Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Editorial: A Critical Forum for the Western Muse | J. Golden Taylor |
Lord Grizzly: Rhythm, Form, and Meaning in the Western Novel | John R. Milton |
The Mountain Man as Literary Hero | Don D. Walker |
Two Primitives: Huck Finn and Tom Outland | Maynard Fox |
Two Views of the American West | Jim L. Fife |
Emerson Hough’s Heart’s Desire | Delbert E. Wylder |
West as Myth: Status Report and Call for Action | Warren French |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher | Frederick Manfred |
The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall, compiled and edited by Frederick W. Nolan | John DeWitt McKee |
The Grizzly Bear—Portraits from Life, edited by Bessie Doak Haynes and Edgard Haynes | Thomas J. Lyon |
The Log of a Cowboy, by Andy Adams | Levi S. Peterson |
I’ve Killed Men, by Jack Ganzhorn | Ruth Keenan |
Meriwether Lewis: A Biography, by Richard Dillon | Richard W. Etulain |
Frank Norris, by Warren French | Kenneth B. Hunsaker |
Letters from Jack London, edited by King Hendricks and Irving Shepard | George H. Tweney |
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People, by George Bird Grinnell | Alan F. Crooks |
The Mountain of Gold, by Max Evans | John Herrmann |
John Muir, by Herbert F. Smith | Thomas J. Lyon |
Josiah Royce, by Vincent Buranelli | John Clendenning |
Summer 1966 (vol. 1, no. 2)
The Western Humanism of Willa Cather | Don D. Walker |
The Archetypal Ethic of The Ox-Bow Incident | Max Westbrook |
Alan Swallow and Modern, Western American Poetry | Morton L. Ross |
Hamlin Garland’s Retreat from Realism | Charles T. Miller |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Mary Hunter Austin, by T. M. Pearce | Dudley Wynn |
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, by George Bird Grinnell | Jan Harold Brunvand |
Frontier Trails: The Autobiography of Frank M. Canton, edited by Edward Everett Dale | Orlan Sawey |
Katherine Anne Porter, by George Hendrick | Edwin W. Gaston Jr. |
Wright Morris, by David Madden | Jack Brenner |
Lyric and Dramatic Poems of John G. Neihardt, by John G. Neihardt | Thomas J. Lyon |
Conrad Richter, by Edwin W. Gaston Jr. | John DeWitt McKee |
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon | Warren French |
Fall 1966 (vol. 1, no. 3)
Internal Debate as Discipline: Clark’s The Watchful Gods | Max Westbrook |
Washington Irving’s Wilderness | Thomas J. Lyon |
Bards of the Little Big Horn | Brian W. Dippie |
The Primitive and the Civilized in Western Fiction | Levi S. Peterson |
Aspects of the Western Comic Novel | William T. Pilkington |
A Note on “The Mountain Man as Literary Hero” | Edgeley W. Todd |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book Was Published, by Mari Sandoz | Virginia Faulkner |
Wapiti Wilderness, by Margaret Murie and Olaus Murie | Thomas J. Lyon |
Stephen Harriman Long, 1784–1864, Army Engineer, Explorer, Inventor, by Richard G. Wood | Edgeley W. Todd |
The Rummy Kid Goes Home and Other Stories of the Southwest, by Ross Santee | C. L. Sonnichsen |
Timothy Flint, by James K. Folsom | Orlan Sawey |
The Woman at Otowi Crossing, by Frank Waters | Martin Bucco |
Winter 1967 (vol. 1, no. 4)
Western Writing and Eastern Publishing | Vardis Fisher and Alvin M. Josephy Jr. |
The American West: A Challenge to the Literary Imagination | John R. Milton |
Vardis Fisher: New Directions for the Historical Novel | Ronald W. Taber |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico and Other Stories, by Clay Fisher; The Last Warpath, by Will Henry; Sons of the Western Frontier, by Will Henry | Arnold E. Needham |
King of Spades, by Frederick Manfred | Russell Roth |
Six Faces of Mexico, edited by Russell C. Ewing | Frank Waters |
Pershing’s Mission in Mexico, by Haldeen Braddy | Karl Young |
The Recollections of Philander Prescott: Frontiersman of the Old Northwest, 1819–1862, edited by Donald Dean Parker | Kenneth A. Spaulding |
The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, by John C. Duval, edited by Mabel Major and Rebecca W. Smith | John Q. Anderson |
Pioneer Surveyor—Frontier Lawyer: The Personal Narrative of O. W. Williams, 1877–1902, edited by S. D. Myres | Benjamin Capps |
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900, by Leonard J. Arrington | Rodman W. Paul |
The Company Town in the American West, by James B. Allen | Thomas F. Andrews |
A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, by Charles A. Siringo | Robert N. Mullin |
Songs of the Cowboys, by N. Howard “Jack” Thorp, edited by Austin E. Fife and Alta S. Fife | Hector H. Lee |
The Red Man’s West, edited by Michael S. Kennedy; Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies, by Ella E. Clark | Brigham D. Madsen |
The Rim of the Prairie, by Bess Streeter Aldrich; The Home Place, by Dorothy Thomas | Roy W. Meyer |
The Great American Desert, Then and Now, by W. Eugene Hollon | Edgeley W. Todd |
Spring 1967 (vol. 2, no.1)
English Westerns | James K. Folsom |
The Western Naturalism of Frank Norris | Don D. Walker |
Charles and Frank Norris | Arnold L. Goldsmith |
The Dying Cowboy Song | John Barsness |
A Ballad in Search of Its Author | John I. White |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, by Peter Nabokov | Frank Waters |
A Woman of the People, by Benjamin Capps | Robert A. Roripaugh |
With the Ears of Strangers: The Mexican in American Literature, by Cecil Robinson | Quincy Guy Burris |
Inherit the Earth, Stories from Mexico Ranch Life, by Alvin Gordon | Anne Smith |
The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico, by Robert Ricard | LaVerne Harrell Clark |
Jack London: A Bibliography, compiled by Hensley C. Woodbridge, John London, and George H. Tweney | King Hendricks |
A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore, compiled by Roger L. Welsch | Louie W. Attebery |
Love Song to the Plains, by Mari Sandoz | L. A. Hahn |
Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder, by Harold Schindler | T. Y. Booth |
The Life and Voyages of Captain George Vancouver: Surveyor of the Sea, by Bern Anderson | L. L. Lee |
Greenville M. Dodge: Soldier, Politician, Railroad Pioneer, by Stanley P. Hirshson | Wilson O. Clough |
Buckskin Joe: The Memories of Edward Jonathan Hoyt, edited by Glenn Shirley | Loy Otis Banks |
Texas Riverman: The Life and Times of Captain Andrew Smyth, by William Seale | George W. Ewing |
History of North Dakota, by Elwyn B. Robinson | Don E. Gribble |
The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish Speaking Californians, 1846–1890, by Leonard Pitt | Roscoe L. Buckland |
Up and Down California in 1860–1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903, edited by Francis P. Farquhar | Arthur P. Frietzsche |
The Letters of George Catlin and His Family: A Chronicle of the American West, by Marjorie Catlin Roehm | James C. Austin |
Audubon in the West, edited by John Francis McDermott; Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains, by Thurman Wilkins | Michael McCloskey |
Summer 1967 (vol. 2, no. 2)
My Ántonia: A Dark Dimension | Sr. Peter Damian Charles |
Hamlin Garland and the American Indian | Roy W. Meyer |
A New Reading of The Sea Wolf | James Ellis |
Honey in the Horn and “Acres of Clams”: The Regional Fiction of H. L. Davis | Jan Harold Brunvard |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Viva Max! by James Lehrer | John S. Bullen |
The Rocky Mountain West in 1867, by Louis J. Simonin | Ronald W. Taber |
They Sang for Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore, by LaVerne Harrell Clark | Karl Young |
By Cheyenne Campfires, by George Bird Grinnell; When Buffalo Ran, by George Bird Grinnell | Ben Gray Lumpkin |
The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin Plateau, text by Edward Dorn, photographs by Leroy Lucas | Paul R. Eldridge |
The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago, edited by Wilson M. Hudson and Allen Maxwell | Paul T. Bryant |
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records, A Recollection, by Mari Sandoz | Anne Smith |
The Wild Bunch, edited by Alan Swallow | C. L. Sonnichsen |
The Mormon Conflict 1850–1859, by Norman F. Furness | Roscoe L. Buckland |
Tales of Frontier Texas: 1830–1860, edited by John Q. Anderson | William T. Pilkington |
Australians and the Gold Rush: California and Down Under, 1849–1854, by Jay Monaghan | A. Grove Day |
Exploring the Northwest Territory: Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s Journal of a Voyage by Bark Canoe from Lake Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean in the Summer of 1789, edited by T. H. McDonald | Lewis E. Buchanan |
Bayou Salado: The Story of South Park, by Virginia McConnell | Maynard Fox |
Fall 1967 (vol. 2, no. 3)
Bernard DeVoto’s Western Novels | Orlan Sawey |
Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Triology | William T. Pilkington |
Ethic and Metaphysic: A Study of John G. Neihardt | W. E. Black |
The Contributions of Bret Harte to American Oratory | Roy F. Hudson |
Larry McMurtry and Black Humor: A Note on The Last Picture Show | Charles D. Peavy |
Nietzsche of the North: Heredity and Race in London’s The Son of the Wolf | Richard Vanderbeets |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
North of Yesterday, by Robert Flynn | John Barsness |
Beyond the Desert, by Eugene Manlove Rhodes | J. W. Hutchinson |
Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving, edited by Edgeley W. Todd | John Francis McDermott |
Adventures at Astoria, 1810–1814, by Gabriel Franchère, translated and edited by Hoyt C. Franchère | Edgeley W. Todd |
Words for Denver and Other Poems, by Thomas Hornsby Ferril | Nicholas Crome |
From Scotland to Silverado, by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by James D. Hart | John S. Bullen |
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Calvalry in the West, by William H. Leckie | Everett L. Jones |
Western America in 1846–47: The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J. W. Abert Who Mapped New Mexico for the United States Army, edited by John Galvin | A. R. Mortensen |
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation, by Robert M. Utley; The Truth about Geronimo, by Britton Davis; Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, edited by Leo W. Simmons | Karl Young |
American Indian Life, edited by Elsie Clews Parson | Susan Taylor |
Century in the Saddle, by Richard Goff and Robert H. McCaffree | Don D. Walker |
Winter 1968 (vol. 2, no. 4)
Western Canadian Literature | Donald Greene |
Cannery Row: Steinbeck’s Pastoral Poem | Stanley Alexander |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The American Western Novel, by James K. Folsom | John R. Milton |
From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West, by Robert Edsom Lee | D. E. Wylder |
The Pleasure Garden, by Oakley Hall | Robert Narveson |
To Be a Man, by William Decker | J. W. Hutchinson |
Flame on the Frontier: Short Stories of Pioneer Women, by Dorothy M. Johnson | Benjamin Capps |
Great Western Short Stories, edited by J. Golden Taylor | John S. Bullen |
Mountain Men: Geogre Frederick Ruxton’s Firsthand Accounts of Fur Trappers and Indians in the Rockies, edited and illustrated by Glen Rounds | Edgeley W. Todd |
Horse Tradin’, by Ben K. Green; 13 Flat: The Rodeo, Horses and Riders, by Willard H. Porter; The Cowboy, by Vincent Paul Rennert; Cowboys and the Songs They Sang, by S. J. Sackett | John Barsness |
A Picture Report of the Custer Fight, by William Reusswig | Brian W. Dippie |
Pedro Vial, and The Roads to Santa Fe, by Noel M. Loomis and Abraham Nasatir; Soldiers on the Santa Fe Trail, by Leo E. Oliva | T. M. Pearce |
Spring 1968 (vol. 3, no. 1)
H. L. Davis: Viable Uses for the Past | Paul T. Bryant |
Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Cather | Bruce Baker II |
Clark’s Man for all Seasons: The Achievement of Wholeness in The Ox-Bow Incident | Barclay W. Bates |
An Ignored Meaning of the West | Thomas J. Lyon |
Poe’s Use of Mackenzie’s Voyages in “The Journal of Julius Rodman” | Wayne R. Kime |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
