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Spring 1991 (vol. 26, no. 1)
| The Myth of the Mythical West | Elmer Kelton |
| Land and Value: The Ecology of Robinson Jeffers | Robert Zaller |
| Thea Kronborg’s “Song of Myself”: The Artist’s Imaginative Inheritance in The Song of the Lark | Demaree Peck |
| Thomas Wolfe’s Western Journeys | Daniel Barth |
| Essay Review: | |
| Essay Review on Grizzly Years: In Search of American Wilderness, by Doug Peacock | Jack Turner |
| Essay Review on Duel of Eagles,by Jeff Long | Clay Reynolds |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook, edited by Clay Reynolds. Contributing Editors James Ward Lee, Tom Pilkington, Ernestine P. Sewell, Mark Busby, Robert Flynn, and Don Graham | Kate Arneson |
| Strategies of Reticence. Silence and Meaning in the Works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion, by Janis P. Stout | Shelley Armitage |
| The American Indian in American Literature, by Elizabeth I. Hanson | Lawrence R. Rodgers |
| A Variable Harvest: Essays and Reviews of Film and Literature, by Jon Tuska | John Kootnz |
| Cather Studies, Volume I, edited by Susan J. Rosowski | Margaret Doane |
| The Telling Distance: Conversations with the American Desert, by Bruce Berger | Gregory McNamee |
| This is About Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers, edited by John F. Crawford, William Balassi, and Annie O. Eysturoy | Bill D. Toth |
| Of Chilies, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes on the American West, by Frederick Turner | Peter Wild |
| Lime Creek Odyssey, by Steven J. Meyers | Orvis Burmaster |
| Razored Saddles, edited by Joe R. Lansdale and Pat LoBrutto | James B. Hemesath |
| The American West: A Narrative Bibliography and a Study of Regionalism, by Charles F. Wilkinson | Joe Gordon |
| Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization, by Christopher Manes | Sean O’Grady |
| Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska’s Artic National Wildlife Refuge, by Debbie S. Miller | John A. Murray |
| California Rush, by Sherwood Kiraly | Clay Reynolds |
| Power and Glory, by Robert Easton | Lloyd Becker |
| A Gentlemen’s Guide to the Frontier, by Joanne Meschery | Diane Dufva Quantic |
| Skywater, by Melinda Worth Popham | Joseph M. Flora |
| Chronicles of a Small Town, by Jim W. Corder | Lou Rodenberger |
| The Dream of The Earth, by Thoms Berry | Jim Aton |
| Time’s Island: The California Desert, by T.H. Watkins | Amy Brunvand |
| Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States,edited by James H. Madison The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture, by James R. Shortridge |
Diane Dufva Quantic |
| Yosemite, The Embattled Wilderness, by Alfred Runte | David Robertson |
| Day’s Work, by David Lee | Katherine Coles |
| Season of Dead Water, edited by Helen Frost. Foreword by John Haines | Suzanne Scollon |
| Other Men and Other Women, by David Dwyer The Farmer’s Daughter, by Kathleene West |
Sam Umland |
| Out of this World, by Joseph Somoza | Keith Wilson |
| Jack London and His Daughters, by Joan London. Introduction by Bart Abbot | Jeanne Campbell Reesman |
| The Autobiography of William Allen White, edited by Sally Foreman Griffith | Diane Dufva Quantic |
| Death by Deception, by Anne Wingate | Marina Hall |
Summer 1991 (vol. 26, no. 2)
| The War Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril | Andrew Elkins |
| Parody and Dark Projections: Medieval Romance and the Gothic in McTeague | Susan Prothro McFatter |
| Essay Review: | |
| Essay Review on The Practice of the Wild, by Gary Snyder | Jack Turner |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship, by Lawrence Clayton | Robert A. Roripaugh |
| Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage, by Brian W. Dippie | Robert Thacker |
| Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota, by Wallace Black Elk and William S. Lyon | Robert L. Berner |
| Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, by Laura Coltelli | Gretchen Ronnow |
| Willa Cather’s Modernism: A Study of Style and Technique, by Jo Ann Middleton | Marilyn Arnold |
| Wind’s Trail: The Early Life of Mary Austin, by Peggy Pond Church, edited by Shelley Armitage | Esther Lanigan |
| The Woman Lit by Fireflies, by Jim Harrison | Dexter Westrum |
| Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner, by Wallace Stegner | Jane Helm Maddock |
| Western Ghost, edited by Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg | James B. Hemesath |
| “The Grapes of Wrath”: A Fifty Year Bibliographic Survey, compiled by Robert B. Harmon, with John F. Early. Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw. | Kate Boyes |
| The Inventions of Mark Twain, by John Lauber Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years. A Biography, by Margaret Sanborn |
Brian Collins |
| The Duplicating Imagination: Twain and and the Twain Papers, by Maria Ornella Marotti | Susan J. Reed |
| Mark Twain’s Puddn’head Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture, edited by Susan Gillman and Forrest G. Robinson | Paul Hadella |
| Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers, edited by James Karman | Edward A. Nickerson |
| Standing Room Only: Jack London’s Controversial Career as a Public Speaker, by Mark E. Zaman | Tony Williams |
| Aldo Leopold’s Wilderness: Selected Early Writings by the Author of A Sand County Almanac, edited by David E. Brown and Neil B. Carmony | Peter Wild |
| Conversations of Raymond Carver, edited by Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull | Delores Washburn |
| Landmarks of Healing: A Study of House Made of Dawn, by Susan Scarberrry-Garcia. Forward by Andrew Winget | Kenneth C. Mason |
| Education of a Wandering Man, by Louis L’Amour. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin | Starr Jenkins |
| Conversations with Wallace Stegner: On Western History and Literature, interview by Richard Etulain. Forewod by Norman Cousins | Russell Burrows |
| Wallace Stegner, A Descriptive Bibliography, by Nancy Colberg. Introduction by James R. Hepworth | Merrill Lewis |
| Matt Braun, by Robert L. Gale George Wharton James, by Peter Wild Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Edwin R. Bingham Dee Brown, by Lyman B. Hagen Paula Gunn Allen, by Elizabeth I. Hanson |
Martin Kich |
| The New American Writing: Essays on American Literature Since 1970, edited by Graham Clarke | Christopher Coates |
| Home to Stay: Asian American Women’s Fiction, edited by Sylvia Watanabe and Carol Bruchac | Katherine Salas |
| Ten Tough Trips: Montana Writers and the West, by William W. Bevis | Nathaniel Lewis |
| Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849-1900, edited by Christiane Fischer | Donna Maples |
| Dancing on the Rim of the World, edited by Andrea Lerner | Lawrence R. Rodgers |
| Padre Martinez: New Perspectives from Taos, edited by E.A. Mares | Joe Gordon |
| The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations, edited by Gerald D. Nash and Richard W. Etulain | Tim Poland |
| Beyond the Mythic West, by Stewart Udall, Pat Limerick, Charles Wilkinson, John Volkman, and William Kittredge | John A. Murray |
| Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World, by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man | Keith Atwater |
| Scared Places: How the Living Earth Seeks Our Friendship, by James A. Swan | Dolores LaChappelle |
| Passages Toward the Dark, by Thomas McGrath | James R. Saucerman |
| A Poet’s Work: The Other Side of Poetry, by Sam Hammill Passport, paintings by Galen Garwood; poems by Sam Hammill |
Michael Jennings |
| Highway Suite, by Emily Warn | Jim Harris |
| The Continuous Life, by Mark Strand New and Selected Poems, by Mark Strand |
Jane Candia Coleman |
| Driving to Vegas: New & Selected Poems. 1969-87, by Kirk Robertson | Steven Pugmire |
| Black Mesa Poems,by Jimmy Santiago Baca | Scott Slovic |
| BuffaloGirls, by Larry McMurtry | Clay Reynolds |
| Hardscrub, by Lionel G. Garcia | Floyd Salas |
| The Eagle and the Raven, by James A. Michener. Illustrated by Charles Shaw | Starr Jenkins |
| Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, by Judith Ortiz Cofer A Red Bikini Dream, by Max Martinez Becky And Her Friends, Rolando Hinojosa |
R. L. Streng |
| From Everlasting to Everlasting, by Sophie Freeman | Kate Boyes |
Fall 1991 (vol. 26, no. 3)
| “A Relative to All That Is”: The Eco-Hero in Western American Literature | Tim Poland |
| Running out of Space: Vanishing Landscapes in California Novels | David Fine |
| McTeague as Metafiction? Frank Norris’ Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel | William J. Hug |
| The Easterner in Western Literature--And in the Western Literature Association | Ian Marshall |
| Essay Review: | |
| Essay Review on Prose and Poetry of the American West, edited by James C. Work | John R. Milton |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Critical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism, edited by Jackson J. Benson The Dramatic Landscape of Steinbeck’s Short Stories, by John H. Timmerman |
Susan Shillinglaw |
| Willa Cather: Family, Community and History, edited by John J. Murphy | Madonne Miner |
| Willa Cather: A Study of the Short Fiction, by Loretta Wasserman | Joan Wylie Hall |
| ... When We Talk About Raymond Carver, edited by Sam Halpert | Delores Washburn |
| Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick, by Esther Lanigan Stineman | Michael Kowalewski |
| Bret Harte’s California, edited by Gary Scharnhorst | Virgil Albertini |
| Living in Words: Interviews from The Bloomsbury Review, 1981-1988, edited by Gregory McNamee | James H. Maguire |
| The Noble Savage in the New World Garden, by Gaile McGregor | Max Westbrook |
| Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, by Dave Foreman | Peter Wild |
| Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology, by Sam B. Girgus | Richard Tuerk |
| The Indian Lawyer, by James Welch | William Hoagland |
| Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, by Ivan Doig | Elizabeth Simpson |
| The Light Possessed, by Alan Cheuse | Richard Tuerk |
| Heart Mountain, by Gretel Ehrlich | Helena Whalen-Bridge |
| Light, by Seymour Epstein | Terence A. Dalrymple |
| Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan | Paul Hadella |
| Nordi’s Gift, by Clyde Rice | George Venn |
| Fireweed: An American Saga, by Nellie Buxton Picken | Nancy Blasingame Etheridge |
| Sushi and Sourdough: A Novel, by Tooru J. Kanazwa | Terrence Cole |
| Sonoran Desert Summer, by John Alcock | R.L. Streng |
| The Laying Out of Gussie Hoot, by Margot Fraser | Cheryl L. Hall |
| The Grey Pilgrim, by J.M. Hayes | James B. Hemesath |
| Heart-Diamond, by Kathy L. Greenwood | Jane Candia Coleman |
| Dreams in Dry Places, by Roger Bruhn | Reginald Dyck |
| Life in the Upper Country. The Diary of Evelyn E. Amos. | Penelope Reedy |
| Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, edited by Philip L. Gerber | Susanne George |
| Short Stories of Jack London, edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz III and I. Milo Shepard | Tony Williams |
| The Fighting Horse of the Stanislaus: Stories &Essays by Dan De Quille, edited by Lawrence I. Berkove | Patrick D. Morrow |
| The Jim Chee Mysteries: People of Darkness, The Dark Wind, and The Ghostway. | Gerald Locklin |
| Windows on the Sea, and Other Stories, by Linda Sillitoe | Alice Hall Petry |
| The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters, by Gerald W. Haslam | Liahna Babener |
| Horse Medicine and Other Stories, by Rafael Zepeda | Dorys Crow Grover |
| Homesick: New & Selected Stories, by Lucia Berlin | Amy Clarke |
| Interim in the Desert, by Roland Sodowsky | Bill D. Toth |
| Entering the Grove, text by Kim R. Stafford and photography by Gray Braasch | Mary Ellen Ackerman |
| Runaway: A Collection of Stories, by Mary Clearman Blew | C. L. Rawlins |
| Passages West: Nineteen Stories of Youth and Identity, edited by Hugh Nichols | Lloyd Becker |
| Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska’s Twenty-Seven Fellowship Writers, edited by Elyse Guttenberg and Jean Anderson | John A. Murray |
| From Ink Lake, edited by Michael Ondaatje | Susan E. Gunter |
| Common Bonds: Stories By and About Modern Texas Women, edited by Suzanne Comer | Sallie Strange |
| Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico, edited by Rudolfo A. Anaya | Robert F. Gish |
| Maps to Anywhere, by Bernard Cooper | Charles L. Crow |
Winter 1992 (vol. 26, no. 4)
| The Artist and the West: Two Portraits by Jack Kerouac and Sam Shepard | James C. McKelly |
| Steinbeck’s “Breakfast”: A Reconsideration | Gary D. Schmidt |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Virgil R. Albertini |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1990-91 | Jan Roush |
| Essay Review: | |
| Essay Review on Hewing to Experience,by Sherman Paul | John Tallmadge |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Turtle Talk: Voices for a Sustainable Future, edited by Christopher Plant and Judith Plant | Zita Ingham |
| A Teton Country Anthology, edited by Robert W. Righter | Robert A. Roripaugh |
| The Good Rain, by Timothy Egan | Ann Ronald |
| The Desert Reader, edited by Peter Wild | Mary Ellen Ackerman |
| West of the West: Imagining California, edited by Leonard Michaels, David Reid, and Raquel Scherr | Robert S. Hughes, Jr. |
| Czech Voices: Stories from Texas in the Amerikán Národní Kalendár, translated and edited by Clinton Machaan and James W. Mendle, Jr. | Helen Winter Stauffer |
| Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer | William M. Clements |
| Western Images, Western Landscapes: Travels along U.S. 89, by Thomas R. and Geraldine R. Vale | BeckyJo Gesteland |
| They Saw the Elephant: Women In the California Gold Rush, by JoAnn Levy | Esther Lannigan |
| INTER/VIEW. Talks with America’s Writing Women, by Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson | Coralie Beyers |
| Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories, by Roberta Fernandez | Ernestine P. Sewell |
| The Crown of Columbus, by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich | Diane D. Quantic |
| Comma in the Ear, by Gene Frumkin | Bert Almon |
| Shadowlight, by Joanne McCarthy | Ron McFarland |
| The Woman in Red, by Cynthia Hogue Going Home Away Indian, by Leo Romero |
Suzanne Shane |
| The Owl on the Aerial, by Clarice Short | Roscoe L. Buckland |
| Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet, by R.S. Gwynn, Jan Epton Seale, Naomi Shihab Nye, and William Virgil Davis | Deborah Clifford Gessaman |
| Words for My Daughter, by John Balaban | Ron McFarland |
| Looking for the Blue Rose, by Veneta Letham Nielsen | Susan Elizabeth Gunter |
| Imaginary Ancestors,by Madeline DeFrees Inconstant History: Poems and Translations, by Gregory McNamee |
Dave Engel |
| Let’s Hear It For Them, by Charles Noble | Birk Sproxton |
| Blue Autumn, by Christopher Buckley | William H. Green |
| Skies of Such Valuable Glass, by Art Homer | Richard Robbins |
| Making Our Own Rules: New and Selected Poems, by Michael Hogan | Edgar H. Thompsen |
| The Pumpkin-Eaters, by Lois Braun | Paul Hadella |
| Old Southest Humor from the St. Louis Reveille, 1844-1850, edited with an introduction by Fritz Oehlschlaeger | Brian Collins |
| Un-Due West, by Roland Sodowsky | Donald A. Barclay |
| Visions, by Michael Fillerup | Lloyd Becker |
| High Sky Over All: Idaho Fiction at the Centennial, edited by Richard Ardinger and Ford Swetnam | Barbara H. Meldrum |
| Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, edited by Colin Nicholson | Teresa D. Daniell |
| The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, 1955-1960, by Warren French | James Ruland |
| Critical Essays On Gary Snyder, edited by Patrick D. Murphy | David H. Stanley |
Spring 1992 (vol. 27, no. 1)
| Practising Emptiness: Gary Snyder’s Playful Ecological Work | Julia Martin |
| Jack London’s First Biographer | William Holtz |
| Mary Austin’s Disfigurement of the Southwest in The Land of Little Rain | William J. Scheick |
| The Laughing Horse: A Literary Magazine of the American West | Donald A. Barclay |
| Essay Review: | |
| Essay Review on Death Song,by Thomas McGrath. Edited by Sam Hammill. Introduction by Dale Jacobson | Frederick C. Stern |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather, by Merrill Maguire Skaggs | Robert Thacker |
| The Marginal Man as Novelist: The Norwegian-American Writers, H.H. Boyesen and O.E. Rølvaag, as Critics of American Institutions, by Neil T. Eckstein | Richard Tuerk |
| Whistlepunks & Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest, by Ron Strickland | George H. Tweney |
| The Stars, The Snow, The Fire, by John Haines | James Crosswhite |
| Women in the Field: America’s Pioneering Women Naturalists, by Marcia Myers Bonta | Nancy Warner |
| Devil’s Tower: Stories in Stone, by Mary Alice Gunderson | Naomi Brill |
| The Life I’ve Been Living, by Moses Cruikshank. Recorded and Compiled by William Schneider | Jay Hansford C. Vest |
| Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth-Century West, by Sheilyn Cox Bennion | Jane S. Bakerman |
| “I Am Looking to the North for My Life”: Sitting Bull 1876-1881, by Joseph Manzione | Clay Reynolds |
| Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother, by Carrie Young We Just Toughed It Out: Women in the Llano Estacado, by Georgellen Burnett |
Donna Maples |
| Black Cats, Hoot Owls & Winter Witches, by Kenneth W. Davis & Everett Gillis The Oral Tradition of the American West, by Keith Cunningham |
Jim Harris |
| Track of the Giant, by Will Baker | John D. Nesbitt |
| Bones, by Franklin Fisher | Ann L. Putnam |
| Kelly Blue, by Peter Bowen | Kenneth W. Davis |
| Lion’s Gate: Selected Poems, 1963-1986, by Keith Wilson | Denise Chavez |
