy J. Warner
Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly Into the Past, by Ross Macdonald. Foreword by Eudora Welty	Kenneth C. Mason
California, An Interpretive History, by Walton Bean and James J. Rawls	Gerald Haslam
I Returned and Saw Under the Sun: Pedre Martínez of Taos, by E. A. Mares	Rudolf Erben
Flowers of Desire, by Frederick Manfred No Fun on Sunday, by Frederick Manfred	Dexter Martin
Talking God, by Tony Hillerman	Thomas W. Ford
A Long Road Home: Journeys through American’s Present in Search of America’s Past, by Geoffrey O’Gara	Becky Jo Gesteland
The Basque Hotel, by Robert Laxalt	Bill Baines
Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and Richard Bucci	Alan Griben

Winter 1991 (vol. 25, no. 4)

Frederick Manfred’s The Golden Bowl: Myth and Reality in the Dust Bowl	Diane Dufva Quantic
Echoes, Allusions, and “Reality” in Hayduke Lives!	Paul T. Bryant
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature	Virgil R. Albertini
Research in Western American Literature: 1989-90	Jan Roush
Book Reviews	Reviewed by:
The Best of the West 2: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, edited by James Thomas and Denise Thomas	Alexander Blackburn
The Hero Trilogy, by Mark Medoff	David Weamer
Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing,and Memory, by Wright Morris	Joseph J. Wydeven
Baptism of Desire, by Louise Erdrich	Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot
Ross MacDonald, by Bernard A. Schopen	Robert Merrill
Entering A Life, by Ernesto Trejo Who Will Know Us?, by Gary Soto	Christopher Buckley
Coyote in the Mountains, by John Rember	Scott Preston
That Constant Coyote: California Stories, by Gerald W. Haslam	Janis Helbert
Three Coyote Tales, by Wayne Ude	Sam Hamill
The Testimony of Mr. Bones, by Olive Ghiselin	Susan E. Gunter
California Gold, by John Jakes	Karen S. Langlois
Hayduke Lives!, by Edward Abbey	Starr Jenkins
CW2, by Layne Heath	Clay Reynolds
Buffalo Nickel,by C. W. Smith	Clay Reynolds
New Poems: 1980-1988, by John Haines	L. L. Lee
Men at Work, by Bill Witherup	Charles H. Daughaday
Disturbances, by Elio Emiliano Ligi	Charles H. Daughaday
A Dragon in the Clouds, by Sam Hamill Basho’s Ghost, by Sam Hamill	Richard Bodner
Fred Giposon At Work, by Glen E. Lich	Lee Schultz
Willa Cather: Double Lives, by Hermione Lee	Joan Wylie Hall
The Humanization of Willa Cather: Classicism in an American Classic, by Erik Ingvar Thurin	Donna Maples
Innocence, Loss, and REcovery in the Art of Joan Didion, by Michelle Carbone Loris	Helen Beach Cannon