SOUTHWEST WRITERS SERIES, general editor James W. Lee, (nos. 1–13); J. Frank Dobie, by Francis Edward Abernethy; John C. Duval: First Texas Man of Letters, by John Q. Anderson; Charles A. Siringo: A Texas Picaro, by Charles D. Peavy; Andy Adams: Storyteller and Novelist of the Great Plains, by Wilson M. Hudson; Tom Lea: Artist in Two Mediums, by John O. West; Katherine Anne Porter: The Regional Stories, by Winifred S. Emmons; William Humphrey, by James W. Lee; Paul Horgan, by James M. Day; Oliver LaFarge, by Everett A. Gillis; Fred Gipson, by Sam M. Henderson; Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Cowboy Chronicler, by Edwin W. Gaston Jr.; J. Mason Brewer: Negro Folklorist, by James W. Byrd; George Sessions Perry, by Stanley Alexander | Orlan Sawey |
The Mysterious West, by Brad William and Choral Pepper | Edgeley W. Todd |
Palms, Peaks, and Prairies, by Richard Fleck; Dan Freeman, by Dan Jaffe | Charles G. Wiley |
The Last Jew in America, by Leslie A. Fiedler | John Barsness |
The Short Novels of Jack Schaefer, introduction by Dorothy M. Johnson | Gerald Haslam |
Wilderness Kingdom—Indian Life in the Rocky Mountains: 1840–1847, by Nicolas Point, S. J., translated by Joseph P. Donnelly, S. J. | Karl Young |
Run toward the Nightland, by Jack Frederick and Anne Gritts Kilpatrick | Charles Eagle Plume |
Literature and Theater of the States and Regions of the U.S.A., edited by Clarence Gohdes | Ronald A. Willis |
John Steinbeck: A Concise Bibliography (1930–1965), by Tetsumaro Hayashi | Bascom Wallis |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather’s First Principles and Critical Statements 1893–1896, selected and edited by Bernice Slote; Willa Cather and Her Critics, edited by James Schroeter; Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell, edited by Clarence Gohdes; The Pioneer in the American Novel, 1900–1950, by Nicholas J. Karolides | J. Golden Taylor |
Summer 1968 (vol. 3, no. 2)
The Rise and Fall of Barney Tullus | Don D. Walker |
Quetzalcoatl versus D. H. Lawrence’s Plumed Serpent | Frank Waters |
The Western Fiction of Mayne Reid | Roy W. Meyer |
The Novel of Western Adventure in Nineteenth-Century Germany | D. L. Ashliman |
An Undiscovered Early Review of Norris’ Octopus | Richard Allan Davison |
Bulkington as Henry Chatillon | William Powers |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Apples of Paradise and Other Stories, by Frederick Manfred | Max Westbrook |
Max Brand’s Stories, edited by Robert Easton | Patrick Morrow |
Navaho Folk Tales, by Franc Johnson Newcomb | Frank Waters |
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, edited and translated by Ralph L. Roys | LaVerne Harrell Clark |
Cheyenne Memories, by John Stands in Timber and Margot Liberty | Benjamin Capps |
Letters from the West; Containing Sketches of Scenery, Manners, and Customs; and Anecdotes Connected with the First Settlements of the Western Sections of the United States (1828), by James Hall | Edgeley W. Todd |
Bartlett’s West: Drawing the Mexican Boundary, by Robert V. Hine | Kenneth Hufford |
The Southwest: Old and New, by W. Eugene Hollon | Thomas W. Ford |
Joe Lane of Oregon: Machine Politics and the Sectional Crisis, 1849–1861, by James E. Hendrickson | Preston E. Onstad |
Jack London and His Times—An Unconventional Biography, by Joan London | George H. Tweney |
Joaquin Miller, by O. W. Frost | Richard W. Etulain |
Montana Adventures, the Recollections of Frank B. Linderman, edited by Harold G. Merriam | Ruth Keenan |
William Anderson Scott, No Ordinary Man, by Clifford M. Drury | Taylor T. Jackman |
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West, by Dee Brown | Carol I. Bagley |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Mountain of My Fear, by David Roberts; On the Loose, by Terry Russel and Renny Russell; Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey; The Man Who Walked through Time, by Colin Fletcher; Baja California and the Geography of Hope, by Joseph Wood Krutch; Farewell to Texas, A Vanishing Wilderness, by William O. Douglas; Wilderness and the American Mind, by Roderick Nash; Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature, by Paul Shepard | J. Golden Taylor |
Fall 1968 (vol. 3, no. 3)
The Practical Spirit: Sacrality and the American West | Max Westbrook |
Gary Snyder, A Western Poet | Thomas J. Lyon |
Listening to the Wilderness with William Stafford | J. Russell Roberts Sr. |
Words | Frank Waters |
A Larry McMurtry Bibliography | Charles D. Peavy |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister, by G. Edward White | Merrill Lewis |
Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West, by Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes | John Barsness |
On the Western Tour with Washington Irving: The Journal and Letters of Count de Pourtalès, edited with an introduction and notes by George F. Spaulding, translated by Seymour Feiler | Edgeley W. Todd |
Will James: The Gilt Edged Cowboy, by Anthony Amaral | Richard W. Etulain |
One More River to Cross, by Will Henry | Everett L. Jones |
Southwest Writers Anthology, edited by Martin Shockley | Martin Bucco |
The Old North Trail or Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, by Walter McClintock | Lou Attebery |
The War on Powder River, by Helena Huntington Smith; The Johnson County War, by Jack R. Gage | H. R. Dieterich |
The Editor’s Essay Review: Island in the Sound, by Hazel Heckman; My Rocky Mountain Valley, by James Grafton Rogers; The Rockies, by David Lavender; A Gallery of Dudes, by Marshall Sprague | J. Golden Taylor |
Winter 1969 (vol. 3, no. 4)
Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man as Literature | Delbert E. Wylder |
Style in the Literary Desert: Little Big Man | Jay Gurian |
A New Life: The Frontier Myth in Perspective | John A. Barsness |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Indian Heritage of America, by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.; Man’s Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State, by Peter Farb | Frank Waters |
The West of Alfred Jacob Miller, by Marvin C. Ross | Edgeley W. Todd |
Eden Prairie, by Frederick Manfred | Max Westbrook |
The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, by David W. Noble; The Brothers of Uterica, by Benjamin Capps | Martin Bucco |
Poems Southwest, edited by A. Wilber Stevens | L. L. Lee |
Time for Outrage, by Amelia Bean | John S. Bullen |
Now You Hear My Horn: The Journals of James Wilson Nichols, 1820–1887, edited by Catherine W. McDowell; M. K. Kellogg’s Texas Journal, 1872, edited by Llerena Friend; Bostonians and Bullion: The Journal of Robert Livermore, 1892–1915, edited by Gene M. Gressley; The Original Journals of Henry Smith Turner: With Stephan Watts Kearny to New Mexico and California, 1846, edited by Dwight L. Clarke; Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835–1838, edited by J. P. Bryan | William T. Pilkington |
Spanish War Vessels on the Mississippi, 1792–1796, by Abraham P. Nasatir | Charles J. Bayard |
Doctors of the Old West, by Robert F. Karolevitz | Stanley W. Henson Jr. |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Generous Years: Rememberances of a Frontier Boyhood, by Chet Huntley; Hamlin Garland’s Diaries, edited by Donald Pizer; Ambrose Bierce: A Biography, by Richard O’Connor; Mark Twain: A Profile, edited by Justin Kaplan; Estevanico the Black, by John Upton Terrell; The Call to California, by Richard F. Pourade | J. Golden Taylor |
Spring 1969 (vol. 4, no. 1)
Elizabeth Barrett Meets Wolf Larsen | Robert Brainard Pearsall |
Beneficial Atavism in Frank Norris and Jack London | James R. Giles |
The Serialized Novels of Sinclair Lewis | Martin Bucco |
Owen Wister’s “Hank’s Woman”: The Writer and His Comment | Neal Lambert |
Washington Irving’s Revision of the Tonquin Episode in Astoria | Wayne R. Kime |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Pumpkin Seed Point, by Frank Waters; The Peyote Religion among the Navaho, by David F. Aberle; The Arapaho Way, by Althea Bass | Thomas J. Lyon |
Emerson Hough, by Delbert E. Wylder; Harvey Fergusson, by James K. Folsom; Alice Corbin Henderson, by T. M. Pearce; Frank Waters, by Martin Bucco | Carroll Y. Rich |
Land of Many Frontiers: A History of the American Southwest, by Odie B. Faulk | T. M. Pearce |
The Return of the Vanishing American, by Leslie Fiedler | John Barsness |
Wyoming: A Political History, 1868–1896, by Lewis L. Gould | H. R. Dieterich |
The Baron of Arizona, by E. H. Cookridge | Donald M. Powell |
Twenty Years of Stanford Short Stories, edited by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft with Nancy Packer | Loy Otis Banks |
Bret Harte: A Biography, by Richard O’Connor | Ken Periman |
A Navajo Saga, by Kay Bennett and Russ Bennett | Ann Merrill |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Home Book of Western Humor, edited by Phillip H. Ault; Bill Nye’s Western Humor, edited by T. A. Larson; Horse and Buggy West, by Jack O’Connor; Wild Cow Tales, by Ben K. Green. | J. Golden Taylor |
Summer 1969 (vol. 4, no. 2)
Hamlin Garland’s First Novel: A Spoil of Office | Eberhard Alsen |
Proponents of Order: Tom Outland and Bishop Latour | Maynard Fox |
“Westering” in “Leader of the People” | Donald E. Houghton |
Tom Sawyer: Missouri Robin Hood | L. Moffitt Cecil |
A. B. Guthrie: A Bibliography | Richard W. Etulain |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Gunfighter: Man or Myth? by Joseph G. Rosa | John Barsness |
The Study of American Folklore, by Jan Brunvand | Ken Periman |
The Lord of Experience, by Clinton F. Larson | Robert Pack Browning |
An Artist on the Overland Trail: The 1849 Diary and Sketches of James F. Wilkins, edited by John Francis McDermott | Kenneth Hufford |
Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829–1833, by Jack Gregory and Rennard Strickland; Sam Houston and His Twelve Women, by Martha Anne Turner | Thomas W. Ford |
The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy, by Eugene W. Berwanger | Philip Durham |
Cuna Indian Art, by Clyde E. Keeler | Frank Waters |
Wild Sports in the Far West, by Friedrich Gerstäcker | Alfred Kolb |
San Juan Bautista: Gateway to Spanish Texas, by Robert S. Weddle | William H. Archer |
The Cloud-Climbing Railroad, by Dorothy Jensen Neal; The Northern Pacific—Main Street of the Northwest, by Charles R. Wood | G. Franklin Ackerman |
Fool’s Gold, A Biography of John Sutter, by Richard Dillon | John Mark Sorensen |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman; Roughnecks and Gentlemen, by Harold McCracken; Zebulon Pike: The Life and Times of an Adventurer, by John Upton Terrell; Fifty Years on the Owl Hoot Trail, by Harry E. Chrisman; Trail on Water, by Pearl Baker; Man Met along the Trail: Adventures in Archaeology, by Neil M. Judd; The Bureau of American Ethnology: A Partial History, by Neil M. Judd; Wells Fargo, by Noel M. Loomis; A Treasury of Alaskana, by Ethel E. Becker; Alaska Bush Pilots in the Float Country, by Archie Satterfield | J. Golden Taylor |
Fall 1969 (vol. 4, no. 3)
Coming of Age in Texas: The Novels of Larry McMurtry | Charles D. Peavy |
Jack Crabb and the Sole Survivors of Custer’s Last Stand | Brian W. Dippie |
The Bad Man as Hipster: Norman Mailer’s Use of Frontier Metaphor | Grace Witt |
The Dublin Cowboys of Flann O’Brien | L. L. Lee |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Folklore of the Great West: Selections from Eighty-three Years of the Journal of American Folklore, edited with extensive commentary by John Greenway | Jan Harold Brunvand |
Frank Norris: Instinct and Art, by William B. Dillingham | Arnold L. Goldsmith |
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, by John Womack Jr. | Karl Young |
The Blue God: An Epic of Mesa Verde, by Louis Mertins | Maynard Fox |
The Tree of Bones, by John R. Milton; This Lonely House, by John R. Milton | L. L. Lee |
Westward to Promontory: Building the Union Pacific across the Plains and Mountains, by Barry B. Combs; High Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific across the High Sierras, by George Kraus | G. Franklin Ackerman |