| Calling Texas, by Bert Almon | Steven Pugmire |
| Dog Star, by Harold Enrico | Scott Slovic |
| What My Father Believed, by Robert Wrigley | Ron McFarland |
| The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature, edited by Christopher Merrill | Paul T. Bryant |
| Nightsoil,by Levi Peterson | Ron Carlson |
| Karankawa County: Short Stories from a Corner of Texas, by Neal Morgan | Bob J. Frye |
| The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction, edited by Alan R. Velie | Richard Potter |
| A Summer Life, by Gary Soto | Brigitte LaPresto |
| The End of the Dream & Other Stories, by John G. Neihardt. Compiled by Hilda Neihardt Petri | Timothy A. Thomas |
| Horsing Around: Contemporary Cowboy Humor, edited by Lawrence Clayton and Kenneth W. Davis | Clay Reynolds |
| The Gold Rush and Other Stories, by Gerald Locklin | Liahna Babener |
| Made in Manitoba: An Anthology of Short Fiction, compiled by Wayne Tefs Contemporary Manitoba Writers: New Critical Studies, edited by Kenneth James Hughes |
Frances W. Kaye |
| The Best Western Stories of John Jakes, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg | Candace Klaschus |
| The Light on the Tent Wall: A Bridging, by Mary TallMountain | Robert Dodge |
| Survival, by Nancy Lord | Michaeline K.V. Chance-Reay |
| The Bounty of Texas, edited by Francis Edward Abernethy | James W. Byrd Charles E. Linck |
| Aspen: Blazon of the High Country, text by Ann Zwinger, photographs by Barbara Sparks | Cheryll Burgess |
Summer 1992 (vol. 27, no. 2)
| “What’s a Nice Girl Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?” | Ann H. Zwinger |
| The Ecological Vision of Thomas Hornsby Ferril | Andrew Elkins |
| Essay Reviews: | |
| Essay Review on A Life of Kenneth Rexroth, by Linda Hamalian, Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, edited by Lee Bartlett, and The Relevance of Rexroth, by Ken Knabb | John Tritica |
| Essay Review on Final Harvest and Other Convictions & Opinions, by C.L. Sonnichsen, foreword by Max Evans, introduction by Nancy Hamilton, and Arizona Humoresque: A Century of Arizona Humor, edited by C.L. Sonnichsen | Delbert E. Wylder |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin, by Elizabeth Cummins | David Mogen |
| Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy and Sally Miller Gearhart, by Margaret Keulen | Chanté McCoy |
| Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, and Frank Fools Crow, by Julian Rice | Renae Moore Bredin |
| Black Elk’s Story: Distinguishing Its Lakota Purpose, by Julian Rice | Robert L. Berner |
| Ferlinghetti: The Artist in His Time, by Barry Silesky | JohnWhalen-Bridge |
| The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter, by John T.F. Tanner | Lee Schultz |
| “The West and the Western,” by David Daly and Joel Persky | Craig R. Auge |
| Visions of the American West, by Gerald F. Kreyche | Joseph J. Wydeven |
| Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing & Representation in North American Texts, by David Murray | Gretchen Ronnow |
| Redefining American Literary History, edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. | Alan Gribben |
| Poems and Essays of Herbert Krause, edited by Arthur R. Huseboe | Robert C. Steensma |
| Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth-Century Poets and the Native American, by Michael Castro. Foreword by Maurice Kenny | Peggy Shumaker |
| Native American Literatures, edited by Laura Coltelli | Gretchen Ronnow |
| No Roof But Sky, by Jane Candia Coleman | Jerry Bradley |
| Vanity Shades, by Mary Howes I Wanted to Say Something, by Barry McKinnon Remains, by Stephen Scobie Stroy for a Saskatchewan Night, by Douglas Barbour These Lawns, by Monty Reid |
Lex Runciman |
| Home Course in Religion, by Gary Soto | Gerald Haslam |
| California’s Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times, by Emily Wortis Leider | Karen S. Langlois |
| James Fenimore Cooper, by Robert Emmet Long “The Guardian of the Law’”: Authority and Identity in James Fenimore Cooper, by Charles Hansford Adams |
John J. Murphy |
| Fox at the Wood’s Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley, by Gale E. Christianson Loren Eiseley: A Modern Ishmael,by Peter Heidtmann |
Joseph J. Wydeven |
| The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain in California, by Nigey Lennon Getting to be Mark Twain,by Jeffrey Steinbrink |
Michael J. Kiskis |
| The Work of Louis L’Amour: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide, by Hal W. Hall | Robert L. Gale |
| At Odds With Progress, by Bret Wallach | A. Carl Bredahl |
| Only When I Laugh, by Elouise Bell | Shelley Armitage |
| Winter: Notes from Montana, by Rick Bass. Illustrations by Elizabeth Hughes | Carol S. Long |
| Utah Place Names, by John W. Van Cott | Gregory McNamee |
| Kid Curry: The Life and Times of Harvey Logan and the Wild Bunch, by F. Bruce Lamb | Richard Bodner |
| The Catch-Pen: A Selection of Essays from the First Two Years of the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration, edited by Len Ainsworth and Kenneth W. Davis | Michael L. Johnson |
| River of Traps: A Village Life, by William deBuys and Alex Harris | Lee Schultz |
| Yosemite As We Saw It: A Centennial Collection of Early Writings & Art, by David Robertson, assisted by Henry Berrey | Don Scheese |
| The Range, by Sherm Ewing | Patrick Bennett |
| Settlers’ Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains, by Elizabeth Hampsten | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Augury, by Philip Garrison | James McKenzie |
| Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seaons of Life in the Southwest, by Sharman Apt Russell | Bill D. Toth |
| Storied New Mexico: An Annotated Bibliography of Novels with New Mexico Settings, by Tom Lewis | Bill D. Toth |
| PrairyErth (a deep map), by William Least Heat-Moon | Diane Dufva Quantic |
| Into the Great Solitude: An Artic Journey, by Robert Perkins | Paul Lehmberg |
| Magnetic North: A Trek Across Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic by Foot, Dogsled and Canoe, by David Halsey, with Diana Landau | John A. Kinch |
| The Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake, by R.C. Gordon-McCutchan | Lynn Cothern |
| True: a last book, by Michael Melius | Rita Melendez |
| The Earth First! Reader: Ten Years of Radical Environmentalism, edited by John Davis | D.E. McIvor |
| November 1948, by Carl Dawson | John A. Murray |
| Relative Distances, by Victoria Jenkins | Kate Boyes |
| The Russian River, by Gary McCarthy | John D. Nesbitt |
| The Search For Temperance Moon, by Douglas C. Jones | Dan Wilson |
| The Vermilion Parrot, by David Rains Wallace | Scott Slovic |
| The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan | Seiwoong Oh |
| Honor at Daybreak, by Elmer Kelton | Starr Jenkins |
| Our Island Home, by Richard Haddaway | Richard Moseley |
| Kingdom Road, by K. Patrick Connor | Gerald Haslam |
| Refugio, They Named You Wrong, by Susan Clark Schofield | Jim Beasley |
| The Rustlers of West Fork, by Louis L’Amour. Afterword by Beau L’Amour | Lewis J. Dabb |
| The Heirs of Columbus, by Gerald Vizenor | Dexter Westrum |
| The Chinchilla Farm, by Judith Freeman | Bob J. Frye |
| Set for Life, by Judith Freeman | Barbara Allen |
| Language in the Blood, by Kent Nelson The Middle of Nowhere, by Kent Nelson |
Paul Hadella |
| Sarah Canary, by Karen Joy Fowler Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, by Ursula K. Le Guin |
Amy Clarke |
| The Dance of the Mothers, by Millicent Dillon | Pauline G. Woodward |
| Warriors and Maidens, by Carolyn Osborn | Martin Kich |
| Great California Stories, edited by A. Grove Day | Gerald M. Haslam |
| Handspan of Red Earth: An Anthology of American Farm Poems, edited by Catherine Lewallen Marconi | Sam Umland |
| River-Root: A Syzygy, by William Everson | Edward A. Nickerson |
| Roughstock Sonnets, by Paul Zarzyski. Photographs by Barbara Van Cleve | Lawrence Clayton |
Fall 1992 (vol. 27, no. 3)
| Et in Arcadia Ego: Pastoral Theory Meets Ecocriticism | Glen A. Love |
| Real Matter, Spiritual Mountain: Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac on Mt. Tamalpais | David Robertson |
| Essay Reviews: | |
| Essay Review on The Ancient Memory and Other Stories, by John G. Neihardt, edited by Hilda Neihardt Petri, The Giving Earth: A John G. Neihardt Reader, edited and with an introduction by Hilda Neihardt Petri, Life’s Lure, by John G. Neihardt, and Man-Song, by John G. Neihardt | James C. Work |
| Essay Review on The Ninemile Wolves, by Rick Bass | David Petersen |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Tillie Olsen, by Mickey Pearlman and Abby H.P. Werlock | Blanche H. Gelfant |
| Steinbeck’s Literary Dimension: A Guid to Comparative Studies, Series II, edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi. Introduction by Reloy Garcia | Robert DeMott |
| John Steinbeck as Propagandist: The Moon is Down Goes to War, by Donald V. Coers | Bonnie Million |
| ’This Strange, Old World’ and Other Book Reviews by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue Katherine Anne Porter: A Life, revised edition, by Joan Givner |
Margaret Doane |
| West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns, by Jane Tompkins | Robert Murray Davis |
| The Portable Beat Reader, edited by Ann Charters | Michael Powell |
| Goatwalking: A Guide to Wildland Living; A Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom, by Jim Corbett | Mark Schlenz |
| The Mountains Next Door, by Janice Emily Bowers | Zita Ingham |
| Stalking the Ice Dragon: An Alaskan Journey, by Susan Zwinger | J. Gerard Dollar |
| All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family, by Mary Clearman Blew | Barbara Howard Meldrum |
| Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman, by Julie Roy Jeffery | James Kirschke |
| Plains Farmer: The Diary of William G. DeLoach, 1914-1964, edited by Janet M. Neugebauer | Jean Ritter-Murray |
| Desierto, by Charles Bowden | Dick Kirkpatrick |
| The Devil in Texas/El Diablo en Texas, by Ariesteo Brito | Rita Melendez |
| The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, by Tom Spanbauer | Paul Hadella |
| And the Desert Shall Blossom, by Phyllis Barber | Annie Dawid |
| Step-Mother, by Carol Jean Logue | Barbara Howard Meldrum |
| Shadow Catcher, by Charles Fergus | James B. Hemesath |
| Sudden Country,by Loren D. Estleman | Candy Klaschus |
| The Sharpest Sight,by Louis Owens | Paul Hadella |
| Cowboys Are My Weakness,by Pam Houston | Diane Drake |
| Re Arts & Letters: Real West, edited by Lee Schultz. Voulme XVII, number 1 | Susan Elizabeth Gunter |
| The Famous Thing About Death, by Lisa Sandlin | Sallie Strange |
| LandMarked: Stories of Peggy Simson Curry, collected and with introduction by Mary Alice Gunderson. Foreword by Robert Roripaugh | John D. Nesbitt |
| Breeding Leah and Other Stories, by John Bennion | Penelope Reedy |
| The Dictatorship of the Environment, by Charles Potts | Scott Preston |
| Another Tough Hop, by Ford Swetnam | Jennifer Eastman Attebery |
| Blue Heron’s Sky, by Kenneth MacLean | Bill Witherup |
| Drawings of the Song Animals: New and Selected Poems, by Duane Niatum | Kenneth Maclean |
| Flame, by Brewster Ghiselin | Charles H. Daughaday |
| Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems, by Kenneth Rexroth An Autobiographical Novel, by Kenneth Rexroth. Edited by Linda Hamalian |
Donald Gutierrez |
| Things Happen: Poems of Survival, by Emma Lou Thayne | Stacy Gillett Coyle |
| Desert Wood: An Anthology of Nevada Poets, edited by Shaun T. Griffin | Andrew Elkins |
| The Island Itself, by Roger Fanning | Thomas Austenfeld |
| Spirit Bone, Gino Sky The Rat Lady at the Company Dump, by William Studebaker |
John C. Dofflemyer |
| Simple Versions of Disaster, by Jerry Bradley | Dick Heaberlin |
| Sky River, Nan Hannon | Suzanne Shane |
| Sycamore*Oriole, by Ken McCullough | Suzanne Shane |
| Grief Sweat, Jody Aliesan Calendar of Dust, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
Bert Almon |
| Black Mercedes, by John C. Dofflemyer The Exalted One, by Sue Wallis |
Michael L. Johnson |
| Ordinary Messengers, by Michael Hannon The Raven Wakes Me Up, by Stephan Torre |
Bill Witherup |
| Honey Girl, by Madge Harrah | James B. Hemesath |
| Gold Miners & Guttersnipes: Tales of California, by Mark Twain. Selected, with an introduction, by Ken Chowder | Dana Brunvand Williams |
| American Indian Literature: An Anthology, revised edition, edited by Alan R. Velie | D.E. McIvor |
| From a Limestone Ledge, by John Graves The Desert Smells Like Rain, by Gary Paul Labhan |
D.E. McIvor |
| World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth, edited by Bradford Morrow | Donald Gutierrez |
| Earth Horizon, by Mary Austin. Afterword by Melody Graulich | Kate Boyes |
| Ralph Ellison, by Mark Busby | James W. Bird |
| Little Altars Everywhere, by Rebecca Wells | A. Lee Foote |
| Syd., by Deana Lowe Jensen | Cathryn Clark |
Winter 1993 (vol. 27, no. 4)
| The Bearer of the Gaze in Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise | Ann Putnam |
| Western, Yes, But is it Literature? Teaching Ronald Lanner’s The Piñon Pine | Cheryll Burgess Glotfelty |
| Fate and Free Will on the American Frontier: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Fiction | Tom Pilkington |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Virgil R. Albertini |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1991-92 | Jan Roush |
| Essay Review: | |
| Essay Review on Nebraska: A Poem, by Greg Kuzma, Village Journal. Pebble #17, by Greg Kuzma, Of China and of Greece, by Greg Kuzma, and A Turning: A Sequence, by Greg Kuzma | Joanna Lloyd |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Sinclair Ross’s As for Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism, edited by David Stouck | Dick Harrison |
| John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, by James W. Parins | Jay Hansford C. Vest |
| Jack Spicer, by Edward Halsey Foster Jeanne Williams, by Judy Alter James D. Houston, by Jonah Raskin Carol Ryrie Brink, by Mary E. Reed Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, by Peter Wild |
Liahna Babener |
| A Sunrise Brighter Still: The Visionary Novels if Frank Waters, by Alexander Blackburn | Joe Gordon |
| Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart, by Charotte Margolis Goodman | Melody Graulich |
| The Louis L’Amour Companion, edited by Robert Weinberg | Robert L. Gale |
| No Short Journeys: The Interplay of Cultures in the History & Literature of the Borderlands, by Cecil Robinson | Robert Franklin Gish |
| Writing Huck finn: Mark Twain’s Creative Process, by Victor A. Doyno | Michael Kiskis |
| Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic, by Peter Stoneley | Heather Kirk Thomas |
| Land Circle: Writings Collected from the Land, by Lisa Hasselstrom | William Kittredge |
| Pregnant Bears and Crawdad Eyes, by Paul Schullery | Naomi Brill |
| The Great Bear: Contemporary Writings on the Grizzly, edited by John A. Murray | David Petersen |
| The Rediscovery of North America, by Barry Lopez | D.E. McIvor |
| Work in Progress, by David Brower | David Mazel |
| The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hánc’ibyjim, edited and translated by William Shipley | George Perreault |
| Seeking Awarness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Barry, Barry Lopez, by Scott Slovic | Don Scheese |
| Mid-Lands: A Family Album,by Robert Murray Davis | M. Gilbert Porter |
| Stories from Mesa Country, by Jane Candia Coleman | Annie Dawid |
| Westerns,by Richard Dankleff | Christopher Cokinos |
| From the River’s Edge,by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | David Kvernes |
| Wolfsong,by Louis Owens | Charles L. Crow |
| Without Quarter: The Witchita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek, by William Y. Chalfant | Jay Hansford C. Vest |
| Trails: Toward a New Western History, edited by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde A. Milner II, and Charles E. Rankin “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West, by Richard White |
Gary Topping |
| No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1848-1869, edited by Ida Rae Egli | Rae Ballard |
Spring 1993 (vol. 28, no. 1)
Special Issue on Edward Abbey
| The Structure and Unity of Desert Solitaire | Paul T. Bryant |
| Celebration and Irony: The Polyphonic Voice of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire | David Copland Morris |
| Cactus Ed’s Moveable Feast: A Preview of Confessions of a Barbarian: Pages from the Journals of Edward Abbey | David Petersen |
| Edward Abbey, Anarchism and the Environment | Jack Loeffler |
| Essay Reviews: | |
| Essay Review on The Muddy Fork & Other Things, by James Crumley | John Koontz |
| Essay Review on The Living, by Annie Dillard | Clif Mason |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| The Rochester Trip, by Gerald Locklin The Illegitimate Son of Mr. Madman, by Gerald Locklin The Conference, by Gerald Locklin Locklin Biblio, edited by Mark Weber |
Scott Preston |
| A Society to Match the Scenery: Personal Visions of the Future of the American West, edited by Gary Holthaus, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Charles F. Wilkinson, and Eve Styker Munson | Paul T. Bryant |
| No Pictures in My Grave, by Susan Caperna Lloyd | Charles L. Adams |
| When the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, by Wallace Stegner | Scott Slovic |
| The Trail Home: Essays, by John Daniel | Scott Slovic |
| Claiming Breath, by Diane Glancy | Renae Moore Bredin |
| Going Back to Bisbee, by Richard Shelton | Paul J. Ferlazzo |
| Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, by Terry Tempest Williams | Robert M. Benton |
| Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico, by Tom Ireland | Zita Ingham |
| Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western, by Robert Murray Davis | Candy Klaschus |
| Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier, edited by Eric Heyne | Carl Bredahl |
| Young Men and Fire, by Norman Maclean | Starr Jenkins |
| The Meadow, by James Galvin | Delbert E. Wylder |
| Soldiers Falling into Camp: The Battles at the Rosebud and the Little Bighorn, by Robert Kammen, Joe Marshall and Frederick Lefthand | C. L. Rawlins |
| In Search of Literary L.A., by Lionel Rolfe | Charles L. Crow |
| And the View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai’i, by Stephen H. Sumida | Sharon S. Suzuki |
| The Home Plot: Women, Writing, and Domestic Ritual, by Ann Romines | Pamela Walker |
| Letters of Catherine Cottam Romney, Plural Wife, edited by Jennifer Moulton Hansen | Coralie Beyers |
| William Saroyan: A Study of the Short Fiction,by Edward Halsey Foster | Daniel Barth |
| The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West,edited by Tony Hillerman | Clay Reynolds |
| The Book of One Tree, by Annette R. Schober Under a Turquoise Sky: Stories of Three Cultures,by Raymond J. Stovich |
George Sebastian-Coleman |
| The Trouble with Dreams, by Vess Quinlan Place of Disappearance, by William Hoagland |
Jane Candia Coleman |
| Silverstar, by George Silverstar | John C. Dofflemyer |
| My Name Is William Tell, by William Stafford | Bert Almon |
| Moon Crossing Bridge, by Tess Gallagher | Suzanne Shane |
| Max Brand’s Best Poems: Verses from a Master of Popular Prose, edited by Robert and Jane Easton | Dorys Crow Grover |
| House of Mirrors, by Joseph Hutchinson | Sandra Gail Teichmann |
| Franklin’s Crossing, by Clay Reynolds | Ernestine Sewell Linck |
| Waiting to Exhale, by Terry McMillian | Dana Brunvand Williams |
| Of Lizards and Angels: A Saga of Siouxland, by Frederick Manfred | Dexter Martin |
| Montana Women, by Toni Volk | James B. Hemesath |
| The Evening Star: A Novel, by Larry McMurtry | Bob J. Frye |
Summer 1993 (vol. 28, no. 2)
| The Developing Art of Tony Hillerman | Jan Roush |
| Landscape and Place in Tony Hillerman’s Mysteries | Leonard Engel |
| Farmer Boy: The Forgotten “Little House” Book | Fred Erisman |
| Hoisting the Arm of Defiance: Beowulfian Elements in Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion | Michael D. C. Drout |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Hole in the Sky, by William Kittredge | C. L. Rawlins |
| A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm,by Stanley Crawford | John L. Sinclair |
| Sky’s Witness: A Year in the Wind River Range, by C. L. Rawlins. Illustrated by Hannah Hinchman | Peter Wild |
| How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, by Phyllis Barber | Pamela Walker |
| Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada, by Wilbur S. Shepperson, with Ann Harvey. Foreword by Ann Ronald | Cheryll Burgess Glotfelty |
| On Nature’s Terms: Contemporary Voices, edited by Thomas J. Lyon and Peter Stine | Scott Slovic |
| For Love of the World: Essays on Nature Writers, by Sherman Paul | Douglas Burton-Christie |
| Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature, by Paul Shepard | Kate Boyes |
| The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West, by Charles F. Wilkinson | Ann Ronald |
| Little Town Blues: Voices from the Changing West, text by Raye C. Ringholz. Photographs by K.C. Muscolino | Thomas Madden |
| Voices from the Bottom of the Bowl: A Folk History of Teton Valley, Idaho, 1823-1952, by Thomas Edward Cheney | Betsy Ward |
| Seasons of Death and Life: A Wilderness Memoir, by Maggie Ross Edges of the Earth: A Man, a Woman, a Child in the Alaskan Wilderness, by Richard Leo |
James Crosswhite |
| Lochsa Road: A Pilgrim in the West, by Kim R. Stafford. Illustrations by Hannah Hinchman | Kate Boyes |
| Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays by West Coast Writers, edited by Howard Junker | Roberta Sharp |
| A City at the End of the World, by V.B. Price. Photographs by Kirk Gittings | Robert Murray Davis |
| Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West, by Toby F. Sonneman. Photographs by Rick Steigmeyer | Daniel Duane |
| Angels and Others, by Ken Smith | Delbert E. Wylder |
| Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives,by Ray A. Young Bear | Tim Thomas |
| The Business of Fancydancing,by Sherman Alexie | Andrea-Bess Baxter |
| Woven Stone, by Simon J. Ortiz | Andrea-Bess Baxter |
| Among the Dog Eaters, by Adrian C. Louis | Paul Hadella |
| Jerusalem of Grass, by David Axelrod The Year-God, by Gerrye Payne |
Thomas Austenfeld |
| Collected Poems of Kay Boyle, by Kay Boyle | Charles Daughaday |
| Deer Women and Elk Men: The Lakota Narratives of Ella Deloria, by Julian Rice | Tim Poland |
| Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, and Literature, by Arnold Krupat | Gretchen Ronnow |
| Sending My Heart Back across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography, by Hertha Dawn Wong | Christopher D. Felker |
| Understanding Gary Snyder, by Patrick D. Murphy | Anthony Hunt |
| For Love of Jack London: His Life with Jennie Prentiss--a True Love Story, by Eugene P. Lartemay and Mary Rudge | Tony Williams |
| Jack London: A Definitive Chronology, by Russ Kingman | Tony Williams |
| Jack London--The Movies, an Historical Survey, by Tony Williams | Sandra M. Nuernberg |
| Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume Three: 1869, edited by Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank; associate editor, Dahlia B. Armon Overland with Mark Twain: James B. Pond’s Photographs and Journal of the North American Lecture Tour of 1895, edited by Alan Gribben and Nick Karanovich |
Brian Collins |
| “Our Famous Guest”: Mark Twain in Vienna, by Carl Dolmetsch | Charles L. Crow |
| Frank Norris Revisted, by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. | Charles L. Crow |
| Frank Norris: A Descriptive Bibliography, by Joseph McElrath, Jr. | Eric Heyne |
| Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings, edited by Sharon O’Brien | Helen Taylor |
| Sam Shepard, by David J. DeRose Sam Shepard,by Martin Tucker |
Rudolf Erben |
| The Popular and the Serious in Select Twentieth-Century American Novels, by Patrick D. Morrow | Gary Topping |
| Lawrence Clark Powell, by Gerald Haslam Winston M. Estes, by Bob J. Frye Bess Streeter Aldrich, by Abigail Ann Martin William Humphrey, by Mark Royden Winchell Peter Wild,by Edward Butscher |
Bill D. Toth |
| All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy | Kerry Ahearn |
| Chasing Uncle Charley, by Cruce Stark | Richard Moseley |
| Eulogy for a Brown Angel, by Lucha Corpi | Erik Lukens |
| A Bright Tragic Thing: A Tale of Civil War Texas, by L. D. Clark | Clay Reynolds |
| Ghost Woman: A Novel, by Lawrence Thornton | Jarrell C. Jackman |
| Sailor Song, by Ken Kesey | M. Gilbert Porter |
| The Trespassers, by Robert Roper | Kerry Ahearn |
| Cantora: A Novel, by Sylvia Lopez-Medina | Krista Comer |
| Alburquerque, by Rudolfo Anaya | Robert F. Gish |
Fall 1993 (vol. 28, no. 3)
| If Praires Had Trees: East, West, Environmentalist Fiction, and the Great Plains | Paul Witkowsky |
| Eastern Imaginings of the West in Hamlin Garland’s “Up the Coolly” and “God’s Ravens” | Bonney MacDonald |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Timber, by Roderick Haig-Brown. Introduction by Glen A. Love | Michael Frome |
| Essay Review on Sharlot Herself: Writings of Sharlot Hall, edited by Nancy Kirkpatrick Wright. Introduction by Margaret F. Maxwell. Illustrations by Carlos Parra | Tom Trusky |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten, by Frank Waters. Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. | Charles L. Adams |
| Rockspring,by R.G. Vliet | Charlotte M. Wright |
| A Full Life in a Small Place, by Janice Emily Bowers | Sue Hubbell |
| Songs of My Hunter Heart: A Western Kinship, by Robert F. Gish. Drawings by Kenyon Thomas | Starr Jenkins |
| Out Here: A Newcomer’s Notes from the Great Northwest, by Andrew Ward | Wayne R. Kime |
| Hope for the Land, by Charles E. Little | Patricia Ann Owens |
| John Burroughs: An American Naturalist, by Edward J. Renehan, Jr. | Michael Branch |
| Wild Echos: Encounters with the Most Endangered Animals in North America, by Charles Bergman | Daniel Duane |
| Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History, by Karl S. Guthke | David Petersen |
| Glory, Glory, Glorieta: The Gettysburg of the West, by Robert Scott | Clay Reynolds |
| West of the Divide: Voices from a Ranch and a Reservation, by Jim Carrier | Thomas Madden |
| If It Ain’t Broke. …, by Jack Boyd | Bob J. Frye |
| The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene, by Reg Saner | Paul Rea |
| Spirit and Nature: Why the Enviroment Is a Religious Issue, edited by Steven C. Rockefeller and John C. Elder | Paul Lehmberg |
| Celebrating the Land: Women’s Nature Writing, 1850-1991, edited by Karen Knowles | Gretchen Legler |
| Mother Earth: Through the Eyes of Women Photographers and Writers, edited by Judith Boice | D.E. McIvor |
| Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, by Kathleen Norris | Diane Quantic |
| The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, by Susanne K. George | James J. Kirschke |
| Journeys through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska,by Joe Upton | D. E. McIvor |
| Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” Family from the Great Depression through the Reagan Years, by Dan Morgan | Christopher S. Busch |
| Living on the Edge of America: At Home on the Texas-Mexico Border, by Robert Lee Maril | David Taylor |
| New Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Writing, edited by Russel Martin | Alexander Blackburn |
| Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State, edited by Gerald W. Haslam | Melody Graulich |
| All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction, edited by Thomas King | Kathy Whitson |
| Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature, edited by David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, and Joanne B. Karpinski | Harold P. Simonson |
| Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, by Richard Slotkin | Robert Murray Davis |
| Freethought on the American Frontier, edited by Fred Whitehead and Verle Muhrer | Lee Nash |
| Bret Harte, by Gary Scharnhorst | Henry Hahn |
| From Mesa Verde to The Professor’s House, by David Harrell | Kari Ronning |
| Louis L’Amour, revised edition, by Robert L. Gale | John D. Nesbitt |
| Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate, by Reed Whittemore | Tony Williams |
| Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel, by Louis Owens | Kristan Sarvé-Gorham |
| Letters of Mari Sandoz, edited by Helen Winter Stauffer | Kathleen A. Boardman |
| The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories, by D’Arcy McNickle. Edited by Birgit Hans | Jay Hansford C. Vest |
| American Indians’ Kitchen-Table Stories, by Keith Cunningham White Wolf Woman and Other Native American Transformational Myths, by Teresa Pijoan |
Marie Schein |
| Los Angles Stories: Great Writers on the City, edited by John Miller San Francisco Stories: Great Writers on the City, edited by John Miller |
Kevin Hearle |
| In the Presence of the Sun, by N. Scott Momaday | Eric Todd Smith |
| Arctic Heart, by Gretel Ehrlich | David Axelrod |
| Saturn Is Mostly Weather: Selected & Uncollected Poems, by Gene Frumkin | Bert Almon |
| The Firebird Poems, by Gerald Locklin. Edited by Donna Hilbert | Robert Headley |
| A Fish to Feed All Hunger, by Sandra Alcosser The One Right Touch, by Katharine Coles |
Jerry Bradley |
| Clear Water on the Swan, by John Holbrook Journeys into Open Country, by Ron Fischer |
A. Lee Foote |
| A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know, by David Romtvedt | Paul Varner |
| Sudden Proclamations, by Jerry Newman Preludes & Fugues, by Fred Candelaria |
Christopher Cokinos |
| Nothing But Blue Skies, by Thomas McGuane | Nathaniel Lewis |
| Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, by Robert J. Conley | Paul Hadella |
Winter 1994 (vol. 28, no. 4)
| Elmer Kelton’s “Other” West | Fred Erisman |
| Living In-Between: Tayo as Radical Reader in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony | Michael Hobbs |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Virgil R. Albertini |
| Research in Western American Literature | Jan Roush |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller, told by Harry Robinson. Edited and compiled by Wendy Wickwire | Jarold Ramsey |
| Essay Review on The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West, by Richard C. Poulsen, The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture, by Blake Allmendinger, and Kill the Cowboy: A Battle of Mythology in the New West, by Sharman Apt Russell | C.L. Rawlings |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| This Dancing Ground of Sky: The Selected Poetry of Peggy Pond Church, edited by Renée Gregorio. Preface by Kathleen Church. Introduction by Shelley Armitage | James H. Maguire |
| Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale,by Henry B. Wonham | Charles L. Crow |
| Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms, edited by William J. Hynes and William G. Doty | Bradley J. Monsma |
| Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855, by Bruce Greenfield | Russell Burrows |
| Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil, by Michael J. McCauley | Christopher Metress |
| Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D’Arcy McNickle, by Dorothy R. Parker | Hazel McKim |
| Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, by Gerald Vizenor | David Mogen |
| Buffalo Nickel, by Floyd Salas | Robert Headley |
| Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural, by Mary Giraudo Beck | Herbert W. Luthin |
| A Ballad for Sallie, by Judy Alter | Jean Keezer-Clayton |
| Bone, by Fae Myenne Ng | Seiwoong Oh |
| Flowers for the Broken, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Paul J. Ferlazzo |
| Crazy Woman, by Kate Horsley | Ivan Melada |
| Home Truth, by Janis Stout | Jane Bouterse |
| Due North, by Mitchell Smith | Susan Zwinger |
| Leonor Park, by Nash Candelaria | Thomas W. Ford |
| Hank & Chloe, by Jo-Ann Mapson | James B. Hemesath |
| First Horses: Stories of the New West, by Robert Franklin Gish. Foreword by Gordon A. Weaver | Delbert E. Wylder |
| Sáanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing, by Luci Tapahonso | Andrea-Bess Baxter |
| Between Towns, by Kauire Kutchins | Elizabeth Blair |
| Pebble Creek, by Amil Quayle | Bill Finlaw |
| Carpal Bones, by Margaret Aho | Harald Wyndham |
| After Henry, by Joan Didion | John Whalen-Bridge |
| Sex, Death, and God in L.A., edited by David Reid | Keith Atwater |
| DRINK CULTURA: Chichanismo, by Jose Antonio Burciaga | Gerald W. Haslam |
| Sheep May Safely Graze: A Personal Essay on Tradition and a Contemporary Sheep Ranch, by Louie W. Atteberry | William Studebaker |
| They Married Adventure: The Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson, by Pascal James Imperato and Eleanor M. Imperato | Tony Williams |
| Animals of the Soul: Sacred Animals of the Oglala Sioux, by Joseph Epes Brown | Jay Hansford C. Vest |
| Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change, by Jim W. Corder | Michael Hobbs |
| Taos: A Memory, by Miriam Hapgood DeWitt | Becky Jo Gesteland |
| Marietta Wetherill: Reflections on Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon, edited and compiled by Kathryn Gabriel. Introductory Essay by Elizabeth Jameson | Margaret García Davidson |
| Leadville, U.S.A.: An Intimate History of a Colorado Mining Town, by Edward B. Larsh and Robert Nichols | Dorys Crow Grover |
| Pioneering on the Yukon, by Anna DeGraf. Edited by Roger S. Brown | Jane S. Bakerman |
| Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album, by Teresa Jordan | Betsy Ward |
| Being in the World: An Environmental Reader for Writers, edited by Scott H. Slovic and Terrell F. Dixon | Edgar H. Thompson |
| The Two Lives of Norman Maclean and The Text of Fire in Young Men and Fire | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Flag and Family in John Wayne’s Westerns: The Audience as Co-Conspirator | Max Westbrook |
| “All Growed Up” in the True West, or Huck and Tom Meet Sam Shepard | Suzy Clarkson Holstein |
| A Western Renaissance | Alexander Blackburn |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Blood Trails, by Bill Jones and Rod McQueary, Hung Out to Dry, by John C. Dofflemeyer, Toad Writes Short Stories, by Gerald Locklin, and A Weeb for All Seasons, by Charles Harper Webb. | Paul J. Ferlazzo |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Norman Maclean, by Ron McFarland, Peggy Pond Church, by Shelley Armitage, William Allen White, by Diane Dufva Quantic, Ishmael Reed, by Jay Boyer, and Ann Zwinger, by Peter Wild | Robert L. Gale |
| A Coyote Reader, edited by William Bright | Wayne Ude |
| Indi’n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America, by Kenneth Lincoln | Shelley Armitage |
| Prophets in Babylon: Five California Novelists in the 1930s, by Margaret C. Jones | Esther Lanigan |
| Cather, Canon, and the Politics of Reading, by Deborah Carlin | Heidi M. Raber |
| The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane, by Patrick K. Dooley | Robert Sterling Long |
| Critical Essays on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Gary Scharnhorst | Brian Collins |
| Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, by David W. Orr | Ralph W. Black |
| The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, edited by Peter Wild | David Teague |
| Assembling California, by John McPhee | Harold Fromm |
| Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals, by Albert Furtwangler | Harold K. Bush, Jr. |