SOUTHWEST WRITERS SERIES, general editor James W. Lee, (nos. 14–18); Conrad Richter, by Robert J. Barnes; A. B. Guthrie Jr., by Thomas W. Ford; Mary Austin: The Southwest Works, by Jo W. Lyday; William A. Owens, by William T. Pilkington; Ross Santee, by Neal B. Houston | Charles G. Wiley |
A Nurse in the Yukon, by Amy V. Wilson, R. N.; This Raw Land, by Wayne Short | Craig Mishler |
Tales of the 04 Ranch: Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887–1909, by Harold J. Cook | Robert A. Roripaugh |
Ranch on the Ruidoso, by Wilbur Coe | Jim Fife |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Sound of Mountain Water, by Wallace Stegner; “A Dirty Hand”, by Winfield Townley Scott; In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas, by Larry McMurtry; J. Ross Browne: His Letters, Journals, and Writings, edited by Lina Fergusson Browne; The Trouble Begins at Eight, by Fred W. Lorch; Bernard DeVoto, by Orlan Sawey | J. Golden Taylor |
Winter 1970 (vol. 4, no. 4)
Prolegomena to the Western | John G. Cawelti |
Frederick Jackson Turner and Thomas Wolfe: The Frontier as History and as Literature | Thomas E. Boyle |
Character Portrayal in The Ox-Box Incident | Kenneth Andersen |
Essay Review | |
The Popular Western Novel: An Essay Review | Delbert E. Wylder |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The White Man’s Road, by Benjamin Capps | C. L. Sonnichsen |
Joshua Pilcher: Fur Trader and Indian Agent, by John E. Sunder | Edgeley W. Todd |
Earth House Hold, by Gary Snyder | Thomas J. Lyon |
My Life with History: An Autobiography, by John D. Hicks | S. George Ellsworth |
Three Men in Texas: Bedichek, Webb, Dobie: Essays by Their Friends in the Texas Observer, edited by Ronnie Dugger | George D. Hendricks |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Frontier in American Literature, edited by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones; The Land Our Fathers Plowed, compiled and edited by David B. Greenberg; The American Frontier, by D. Duane Cummins and William Gee White; Men on the Moving Frontier, by Roger G. Kennedy; Notorious Ladies of the Frontier, by Harry Sinclair Drago; Chronicles of the Gringos, edited with intro by George Winston Smith & Charles Judah; Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid, by Peter Nabokov | J. Golden Taylor |
Spring 1970 (vol. 5, no. 1)
The American Rhythm: Mary Austin’s Poetic Principle | Thomas W. Ford |
American Indians: Poets of the Cosmos | Gerald Haslam |
J. F. Powers’ Morte D’Urban as Western | D. H. Stewart |
Vardis Fisher: A Bibliography | George Kellogg |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Lean Lands, by Augstín Yáñez, translated by Ethel Brinton, illustrated by Alberto Beltrán; Recollections of Things to Come, by Elena Garro, translated and introduced by Ruth L. C. Simms, illustrated by Alberto Beltrán; The Precipice, by Sergio Galindo, translated and introduced by John and Carolyn Brushwood, drawings by Luis Eades; The Norther, by Emilio Carballido, translated and introduced by Margaret Sayers Peden, illustrated by Jose Treviño | John DeWitt McKee |
House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday | John Z. Bennett |
Three Friends: Bedichek, Dobie, Webb, by William A. Owens | George D. Hendricks |
‘Dear Old Kit’: The Historical Christopher Carson, with a New Edition of the Carson Memoirs, by Harvey Lewis Carter | Edgeley Woodman Todd |
Thomas Nuttall, Naturalist. Explorations in America 1808–1841, by Jeanette E. Graustein | Paul Bryant |
Max Brand: The Big “Westerner,” by Robert Easton | Richard W. Etulain |
No Quittin’ Sense, by C. C. White and Ada Morehead Holland | G. Franklin Ackerman |
The Storyteller “Cousin Wash” Series, Volume I and II, by Curtis Hunt | Gerald Haslam |
Songs of my Divided Self, by L. W. Michaelson; Running Lucky, by R. P. Dickey | L. L. Lee |
The Editor’s Essay Review: Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists, by Paul Russell Cutright; The American West: A Natural History, by Ann and Myron Sutton; Wild Sanctuaries, Our National Wildlife Refuges—A Heritage Restored, by Robert Murphy, foreword by Stewart L. Udall ; Our Vanishing Wilderness, by Mary Louise and Shelly Grossman and John N. Hamlet; Lost Wild America: The Story of Our Extinct and Vanishing Wildlife, by Robert M. McClung, illustrated by Bob Hines; America’s Endangered Wildlife, by George Laycock; Crisis in Eden: A Religious Study of Man and Environment, by Frederick Elder; Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America, by Peter J. Schmitt; In Defense of Nature, by John Hay; Our Precarious Habitat, by Melvin A. Benarde; Since Silent Spring, by Frank Graham Jr.; America the Raped, The Engineering Mentality and the Devastation of a Continent, by Gene Marine; Open Horizons, by Sigurd F. Olson, illustrations by Leslie Kouba; Wilderness Defender, Horace M. Albright and Conservation, by Donald C. Swain | J. Golden Taylor |
Summer 1970 (vol. 5, no. 2)
St. Petersburg Re-visited: Helen Eustis and Mark Twain | Stuart L. Burns |
Roughing It as Retrospective Reporting | John DeWitt McKee |
Vardis Fisher and Wallace Stegner: Teacher and Student | Joseph M. Flora |
H. L. Davis: A Bibliographical Addendum | Richard W. Etulain |
Steinbeck’s “The Leader of the People”: A Crisis in Style | Philip J. West |
In Defense of “Westering” | Robert E. Morsberger |
Mark Twain’s Chuck-Wagon Specialties | C. Merton Babcock |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, by Max Westbrook | L. L. Lee |
Clemens of the “Call”: Mark Twain in San Francisco, edited by Edgar M. Branch | Patrick Morrow |
The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young, by Stanley P. Hirshson | Karl Young |
True Grit, by Charles Portis | Donald A. Hoglin |
Six-Horse Hitch, by Janice Holt Giles | Robert A. Roripaugh |
The Innocents, by Clyde Ware | Benjamin Capps |
The Armchair Mountaineer, edited by George Alan Smith and Carol D. Smith | John Boni |
O-kee-pa: A Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of the Mandans, by George Catlin, edited with an introduction by John C. Ewers | Mary Ellen Ackerman |
The Editor’s Essay Review: Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria Jr.; The New Indians, by Stan Steiner; The Way to Rainy Mountain, by N. Scott Momaday; Sweet Medicine, by Peter J. Powell; Song of the Teton Sioux, by Harry W. Paige; Tanaina Tales from Alaska, by Bill Vaudrin; Indian and White: Sixteen Eclogues, by Winston Weathers; Amerian Indian Medicine, by Virgil J. Vogel | J. Golden Taylor |
Fall 1970 (vol. 5, no. 3)
Consciousness and Social Order: The Theme of Transcendence in the Leatherstocking Tales | Henry Nash Smith |
Lost—and Found—in the Wilderness: The Desert Metaphor in Cooper’s The Prairie | Merrill Lewis |
The American West and the Archetypal Orphan | Louie Attebery |
Owen Wister’s Lin McLean: The Failure of the Vernacular Hero | Neal Lambert |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Islands in the Stream, by Ernest Hemingway | Max Westbrook |
Shadows of Thunder, by Max Evans | Martin Bucco |
Ballads of the Great West, edited with commentary by Austin Fife and Alta Fife | Louie W. Attebery |
Workin’ on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steam, edited by Richard Reinhardt | G. Franklin Ackerman |
Pass of the North: Four Centuries on the Rio Grande, by C. L. Sonnischen, edited by S. D. Myres with map and chapter headings by Jose Cisneros | John DeWitt McKee |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Charles G. Clarke; Battle Drums and Geysers, by Orrin H. Bonney and Lorraine Bonney; A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields, by Daniel Ellis Conner, edited with an introduction by Donald J. Berthrong and Odessa Davenport; Tulitas of Torreon: Reminiscences of Life in Mexico, by Tulitas Wulff Jamieson as told to Evelyn Jamieson Payne; Thrashin’ Time: Memories of a Montana Boyhood, by Milton Shatraw; A Place in the Woods, by Helen Hoover; Wyoming Wife, by Rodello Hunter; Pioneer Teacher, by Carrie M. McClain; The Westerners: A Roundup of Pioneer Reminiscences, compiled and annotated by John Myers Myers; Way Out West: Reminiscences and Tales, collected and edited by H. G. Merriam | J. Golden Taylor |
Winter 1971 (vol. 5, no. 4)
Nature and the Nature of Man in The Ox-Box Incident | Robert W. Cochran |
Cowboys and Unicorns: The Novels of Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Paul Stein |
Washington Irving and “The Empire of the West”: An Unacknowledged Review | Wayne R. Kime |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Whitewater, by Paul Horgan | Max Westbrook |
The Gun and the Glory of Granite Hendley, by Ned Conquest | Carlos Baker |
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Garbriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa | George R. McMurray |
A Novel in the Making: A Collection of Student Themes, and the Novels BLIX and VANDOVER AND THE BRUTE, edited by James D. Hart | Max Westbrook |
The World and the Parish: Willa Cather’s Articles and Reviews, 1893–1902, selected and edited with a commentary by William M. Curtin | Maynard Fox |
The Literature of the American West, edited by J. Golden Taylor | Gerald Haslam |
Alaska Wilderness, by Robert Marshall ed. and the introductions by George Marshall, foreword by A. Starker Leopold; Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, by David Roberts | John Boni |
Calked Boots and Other Northwest Writings, by Bert Russell | Barbara Meldrum |
Spring 1971 (vol. 6, no. 1)
The Outback and the West: Australian and American Frontier Fiction | Roy W. Meyer |
Western Canada Fiction: Past and Future | Rudy Wiebe |
Stephen Crane and the Mexican | Raymund A. Paredes |
Charles L. McNichols and Crazy Weather: A Reconsideration | Robert L. Berner |
Wallace Thurman: A Western Renaissance Man | Gerald Haslam |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner | J. S. Bullen |
Pike’s Peak, by Frank Waters | Thomas J. Lyon |
The Mountain, by Donald F. Drummond; Graves Registry and Other Poems, by Keith Wilson; Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Parts I & II, by Thomas McGrath | R. P. Dicky |
The Golden Thread and Other Plays, by Emilio Carballido, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden | Marion F. Hodapp |
Colorado: A Literary Chronicle, by W. Storrs Lee | Martha Scott Trimble |
Peyote, by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin; The Magic World: American Indian Songs and Poems, by William Brandon | Paul Pavich |
Living Water, photographs by Ernest Braun, words by David Cavagnaro | John Boni |
The Editor’s Essay Review: Wells Fargo Detective: The Biography of James B. Hume, by Richard Dillon; Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge; The Marquis de Morès: Emperor of the Badlands, by Donald Dresden; Ambrose Bierce, by M. E. Grenander; The Adventures of Dr. Huckleberry, by E. R. Huckleberry, M. D.; The Last of the Mountain Men, by Harold Peterson | J. Golden Taylor |
Summer 1971 (vol. 6, no. 2)
Very Much Like a Firecracker: Owen Wister on Mark Twain | Ben M. Vorpahl |
Owen Wister’s Virginian: The Genisis of a Cultural Hero | Neal Lambert |
Steinbeck and Ricketts: Escape or Commitment in the Sea of Cortez? | Richard Astro |
Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck’s Parable of the Curse of Cain | William Goldhurst |
Paul Horgan: A Bibliography | Richard M. M. McConnell and Susan A. Frey |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
A Reply to the Headlines, by Martin Robbins; More Collected Poems, by Hugh MacDiarmid; Tree Meditation and Others, by Alan Stephens | R. P. Dickey |
A Goldenrod Will Grow, by Freya Manfred | Max Westbrook |
The Color of Dust, by Michael Anania; Mountains in the Wind: An Anthology of Rocky Mountain Poets, edited by L. W. Michaelson and G. B. Morgan; Poetry North, edited by Richard Lyons | Martin Bucco |
Black Sun, by Edward Abbey | Thomas J. Lyon |
Arfive, by A. B. Guthrie Jr. | Martha Scott Trimble |
Fall 1971 (vol. 6, no. 3)
The Big Sky: A. B. Guthrie’s Use of Historical Sources | Richard H. Cracroft |
“On History and Its Consequences: A. B. Guthrie’s These Thousand Hills” | David C. Stineback |
Structure and Meaning in S. K. Winther’s Beyond the Garden Gate | Barbara Meldrum |
Late to the Harvest: The Fiction of J. Hyatt Downing | Anthony T. Wadden |
Man and Animals in “The Indian Well” | Donald E. Houghton |
The Editor’s Essay Review: The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired, by Edward Larocque Tinker; My Dobie Collection, by Jeff Dykes; America’s Last Wild Horses, by Hope Ryden; Rodeo! The Suicide Circuit, by Fred Schnell; The Village Horse Doctor West of the Pecos, by Ben K. Green; Trail of a Wilderness Wanderer, by Andy Russell; Yamsi, by Dayton O. Hyde; The Last Centennial, by Patricia Kilina; The Cowboys, by William Dale Jennings | J. Golden Taylor |
Winter 1972 (vol. 6, no. 4)
The Book That Would Not Die | John Neihardt |
Black Elk Speaks: And So Does John Neihardt | Sally McCluskey |
Tragedy and Western American Literature | Levi S. Peterson |
“A View of the Sublime Awful”: The Language of a Pioneer | Donald Zochert |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Closed Frontier: Studies in American Literary Tragedy, by Harold P. Simonson | Merrill Lewis |
Garden in the Grasslands: Boomer Literature of the Central Great Plains, by David M. Emmons | Roy W. Meyer |
Alberta Homestead, a Chronicle of a Pioneer Family, by Sarah Ellen Roberts, edited by Lathrop E. Roberts | Rudy Wiebe |
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, by David J. Saylor; The Tetons and the Yellowstone, by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall | Thomas J. Lyon |
The Mooney Case, by Richard H. Frost; Frame-up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, by Curt Gentry | Charles J. Bayard |
Beyond the Capes: Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger, 1776–1877, by Ernest S. Dodge | Wayne R. Kime |
Vandenberg, by Oliver Lange | L. L. Lee |
The Editor’s Essay Review: Bibliography of Bibliographies in American Literature, by Charles H. Nilon; Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the USA, by Clarence Gohdes; Articles on American Literature 1950–1967, compiled by Lewis Leary; A Classified Bibliography of the Periodical Literature of the Trans-Mississippi West: A Supplement (1957–1967) , by Oscar Osburn Winther and Richard G. Van Orman; An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction, 1664–1970, by Newton D. Baird and Robert Greenwood; A Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles M. Russell, compiled by Karl Yost and Frederic G. Renner | J. Golden Taylor |
Spring 1972 (vol. 7, no. 1)
A Willa Cather Issue
A Lost Lady: The End of the First Cycle | Patricia Lee Yongue |
Willa Cather and The Professor’s House: “Letting Go with the Heart” | David Stouck |
Willa Cather’s Southwest | Patrick J. Sullivan |
A Novelist’s Miracle: Structure and Myth in Death Comes for the Archbishop | James M. Dinn |
Willa Cather’s Technique and the Ideology of Populism | Evelyn J. Hinz |
The Bohemian Folk Practice in “Neighbour Rosicky” | Cynthia J. Andes |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Black West, by William Loren Katz | Philip Durham |
Slickrock, by Edward Abbey and Philip Hyde | Thomas J. Lyon |
Restless Strangers: Nevada’s Immigrants and Their Interpreters, by William S. Shepperson | Robert Brainard Pearsall |
The San Francisco Earthquake, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts | Gerald Haslam |
Fire Sermon, by Wright Morris | James K. Folsom |
Broken Waters Sing, by Gaylord Staveley | Mary Ellen Ackerman |
Seeing a Bear, by James Taylor | Victoria McCabe |
The Kid, by John Seelye | Ernest L. Bulow |
The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction, by Edwin H. Cady | James H. Maguire |
Summer 1972 (vol. 7, no. 2)
McTeague: The Imagistic Network | Suzy Bernstein Goldman |
Man and Superwoman in Jack London’s “The Kanaka Surf” | Howard Lachtman |
Stephen Crane and the Western Myth | Robert Glen Deamer |
The Incipient Wilderness: A Study of Pudd’nhead Wilson | John M. Brand |
Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Fight for Popularity and Power | Eberhard Alsen |
The Use of Military Language in Hamlin Garland’s “The Return of a Private” | John H. Irsfeld |
Frank Norris’ Literary Terminology: A Note on Historical Context | John E. McCluskey |
Essay Review: | |
Larry McMurtry—A Writer in Transition | Alan F. Crooks |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Touch the Sun, by Kaye Klem | Patrick Morrow |
Who Are the Major American Writers? A Study of the Changing Literary Canon, by Jay B. Hubbell | James H. Maguire |
Fall 1972 (vol. 7, no. 3)
Why Write about the West? | A. B. Guthrie Jr. |
Jeffers’ “Cawdor” and the Hippolytus Story | Robert J. Brophy |
An Approach to the Western Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril | Jack Scherting |
Point of View in “Returned to Say” and the Wilderness of William Stafford | Carol Kyle |
Charlie Siringo: Reluctant Propagandist | Orlan Sawey |
Andy Adams and the Real West | Barbara Quissell |
Folklorists of Texas | Martin Staples Shockley |
Eugene Cunningham: Realism and the Action Novel | Donald G. Pike |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Conversations with Frank Waters, edited by John R. Milton | Martin Bucco |
All Is But a Beginning, by John G. Neihardt, introduction by Dick Cavett | Mildred R. Bennett |
The Mighty Sierra, by Paul Webster; The High Adventure of Eric Ryback, by Eric Ryback; Animals of the Artic: The Ecology of the Far North, by Bernard Stonehouse | Thomas J. Lyon |
Sketches of Early California: A Collection of Personal Adventures, edited by Oscar Lewis and compiled by Donald De Nevi; Mexico and the Old Southwest: People, Palaver, and Places, by Haldeen Braddy; Maverick Tales: True Stories of Early Texas, by Jack D. Rittenhouse | Richard N. Ellis |
Midwatch, by Keith Wilson; The Old Man and Others, by Keith Wilson; Rocks, by Keith Wilson | Kenneth Brewer |
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, by Marilyn Durham | Ernest L. Bulow |
Winter 1973 (vol. 7, no. 4)
Butcher’s Crossing: The Husks and Shells of Exploitation | Jack Brenner |
The Noble Wicked West of Jean Stafford | Sid Jenson |
William Allen White’s American Adam | Joe L. Dubbert |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The True Memoirs of Charley Blankenship, by Benjamin Capps | Edgeley Woodman Todd |
Ditch Valley, by Daryl Henderson | Richard D. Keller |
On the Way to the Sky, by Douglas Kent Hall | Thomas Baird |
Rolvaag: His Life and Art, by Paul Reigstad | Richard W. Etulain |
Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta, by Pablo Neruda, translated by Ben Belitt | Henry Joseph Nuwer |
Western American Literature: A Bibliography of Interpretive Books and Articles, by Richard W. Etulain | James H. Maguire |
Spanish Times and Boom Times: Toward an Architectural History of Socorro, New Mexico | T. M. Pearce |
Spring and Summer 1973 (vol. 8, nos. 1 & 2)
Back West: Time and Place in The Great Gatsby | Barry Gross |
Community and Isolation: Some Aspects of “Mormon Westerns” | Leonard Arrington and Jon Haupt |
Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man as History | Leo E. Oliva |
The Completeness of Washington Irving’s A Tour on the Prairies | Wayne R. Kime |
Audience Response to A Tour on the Prairies in 1835 | Martha Dula |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Wild Pitch, by A. B. Guthrie Jr. | Thomas W. Ford |
Diamond Wedding, by Wilbur Daniel Steele | Martin Bucco |
My Dear Wister—The Frederic Remington–Owen Wister Letters, by Ben Merchant Vorpahl, foreward by Wallace Stegner | Robert A. Roripaugh |
Jessamyn West, by Alfred S. Shivers | Loy Banks |
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Remininscences of Mary Hallock Foote, edited with an introduction by Rodman W. Paul | James H. Maguire |
In a Hundred Graves: A Basque Portrait, by Robert Laxalt | Henry Joseph Nuwer |
Journeys to the Far North, by Olaus Murie | Thomas J. Lyon |
Fall 1973 (vol. 8, no. 3)
A Bret Harte Issue
Bret Harte and the Power of Sex | Jeffrey F. Thomas |
Jack Hamlin: Bret Harte’s Romantic Rogue | Roscoe L. Buckland |
Bret Harte, Popular Fiction, and the Local Color Movement | Patrick D. Morrow |
Bret Harte’s Civil War Poems: Voice of the Majority | Jack Scherting |
A Reconsideration of Bret Harte’s Later Work | Donald E. Glover |
Essay Review | Reviewed By |
Some Old and New Voices in Western Poetry: A Comfort of My Own Finding, by Gordon Elliott Abshire; Varmint Q, by Charles Boer; Signposts, by Roger Hecht; Miss Liberty, Meet Crazy Horse! by Don Jones; Midnight Was My Cry, by Carolyn Kizer | Patrick D. Morrow |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Western Writers Series Nos. 1–5, edited by Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire: Vardis Fisher, by Wayne Chatterton; Mary Hallock Foote, by James H. Maguire; John Muir, by Thomas J. Lyon; Wallace Stegner, by Merrill and Lorene Lewis; Bret Harte, by Patrick Morrow | Martin Bucco |
Oliver La Farge, by T. M. Pearce; Indian Man, A Life of Oliver La Farge, by D’Arcy McNickle | Karl Young |
Winter 1974 (vol. 8, no. 4)
The Pleasures and Perils of Regionalism | Paul Horgan |
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature | John S. Bullen |
Research in Western American Literature | Richard H. Cracroft |
Western Literature Association Membership Directory & Newsletter | |
Index to Volume VIII |
Spring 1974 (vol. 9, no. 1)
“Hateful Reality”: The Failure of the Territory in Roughing It | Tom H. Towers |
Edward Abbey: Western Philosopher, or How to Be a “Happy Hopi Hippie” | Tom Pilkington |
Frank Waters and the Native American Consciousness | Jack L. Davis and June H. Davis |
The Territory of the Past in Hoagland’s Notes from the Century Before | Ernest L. Fontana |
The Turtle or the Gopher: Another Look at the Ending of The Grapes of Wrath | Stuart L. Burns |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Zunis: Self-Portrayals, by the Zuni People, translated by Alvina Quam | Frank Waters |
The Warren Wagontrain Raid, by Benjamin Capps | C. L. Sonnichsen |
Zane Grey, by Carlton Jackson | Delbert D. Wylder |
Headwaters, by Sid Marty; Coyote Tantras, by Barry Gifford | Kenneth Brewer |
The Road, by Jack London, with an introduction by King Hendricks | Richard W. Etulain |
Pictures of the Journey Back, by Jack Matthews | James F. Hoy |
John Steinbeck and Edward R. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist, by Richard Astro | John Ditsky |
Frank Waters, by Thomas J. Lyon | H. S. McAllister |
Democratic Humanism and American Literature, by Harold Kaplan | Max Westbrook |
Summer 1974 (vol. 9, no. 2)
Philosophical and Literary Implications in the Historiography of the Fur Trade | Don D. Walker |
The Big Sky and the Limits of Wilderness Fiction | Richard Astro |
Hustling to Some Purpose: Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | John Wilson Foster |
The Real Vanamee and His Influence on Frank Norris’ The Octopus | Charles L. Crow |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer, by Alfred Kazin | James H. Maguire |
Steinbeck Country, by Steve Crouch | Richard Astro |
The Old One and the Wind, by Clarice Short | Richard C. Poulsen |
Americans and the California Dream 1850–1915, by Kevin Starr | Philip Durham |
D. H. Lawrence: The World of the Five Major Novels, by Scott Sanders | Joseph Baim |
Hemingway in Our Time, edited by Richard Astro and Jackson J. Benson, with an intro by Jackson J. Benson | Edward Stone |
The Overland Trail to California in 1852, by Herbert Eaton | Richard D. Keller |
Fall 1974 (vol. 9, no. 3)
Hemingway’s “Wine of Wyoming” | Kenneth G. Johnston |
Ambrose Bierce’s “Detestable Creature” | Russell Roth |
Nathanael West and the Pictorial Imagination | Joan Zlotnick |
Symbolic Representation in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! | Maynard Fox |
Ross Macdonald’s Violent California | Elmer R. Pry |
Thomas Hornsby Ferril: A Biographical Sketch | Robert F. Richards |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Rockspring, by R. G. Vliet | Robert E. Morsberger |
The Comedy of Survival: Studies in Literary Ecology, by Joseph Meeker | Thomas J. Lyon |
Return of the Virginian, by H. Allen Smith | Elton Miles |