| No Nature: New and Selected Poems, by Gary Synder | Ralph W. Black |
| Drifting through Ancestor Dreams, by Ramson Lomatewama The Island, by Michael White |
David Axelrod |
| A Log of Deadwood: A Postmodern Epic of the South Dakota Gold Rush, by Gary David | Paul Hadella |
| Legends from Camp, by Lawson Fusao Inada | Jodi Varon |
| Stray Tales of the Big Bend, by Elton Miles | Janice Miller |
| Wondrous Times on the Frontier, by Dee Brown | Bob Ross |
| This Ol’ Drought Ain’t Broke Us Yet (But We’re All Bent Pretty Bad): Stories of the American West, by Jim Garry | Michael Kowalewski |
| Inside Passage: Living with Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians,by Michael Modzelewski | Jean M. Emery |
| Climbing Back, by Mark Wellman and John Flinn | Jacqueline Koenig |
| Mother’s Letters: Essays by Elizabeth Hampsten, by Elizabeth Hampsten | Liahna Babener |
| Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest, by Sallie Tisdale | Lynn Cothern |
| The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction, edited by Glen A. Love Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography, edited by Stephen Dow Beckham |
Carol S. Long |
| From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians’ Own Stories, by Joseph Medicine Crow | Robert Roripaugh |
| Firesticks: A Collection of Short Stories, by Diane Glancy | Elizabeth Blair |
Summer 1994 (vol. 29, no. 2)
| Finding a Voice of His Own: The Story of Wallace Stegner’s Fiction | Jackson J. Benson |
| Wallace Stegner and the Environmental Ethic: Enviornmentalism as a Rejection of Western Myth | Brett J. Olsen |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, edited by Ramón Gutiérrez and Genaro Padilla, Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest, edited by María Herrera-Sobek, Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature, edited by Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero , The Account: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación, annotated translation by Martin A. Favata and José B. Fernández, and The Squatter and the Don, by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. Edited and introduced by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita | Margaret García Davidson |
| Essay Review on Pomona Queen, by Kem Nunn | Lloyd Becker |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| The Hedge, The Ribbon, by Carol Orlock | Margaret Doane |
| Working Men,by Michael Dorris | Paul Hadella |
| Heartbeat Drumbeat, by Irene Beltrán Hernández | Heather Kirk Thomas |
| The Way of the Priests, by Robert J. Conley | Grant Sisk |
| The DarkWay, by Robert J. Conley | Grant Sisk |
| The Happy Man: A Novel of California Ranch Life, by Robert O. Easton. Foreword by Gerald Haslam. Introduction by Jack Schaefer | Fr. Leo A. Hetzler |
| Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, by Gladys Swan | James B. Hemesath |
| Sign Languages, by James Hannah | David Marshall |
| Honorable Release, by David Gagon | Mikel Vause |
| Airlift: Short Stories, by Jan Epton Seale. Afterword by Roland Sodowsky | Delores Washburn |
| Discovering Eve, by Jane Candia Coleman | Penelope Reedy |
| Sorrow Floats, by Tim Sandlin | Lorraine Engstrom |
| Native, by William Haywood Henderson | Donald C. Jones |
| The Death of Bernadette Lefthand, by Ron Querry | Robert Headley |
| Iona Moon, by Melanie Rae Thon | Susan Elizabeth Gunter |
| The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems, by John Haines | C. L. Rawlins |
| Across the Layers: Poems Old and New, by Albert Goldbarth | Charles H. Daughaday |
| Crazy for Living, by Linda Sillitoe | Helen B. Cannon |
| Place-Dream and Other Poems,by Robert Glen Deamer The Black Riders and Other Poems, by Robert Glen Deamer |
Dave Engel |
| Violence and Grace: Poems about the American West, by Michael L. Johnson | A. Lee Foote |
| Decade II: A Twentieth Anniversary Anthology, edited by Julián Olivares and Evangelina Vigil Piñón Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States, edited by Nicolás Kanellos |
Greg Sánchez |
| Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, edited by Gerald Vizenor | Scott R. Christianson |
| All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures, by Bonnie TuSmith | Seiwoong Oh |
| The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane, by William Holtz | Ann Romines |
| Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver, edited by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll | John Koontz |
| The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1500-1900, by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola and James Arthur Levernier | Mark Schlenz |
| The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz III and I. Milo Shepard | George H. Tweney |
| Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man, by Tom Quirk | Kim Martin Long |
| A Society of Wolves, by Rick McIntyre | David Petersen |
| Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, edited by Gary Nabhan | Peter Anderson |
| Let Me Be Free: A Nez Perce Tragedy, by David Lavender | Craig R. Auge |
| On the Oregon Trail, by Jonathon Nichols. Photographs by Ron Cronin | Roscoe L. Buckland |
| With Women’s Eyes: Visitors to the New World, 1775-1918, edited by Marion Tinling | Peggy Kocoras |
| Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle, by Pat Mora | Krista Comer |
| Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington, by Carobeth Laird | Hazel McKim |
| We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans, by Pete Sinclair | Mikel Vause |
| The Roads Taken: Travels Through America’s Literary Landscapes, by Fred Setterberg | Don Scheese |
Fall 1994 (vol. 29, no. 3)
| “The Breath of Vibrating Behind It”: Intimacy in the Storytelling of Ántonia Shimerda | Evelyn I. Funda |
| “The Journal of a Strategic Withdrawal”: Nature and the Poetry of Lew Welch | Rod Phillips |
| Jeanne D’Orge, Carmel, and Point Lobos | Bert Almon |
| Rewriting Western Myths in Clint Eastwood’s New “Old Western” | Len Engel |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Killing Seasons, by Christopher Cokinos, Kingdon of Lost Waters, by Sonya Hess, Theory of Twilight, by Gary Short, and Earth’s Eye, by George Keithley | Paul T. Bryant |
| Essay Review on Old Shirts & New Skins, by Sherman Alexie, First Indian on the Moon, by Sherman Alexie, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie | Andrea-Bess Baxter |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Pilgrims to the Wild: Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin, by John P. O’Grady | Scott Slovic |
| The Literature of Nature: The British and American Traditions, Edited by Robert J. Begiebing and Owen Grumbling | Michael Branch |
| All That Matters: The Texas Plains in Photographs and Poems, by Walter McDonald. Photographs from The Southwest Collection selected by Janet Neugebauer | Lee Schultz |
| Sacred Clowns, by Tony Hillerman | Ronald Shook |
Winter 1995 (vol. 29, no. 4)
| California Dreamin’: The Significance of “A Coupla Acres” in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men | John L. Marsden |
| A.B. Guthrie’s Additions to Shane | Thomas W. Ford |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Virgil R. Albertini |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1993-94 | Jan Roush |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Naked Heart: Talking on Poetry, Mysticism, & the Erotic, by William Everson | Gary H. Holthaus |
| Frank Waters: Man and Mystic, edited by Vine Deloria Jr. | Frances M. Malpezzi |
| The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism, Edited by Donald R. Noble | Robert M. Benton |
| A New Study Guide to Steinbeck’s Major Works, With Critical Explications, Edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi | Robert M. Benton |
| Critical Essays on Robert Bly, Edited by William V. Davis | James R. Saucerman |
| Mark Twain: Protagonist for the Popular Culture, by Marlene Boyd Vallin | Michael Hobbs |
| New Voices in NativeAmerican Literary Criticism, edited by Arnold Krupat | Gretchen Ronnow |
| White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier, by June Namias | Rebecca Blevins Faery |
| Dark Matter, by Christopher Buckley | Margaret Pettis |
| Isolation and Masquerade: Willa Cather’s Women, by Frances W. Kaye and Willa Cather and The Art of Conflict, by Patrick W. Shaw | Ann Moseley |
| O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather. Scholarly Edition edited by Susan J. Rosowski and Charles W. Mignon with Kathleen Danker | Kevin A. Synnott |
| A Casebook on Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, edited by George J. Searles | M. Gilbert Porter |
| Ace of Hearts: The Westerns of Zane Grey, by Arthur G. Kimball | Gary Topping |
| Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature, by Vera Norwood | Lorraine Anderson |
| Spider Woman’s Granddaughters, Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, edited by Paula Gunn Allen | Alanna Kathleen Brown |
| Shadows in My Hands: A Southwestern Odyssey, by Jane Candia Coleman | Sandra Gail Teichmann |
| Torn By Light: Selected Poems,by Joanne de Longchamps | Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot |
| One-Eyed Cowboy Wild, by John D. Nesbitt | Robert L. Gale |
| The Temptations of St. Ed & Brother S., by Frank Bergon | Elizabeth Blair |
| Footloose on the Santa Fe Trail, by Stephen May | Martin Padget |
| The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz, by Manuel Ramos | Robert Headly |
| Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories, edited by Eugene England | Coralie Beyers |
| A Place in Mind, by Dulce D. Moore | Rosemary Whitaker |
| The Owl in Monument Canyon and Other Stories from Indian Country, by H. Jackson Clark | Peter Anderson |
| In the Kingdom of Grass, by Margaret A. MacKichan and Bob Ross | Barbara Langdon |
| Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter, by Janet Campbell Hale | Esther F. Lanigan |
| Backtracking: Ancient Art of Southern Idaho, by Max G. Pavesic and William Studebaker. Foreword by Catherin S. Fowler | C. L. Rawlins |
| Yanktonai Sioux Watercolors: Cultural Remembrances of John Saul, by Martin Brokenleg and Herbert T. Hoover | Robert C. Steensma |
| Memory Fever: A Journey Beyond El Paso del Norte, by Ray Gonzalez | Scott Slovic |
| The Fus Fixico Letters, by Alexander Posey | Joseph Mills |
| Static Lines and Canopies: Stories from the Smokejumpers in Civilian Public Service Camp No. 103 (Missoula, Montana) of 1943-1945, edited by Asa Mundell | Starr Jenkins |
| State Lines, compiled and edited by Ken Hammond | Christopher S. Busch |
| Elmer Kelton Country: The Short Nonfiction of a Texas Novelist, by Elmer Kelton | Bob J. Frye |
| Head Cook at Weddings and Funerals and Other Stories of Doukhobor Life, by Vi Plotnikoff | David Stouck |
| Crossing Wyoming, by David Romtvedt | Ona Siporin |
| How I Learned, by Gloria Frym | Cathryn Clark |
| Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape, by Frank Gohlke. Essay by John C. Hudson Wright Morris: Origin of a Species, by Wright Morris. Essays by Sandra S. Phillips and John Szarkowski |
Joseph J. Wydeven |
| Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston, by Madge Thornall Roberts The Raven’s Bride: A Novel of Eliza Allen and Sam Houston, by Elizabeth Crook |
Anne Righton Malone |
| The Biophilia Hypothesis, edited by Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson | David Petersen |
| These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems 1955-1993, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Paul Varner |
| The Proper Edge of the Sky: The High Plateau Counrty of Utah, by Edward A. Geary | Elaine Thatcher |
| Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place, by Kent C. Ryden | Ralph W. Black |
| Idaho Loners: Hermits, Solitaires, and Individualists, by Cort Conley | William Studebaker |
| Neon Pow-Wow: New Native American Voices of the Southwest, edited by Anna Lee Walters | Marie Schein |
| The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland, a photographic project by Stephen Johnson and Robert Dawson. Text by Gerald Haslam | Wayne Kime |
| On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things, edited by Tom Andrew | Bert Almon |
| Love Medicine. New and Expanded Version, by Louise Erdrich | Betsy Ward |
| American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, by David C. Miller | David Teauge |
| The Haunting Familiarity of Things: Poems, by Ron McFarland | Deborah Clifford Gessaman |
| Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose, edited by Gordon B. Dodds From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, edited by Primus St. John and Ingrid Wendt |
Carol S. Long |
| Lighting Out: A Vision of California and the Mountains, by Daniel Duane | Mikel Vause |
| Way Down Yonder in The Indian Nation, by Michael Wallis | Colleen M. Tremonte |
| Careless Weeds: Six Texas Novellas, edited by Tom Pilkington | Kenneth W. Davis |
| A View of the River, by Luna B. Leopold | C. L. Rawlins |
| Main Street: The Revolt of Carol Kennicot, by Martin Bucco | Robert E. Fleming |
| Montana 1948, by Larry Wilson | Michael Kowalewski |
| Child of the Holy Ghost, by Robert Laxalt | Bill Baines |
| Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience, edited by Barbara Perkins and George Perkins | Cathy A. Gray |
| The Masked Bobwhite Rides Again, by John Alcock | Bill D. Toth |
| A Match to the Heart, by Gretel Ehrlich | Michael Branch |
Spring 1995 (vol. 30, no. 1)
Special Issue on Place
| The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais | David Robertson |
| The Owl on the Fence | Linda Hasselstrom |
| Willa Cather’s Ecology of Place | Susan J. Rosowski |
| Knee-Deep in Its Absence | David Petersen |
| Keeping the Swarm: A Northwest Exploration of Place | George Venn |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on All Things Touched By Wind, by John Daniel | Ingrid Wendt |
| Essay Review on In the Loyal Mountains, by Rick Bass | Terrell Dixon |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Duke’s Mixture, by Frederick Manfred | Gordon Johnston |
| Place and Vision: The Function of Landscape in Native American Fiction, by Robert M. Nelson | Leonard Engel |
| Out of the Interior: The Lost Country, by Harold Rhensich | Daniel G. Payne |
| Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth, by John Nichols | Robert Headley |
| Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, edited by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, and Peter Wild | David Mogen |
| Edge Effects: Notes on an Oregon Forest, by Chris Anderson | Russell Burrows |
| Words from a Wide Land, by William D. Barney | Stephanie Sarver |
| The Emily Carr Omnibus, by Emily Carr. Introduction by Doris Shadbolt | Pamela Walker |
| American Nature Writing 1994, edited by John A. Murray | Robert M. Benton |
| Old West--New West: Centennial Essays, edited by Barbara Howard Meldrum | Walter Isle |
| Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, edited by Craig Lesley | Clay Reynolds |
| New Growth/2: Contemporary Short Stories by Texas Writers, edited by Mark Busby | Bob J. Frye |
| The Crossing. The Border Trilogy, Vol. 2, by Cormac McCarthy | David N. Cremean |
| Streets of Laredo, by Larry McMurtry | R. L. Streng |
| Friends, by Charles Hackenberry Buscadero, by Bill Brooks Man on Two Ponies, by Don Worcester |
Christopher S. Busch |
| Bluefeather Fellini, by Max Evans | Martin Padget |
| Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler | Charles L. Crow |
| Max Brand, by William A. Bloodworth Jr. | Esther F. Lanigan |
| When the Century Was Young: A Writer’s Notebook, by Dee Brown | Liahna Babener |
| Growing Up Native American: An Anthology, edited by Patricia Riley. Foreword by Ines Hernandez | Joseph Mills |
| The Sound of Rattles and Clappers: A Collection of New California Indian Writing, edited by Greg Sarris | Penelope Reedy |
| Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1993, by Wendy Rose | James R. Saucerman |
| Ravensong, by Lee Maracle | Jean M. Emery |
| 30 Miles from J-Town, by Amy Uyematsu | Jodi Varon |
| Alligator Dance, by Janet Peery | Thomas W. Ford |
| A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, by Dianne Nelson | Debra L. Park |
| A Reader’s Guide to the Short Stories of Willa Cather, by Sheryl L. Meyering | Kevin A. Synnott |
| Willa Cather, by Edward Wagenknecht | Ann Moseley |
| Cather Studies, Volume 2, edited by Susan J. Rosowski | John J. Murphy |
| Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Ruth M. Alvarez and Thomas F. Walsh | Thomas Austenfeld |
Summer 1995 (vol. 30, no. 2)
| Norman Maclean and Tragedy | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Getting Back to Cather’s Text: The Shared Dream in O Pioneers! | Neil Gustafson |
| A Paradoxical Legacy: Some New Contexts for John C. Van Dyke’s The Desert | David Teague |
| “They Rode On”: Blood Meridian and the Art of Narrative | Bernard A. Schopen |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on The Big Empty: Essays on the Land as Narrative (ed. Leonard Engel) | Forrest G. Robinson |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Camping Out in the Yellowstone, 1882, by Mary Bradshaw Richards. Edited by William W. Slaughter | Nancy Cook |
| Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Traditionof Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990, by Douglas Wixon. | Gordon Johnston |
| So Far from Home: An Army Bride on the Western Frontier, 1865-1869, by Julia Gilliss | Michael L. Powell |
| Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother’s Wisdom, by Marilou Awiakta | Elizabeth Blair |
| The Rifles, by William T. Vollmann | James P. Cantrell |
| Blood Thirsty Savages, by Adrian C. Louis | Paul Hadella |
| Heavenly R & B: Poems 1982-1993, by Harald Wyndahm | Paul Varner |