Travels in Hawaii, by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited and with an intro by A. Grove Day | Ben Merchant Vorpahl |
Josh Billings, by David B. Kesterson | Joseph H. Gardner |
Among the Mescalero Apaches: The Story of Father Albert Braun, OFM, by Dorothy Emerson | Norman Lederer |
Mody Boatright, Folklorist: A Collection of Essays, edited by Ernest B. Speck, foreword by Wayland D. Hand, biographical essay by Harry H. Ransom | Richard C. Poulsen |
The Time It Never Rained, by Elmer Kelton | James V. Holleran |
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, by Wallace Stegner | Karl E. Young |
Winter 1975 (vol. 9, no. 4)
Tales and Legends in Western American Literature | Hector Lee |
The Incredible Survival of Coyote | Gary Snyder |
God’s Country, Las Vegas, and the Gunfighter | John Cawelti |
Annual Bibliography | John S. Bullen |
Research in Western American Literature | Richard Cracroft |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Okies, by Gerald Haslam | Max Westbrook |
OSCEOLA: The Unconquered Indian, by William and Ellen Hartley | Alan Kishbaugh |
Boise State Western Writers Series, no. 1 and nos. 6–10, Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire, general editors; Vardis Fisher: The Frontier and Regional Works, by Wayne Chatterton; Thomas Hornsby Ferril, by A. Thomas Trusky; Owen Wister, by Richard W. Etulain; Walter Van Tilburg Clark, by L. L. Lee; N. Scott Momaday, by Martha Scott Trimble; Plains Indian Autobiographies, by Lynne Woods O’Brien | Priscilla Oaks |
The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal, by David A. Dary | Roy W. Meyer |
The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians, edited by Kenneth Rosen | Levi S. Peterson |
Thin Men of Haddam, by C. W. Smith | Maynard Fox |
Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects, by Christopher D. Stone | Paul T. Bryant |
Bunch Grass, by Robert Sund | Robert F. Richards |
Dwellers at the Source, Southwestern Indian Photographs of A. C. Vroman, 1895–1904, by William Webb and Robert A. Weinstein | Harold Courlander |
The Road to Many a Wonder, by David Wagoner | Warren French |
To Possess the Land: A Biography of Arthur Rochford Manby, by Frank Waters | Martin Bucco |
On the Shore of the Sundown Sea, by T. H. Watkins, illustrated by Earl Thollander | Kenneth C. Risdon |
Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather’s Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915–1929, edited with an intro by Bernice Slote; Willa Cather: A Pictorial Memoir, photographs by Lucia Woods and others, text by Bernice Slote; “Cather Family Letters, 1895,” edited by Paul D. Riley; “What Happened to the Rest of the Charles Cather Family,” by Mildred R. Bennett; “Art and Religion in Death Comes for the Archbishop,” by Mary Ann and David Stouck; “Prospective Focus in My Ántonia,” by Mary E. Rucker; “Willa Cather’s Ironic Masterpiece,” by David C. Stineback | James Woodress |
Spring 1975 (vol. 10, no. 1)
The Enigma of Amado Jesus Muro | Gerald Haslam |
The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Angle of Repose | Kerry Ahearn |
“Half Froze for Mountain Doins”: The Influence and Significance of George F. Ruxton’s Life in the Far West | Richard H. Cracroft |
Romance or Realism? Western Periodical Literature: 1893–1902 | Sanford E. Marovitz |
Mary Hallock Foote: A Checklist | Richard Etulain |
Essay Reviews | Reviewed By |
Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder | Ed Zahniser |
Don Bartolomeo, by Jaime de Angulo | Barry Gifford |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Tales of Power, by Carlos Castaneda | H. S. McAllister |
Conversations with Frederick Manfred, moderated by John R. Milton, with a foreword by Wallace Stegner and drawings by Arnold John Dyson | George H. Spies |
Robinson Jeffers: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol in His Narrative Poems, by Robert J. Brophy | Arthur B. Coffin |
Anasazi, Ancient People of the Rock, by David Muench and Donald G. Pike | Clifford Cahoon |
The Last West: A History of the Great Plains of North America, by Russell McKee | Jack Hafer |
Comanche Days, by Albert S. Gilles Sr. | Edwin W. Gaston Jr. |
Give Me the Wind, by Jan Jordan | John DeWitt McKee |
THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN, An Adaptation of Memorable Tales by Charles Sealsfield, by Ulrich S. Carrington | Roy F. Hudson |
Ulzana, by James R. Olson | Brian W. Dippie |
The Writer and the Shaman: A Morphology of the American Indian, by Elemire Zolla, translated by Raymond Rosenthal | Charles A. Nicholas |
Summer 1975 (vol. 10, no. 2)
The Ambivalent Apache | C. L. Sonnichsen |
Malamud’s Allusive Design in A New Life | Paul Witherington |
Narrative Voice in Stegner’s Angle of Repose | Audrey C. Peterson |
Raymond Chandler’s Sentimental Novel | Howard Kaye |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Lariat, by Jaime de Angulo | Barry Gifford |
Western Writers Series nos. 11–15, edited by Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire: H. L. Davis, by Robert Bain; Ken Kesey, by Bruce Carnes; Frederick Manfred, by Joseph M. Flora; Washington Irving: The Western Works, by Richard H. Cracroft; George Frederick Ruxton, by Neal Lambert | Sanford E. Marovitz |
The Hawkline Monster, by Richard Brautigan | L. L. Lee |
Breakheart Pass, by Alistair MacLean | Michael T. Marsden |
Voices of Aztlan: Chicano Literature of Today, edited by Dorothy E. Harth and Lewis M. Baldwin | James K. Folsom |
Handloggers, by W. H. Jackson with Ethel Dassow | T. W. Daniel |
Tales of California, by Hector Lee | John T. Flanagan |
Doc Middleton, by Harold Hutton | Charles W. Knox |
The Forests of the Night, by J. P. S. Brown | James W. Lee |
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene: Copper King, Cattle Baron, and Promoter Extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District, by C. L. Sonnichsen | James H. Maguire |
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties, by Vine Deloria Jr. | Robert L. Berner |
Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women: The Societies and Cults of the Plains Indians, by Thomas E. Mails | R. H. Crapo |
Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature: Quetzalcoatl / The Ritual of Condolence / Cuceb / The Night Chant, edited by John Bierhorst | Ted. N. Weissbuch |
Aurifodina, or Adventures in the Gold Region, by George Washington Peck | W. H. Hutchinson |
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950–1971, by Lew Welch, edited by Donald Allen; How I Work as a Poet & Other Essays/Plays/Stories, by Lew Welch, edited by Donald Allen | Fred L. Lee |
John G. Neihardt, the Man and His Western Writings, the Bancroft Years, 1900–1921, by Fred L. Lee | Sally McCluskey |
Bright Eyes: The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian, by Dorothy Clarke Wilson | Norman Lederer |
Fall 1976 (vol. 10, no. 3)
John Muir’s Public Voice | Michael P. Cohen |
Robinson Jeffers and the Paeon | Edward Nickerson |
Men, Mice, and Moths: Gradation in Steinbeck’s “The Leader of the People” | Max L. Autrey |
Large Man in the Mountains: The Recent Work of Richard Hugo | Frederick Garber |
Ken Kesey: A Bibliography | Joseph Weixlmann |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness, by Frank Waters | Jack L. Davis |
Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860, by Richard Slotkin | Richard W. Etulain |
Wise Man’s Gold, by Elsa Gidlow | Mary Washington |
The Blue Belly of the World, by John Milton | Glenn E. Selander |
The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols | Motley Deakin |
The Middle Western Farm Novel in the Twentieth Century, by Roy W. Meyer | Stan Nelson |
One Time, I Saw Morning Come Home, by Clair Huffaker | Robert H. Woodward |
Siskiyou Trail: The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company Route to California, by Richard Dillon. The American Trails Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie Jr. | Arthur Frietzsche |
Coyote’s Bones, by Jaime de Angulo | Barry Gifford |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig | Eugene Washington |
The Man Who Believed in the Code of the West, by George L. Voss | William A. Bate |
Five Essays on Willa Cather: The Merrimack Symposium | Henry Hahn |
Sneaky People, by Thomas Berger | Robert D. Harper |
Publishing in the West: Alan Swallow, edited by William F. Claire | Richard Moseley |
Winter 1976 (vol. 10, no. 4)
A New Direction (speech given at the acceptance of the 1975 Distinguished Achievement Award) | Jack Schaefer |
The Bum as Scapegoat in William Inge’s Picnic | Philip M. Armato |
Western Motifs in the Thrillers of Donald Hamilton | Fred Erisman |
“The Language of Shamans”: Jermone Rothenberg’s Contribution to American Indian Literature | H. S. McAllister |
Annual Bibliography | J. S. Bullen |
Research in Progress | Richard Cracroft |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Seven Novelists in the American Naturalist Tradition: An Introduction, edited by Charles Child Walcutt | Max Westbrook |
Modern Poetry of Western America, anthology edited by Clinton F. Larson and William Stafford | Barry Gifford |
North Book, poems by Jim Green, illustrations by Nauya | Gary Paul Nabhan |
White Logic: Jack London’s Short Stories, by James I. McClintock | Craig Mishler |
The Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska, by Edwin S. Hall Jr. | Craig Mishler |
My Blood’s Country: Studies in Southwestern Literature, by William T. Pilkington | Delbert E. Wylder |
The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey | Thomas J. Lyon |
George Sessions Perry: His Life and Works, by Maxine Cousins Hairston | George D. Hendricks |
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays, edited with an overview and checklist by Jackson J. Benson | Gregory S. Sojka |
A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, by Janwillem van de Wetering | Thomas J. Lyon |
So Far from Heaven, by Richard Bradford | James V. Holleran |
The Grassman, by Len Fulton | J. Pyros |
A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, edited by Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert | Levi S. Peterson |
Coutnry Music, by C. W. Smith; Cry Macho, by N. Richard Nash; Dolly Purdo, by M. M. B. Walsh; I, Tom Horn, by Will Henry; The Terrible Teague Bunch, by Gary Jennings | Henry L. Alsmeyer Jr. |
Spring 1976 (vol. 11, no. 1)
Frank Norris’s Western Metropolitans | Glen A. Love |
Realizing “A Whole Oder of Things”: E. W. Howe’s The Story of a Country Town | Charles W. Mayer |
Journeying as a Metaphor for Cultural Loss in the Novels of Larry McMurtry | Janis P. Stout |
Joaquin Miller and His “Shadow” | A. H. Rosenus |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Willard and His Bowling Trophies, by Richard Brautigan | Patrick D. Morrow |
The Far Side of the Storm: New Ranges of Western Fiction, edited by Gary Elder | Orlan Sawey |
Ole Rølvaag, Artist and Cultural Leader, edited by Gerald Thorson | Maynard Fox |
Nothing Seemed Impossible: William C. Ralston and Early San Francisco, by David Lavender | Arthur Frietzsche |
BIDATO Ten Mile River Poems, by Duane BigEagle | Barry Gifford |
Charles Olson & Ezra Pound: An Encounter at St. Elizabeth’s, edited by Catherine Seelye | Michael Sprinker |
An American Bestiary, by Jack Schaefer, illustrated by Linda K. Powell | Kit Flannery |
Conrad Richter’s America, by Marvin J. LaHood | Edwin W. Gaston Jr. |
The Selected Poems of Norman Macleod | T. M. Pearce |
The Mountainway of the Navajo, by Leland C. Wyman, with a myth of Female Branch recorded and translated by Father Berard Haile, OFM | Lawrence J. Evers |
The Massacre at Fall Creek, by Jessamyn West | Kerry Ahearn |
The House on Marshland, by Louise Glück | Alice Gorton Hart |
History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, by Keith L. Bryant Jr. | John T. Smith |
Summer 1976 (vol. 11, no. 2)
Jack London’s Agrarian Vision | Earle Labor |
Jack London as Wolf Barleycorn | Jon Yoder |
Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London | Clarice Stasz |
“Rattling the Bones”: Jack London, Socialist Evangelist | Carolyn Willson |
The Lives of Jack London | Richard Etulain |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