| Drop Him Till He Dies: The Twisted Tragedy of Immigrant Homesteader Thomas Egan, by C. John Egan Jr. | Robert C. Steensma |
| Inagehi, by Jack Cady | Elizabeth Blair |
| Radiant Days: Writings by Enos Mills, edited by John Dotson | Kevin Holdsworth |
| Faces in the Moon, by Betty Louise Bell | Colleen M. Tremonte |
| Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environment Writers, edited by John Cooley | Rod Phillips |
| Place of the Wild: A Wildland Anthology, by David Clarke Burks | Daniel J. Philippon |
| Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, edited by Kim Barnes and Mary Clearman Blew | Lynn Cothern |
| Critical Perspectives on Native American Fictions, edited and compiled by Richard F. Fleck | Jay Hansford C. Vest |
| An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, by Terry Tempest Williams | Mark Schlenz |
| Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River, by Ellen Meloy | Peter Anderson |
| Bone Game, by Louis Owens | David Cremean |
| Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writings from the American West, edited byt Deborah Clow and Donald Snow | Michael Branch |
| Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass: Cowboy Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century, edited by Warren Miller | Paul Hadella |
| A Bridge between Us, by Julie Shigekuni | Seiwoong Oh |
| Unbridled Spirits: Short Fiction about Women in the Old West, edited by Judy Alter and A. T. Row | Cathy Downs |
Fall 1995 (vol. 30, no. 3)
| Prophecy in a New West: Mary Austin and the Ghost Dance Religion | Mark T. Hoyer |
| The “Wonderfulness” of Thea Kronborg’s Voice | Sharon Hoover |
| Zenna Henderson and to Not-So-Final Frontier | Fred Erisman |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey (James Bishop, Jr.), Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (ed., with and introduction by David Petersen), Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey (ed. David Petersen), The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader (Edward Abbey) |
C.L. Rawlins |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Small Bird, Tell Me: Stories of Greek Immigrants in Utah, by Helen Papanikolas | Frank Bergon |
| Wintergreen: Listening to the Land’s Heart, by Robert Michael Pyle The Thunder Tree: Lessons form an Urban Wildland, by Robert Michael Pyle |
Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, by Robert Michael Pyle | David Petersen |
| Balsamroot, by Mary Clearman Blew | Cathy Downs |
| Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West, by Rebecca Solnit | Zita Ingham |
| Never Turn Back: The Life of Whitewater Pioneer Walt Blackadar, by Ron Watters | Verne Huser |
| Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians, by James Welch | David N. Cremean |
| Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest, edited by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett | Robert Murray Davis |
| Kanaka: The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Colombia and the Pacific Northwest, by Tom Koppel | Roscoe L. Buckland |
| The Adventures of Mocassin Joe: The True Life Story of Sgt. George S. Howard, by Susan Reneau | Starr Jenkins |
| The Bingo Palace, by Louise Erdrich | Martin Padget |
| The June Rise: The Apocryphal Letters of Josph Antoine Janis, by William Tremblay | Donald C. Jones |
| Wild Game, by Frank Bergon | Nancy Cook |
| Blue Rodeo, by Jo-Ann Mapson | Jean M. Emery |
| The Grass Dancer, by Susan Power | Barbara Tracy Langdon |
| Winter of the Holy Iron, by Joseph Marshall III | Steven Frye |
| Only Approved Indians, by Jack D. Forbes Eye Killers, by A. A. Carr |
Paul Hadella |
| The Absence of Angels, by W. S. Penn | Paul N. Pavich |
| The Candy Vendor’s Boy and Other Stories, by Beatriz de la Garza To a Widow with Children, by Lionel G. Garcia |
Robert Headley |
| Dirty White Boys, by Stephen Hunter | Clay Reynolds |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Fred Erisman Rex Beach, by Abe C. Ravitz John Wesley Powell, by James A. Aton Harold Bell Wright, by Lawrence V. Tagg Caroline Lockhart, by Norris Yates |
Robert L. Gale |
| Nature’s Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, by James I. McClintock | Daniel G. Payne |
| Having It Both Ways: Self-Subversion in Western Popular Classics, by Forrest G. Robinson | Robert Murray Davis |
| The Call of the Wild: A Naturalistic Romance, by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin | Susan M. Nuernberg |
| Jack London. Revised Edition, by Earle Labor and Jeanne Campbell Reesman | Tony Williams |
| A Reader’s Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather, by John March | Mark Schlenz |
| Willa Cather’s Transforming Vision: New France and the American Northeast, by Gary Brienzo | Elizabeth A. Turner |
| The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, by Steven Olson | Daniel J. Phillipon |
| August Zero, by Jane Miller | George F. Day |
| New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, edited by Sharon Niederman and Miriam Sagan | Jerry Bradley |
| The Last Fairfield Rodeo and Other Poems, by Penelope Reedy Crazy Horse and Walt Whitman’s Hands, by Charlotte M. Wright Exotic Dancers, by Peter Wild Falling from the Sky, by William Studebaker |
Jim Harris |
| Trace Elements from a Recurrent Kingdom: The First Five Books, by William Pitt Root | Paul Varner |
| After and before the Lightning, by Simon J. Ortiz | Jim Harris |
| Snowmelt, by Shaun T. Griffin | Michael Kowaleski |
| edge walking on the western rim, edited and with profiles by Mayumi Tsutakawa | George H. Tweney |
| New Trails: 23 Orignial Stories of the West, edited by John Jakes and Martin H. Greenberg | James B. Hemesath |
| Spinning Sun, Grinning Moon: Novellas, by Max Evans | Walter Isle |
Winter 1996 (vol. 30, no. 4)
| Edward Abbey and the Romance of Wilderness | Joh R. Knott |
| “So Strangely Married”: Peggy Pond Church’s The Ripened Fields: Fifteen Sonnets of a Marriage | Andrew Elkins |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Thomas Austenfield |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1994-95 | Jan Roush |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Counting Survivors (Walter McDonald) and In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Viet Nam (Robert S. McNamara, with Brian VanDeMare) | Lee Schultz |
Spring 1996 (vol. 31, no. 1)
| “To bring the world into divine focus”: Syncretic Prophecy in The Land of Little Rain | Mark T. Hoyer |
| Concentric Tests in The Professor’s House | Ann Moseley |
| Thousand Pieces of Gold: Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience | Walter Hesford |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Larry McMurty and the Victorian Novel (Roger Jones) and Larry McMurty and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship (Mark Busby) | Clay Reynolds |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest, ed. Kathryn Wilder | Robert Headley |
| The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West, ed. Teresa Jordan | Karen McKibbin |
| American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists, by Marcia Myers Bonta | Lisa Gerber |
| Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, by Ann Haymond Zwinger | Verne Huser |
| A Paleontologist’s Notebook, by Susan Smith Nash | Robert Murray Davis |
| Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert, by Ofelia Zepeda | Kathleen Danker |
| The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices, by Bruce Cutler | Verne Huser |
| The People: Indians of the American Southwest, by Stephen Trimble | Marie M. Schein |
| Skins, by Adrian C. Louis | Paul Hadella |
| The Tony Hillerman Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to His Life and Work, ed. Martin Greenberg | Dan Wilson |
| The Critical Response to Jack London, ed. Susan M. Nuernberg | George H. Tweney |
| A Natural History of Nature Writing, by Frank Stewart, and The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, by Lawrence Buell | Thomas J. Lyon |
| The Presence of Whales, ed. Frank Stewart | Melinda Porter |
| Landscape in America, ed. George F. Thompson | Michael Branch |
| A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature, 2nd ed., by Richard W. Etulain and N. Jill Howard | Robert Murray Davis |
| The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: The Western, ed. Phil Hardy | Michael T. Marsden |
| High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music, by Cecelia Tichi | Gerald W. Haslam |
| The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska, ed. Robert Hedin and Gary Holthaus | Richard Hunt |
| The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature, ed. Suzi Jones and Jarold Ramsey, and Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries, ed. Shannon Applegate and Terence O’Donnell | Carol S. Long |
| The Way We Live: Stories by Utah Women, ed. Ellen Fagg | Barbara Capel |
| Condor Dreams, by Gerald Haslam | Julie Robertson |
| Dead Man’s Walk, by Larry McMurtry | David N. Cremean |
| Mountaineering Women: Stories by Early Climbers, ed. David Mazel | Mikel Vause |
| Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River, by Robin Cody | Verne Huser |
| Fire Line: Summer Battles of the West, by Michael Thoele | Starr Jenkins |
| Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, by Christopher Buckley | David Taylor |
| Words from the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing, ed. Steve Trimble | Fred Taylor |
| Higher Elevations: Stories from the West, ed. Alexander Blackburn and C. Kenneth Pellow | Lorraine Engstrom |
| The Sierra Club Nature Writing Handbook: A Creative Guide, by John A. Murray | David Petersen |
| The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, by Paul Shepard | Kraig Klungness |
Summer 1996 (vol. 31, no. 2)
| Terry Tempest Williams and Ona Siporin: A Conversation | Ona Siporin |
| Gerald Haslam and Ann Ronald: A Conversation | Ann Ronald |
| A Dog’s Life: Anthropomorphism, Sentimentality, and Ideology in John Muir’s Stickeen | David Copland Morris |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Ghost Grizzlies (David Petersen) and The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado (Rick Bass) | Michael Branch |
| Essay Review on Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) | David Stevenson |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Private Voices, Public Lives, ed. Nancy Owen Nelson | Judy Nolte Temple |
| Stories to Gather All Those Lost, by Ona Siporin | Jodi Varon |
| MotherTongue, by Demetria Martínez | Susan Bernardin |
| The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan | Seiwoong Oh |
| Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today, by Leslie Marmon Silko | Sara L. Spurgeon |
| Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction, by James Ruppert | Mark T. Hoyer |
| The American West, by Dee Brown | Kevin Holdsworth |
| When Coyote Howls: A Lavaland Fable, by Robert Gish | Barbara Tracy Langdon |
| Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak’s Forests, by William W. Bevis | David Finch |
| Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark, by Daniel B. Botkin | C. L. Rawlins |
| The Hookmen, by Timothy Hillmer | Peter Anderson |
| Into Thin Air, by Thomas Zigal | James B. Hemesath |
| Justice, by Larry Watson | Michael Kowalewski |
| A Boyhood in the Dust Bowl 1926-1934,by Robert Allen Rutland | Robert Murray Davis |
| Smokejumpers, ’49: Brothers in the Sky, by Starr Jenkins | Christopher S. Busch |
| Iron House, Stories from the Yard, by Jerome Washington | Robert Headley |
| Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California, by Kevin Starr | Charles L. Crow |
| The Island of California: A History of the Myth, by Dora Beale Polk | Roscoe L. Buckland |
| The American West in the Twentieth Century: A Bibliography, ed. Richard W. Etulain, with Pat Devejian, Jon Hunner, and Jacqueline Etulain Partch Ludwig | Ludwig Deringer |
| The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960, by Steven Watson | Bert Almon |
| Redefining the American Dream: The Novels of Willa Cather, by Sally Peltier Harvey | Becky Faber |
| The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study, by Kirk Nesset | Delores Washburn |
| Nueva Granada: Paul Horgan and the Southwest, by Robert Franklin Gish | John Donahue |
| Charles and Kathleen Norris: The Courtship Year, ed. Richard Allan Davison | Nicolas Witschi |
| Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind, by Karl Kroeber | Daniel J. Philippon |
| Where Past Meets Present: Modern Colorado Short Stories, ed. James B. Hemesath | Rick Van Noy |
Fall 1996 (vol. 31, no. 3)
| External Characterization in The Big Sky | Paul T. Bryant |
| William Ellsworth Smythe’s Drama of Reclamation | Stephanie Sarver |
| Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner | James M. Cahalan |
| Essay Review | |
| Essay review on Even in Quiet Places, by William Stafford | David Axelrod |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Words under the Words: Selected Poemsand Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places,by Naomi Shihab Nye | Bert Almon |
| My Town, by David Lee | Dale K. Boyer |
| Archipelago, by Arthur Sze | C. L. Rawlins |
| Earth Prime, by Bert Almon | Charlotte M. Wright |
| May Out West: Poems of May Swenson, selected and arranged by R. R. Knudson, and Nature: Poems Old and New, by May Swenson | Susan E. Gunter |
| Journeyman’s Wages, by Clemens Starck | Michael Berndt |
| Prayers of the Dead Ventriloquist, by D. J. Smith | Patrick Vincent |
| Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It and Other Poems, by Kevin Hearle | Deborah Clifford Gessaman |
| Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems, by Virginia Hamilton Adair | Jody Varon |
| Buying a Cabin: The Big Bear Paw Poems, by Rafael Zepeda and Gerald Locklin | Mark Weber |
| How Crows Talk and Willows Walk, by Gary Esarey | Tom Lynch |
| Lethal Frequencies, by James Galvin | Robert Roripaugh |
| Changing Seasons and Other Poems, by John E. Smelcer | Kevin Holdsworth |
| The Red Drum, by Jane Candia Coleman | Debra L. Park |
| The Fever of Being, by Luis Alberto Urrea | Ray Zepeda |
| I Am Not a Cowboy, by Paul Zarzyski | Michael L. Johnson |
| Letters from Elko, by Scott Preston | Jim Harris |
| Circle of Light, by Charles Levendosky | Christopher Sindt |
| The Last Dust Storm, by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel | Marie-Madeleine Schein |
| Flying over Sonny Liston, by Gary Short | Christopher Sindt |
| Inheritance of Light, ed. Ray Gonzalez | Andrew Elkins |
| Dark and Perfect Angels, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Edgar H. Thompson |
| Vortex of Indian Fevers, by Adrian C. Louis | Paul Hadella |
| Facing the Music, by Bruce Berger | James R. Saucerman |
| Dawn Pearl, by Irene Chadwick | Mary K. Stillwell |
Winter 1997 (vol. 31, no. 4)
| Three Consciousnesses in Wright Morris’s Plains Song | Joe Hall |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Thomas Austenfeld |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1995-1996 | Jan Roush |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay review on Wallace Stegner, His Life and Work (by Jackson J. Benson), and Wallace Stegner, Man and Writer (ed. Charles E. Rankin) | Thomas J. Lyon |
| Essay Review on The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain (ed. Forrest G. Robinson), and Mark Twain A to Z (by Kent Rasmussen) | Charles L. Crow |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Where the Morning Light’s Still Blue: Personal Essays about Idaho, ed. William Studebaker and Rick Ardinger | Kevin Bezner |
| TumbleWords: Writers Reading the West, ed. William L. Fox | Sandra Gail Teichmann |
| Writing the Southwest, ed. David King Dunaway and Sara L. Spurgeon | Donn Rawlings |
| Talking up a Storm: Voices of the New West, by Gregory L. Morris | Eugene T. Carroll |
| Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free: Growing Up in the West, ed. Alexandra R. Haslam and Gerald W. Haslam | Dana Williams |
| Going Where I Have to Go: Essays from Within, by Harold P. Simonson | David N. Cremean |
| Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, by Linda Hogan | Joanna Hearne |
| John Muir: Apostle of Nature, by Thurman Wilkins | Ralph H. Lutts |
| The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction, by Diane Dufva Quantic | Robert C. Steensma |
| The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm | David Teague |
| Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen E. Ambrose | Thomas Hallock |
| Mountains & Mesas: The Northern Rockies and the Colorado Plateau, by Pete Bengeyfield | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Western American Novelists, Volume 1: Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dan Cushman, H. L. Davis, Vardis Fisher, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., William Humphrey, and Dorothy M. Johnson, by Martin Kich | Sanford E. Marovitz |
| Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature, by Tey Diana Rebolledo | Sara L. Spurgeon |
| Dictionary of Native American Literature, ed. Andrew Wiget | Martin Padget |
| Wild Indians & Other Creatures, by Adrian C. Louis | Paul Hadella |
| How I Came West and Why I Stayed: Stories, by Alison Baker, and Loving Wanda Beaver: Novella and Stories, by Alison Baker | Marcia Hensley |
| The Death of Tarpons, by Leslie H. Edgerton | Jane Bradley |
| A Sacred Heart (by Ron Watson), “Twin Peaks” Cherry Pie: New Poems (by Robert Peters), Canyonvue (by Scott Preston), and 301 (by Ford Swetnam) | Paul Varner |
| The Outfit, by J. P. S. Brown | Barbara “Barney” Nelson |
| Bucking the Sun, by Ivan Doig | Nancy Cook |
| The Insightful Sportsman: Thoughts of Fish, Wildlife and What Ails the Earth, by Ted Williams | David Petersen |