Harvey Fergusson, by William T. Pilkington | John R. Milton |
Rivers West, by Louis L’Amour | Hank Nuwer |
The Hollywood Posse, by Diana Serra Cary | Judy Alter |
WESTERN WRITERS SERIES nos. 16–20, edited by Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire. Frederic Remington, by Fred Erisman; Zane Grey, by Ann Ronald; Stewart Edward White, by Judy Alter; Robinson Jeffers, by Robert J. Brophy; Jack Schaefer, by Gerald Haslam | Delbert E. Wylder |
The Western Story: Fact, Fiction, and Myth, edited by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones | Louie W. Attebery |
Dancers in the Scalp House, by William Eastlake | Constance Rooke |
A Fair and Happy Land, by William A. Owens | George Ewing |
The Last Valley, by A. B. Guthrie Jr. | Delbert E. Wylder |
Northern Lights, by Tim O’Brien; Power, by Richard Martin Stern | Robert A. Roripaugh |
Sad Dust Glories, by Allen Ginsberg | Raymond L. Neinstein |
The Grass Roots Primer, edited by James Robertson and John Lewallen | Mary Ellen Ackerman |
The Wichita Poems, by Michael Van Walleghen | Paul T. Bryant |
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, edited byElaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten | Robert E. Morsberger |
Let ’er Buck! by Douglas Kent Hall | James F. Hoy |
About Fiction: Reverent Reflections on the Nature of Fiction with Irreverent Observations on Writers, Readers, & Other Abuses, by Wright Morris | James K. Folsom |
Literature and Ideas in America: Essays in Memory of Harry Hayden Clark, edited by Robert Falk; The Literary Journal in America to 1900, by Edward E. Chielens | John T. Flanagan |
Waving Arms at the Blind, by W. M. Ransom | Gary Nabhan |
American Odyssey, by Len Fulton with Ellen Ferber | Gary Elder |
Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times, by Paul Horgan | Max Westbrook |
Trails of the Iron Horse, edited by Don Russell | G. Franklin Ackerman |
Fall 1976 (vol. 11, no. 3)
Wright Morris’s Ceremony in Lone Tree | Robert D. Harper |
Mark Twain’s Western Sequel to Huckleberry Finn | Paul Delaney |
The Western as Jadai-Geki | Kenneth S. Nolley |
Sexual Conflict in The Sea-Wolf | Charles N. Watson Jr. |
Willa Cather as a Canadian Writer | Benjamin George |
Book Reviews | Reviewed By |
The Rhetoric of History, by Savoie Lottinville | C. L. Sonnichsen |
Prose Ocean, by Gus Blaisdell | L. L. Lee |
Custer in’76: Walter Camp’s Notes on the Custer Fight, edited by Kenneth Hammer | John W. Bailey |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins | Constance Rooke |
John Muir’s America, by T. H. Watkins, photography by Dewitt Jones; John Muir’s Wild America, by Tom Melham, photography by Farrell Greghan; The Wilderness World of John Muir, edited by Edwin Way Teale | Thomas J. Lyon |
Winter 1977 (vol. 11, no. 4)
Criticism of the Cowboy Novel: Retrospect and Reflections | Don D. Walker |
Words and Place: A Reading of House Made of Dawn | Lawrence J. Evers |
A Dharma Bum Goes West to Meet the East | Keith N. Hull |
Annual Bibliography | Richard E. Keller |
Research in Progress | Richard Cracroft |
Essay Review | |
Pulp King of the Post Oaks: The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Erwin Howard, by Glenn Lord |
Dale L. Walker |
Book Review | Reviewed By |
Milk the Wolves, by Frederick Manfred | Max Westbrook |
Papa, A Personal Memoir, by Gregory H. Hemingway, M.D. | Eugene Washington |
Waltz across Texas, by Max Crawford | Jack Hafer |
Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry | Roberta Sorensen |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, by Norman Maclean | Patrick D. Morrow |
Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, edited by Duane Niatum; The First Skin around Me: Poems by Native Americans, edited by Mark Vinz & James L. White; Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, edited by Kenneth Rosen | Mick McAllister |
Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change, by Peter L. Berger | Lee Nash |
Notes from Custer, by Jim Heynen | James R. Hepworth |
Death Was the Black Horse, by Dale Walker | Howard Lachtman |
Yurok Myths, by A. L. Kroeber | Roy F. Hudson |
The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of Brewster Ghiselin, edited by Henry Taylor | Mildred R. Bennett |
Mistr Jory, by Milton Bass | Jack Hafer |
The Sweetwater, by Jean Rikhoff | Jack Hafer |
Setting in the American Short Story of Local Color, by Robert D. Rhode | Richard R. Rasche |
And Now We’ll Play a Man’s Game: Montana Stories, by Dean Phelps | Kerry Ahearn |
The Kingdom or Nothing: The Life of John Taylor, Militant Mormon, by Samuel W. Taylor | Richard C. Poulsen |
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WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Spring 2010 (vol. 45, no. 1)
ESSAYS | |
Locating the Modern Mexican in Josefina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother | Emily Lutenski |
“Truer ’n Hell”: Lies, Capitalism, and Cultural Imperialism in Owen Wister’s The Virginian, B. M. Bower’s The Happy Family, and Mourning Dove’s Cogewea | Sara Humphreys |
Stepping onto the Yakama Reservation: Land and Water Rights in Raymond Carver’s “Sixty Acres” | Chad Wriglesworth |
BOOK REVIEWS | REVIEWER |
Joshua David Bellin, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932 | Katherine Young Evans |
Sherman Alexie, War Dances | Loree Westron |
John Lloyd Purdy, Writing Indian, Native Conversations | Stuart Christie |
Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong | Bryan Russell |
Stuart Christie, Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature | Linda Lizut Helstern |
John Bierhorst, transl., Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex “Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España” | Keri Holt |
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell, and Sharon K. Collinge, eds., Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures | Corey Lee Lewis |
Rudolfo A. Anaya, Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays | Francisco A. Lomelí |
Donald Pizer, American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather | Charles L. Crow |
Keith Newlin, Hamlin Garland: A Life | Philip Joseph |
Joan Kane, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife | Eric Heyne |
Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers, Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend | Jan Cerney |
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London’s Racial Lives: A Critical Biography | Gary Scharnhorst |
Nancy Lord, Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life | Ann Ronald |
Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas | Daniel D. Arreola |
Patrick D. Murphy, Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields | Shane Billings |
John Daniel, The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature | Glen Love |
Linda M. Hasselstrom, No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life | Kerry Fine |
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna | Pamela Pierce |
Scott Slovic, Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility | Linda Underhill |
Summer 2010 (vol. 45, no. 2)
ESSAYS | |
“It was all a hard, fast ride that ended in the mud”: Deconstructing the Myth of the Cowboy in Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories | Katie O. Arosteguy |
Haunting and History in Louis Sachar’s Holes | Kirsten Møllegaard |
Down the Santa Fe Trail to the City upon a Hill | Andrew Menard |
BOOK REVIEWS | REVIEWER |
Robert McKee Irwin, Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico’s Northwest Borderlands | David Peterson |
Rebecca M. Schreiber, Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance | Helen Delpar |
Ann Putnam, Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter’s Last Goodbye | Nancy Lord |
Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Glass of Water | Sean McCray |
Michelle Burnham, A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson | Raúl Coronado |
William H. Katerberg, Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction | David Mogen |
Stephanie C. Palmer, Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class | Matthew J. Lavin |
Jim Charles, Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday, and Robert M. Nelson, Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”: The Recovery of Tradition | Lee Schweninger |
Patrick Dobson, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains | Susan Naramore Maher |
Rinda West, Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land | Mark C. Long |
Brian Booth and Glen A. Love, Davis Country: H. L. Davis’s Northwest | Paul Crumbley |
Mike Barenti, Kayaking Alone | Jeffrey McCarthy |
Steven L. Davis, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind | Verne Huser |
Eric Gardner, Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature | Michael K. Johnson |
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives | Kym S. Rice |
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature, and Victoria Smith, Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
Kenneth Scambray, Queen Calafia’s Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel | Charles Scruggs |
Dorothy Allred Solomon, In My Father’s House: A Memoir of Polygamy | Bonnie Bastian Moore |
Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag | James Cihlar |
Fall 2010 (vol. 45, no. 3)
ESSAYS | |
Cultural Resistance and “Playing Indian” in Thomas King’s “Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre” |
Timothy Glenn |
“Terrible Women”: Gender, Platonism, and Christianity in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House | Anne Baker |
Unmapping Adventure: Sewing Resistance in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms | T. Christine Jespersen |
BOOK REVIEWS | REVIEWER |
Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo, eds., Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West | Andrea G. Radke-Moss |
Joan Stauffer, Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell, and Candace C. Kant, ed., Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage | David Fenimore |
Lucy Marks and David Porter, Seeking Life Whole: Willa Cather and the Brewsters | Laura Winters |
Kimberli A. Lee, ed., “I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter”: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940–1965 | Katherine Bahr |
Daniel H. Usner Jr., Indian Work | Jeanette Palmer |
N. Scott Momaday, The Journey of Tai-me | William M. Clements |
Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears | Erin Murrah-Mandril |
John Morán González, Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature | Juan Alonzo |
Conrado Espinoza, Under the Texas Sun/El Sol de Texas | Maria O’Connell |
Américo Paredes, Cantos de adolescencia/Songs of Youth (1932–1937) | Grisel Y. Acosta |
Silvio Sirias, Meet Me under the Ceiba | Lucrecia Guerrero |
Daryl J. Maeda, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America | Moon-Ho Jung |
Brian Flota, A Survey of Multicultural San Francisco Bay Literature, 1955–1979: Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat Generation | Brett C. Sigurdson |
Eileen O’Keefe McVicker and Barbara Scot, Child of Steens Mountain, and Robin Cody, Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest | J. T. Bushnell |
James Karman, ed., The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890–1930 | Tim Hunt |
Dan Aadland, In Trace of TR: A Montana Hunter’s Journey, and Robert Root, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now | Ann Ronald |
Nguyen Qúi Dú’c, Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family | Sophie Quinn-Judge |
Lisa Jones, Broken: A Love Story | Summer Wood |
Lucha Corpi, Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco Mystery | María Herrera-Sobek |
Kent Meyers, Twisted Tree | Robert Headley |
Pamela Carter Joern, The Plain Sense of Things | Tyler S. Holzer |
Winter 2011 (vol. 45, no. 4)
ESSAYS | |
Practicing Sovereignty in Greg Sarris’s Watermelon Nights | Reginald Dyck |
Clean Hands and an Iron Face: Frontier Masculinity and Boston Manliness in The Rise of Silas Lapham |
Matthew J. Lavin |