| Trickster in the Land of Dreams, by Zeese Papanikolas | George Sabastian-Coleman |
Spring 1997 (vol. 32, no. 1)
| Native Sources: American Autobiography | Mick McAllister |
| Raymond Carver | Gary Williams |
| James Welch | Michael P. Branch |
| Ella Leffland | Elizabeth Renfro |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, ed. Thomas Lyon and Terry Tempest Williams | Rick Bass |
| Book Reviews: | Reviewed by: |
| Earthtones: A Nevada Album, by Ann Ronald and photographs by Stephen Trimble | David Mazel |
| Imagining Home: Writings from the Midwest, ed. Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro | Gordon Johnston |
| The Abstract Wild, by Jack Turner | Thomas J. Lyon |
| Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art, by Richard W. Etulain | Robert Murray Davis |
| John Muir’s “Stickeen” and the Lessons of Nature, by Ronald H. Limbaugh | David Mazel |
| The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930, by James Hutchisson | Martin Bucco |
| Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self, by Bruce Michaelson | Charles L. Crow |
| Rereading Jack London, ed. Leonard Cassuto and Jeanne Campbell Reesman | Tony Williams |
| Sacred Violence: A Reader’s Companion to Cormac McCarthy, ed. Wade Hall and Rick Wallach | David N. Cremean |
| Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, by Robert Polito | Tony Williams |
| Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real, by Carol Petersen, and Bess Streeter Aldrich: Collected Short Works, 1907-1919, ed. Carol Petersen | Dorothy Zimmerman |
| One Foot in the Stirrup: Western Stories and Twin Rivers, by John D. Nesbitt | John Clubbe |
| Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, by Ursula K. Le Guin | R. L. Streng |
| American Knees, by Shawn Wong | Oh | Nightland, by Louis Owens Seiwoong | David E. Hailey Jr. |
| The Journal of Antonio Montoya, by Rick Collignon | James B. Hemesath |
| Aspen Marooney, by Levi S. Peterson | Jane Reilly |
| Tales of Burning Love, by Louise Erdrich | Elizabeth Blair |
| The Macken Charm, by Jack Hodgins | Joel Martineau |
| Dead Man’s Dance, by Robert Ferrigno | Charles L. Crow |
| The Devil’s Hatband, by Robert O. Greer | James B. Hemesath |
Summer 1997 (vol. 32, no. 2)
| Jack London, Aesthetic Theory, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Science | Barbara Lindquist |
| “Home”: A ‘Lost’ Jeffers Narrative | Robert Zalle |
| “Angel guiding gently”: The Yosemite Meeting of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir, 1871 | Michael P. Branch |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Essay Review on The Border: The Future of Post-Modernity (Sergio Gomez Montero), Nailed to the Wound (José Manuel Di Bella), Permanent Work: Poems 1981-1992 (Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz), Women on the Road (Rosina Conde), and Fictional International 25 (ed. Harold Jaffe, with Rosina Conde, José Manuel Di Bella, Harry Polkinhorn, and Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz) | Robert Headley |
| Essay Review on John Steinbeck’s Fiction Revisited (Warren French), After the Grapes of Wrath: Essays on John Steinbeck in Honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi (ed. Donald V. Coers, Paul D. Ruffin, and Robert J. DeMott), John Steinbeck: A Biography (Jay Parini), and Parallel Expeditions: Charles Darwin and the Art of John Steinbeck (Brian E. Railsback) | Robert M. Benton |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood | Dana Williams |
| A Killing in New Town, by Kate Horsley | Ivan Melada |
| Walking the Twilight II: Women Writers of the Southwest, ed. Kathryn Wilder | Lorraine Engstrom |
| The Imaginative Claims of the Artist in Willa Cather’s Fiction: “Possession Granted by a Different Lease,” by Demaree C. Peck | Elizabeth A. Turner |
| Zia Summer, by Rudolpho Anaya | R. L. Streng |
| The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898, ed. Joseph R. McElrath and Douglas K. Burgess | Charles L. Crow |
| The Pumpkin Rollers,by Elmer Kelton | R. L. Streng |
| Indian Killer, by Sherman Alexie | Paul Hadella |
| The Summer of Black Widows,by Sherman Alexie | David N. Cremean |
| After Ikkyu and Other Poems,by Jim Harrison | Patrick Vincent |
| The Yellowstone Meditations,by James Magorian | James H. Maguire |
| The Book of Yaak,by Rick Bass | Verne Huser |
| From the Island’s Edge: A Sitka Reader, ed. Carolyn Servid | Don Scheese |
| A Hunter’s Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport,by David Petersen | Wayne Van Zwoll |
| American Nature Writing 1996and American Nature Writing 1997, ed. John A. Murray | Richard Hunt |
| Broken Country: Mountains and Memory, by C. L. Rawlins | Ann Ronald |
| Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film,by Lee Clark Mitchell, and Ernest Haycox, by Stephen L. Tanner | Paul Varner |
Fall 1997 (vol. 32, no. 3)
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| The Lessons of a Sentimental Education: Zitkala-*Sa’s Autobiographical Narratives |
Susan Bernardin |
| Guardian Angels and Missing Mothers: Race and Domesticity in Winona and Deadwood Dick on Deck |
Nicole Tonkovich |
| The Western Hero as Logos, or, Unmaking Meaning | Susan J. Rosowski |
| Essay Review: Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegnerand Other Essays: A Tribal Voice, by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | C. L. Rawlins |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Peckinpah: The Western Films, by Paul Seydor | Clay Reynolds |
| New Westers: The West in Contemporary AmericanCulture, by Michael L. Johnson | Robert Murray Davis |
| Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the CaliforniaCoast, by Daniel Duane | David Stevenson |
| Solar Storms, by Linda Hogan | Elizabeth Blair |
| Pleasure in Believing, by Anastasia Hobbet | C. L. Rawlins |
| Cloudy in the West, by Elmer Kelton | Lewis Toland |
Winter 1998 (vol. 32, no. 4)
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| Topographies of Transition in Western American Literature | Stephen Tatum |
| Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | Thomas Austenfeld |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1996?97 | Jan Roush |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Mountains and Rivers without End, by Gary Snyder | Bert Almon |
| Just Past Labor Day: Selected and New Poems, 1969?1995, by Kirk Robertson | Patrick Vincent |
| Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works, Susanne K. George | Michael B. Berndt |
| Jane Gilmore Rushing, by Lou H. Rodenberger; Tes Gallagher, by Ron McFarland; Janet Campbell Hale, by Frederick Hale | Elizabeth A. Turner |
| Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Alanna Kathleen Brown |
| Beloved Land: The World of Emily Carr. Introduction by Robin Laurence | Andrew Brough |
| Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire, by Guy Reynolds | Ann Moseley |
| The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy, by Terryl L. Givens | Darryl L. Hattenhauer |
| Gender and Genre: An Introduction to Women Writers of Formula Westerns, 1900?1950, by Norris Yates | Martin Padget |
| Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics, by Daniel G. Payne | David Mazel |
| Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher’s Path, by John Tallmadge | Michael P. Branch |
| California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State along the San Andreas, by Thurston Clarke | Paul Lehmberg |
| The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree, by Helen Papanikolas | Gaynell Gavin |
| Picture Bride, by Yoshiko Uchida | Kathie Meyer |
| Brendan Prairie, by Dan O’Brien | Robert Headley |
| Western Electric, by Don Zancanella | James B. Hemesath |
| Medieval in LA: A Fiction, by Jim Paul | Kerry Ahearn |
| Giovanni’s Gift, by Bradford Morrow | Kerry Ahearn |
| Hunter’s Trap, by C. W. Smith | Eugene T. Carroll |
| INDEX to Volume XXXII | Jonathan Bowen |
Spring 1998 (vol. 33, no. 1)
| Letter from the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| Writing On: Blood Meridian as Devisionary Western | Jonathan Pitts |
| “The true witness of a false event”: Photography and Wright Morris’s Fiction of the 1950s | Laura Barrett |
| Another Version: Michael S. Harper, William Clark, and the Problem of Historical Blindness | Elizabeth Dodd |
| Essay Review: Red Cloud: Oglala Warrior—Statesman |
Dorys Crow Grover |
| Letter from the Book Review Editor | Evelyn Funda |
| Book Reviews: | |
| The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture, by Arnold Krupat | Martin Padget |
| Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past, by Leah Dilworth | Erik Trump |
| From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story, by Irvin Morris | Paul Hadella |
| The Sharp Teeth of Love, by Doris Betts | Charlotte M. Wright |
| The Dogs of Winter, by Kem Nunn | Lloyd Becker |
| The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s, by Kevin Starr | Charles L. Crow |
| The Iris Deception, by Bernard Schopen | Leslie H. Edgerton |
| The Wichita Poems, by Robert Headley and Rafael Zepeda | Tom Lynch |
| Muskox and Goat Songs, by Olga Costopoulos | Susanne Meslans |
| Mind the Gap, by Bert Almon | Christopher Sindt |
| The Bunker in the Parsley Fields, by Gary Gildner | Mary K. Stillwell |
| All Manner of Wild, by Eric Walter | Jim Harris |
| Windmills: Essays from Four Mile Ranch, by David Romtvedt | Steve Merchant |
| High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never, by Barbara Kingsolver | Lois Ann Goossen |
| D. H. Lawrence: Future Primitive, by Dolores LaChapelle | Alan Brew |
| Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet, by Gerald Locklin | Mark Sanders |
| Mark Medoff, by Rudolf Erben; Thomas and Elizabeth Savage, by Sue Hart; Theodore Strong Van Dyke, by Peter Wild; George Bird Grinnell, by Robley Evans |
Paul Varner |
| Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West, ed. by Michael Kowalewski | Susan E. Gunter and Benjamin L. Gunter |
| Change in the American West: Exploring the Human Dimension, ed. by Stephen Tchudi; Open Spaces/City Places: Contemporary Writers on the Changing Southwest, ed. by Judy Nolte Temple |
Bill D. Toth |
Summer 1998 (vol. 33, no. 2)
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| Letter to the Editor | |
| A Thousand Frontiers: An Introduction to Dialogue and the American West | Reuben Ellis |
| Desire for the Middle Ground: Opposition, Dialectics, and Dialogic Context in Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces | Bonney MacDonald |
| Beyond Cultural Dialogues: Identities in the Interstices of Culture in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martín and Meditations on the South Valley | George Moore |
| Ethics of Polyphony: The Example of Black Elk Speaks | Andreas Kriefall |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Willa Cather, Scholarly Editions of A Lost Lady; My Ántonia; O Pioneers! | Thomas J. Lyon |
| Greta M. K. McCormick Coger, ed., New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism |
Lisa Spaulding |
| Esther F. Lanigan, ed., A Mary Austin Reader | Chad Rohman |
| Reuben J. Ellis, ed., Beyond Borders: The SelectedEssays of Mary Austin | Mark Schlenz |
| Kathleen M. Donovan, Feminist Readings of NativeAmerican Literature: Coming to Voice | Barbara J. Cook |
| Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis, eds., Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West | Barbara “Barney” Nelson |
| Gretchen Legler, All the Powerful Things:A Sportswoman’s Notebook | Jodi Varon |
| Janice Emily Bowers, Fear Falls Away &Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places | Sarah L. Bennett |
| Louise H. Westling, The Green Breast of theNew World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction | Marja Mogk |
| Robert Keiter, ed., Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope:Community, Ecology, and the American West | John Freemuth |
| John Graves, A John Graves Reader | Bob Frye |
| Rick Bass, The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness | O. Alan Weltzien |
Fall 1998 (vol. 33, no. 3)
| “Stranger in a Strange Land”: An African American Response to the Frontier Tradition in Oscar Micheaux’s The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer |
M. K. Johnson |
| “How to Walk with My People”: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Futuristic Frontier Mythology |
Heinz Tschachler |
| Living Landscape: An Interview with Gary Snyder | John P. O’Grady |
| Essay Review: Four Recent Works on Robinson Jeffers |
Ted Olson |
| Books Reviewed: | Reviewer: |
| Hayden Carruth, Hayden Carruth: Selected Essays and Reviews | Shaun T. Griffin |
| Otto Orban, The Journey of Barbarus | Robert Murray Davis |
| Mark Sanders, Before We Lost Our Ways | Pat Sturm |
| Michael Kowalewski, ed., Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration | Lawrence I. Berkove |
| James B. Hemesath, When Past Met Present: Vintage Colorado Short Stories | James H. Maguire |
| Billy Bob Hill, Texas Short Stories | Robin Cohen |
| Don Graham, Giant Country: Essays on Texas | Tom Pilkington |
| Lars Nordström, Making It Home | Ingrid Wendt |
| James D. Houston, In the Ring of Fire | Joe Staples |
| Frank Chin, Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays | Robert Murray Davis |
| Eugene England and Lavina Fielding Anderson, Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature | Dan Moos |
| Susan B. Andrews and John Creed, Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers | Jeane Breinig |
| Jeanne Rosier Smith, Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature | Barbara J. Cook |
| Cheryl Walker, Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms | Renée L. Bergland |
| Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, The Frontiers of Women’s Writing: Women’s Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion | Anne L. Kaufman |
| Louis Owens, Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place | Margaret Dwyer |
| Kent Nelson, Discoveries: Short Stories of the San Juan Mountains | Diane Quantic |
| Paul W. Rea, Canyon Interludes: Between White Water and Red Rock | Verne Huser |
| Scott Thybony, Burntwater | Kate Boyes |
Winter 1999 (vol. 33, no. 4)
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| In Defense of Western Literary Biography | Gary Scharnhorst |
| Revising Western Criticism through Wanda Coleman | Krista Comer |
| Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order: Twentieth-Century American Nature Writer | Ann Ronald |
| Coyote in the Maze: Eighteen Critics Track Edward Abbey | Donn Rawlings |
| The Letters of Laurence and Wiseman | Helen B. Cannon |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Gunilla Florby, The Margin Speaks: A Study ofMargaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch from a Post-Colonial Point of View | Frances W. Kaye |
| Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith, eds., Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 5, 1872-1873 Peter Messent, Mark Twain |
Gary Scharnhorst |
| Keith Newlin and Joseph B. McCullough, eds., Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland | Donald Pizer |
| Christopher Gair, Complicity and Resistance in Jack London’s Novels: From Naturalism to Nature | Tony Williams |
| Stephen J. May, Zane Grey: Romancing the West | David Fenimore |
| Joseph J. Wydeven, Wright Morris Revisited | Rodney P. Rice |
| John Calvin Rezmerski, ed.,The Frederick Manfred Reader | Nancy Owen Nelson |
| Garry Wills, John Wayne’s America | Max Westbrook |
| Jane Valentine Barker, Mari: A Novel | Becky Faber |
| Ann Romines, Constructing the Little House:Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder | Donna M. Campbell |
Spring 1999 (vol. 34, no. 1)
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1997?1998 | Jan Roush |
| Essays | |
| Pan-Indianism and Tribal Sovereignties in House Made of Dawn and The Names | P. Jane Hafen |
| “Pledged in Blood”: Truth and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses | Sara L. Spurgeon |
| “The Word Gets Around”: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Theory of Narrative Survival in The Delicacy and Strength of Lace | Daniel Morris |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Raising the Bar | Ann Ronald |
| Gift Horses: Influence, Insurgence, Interdisciplinarity in Western Studies | Susan Lee Johnson |
| Book Reviews | Reviewers |
| Kerwin Lee Klein, Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890?1990 | Virginia Scharff |
| Wayne R. Kime, ed.,The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge; The Powder River Expedition Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge | Dorys Crow Grover |
| Richard E. Westwood, Woman of the River: Georgie White Clark, White-Water Pioneer | Verne Huser |
| Nevada Barr, Firestorm; Ill Wind; Track of the Cat | Starr Jenkins |
| Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman | Seiwoong Oh |
| John D. Nesbitt, Wild Rose of Ruby Canyon; Antelope Sky: Stories of the Modern West | Jonathan Pitts |
| Richard Nelson, Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith | Richard Hunt |
| Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, ed., May Sky:There Is Always Tomorrow. An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration CampKaiko Haiku | Tomoyo Tamayama |
Summer 1999 (vol. 34, no. 2)
Special Issue: California
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| A Place on the Map, a Place in the Mind: James D. Houston’s Doyle Trilogy | Andrew Wingfield |
| California Dreaming | |
| Is California Part of the West? | Gerald and Janice Haslam |
| Ten Coordinates for Exploring the New Californias | Jack Hicks |
| Where Things Can Happen : California and Writing | Louis Owens |
| Remembering California | Anne E. Goldman |