The Sentimental Politics of Language: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and José María Sánchez’s Texan Stories |
Marissa López |
ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
The Mark Twain Biography Wars | Charles L. Crow |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
John Beck, Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature | Bill D. Toth |
Leonard Engel, ed., A Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke | Jon A. Jackson |
Megan Riley McGilchrist, The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner: Myths of the Frontier | Stacey Peebles |
Carol Sklenicka, Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life | Chad Wriglesworth |
Frances McCue, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo | Kim Stafford |
Phyllis Morgan, N. Scott Momaday: Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions: An Annotated Bio-Bibliography | Larry Evers |
James R. Boylston and Allen J. Wiener, David Crockett in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man’s Friend, with Collected Correspondence, Selected Speeches, and Circulars | Paula Marks |
William Haywood Henderson, Native | Elizabeth Abele |
Tim Z. Hernandez, Breathing, In Dust | Gerald Haslam |
Steven L. Davis, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind | Tom Pilkington |
Michelle Wick Patterson, Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music | Martha Viehmann |
Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, Homelands: How Women Made the West | Sue Armitage |
Maria Melendez, Flexible Bones | Cynthia Hogue |
Angie Chau, Quiet As They Come | Christopher Schaberg |
David Toscana, The Last Reader | Beth Pollack |
Spring 2011 (vol. 46, no. 1)
ESSAYS | |
Sacred Spaces, Profane “Manufactories”: Willa Cather’s Split Artist in The Professor’s House and My Mortal Enemy | Kim Vanderlaan |
“A Terrible Genius”: Robinson Jeffers’s Art of Narrative | Robert Zaller |
The Quilt as (Non-)Commodity in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s The Star Quilter | Deborah Weagel |
ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
Crossing Territories: New Spaces in Six Works of Fiction | Manuel Muñoz |
New West or Old? Men and Masculinity in Recent Fiction by Western American Men |
David J. Peterson |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of J. M. Ferguson Jr., Westering: A Novel in Stories | Martin Bucco |
Review of John Addiego, Tears of the Mountain | Brett Garcia Myhren |
Review of Lisa Knopp, Interior Places | Gaynell Gavin |
Review of Ann Ronald, Friendly Fallout 1953 | David Mazel |
Review of Jim Dwyer, Where the Wild Books Are: A Field Guide to Ecofiction | O. Alan Weltzien |
Review of Lowell Jaeger, ed., New Poets of the American West | Peggy Shumaker |
Review of Bill Sherwonit, Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness | Jennifer Schell |
Review of John J. Murphy, Françoise Palleau-Papin, and Robert Thacker, eds., Willa Cather: A Writer’s Worlds | Timothy W. Bintrim |
Review of Joanna Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 | Brett C. Sigurdson |
Review of Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson,Mary Austin and the American West | Karen S. Langlois |
Review of Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki, eds., The Philosophy of the Western |
Brian McCuskey |
Review of Frank Maynard, Cowboy’s Lament: A Life on the Open Range | Richard Hutson |
Review of Linwood Laughy, The Fifth Generation: A Nez Perce Tale | Loree Westron |
Summer 2011 (vol. 46, no. 2)
ESSAYS | |
The Fat Man on Snow Dome: Surprise and Sense of Place (or, Reading Laurie Ricou’s David Wagoner) | Nicholas Bradley |
Untidy Borders: Eamonn Wall’s Negotiation of the American West | Susan Naramore Maher |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence Inhabits Film Noir | Alan P. Barr |
ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
Down on the Farm: Memoirs and Nonfiction on Agricultural Lives | Evelyn I. Funda |
Book History Comes West | Tara Penry |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Thomas McGuane, Driving on the Rim | Stephen P. Cook |
Review of Richard C. Rattenbury, Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo | Demetrius W. Pearson |
Review of Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud | Matt Low |
Review of Monica Perales and Raúl A. Ramos, eds., Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas | Cordelia E. Barrera |
Review of Jordan Stouck, ed., “Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun”: Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933–1986. | Dick Harrison |
Review of Flannery Burke, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s | Tyler Nickl |
Review of David Mogen, Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories | O. Alan Weltzien |
Review of Ruth McLaughlin, Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains and of Mary Zeiss Stange, Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch | Linda M. Hasselstrom |
Review of Graciela Limón, The River Flows North | Elisa Bordin |
Review of Phillip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout | John Charles Gilmore |
Fall 2011 (vol. 46, no. 3):
Special Issue: Western Suburbia
ESSAYS | |
Special Issue on Western Suburbia | Neil Campbell |
“An assemblage of habits”: D. J. Waldie and Neil Campbell—A Suburban Conversation | D. J. Waldie and Neil Campbell |
Space, Gender, Race: Josephine Miles and the Poetics of the California Suburbs | Jo Gill |
Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb | Tom M. Johnson |
Tract Homes on the Range: The Suburbanization of the American West | Robert Bennett |
“A kingdom of a thousand princes but no kings”:The Postsuburban Network in Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs | Tim Foster |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Lawrence Culver, The Frontier of Leisure in California and the Shaping of Modern America | William Philpott |
Review of John Addiego, Barbara Berglund, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846–1906 | Raymond W. Rast |
Review of Char Miller, ed., Cities and Nature in the American West | Lawrence Culver |
Review of Kevin R. McNamara, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles | Jaquelin Pelzer |
Review of Susan Suntree, Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California | Brett Garcia Myhren |
Review of Raymond D. Gastil and Barnett Singer, The Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity | Stephen Trimble |
Review of William R. Handley, ed., The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon | Michael K. Johnson |
Review of Jim Reese, ghost on 3rd | David Cremean |
Review of Krista Comer, Surfer Girls in the New World Order | Robert Bennett |
Winter 2012 (vol. 46, no. 4)
ESSAYS | |
John Russell Bartlett’s Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, War, and the United States Boundary Survey | Robert Gunn |
No Laughing Matter: William Saroyan’s Californians in Crisis | Greg Levonian |
Morta Las Vegas | Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis |
ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
On the Border, on the Edge: Charles Bowden’s Twinned Trilogies | David N. Cremean |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Harriet Elinor Smith et al., eds., Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 | Chad Rohman |
Review of Lawrence I. Berkove and Joseph Csicsila, Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain | Chad Rohman |
Review of Gary Scharnhorst, ed., Twain in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates | Robert C. Evans |
Review of John Morán González, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels | David Anthony |
Review of Todd Simmons, ed., Matter 13: Edward Abbey | David Joplin |
Review of Audrey Goodman, Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the 20th-Century Southwest | Ann E. Lundberg |
Review of Dan Flores, Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West | Flannery Burke |
Review of Jake Silverstein, Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction | Barbara Barney Nelson |
Review of George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River | Jeffrey McCarthy |
Review of David Wyatt, Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature | Lars Erik Larson |
Review of Anne Coray, Violet Transparent | Marybeth Holleman |
Review of James R. Dow, Roger Welsch, and Susan Dow, eds., Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech | Lisa Gabbert |
Review of Rev. Santiago Tafolla, A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate | Leigh Johnson |
Review of Garrick Bailey, ed., Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche and of Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz, eds., The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal | Matt Low |
Review of Steven Trout, On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 | Sarah Stoeckl |
Review of Aparajita Nanda, ed., Black California: A Literary Anthology | Blake Allmendinger |
Spring 2012 (vol. 47, no. 1)
ESSAYS | |
“Perhaps the Words Remember Me”: Richard Brautigan’s Very Short Stories | Christopher Gair |
Translating the American West into English: The Case of Hendrik Conscience’s Het Goudland | Michael Boyden & Liselotte Vandenbussche |
West by Southeast: Peter Matthiessen’s Florida Trilogy as Western Fiction | Carl Abbott |
Peyote in the Kitchen: Gendered Identities and Imperial Domesticity in Edna Ferber’s Cimarron | Amanda Zink |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Mary Clearman Blew, This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir | Lois M. Welch |
Review of James C. Work, Don’t Shoot the Gentile | Levi S. Peterson |
Review of Todd James Pierce and Jarret Keene, eds., Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, and of Hal K. Rothman, Nevada: The Making of Modern Nevada | Gerald Haslam |
Review of Brian Doyle, Mink River | Chad Wriglesworth |
Review of N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House | William M. Clements |
Review of Richard Yañez, Cross Over Water | Bob J. Frye |
Review of William Kloefkorn, Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems | Michael Sowder |
Review of Genaro M. Padilla, The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s “Historia de la Nueva Mexico,” 1610 | Ralph Bauer |
Review of Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy, Vistas, 1520–1820: Visual Culture in Spanish America/Cultura Visual de Hispanoamérica | Keri Holt |
Review of Tyche Hendricks, The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands | Maria O’Connell |
Review of James Skillen, The Nation’s Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West, and of Martin Nie, The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future | Debbie Lee |
Review of Heather Fryer, Perimeters of Democracy: Inverse Utopias and the Wartime Social Landscape in the American West | Audrey Goodman |
Review of Jace Weaver, Notes from a Miner’s Canary: Essays on the State of Native America | Reginald Dyck |
Review of Forrestine C. Hooker, Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers, ed. by Steve Wilson | Mary Clearman Blew |
Review of David Remley, Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man | Jennifer Schell |
Review of David Theis, ed., Literary Houston | Alexander Adkins |
Review of Rudolfo Anaya, Randy Lopez Goes Home | Cordelia E. Barrera |
Review of Hart Stilwell, Glory of the Silver King: The Golden Age of Tarpon Fishing, ed. by Brandon D. Shuler | Maria O’Connell |
Summer 2012 (vol. 47, no. 2):
Special Issue: Television in the West
ESSAYS | |
Introduction: Television and the Depiction of the American West | Michael K. Johnson |
The Dangers of Driving the Dalton: The Paradoxical Industrial and Environmental Aesthetics of Ice Road Truckers | Jennifer Schell |
She Hits Like a Man, but She Kisses Like a Girl: TV Heroines, Femininity, Violence, and Intimacy | Kerry Fine |
The Warp, Woof, and Weave of This Story’s Tapestry Would Foster the Illusion of Further Progress: Justified and the Evolution of Western Violence | Justin A. Joyce |