| Calfornia, the Pacific Rim, and the Asian American Imagination: Past, Present, and Future | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Golden Prospects? | Michael Kowalewski |
| Voice and Place | David Wyatt |
| Proposition 2000: Debating California’s Sesquicentennial | Blake Allmendinger |
| Lost (and Found) in Disneyland: WLA and Cultural Studies | Krista Comer |
| The Extreme West | Frank Bergon |
| Interpreting California and “the West” | John M. González |
| The Perpetual Tourist | Zeese Papanikolas |
| Holding the Mirror: A Message from Coyote’s Daughter | Inés Hernández-Avila |
| Lines in the Sand | James D. Houston |
| California: Part of—or West of—the West? | David Fine |
| The Ungraspable Phantom of California | Forrest G. Robinson |
| Eating Our Spinach: Contemporary Art Futures in California | Meredith Tromble |
| Valley Girl | Melody Graulich |
| When the World Listened to California | Brock Dethier |
| Selected Bibliography for “California Dreaming“ | |
| Essay Review | |
| Theorizing the Western | Susan Kollin |
| Book Reviews | |
| Naida West, River of Red Gold | Barbara Howard Meldrum |
| Tony Hillerman, TheFirst Eagle; Ron Querry, Bad Medicine |
Robert Murray Davis |
| Frank Waters, Of Time and Change | Charles L. Adams |
| Steven R. Carter, James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist | Tony Williams |
| Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought | James H. Maguire |
| Marni Asplund-Campbell, ed., With Child: Mormon Women on Mothering | Angela Ashurst-McGee |
| R. R. Knudson and Suzzanne Bigelow, May Swenson: A Poet’s Life in Photos | Roberta Stearman |
| C. L. Rawlins, In Gravity National Park | Laird Christensen |
| Randall Roorda, Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Pete Fromm, Blood Knot | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Kathleen Jo Ryan, Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon | Tom Lynch |
| Dan Aadland, Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir | Robert C. Steensma |
Fall 1999 (vol. 34, no. 3)
| Games of Chance: Gambling and Land Tenure in Tracks, Love Medicine, and The Bingo Palace | Kristan Sarvé-Gorham |
| Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West | Fred Erisman |
| John of the Mines: Muir’s Picturesque Rewrite of the Gold Rush | Nicolas Witschi |
| Note Black Wolf and Shakespeare: A Note on Sinclair Lewis’s The God-Seeker |
Martin Bucco |
| Essay Review A Fruitful Emptiness: Poets and Artists of the Great Basin Region |
Bert Almon |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Rick Bass, Fiber | Michael P. Branch |
| Robert Schuler, Journeys toward the Original Mind: The Long Poems of Gary Snyder | Sarah Sloane |
| John Daniel, ed., Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World | Robert Scott |
| Nancy Lord, Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast | Eric Heyne |
| Scott Russell Sanders, Hunting for Hope: A Father’s Journey | Erin Edwards |
| Lisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape | Gregory L. Morris |
| Peter Hedges, An Ocean in Iowa | Natalie Meenderink |
| Janis P. Stout, Through the Window, Out the Door: Women’s Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion | Cynthia Taylor |
| Willa Cather, Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Obscure Destinies | Martin Padget |
| Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction | Tony Williams |
| Luci Tapahonso, Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories; nila northSun, a snake in her mouth: poems 1974-96 |
Tom Lynch |
| David Robertson, Photo and Word | Melody Graulich |
Winter 2000 (vol. 34, no. 4)
| From a “Stretch of Grey Sea” to the “Extent of Space”: The Gaze across Vistas in Cather’s The Professor’s House |
Rafeeq O. McGiveron |
| Remembering Carey McWilliams | Forrest G. Robinson |
| Cross-Writing and the Unconcluded Self in Sinclair Ross’s As for Me and My House | David Stouck |
| Essay Review Tragically Hip; or, Everything New Is Old Again—Blake Allmendinger’s Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature |
Robert Thacker |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Debra Monroe, Newfangled | Brooke Bigelow |
| Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be | Kate Boyes |
| Elmer Kelton, The Buckskin Line | Lewis Toland |
| Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne | Max Westbrook |
| Thomas Berger, The Return of Little Big Man | Clay Reynolds |
| Eric Gary Anderson, American Indian Literature and the Southwest | Linda Lizut Helstern |
| Alan Kilpatrick, The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee | Geary Hobson |
| Adrian C. Louis, Ceremonies of the Damned | William John Pollett |
| Arthur Sze, The Redshifting Web: Poems, 1970-1998 | David Axelrod |
| Leilani Wright and James Cervantes, eds., Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry | Bert Almon |
| Ann Dahlstrom Farmer and Philip M. O’Brien, eds., Jessamyn West: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography | Jacqueline Koenig |
| Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture | Chad Rohman |
| Sharon O’Brien, ed., New Essays on My Ántonia | George F. Day |
| Tom Pilkington, State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture | Cindy Wallace |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1998-1999 | Jan Roush |
| Index to Volume 34 | Sarah Rudd |
Spring 2000 (vol. 35, no. 1) SPECIAL ISSUE:
Recovering a Mexican American West
Acting Editor: Stephen Tatum
Special Issue Editor: José F. Aranda Jr.
| From the Acting Editor | Stephen Tatum |
| Closing the Circle between Past and Present | José F. Aranda Jr. |
| Enlightenment Ideology and the Crisis of Whiteness in Francis Berrian and Caballero | Andrea Tinnemeyer |
| Teaching the Hacienda: Juan Rulfo and Mexican American Cultural Memor | Vincent Pérez |
| Miguel Antonio Otero II, Billy the Kid’s Body, and the Fight for New Mexican Statehood | John-Michael Rivera |
| Erotics and Politics in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico: Eusebio Chacón’s Tras la tormenta la calma | Erlinda Gonzales-Berry |
| Refiguring “the American Congo”: Jovita González, John Gregory Bourke, and the Battle over Ethno-Historical Representations of the Texas Mexican Border | María Eugenia Cotera |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Scaling the West Differently | Mary Pat Brady |
| “To Make Shadows Burn and Silence Loud”: Altars of Change and Continuity in Contemporary Chicana Poetry | Laurie Kutchins |
Several of the essays in this issue deal with “recovery books” published by Arte Público Press. To view their catalog, click here.
Summer 2000 (vol. 35, no. 2)
| In Oklahoma | Carter Revard |
| Oklahoma: The Prairie of Words | Joy Harjo |
| An Interview with Joy Harjo | Janice Gould |
| Treaties, History, and the “Full-Blood” in Indian Territory Native Writing | Maureen Konkle |
| “Disturbed by Something Deeper”: The Native Art of John Joseph Mathews | Louis Owens |
| Hearing Bats and Following Berdache: The Project of Survivance in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit | Andrew Smith |
| Some Indian Territory Songs | Carter Revard |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Paula Gunn Allen, Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons | Colleen M. Tremonte |
| Alexia Kosmider, Tricky Tribal Discourse: The Poetry, Short Stories, and Fus Fixico Letters of Creek Writer Alex Posey | Gwen Griffin |
| Esther Belin, From the Belly of My Beauty | Carey Emmons |
| Simon J. Ortiz, ed., Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing | Paul Pavich |
| Simon J. Ortiz, Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories | Brewster E. Fitz |
| Louis Owens, Dark River | Maggie Dwyer |
| Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition | William M. Clements |
| Delphine Red Shirt, Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood | Lisa Knopp |
| María Herrera-Sobek, ed., Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest | Sandra L. Dahlberg |
| Robert Kroetsch, The Man from the Creeks | Rand Marshall |
| William W. Bevis, Shorty Harris, or The Price of Gold | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Hal K. Rothman, Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West | Robert Murray Davis |
| Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings | Tom Hillard |
| Gary Noy, ed., Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West | Karen English |
| Nancy Owen Nelson, ed., The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred | Gordon Johnston |
| John E. Miller, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend | Diane D. Quantic |
Fall 2000 (vol. 35, no. 3)
| “Be Prepared for the Worst”: Love, Anticipated Loss, and Environmental Valuation | Scott Slovic |
| Money, Memory, and Territory in Craig Lesley’s Winterkill | David Brande |
| Ontology vs. Epistemology: The Philosophical Dynamic Driving Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire | Russell Burrows |
| The Filmmaker as Lone Rider: James Benning’s “Westerns” | Scott MacDonald |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories | Hal Crimmel |
| Mary Clearman Blew, Bone Deep in Landscape | Vanessa Hall |
| Ned Rozell, Walking My Dog, Jane: From Valdez to Prudhoe Bay along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline | Michael P. Branch |
| Larry McMurtry, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond | Clay Reynolds |
| Eamonn Wall, From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion, eds., The African American West: A Century of Short Stories | Dan Moos |
| Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos | Daniel Justice |
| Susan J. Rosowski, Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature | Robert Thacker |
| Thomas J. Lyon, ed., The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature | Kathleen Boardman |
| Michael Allen, Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination | Robert Roripaugh |
Winter 2001 (vol. 35, no. 4)
| Essays | |
| The Lady from Shanghai: California Orientalism and “guys like us” | Michael Davidson |
| The Bovine Object of Ideology: History, Gender, and the Origins of the “Classic” Western | Victoria Lamont |
| The General’s Pants: A Chicana Feminist (Re)Vision of the Mexican Revolution in Sandra Cisneros’s “Eyes of Zapata” | Barbara Brinson Curiel |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence and Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee, Postindian Conversations |
Elizabeth Blair |
| Susan Scheckel, The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture | Susan Bernardin |
| Ian Frazier, On the Rez | Nathaniel Lewis |
| Other | |
| Nominations for “not-to-Be-Missed Contemporary Fiction of the American West” | |
| Index to Volume 35 | |
| Research in Western American Literature: 1999?2000 | Jan Roush |
Spring 2001 (vol. 36, no. 1)
| Essays | |
| Deep Mapping the Great Plains: Surveying the Literary Cartography | Susan Naramore Maher |
| John Muir and Yosemite’s “Castaway Book”: The Troubling Geology of Native America | Ann Lundberg |
| Basques in the International West: An Interview with Frank Bergon | David Río |
| A Coda to the Twain-Harte Feud | Gary Scharnhorst |
| Essay Review | |
| Bret Harte: Celebrity, Commodity—New Views of an Old Western Mythmaker | Tara Penry |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Krista Comer, Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women’s Writing | Susan Kollin |
| Frank Bird Linderman, Henry Plummer: A Novel | Roscoe L. Buckland |
| Scott Zesch, Alamo Heights | Tom Pilkington |
| Tina Juárez, South Wind Come | Cindy Wallace |
| Helen Papanikolas, The Time of the Little Black Bird | Levi S. Peterson |
| JoAnn Levy, For California’s Gold and Daughter of Joy: A Novel of Gold Rush California | Lois Ann Goossen |
| Bill Gulick, The Greatest Inventor in the West | Rick Van Noy |
| Sharman Apt Russell, The Last Matriarch: A Novel | Bill D. Toth |
| Karl H. Schlesier, Josanie’s War: A Chiricahua Apache Novel | Nancy Kirkpatrick Wright |
| Charles Brashear, Killing Cynthia Ann | Steven Frye |
Summer 2001 (vol. 36., no. 2)
| Essays | |
| Finding God in a World of “Leg Breakers” and “Racist-Shitbirds”: James Ellroy and the Contemporary L.A. Crime Novel | Peter Schmidt-Nowara |
| “image and word cannot be divided”: N. Scott Momaday and Kiowa Ekphrasis | William M. Clements |
| Jeffers, Rexroth, and the Trope of Hellenism | Robert Zaller |
| Eastering | David Wyatt |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by: |
| Leland Krauth, Proper MarkTwain | Nancy Cook |
| Lawrence Howe, Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority | Alan Gribben |
| Freya Manfred, Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers | Nancy Owen Nelson |
| Robert Thacker and Michael A. Peterman, eds., Willa Cather’s Canadian and Old World Connections and Ann Romines, ed., Willa Cather’s Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South |
Elizabeth A. Turner |
| Ron McFarland, Understanding James Welch | Eugene T. Carroll |
| Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez | Sandra L. Dahlberg |
| Margaret K. Brady, Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler’s Life of “Unselfish Usefulness” | Jennifer Sinor |
| Patricia P. Chu, Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America | Sarah M. Rudd |
| Elizabeth Kim, Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan | Seiwoong Oh |
| James C. Work, Ride South to Purgatory | Delbert E. Wylder |
| Murry A. Taylor, Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper’s Memoir of Fighting Wildfire | Starr Jenkins |
| Jeff Golden, Forest Blood | Ann Ronald |
| Andrew Huebner, American by Blood | Paulette Callen |
| William Fox, Driving by Memory | David Fine |
Fall 2001 (vol. 36, no. 3)
| Essays | |
| Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race Gender, and Claims for Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? | Margaret D. Jacobs |
| Go East, Young Man: Class Conflict and Degenerate Manhood in Mark Twain’s Early Writings | Joseph L. Coulombe |
| Barbara Kingsolver’s Cherokee Nation: Problems of Representation in Pigs in Heaven | Kathleen Godfrey |
| Essay Reviews | |
| Road Narratives and Western Identity | Neil Campbell |
| Touring Indian Country: A Review of Native Fiction from 1999 and 2000 | Gwen Griffin |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Leonard M. Scigaj, Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets | John P. O’Grady |
| Dorothee E. Kocks, Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America | Becky Faber |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle, A Friend of the Earth | James Guignard |
| Gerald W. Haslam, Straight White Male | Delbert E. Wylder |
| Margarite Fernandez Olmos, Rudolfo A. Anaya: A Critical Companion | Peter McCormick |
Winter 2002 (vol. 36, no. 4)
| Essays | |
| Cowboy Tricksters and Devilish Wangols: Ishmael Reed’s HooDoo West | Todd F. Tietchen |
| Josiah Royce’s California | Forrest G. Robinson |
| Isaac Raboy’s Der Yiddisher Cowboy and Rachel Calof’s My Story: The Role of the Western Frontier in Shaping Jewish American Identity | Debra Shein |
| Western Literary Regionalism and Globalizing Literary Studies | James H. Maguire |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| Keith Wilson,Bosque Redondo: The Encircled Grove, New and Selected Poems | Kenneth Brewer |
| Anita Endrezze, throwing fire at the Sun, water at the Moon | Michaela Koenig |
| Amy Gerstler, Medicine | Evelyn I. Funda |
| Janis P. Stout, Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World | Rosanna West Walker |
| Orval Bronson, Burning Brightly: John Steinbeck on Stage | Jacqueline Koenig |
| Gerald W. Haslam, Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California | Marek Breiger |
| Elmer Kelton, Badger Boy Dorys | Crow Grover |
| James Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Scott L. Malcomson, One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race | Stephen Cook |
| Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature | Francine K. Richter |
| INDEX FOR VOL. 36 |
Spring 2002 (vol. 37, no. 1)
| Essays | |
| The Discursive Mode: Kenneth Rexroth, the California State Guide, and Nature Poetry in the 1930s | George Hart |
| Old Folks in the New West: Surviving Change and Staying Fit in The Misfits | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| History, Historicity, and the Western American Novel: Frederick Manfred’s Scarlet Plume and the Dakota War of 1862 | Harry F. Thompson |
| Essay Review | |
| The “Fine Understanding” of Mary Austin: Recent Criticism and Republished Works | Jean Cheney |
| Trends in the Field—Western American Literary Scholarship 2001: The Year in Review | Gary Scharnhorst |
| Research in Western American Literature, 2000-2001 | Jan Roush |
| Book Reviews | Reviewer |
| Gretchen M. Bataille, ed., Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriation | Casey L. Kile |
| Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson, eds., Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays | William M. Clements |
| Jarold Ramsey, Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America | Tol Foster |
| Anne E. Goldman, Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature | Andrea Tinnemeyer |
| Stephanie L. Sarver, Uneven Land: Nature and Agriculture in American Writing | Alan Brew |
| Ellen Meloy, The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest | Lou Rodenberger |
| Terry Tempest Williams, RED: Passion and Patience in the Desert | Melissa A. Goldthwaite |
| Barbara Waters, Celebrating the Coyote | Frances M. Malpezzi |
| William L. Fox, The Void, the Grid, and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin and Lawrence Hogue, All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert Landscape |
Jonathan Cook |
| Scott Slovic, ed., Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest | John Clubbe |
| John Murray, ed., American Nature Writing 2000: A Celebration of Women Writers | Christina Robertson |
| Mark Busby, Fort Benning Blues | Darren DeFrain |
| Mark Thompson, American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest | Joe Staples |
| Gregory L. Morris, Gretel Ehrlich | John D. Nesbitt |
| Don Scheese, Mountains of Memory: A Fire Lookout’s Life in the River of No Return Wilderness | Hal Crimmel |
| Gaylyn Studlar and Matthew Bernstein, eds., John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era | Robert C. Sickels |
| Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, eds., Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers | Barney Nelson |
| David L. Caffey, Land of Enchantment, Land of Conflict: New Mexico in English-Language Fiction | Angela Ashurst-McGee |
Summer 2002 (vol. 37, no. 2) Special Issue:
Western Autobiography & Memoir
Special Issue Editors: Kathleen Boardman & Gioia Woods
| Introduction | Kathleen Boardman and Gioia Woods |
| Western Autobiography and Memoir: A Panel of Writers Julene Bair, Mary Clearman Blew, Norma Elia Cantú, Patricia Hampl, John Price. |
Moderated by Kathleen Boardman |
| Essays | |
| Textual Performance and the Western Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Life among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims | Danielle Tisinger |
| Opal Whiteley’s “Explores”: The Disappearing Region | Cathryn Halverson |
| “‘Settling Down’ in Western Nebraska: Grounding Local History through Memoir” | Charlotte Hogg |
| Ecce Cowboy: E. C. Abbott’s We Pointed Them North | Richard Hutson |
| Book Reviews | Reviewed by |
| From the Special Issue Book Review Editor | Jenny Emery Davidson |
| William Kittredge, The Nature of Generosity | Paul Crumbley |
| Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoir | Stephen Tatum |
| Gregory Martin, Mountain City | Frank Bergon |
| Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction | Melody Graulich |
| Terry Tempest Williams, Leap | Judy Nolte Temple |
| Julene Bair, One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Carter Revard, Winning the Dust Bowl | Ellen L. Arnold |
| Alvin M. Josephy Jr., A Walk toward Oregon: A Memoir | James H. Maguire |
| Teri Hein, Atomic Farmgirl: The Betrayal of Chief Qualchan, the Appaloosa, and Me | Susan Kollin |
| Kim Barnes, Hungry for the World: A Memoir | Brenda Miller |
| W. Scott Olsen, Dawn Marano, Douglas Carlson, and Wendy Bishop, When We Say We’re Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory | Jennifer Sinor |
Fall 2002 (vol. 37, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles: Mike Davis as Nature Writer | Scott Hermanson |
| Deadly Kids, Stinking Dogs, and Heroes: The Best Laid Plans in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men | Louis Owens |
| Writing (and Speaking) in Tongues: Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories | Julianne Newmark |
| ESSAY REVIEWS | |
| The Credo Series: Language/Nature/Cherishing | SueEllen Campbell |
| Six by Locklin | Gerald Haslam |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Susan Kollin, Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier | Eric Heyne |
| Ann Ronald, GhostWest: Reflections Past and Present | Glen Love |
| Michael P. Branch, ed., John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence |
John P. O’Grady |
| Shaun T. Griffin, ed., The River Underground: An Anthology of Nevada Fiction | Richard Hunt |
| Nancy Lord, The Man Who Swam with Beavers: Stories | Paulette Callen |
| Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter and Don Lee, Yellow: Stories |
Seiwoong Oh |
| James D. Houston, Snow Mountain Passage | David Fenimore |
| Pete Fromm, How All This Started | O. Alan Weltzien |
| James M. Cahalan, Edward Abbey: A Life | Owen Grumbling |
Winter 2003 (vol. 37, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca | Tom Lynch |
| The Belated Frontier: H. L. Davis and the Problem of Pacific Northwest Regionalism | John Cleman |
| Yellow Bird and the Bandit: Minority Authorship, Class, and Audience in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta | Joe Goeke |
| ESSAY REVIEWS | |
| Demons and Dilemmas: American (Indian) Studies and the Persistence of the Tribal | Chadwick Allen |
| Closing the Distance: Reading Louis Owens | Susan Bernardin |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| David Fine, Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction | David Wyatt |
| Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, eds., Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535?1846 | Anne E. Goldman |
| Jon M. Skovlin and Donna McDaniel Skovlin, In Pursuit of the McCartys | Dorys Crow Grover |
| Rick Wallach, ed., Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy | Sara L. Spurgeon |
| Connie A. Jacobs, The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People | Tamara Pavich |
| Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire | Carey Ellen Emmons |
| Molly Gloss, Wild Life: A Novel | Jennifer Love |
| Robert Laxalt, Travels with My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life | David Río |
Spring 2003 (vol. 38, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| William Kloefkorn: Looking Back over the Shoulder of Memory | David R. Pichaske |
| A “Real Indian” to the Boy Scouts: Charles Eastman as a Resistance Writer | Penelope Myrtle Kelsey |
| Literature, Growth, and Criticism in the New West | Matt Herman |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Beyond Recovery: Complicating the Study of “Pioneer” Women’s Life Writing | Douglas W. Werden |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Roscoe L. Buckland, Frederic Remington: The Writer | Joseph J. Wydeven |
| Joy S. Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History | Jake Mattox |
| Roger A. Hall, Performing the American Frontier: 1870-1906 | Mark Busby |
| David R. Finch, R.M. Patterson: A Life of Great Adventure | Tom Lyon |
| Ron McFarland, Catching First Light: Thirty Stories and Essays from Idaho | Gene Quinn |
| Craig S. Womack, Drowning in Fire | Lisa Tatonetti |
| James Ruppert and John W. Bernet, eds., Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon | Susan Kollin |
| J. David Stevens, The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction | Robert Thacker |
| Noreen Groover Lape, West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers | Betsy Klimasmith |
| Stephen Tatum, Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses: A Reader’s Guide | Sara L. Spurgeon |
| Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, and James H. Maguire, eds., Different Travellers, Different Eyes: Artists’ Narratives of the American West 1820-1920 |
Matthew Stiffler |
Summer 2003 (vol. 38, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Immovable: Willa Cather’s Logic of Art and Place | María Carla Sánchez |
| Embracing the Fall: Reconfiguring Redemption in Jim Harrison’s The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Dalva, and The Road Home |
Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack |
| Desert Solitaire and the Literary Memory of an Imagined Place | Jared Farmer |
| Frederick Cook, Mountaineering in the Alaskan Wilderness, and the Regeneration of Progressive Era Masculinity |
Peter L. Bayers |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Pure Waters and Recycled Waters | Thomas J. Lyon |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| J.A. English-Lueck, Cultures @ Silicon Valley | Lawrence Coates |
| Nicolas S. Witschi, Traces of Gold: California’s Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature | Nathaniel Lewis |
| David Wyatt, Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California | Nicolas Witschi |
| Mike Davis, Dead Cities and Other Tales | Scott Hermanson |
| David L. Ulin, Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology | Robert Murray Davis |
| Helen Papanikolas, An Amulet of Greek Earth: Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture | Frank Bergon |
| William R. Handley, Marriage, Violence, and the Nation inthe American Literary West | Forrest G. Robinson |
| Deborah Lindsay Williams, Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship | Donna Campbell |
| David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, From Living Rivers, In the Age of the Industrial Dark | David Cremean |
| Thomas McGuane, The Cadence of Grass | Stephen Cook |
| Susan Lang, Small Rocks Rising | Donn Rawlings |
| Darlis A. Miller, Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the West and Christine Hull Smith, Reading A Victorian Gentlewoman inthe Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote | Rachel T. Rich |
Fall 2003 (vol. 38, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| “Oh for a Mexican Girl!”: The Limits of Literature in John Fante’s Ask the Dust | Charles Scruggs |
| Remapping Internment: A Postcolonial Reading of Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Janice Mirikitani | Robert Grotjohn |
| The Linguistic Key to Crabb’s Veracity: Berger’s Little Big Man Revisited | Brett Zimmerman |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Time Enough and Space: A New Expansion | Mary Clearman Blew |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Steven Rosendale, ed., The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment | Kent C. Ryden |
| David Oates, Paradise Wild | Christopher Schaberg |
| David N. Cassuto, Dripping Dry: Literature, Politics, and Water in the Desert Southwest | Joan E. Thompson |
| Audrey Goodman, Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region | Maureen Salzer |
| Bert Almon, This Stubborn Self: Texas Autobiographies | Lou Rodenberger |
| Don Graham, Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire | Clay Reynolds |
| Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater | Andrea Tinnemeyer |
| William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays | David H. Fenimore |
| Chadwick Allen, Blood Narrative: Indigenious Identity in American Indian and Maori Literature and Activist Texts | Stephen Tatum |
| Frances McElrath, The Rustler: A Tale of Love and War in Wyoming With an introduction by Victoria Lamont |
Nicole Tonkovich |
| Bill Mesce Jr., Peckinpah’s Women: A Reappraisal of the Portrayal of Women in the Period Westerns of Sam Peckinpah | Matt Wanat |
| Ripley Hugo, Writing for Her Life: The Novelist Mildred Walker | Carmen Pearson |
| Jonah Raskin, Natives, Newcomers, Exiles, Fugitives: Northern California Writers and Their Work | Gerald Haslam |
| Bruce Bennett, Australian Short Fiction: A History | Glen A. Love |
Winter 2004 (vol. 38, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Manly Domesticity on the Gold Rush Frontier: Recovering California’s Honest Miner | Tara Penry |
| “The Naturalistic Impulse”: Limitations of Gender and Landscape in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Stories | Laura Katherine Gruber |
| From Derision to Desire: The “Greaser” in Stephen Crane’s Mexican Stories and D. W. Griffith’s Early Westerns | Juan Alonzo |
| Artistry of Hunger: Desire and Appetite in Desert Solitaire | Joy Kennedy |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Out-of-Doors in America: Seven Contemporary Looks at the More-Than-Human | Robert Michael Pyle |
Spring 2004 (vol. 39, no. 1)
| From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
| ESSAYS | |
| A Rain Song for America: Mary Austin, American Indians, and American Literature and Culture | Martha L. Viehmann |
| Modernism in the High Desert: The Multivocal Ecology of Alice Corbin Henderson’s Red Earth | Lois Rudnick |
| Naturist as Tourist: Mary Austin’s “Automobile Eye View” in The Land of Journeys’ Ending | Betsy Klimasmith |
| Native Presence and Survivance in Early Twentieth-Century Translations by Natalie Curtis Burlin and Mary Austin | Maureen Salzer |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Kate Horsley’s New Mexico Trilogy: Masks of Ambivalence in the Southwest | Donn Rawlings |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Sharon Butala, Real Life: Stories | Megan Riley McGilchrist |
| Diane D. Quantic and P. Jane Hafen, eds., A Great Plains Reader | Robert L. Berner |
| Dan O’Brien, Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch | David Cremean |
| Melissa Walker, Living on Wilderness Time | Nathan Straight |
| Ann Ronald, Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature | Susan A. C. Rosen |
| Barbara J. Cook, ed., From the Center of Tradition: Critical Perspectives on Linda Hogan | Vanessa Hall |
| Research in Western American Literature, 2002 and 2003 | Jan Roush |
Summer 2004 (vol. 39, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| “Stay Calm, Be Brave, Wait for the Signs”: Sign-Offs and Send-Ups in the Fiction of Thomas King | Bud Hirsch |
| Capturing the Identity in Ink: The Captives of Olive Oatman | Jennfier Putzi |
| Deterministic Chaos in Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire | Rod Romesburg |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Ranching the Literary West: New Perspectives on an Old Way of Life | Brandon R. Schrand |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Lorraine Anderson and Thomas S. Edwards, At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women’s Nature Writing |
Susan Lucas |
| Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein, eds., The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy |
Jennifer A. Peeples |
| Dana Phillips, The Truth of Ecology: Nature Culture and Literature in America | Christopher Schaberg |
| Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic, eds., The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism 1993?2003 | O. Alan Weltzien |
| David Peterson, Writing Naturally: A Down-to-EarthGuide to Nature Writing | Richard Hunt |
| Sherry L. Smith, ed., The Future of the Southern Plains | Robert Murray Davis |
| Nicholas O’Connell, On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place | Nancy Pagh |
| Leland Krauth, Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations and Joseph L Coulombe, Mark Twain and the American West | Jason G. Horn |
| Fred Kaplan, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography | Charles L. Crow |
| Dana Gioia, ed., Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees and James Reidel, Vanishing Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees |
Rod Phillips |
| Gary Topping, Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History | Jared Farmer |
| José F. Aranda, When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America | John M. González |
Fall 2004 (vol. 39, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Radical Geography of Silko’s Almanac of the Dead | Alex Hunt |
| Disrupting a Story of Loss: Charles Eastman and Nicholas Black Elk Narrate Survivance |
Lisa Tatonetti |
| Riprap of Things: Subject and Object in Gary Snyder’s Early Poetry |
Louise Mills |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Many Wests: Photographic Images of Western Peoples | Elizabeth Hutchinson |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| W. Scott Olsen, Gravity, the Allure of Distance: Essays on the Act of Travel and Catharine Savage Brosman, Finding Higher Ground: A Life of Travels | Lars Erik Larson |
| David Wrobel, Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West | Matthew Bokovoy |
| H. Lee Barnes, The Lucky | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Paul Russell Curtright, Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists and Paul A. Johnsgard, Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History | Leo J. Mahoney |
| Dorothy Hubbard Schweider, Growing Up with the Town: Family & Community on the Great Plains | Jackie Pugh Kogan |
| Bill Sherwonit, Denali: A Literary Anthology | Mikel Vause |
| Kevin Starr, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace 1940–1950 | Charles L. Crow |
Winter 2005 (Vol. 39, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Native American Oral Practice and the Popular Novel; or, Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western |
Victoria Lamont |
| Wister’s “Life among the Lowly” and Anglocentrism | Kenneth Alan Hovey |
| New Fences on the Dust: Photography and Wallace Stevens’s “Rage for Order” in Walt McDonald’s Whatever the Wind Delivers | Helen F. Maxson |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Blackfeet Pedagogy | Bud Hirsch |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Tom Trusky, James Castle: His Life and Art |
Brandon R. Schrand |
| Linda K. Karell, Writing Together/Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature | Philip R. Coleman-Hull |
| Neil Campbell, The Cultures of the American New West | Matt Burkhart |
| Lynn Riggs, The Cherokee Night and Other Plays | David Fenimore |
| Glen A. Love, Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment | David Mazel |
| Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life | Wendy Witherspoon |
| Sean Belanger, Modoc Sundance | Dale Metcalfe |
| Andrew Brodie Smith, Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood | Robert Murray Davis |
| Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, eds., Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton | Michelle P. Baca |
| O. Alan Weltzien, ed., The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass | Scott Herring |
| Sandra Day O’Connor and H. Alan Day, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest | Barbara “Barney” Nelson |
| Diane Smith, Pictures from an Expedition | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Arturo Islas (Frederick Luis Aldama, ed.), Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works | Curtis Marez |
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