Rejuvenating “Eternal Inequality” on the Digital Frontiers of Red Dead Redemption | Sara Humphreys |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Alvin H. Marill, Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders | Cynthia J. Miller |
Review of Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran, eds., Investigating “Firefly” and “Serenity”: Science Fiction on the Frontier | Corey Dethier |
Review of Christine Cornea, ed., Genre and Performance: Film and Television | Sue Matheson |
Review of Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers, Ladies of the Western: Interviews with 25 Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s | Holly Jean Richard |
Review of Ed Andreychuk, Louis L’Amour on Film and Television | D. B. Gough |
Review of John L. Simons and Robert Merrill, Peckinpah’s Tragic Westerns: A Critical Study | Leonard Engel |
Review of Mary C. Beltrán, Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom and of Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media | Melinda Linscott |
Review of Manuel Muñoz, What You See in the Dark | John Hursh |
Fall 2012 (vol. 47, no. 3)
ESSAYS | |
Narrative, Being, and the Dialogic Novel: The Problem of Discourse and Language in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing | Alan Noble |
Speaking Chinook: Adaptation, Indigeneity, and Pauline Johnson’s British Columbia Stories | Martha L. Viehmann |
Before the West Was West: Rethinking the Temporal Borders of Western American Literature | Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Don Graham, State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents | Andrew Husband |
Paul Lindholdt, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau | Hal Crimmel |
Brady Harrison, ed., All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature | Capper Nichols |
William H. Truettner, Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America, 1710–1840 | Rebecca M. Lush |
Scott Richard Lyons, X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent | Daniel M. Radus |
John Lloyd Purdy, Riding Shotgun into the Promised Land | Dallin Jay Bundy |
Panthea Reid, Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles | Susanne George Bloomfield |
Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays | Janet Dean |
Hugh J. Reilly, Bound to Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars | William V. Lombardi |
Eamonn Wall, Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions | David Mogen |
Lydia R. Cooper, No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy | Trenton Hickman |
Dean Rader, Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI | Breanne Roberson |
Drucilla Wall, The Geese at the Gates | Joshua Doležal |
Summer Wood, Wrecker | Lawrence Coates |
Winter 2013 (vol. 47, no. 4)
ESSAYS | |
A Case for Enchantment: Re-reading Jean Stafford with “The Mountain Day” | Cathryn Halverson |
Writing against Wilderness: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Elite Environmental Justice | Karen L. Kilcup |
“What manner of heretic?”: Demons in McCarthy and the Question of Agency | J.A. Bernstein |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Christine Bold, ed., The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860–1920 | Tara Penny |
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, Un-speakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries | Joshua O’Brien |
Frances W. Kaye, Goodlands: A Meditation and History on he Great Plains | Robert Thacker |
Sara L. Spurgeon, ed., Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road | Christopher Schaberg |
Lawrence Rodgers and Jerrold Hirsch, eds., America’s Folklorist: B. A. Botkin and American Culture | Ennifer Eastman Attebery |
Lee Schweninger, ed., The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories | Udy Nolte Temple |
Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher, eds., Artifacts & lluminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley | Andrew Angyal |
Gerald W. Haslam with Janice E. Haslam, In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa | Frank Bergon |
Stephen Tatum, In the Remington Moment | Kenneth Haltman |
Clay S. Jenkinson, The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer n the Wilderness | Ryan Badger |
Mark Rifkin, When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, he History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty | Gabriel S. Estrada |
Scott Lauria Morgensen, Spaces be-tween Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization | Lisa Tatonetti |
Michael Hames-García, Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity and of David J. Vázquez, Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity | Maria Damon |
Kippra D. Hopper and Laurie J. Churchill, Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration | Kerry Fine |
Steven W. Hackel, ed., Alta California: Peoples in Motion, dentities in Formation | Anne Goldman |
Nicholas Monk, ed., Inter-textual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy | Darryl Hattenhauer |
James Karman, ed., The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Two, 1931–1939 | Tim Hunt |
Donald Pizer, ed., Hamlin Garland, Prairie Radical: Writings from he 1890s | Eric Morel |
Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement and of AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López, eds., Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own | Yolanda Padilla |
Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, eds., West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 | Lois Rudnick |
Patrick Madden, Quoti-diana: Essay | Brandon R. Schrand |
John Joseph Mathews, ed. by Susan Kalter, Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography | James H. Cox |
Willard Wyman, Blue Heaven | Dynette Reynold |
Robert Alexander González, Designing Pan-America: US Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere | Amanda Ellis |
Double Issue Spring & Summer 2013 (vol. 48, nos. 1&2)
INTRODUCTION | |
Assessing the Postwestern | Krista Comer, guest editor |
ESSAYS | |
Inhabiting the Icon: Shipping Containers and the New Imagination of Western Space | Sarah Hirsch |
Third Cinema Goes West: Common Ground for Film and Literary Theory in Postregional Discourse | Courtney Fellion |
Narcocorridos and the Nostalgia of Violence: Postmodern Resistance en la Frontera | Chris Muniz |
“‘Refusing to halt’: Mobility and the Quest for Spatial Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange | Sarah Wald |
Shaking Awake the Memory: The Gothic Quest for Place in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo | Paul Wickelson |
Settler Sovereignty and the Rhizomatic West, or, The Significance of the Frontier in Postwestern Studies | Alex Trimble Young |
“It All Comes Together” in … Reno?: Confronting the Postwestern Geographic Imaginary in Willy Vlautin’s The Motel Life | William V. Lombardi |
The Past and the Postwestern: Garland’s Cavanagh, Closure, and Conventions of Reading | Eric Morel |
Critical Regionalism, the US-Mexican War, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary History | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
“Might be going to have lived”: The West in the Subjunctive Mood | Andy Meyer |
Fall 2013 (vol. 48, no. 3)
From the Editor | Melody Graulich |
ESSAYS | |
Written on the Body: A Third Space Reading of Larry McMurtry’s Streets of Laredo | Cordelia E. Barrera |
“No Transient Spectacle”: Bayard Taylor, Wilderness Tourism, and the Re-creation of the United States | James Weaver |
“New England Innocent” in the Land of Sunshine: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and California | Jennifer S. Tuttle |
Panel Discussion: From Blood Simple to True Grit: A Conversation about the Coen Brothers’ Cinematic West | Neil Campbell, Susan Kollin, Lee Clark Mitchell, and Stephen Tatum |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Nicolas S. Witschi, A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West | David Wrobel |
Review of Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz, eds., The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro’s Western Experience | Emily Lutenski |
Review of David Rio, Amaia Ibarraran, and Martin Simonson, eds., Beyond the Myth: New Perspectives on Western Texts | O. Alan Weltzien |
Nina Baym, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 | Christie Smith |
Review of Denice Turner, Writing the Heavenly Frontier: Metaphor, Geography, and Flight Auto-biography in America 1927–1954 | Bernard Quetchenbach |
Review of Bill Mohr, Hold-Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948–1992 | Lisa Locascio |
Review of Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, eds., Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | Andrew Uzendoski |
Review of Ernest J. Finney, Sequoia Gardens: California Stories and of Lawrence Coates, The Garden of the World | Chris Muniz |
Review of Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem, The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx | Corey Dethier |
Review of Ned Buntline, The Hero of a Hundred Fights: Collected Stories from the Dime Novel King, from Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill Hickok | Adele H. Bealer |
Review of David Carpenter, A Hunter’s Confession | Henry Hudson |
Review of Daniel Worden, Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism | David Peterson |
Review of Patrick Hicks, ed., A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry | Jeffrey Howard |
Review of Melissa J. Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds, eds., Cather Studies 9: Willa Cather and Modern Cultures | Steven B. Shively |
Winter 2014 (vol. 48, no. 4)
ESSAYS | |
“Nothing but land”: Women’s Narratives, Gardens, and the Settler-Colonial Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback | Tom Lynch |
“Learn to talk Yaqui”: Mexico and the Cherokee Literary Politics of John Milton Oskison and Will Rogers | James H. CoX |
All the Pretty Mexican Girls: Whiteness and Racial Desire in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain | Jennifer A. Reimer |
Resisting the Border: Natural Narrative, Everyday Story | Pattie Cowell |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Nathan Straight, Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self: The Growth of Natural Biography in Contemporary American Life Writing | Tyler Nickl |
Review of Andrew Menard, Sight Unseen: How Frémont’s First Expedition Changed the American Landscape | Robert Thacker |
Review of Lori Lee Wilson, The Joaquín Band: The History behind the Legend | Elisa Warford |
Review of Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann, Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment | Linda Mizejewski |
Review of John Blair Gamber, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures | Kristin Ladd |
Review of Robin Troy, Liberty Lanes | Matthew Heimburger |
Review of Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09, with an introduction by Susan Bernardin | Anne L. Kaufman |
Review of Lois Palken Rudnick, The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Pyschoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture | Judy Nolte Temple |
Review of Martin Etchart, The Last Shepherd | David Río |
Review of A. Gabriel Meléndez and Francisco Lomelí, eds. and trans., The Writings of Eusebio Chacón | Laura Padilla |
Review of Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice | Monica Linford |
Review of Kathleen Johnson, Subterranean Red | Elizabeth Toombs |
Review of Larry McMurtry, Custer | Brian Dippie |
Review of Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson, eds., Willa Cather and Aestheticism: From Romanticism to Modernism | Max Despain |
Review of Elizabeth Dodd, Horizon’s Lens: My Time on the Turning World | Sarah Stoeckl |
Review of Julian Murphet and Mark Steven, eds., Style of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” | Alex Engebretson |
Review of Christopher Schaberg, The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight | Andy Hageman |
Review of Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn: Stories | D. Seth Horton |
Review of Rene S. Perez II, Along These Highways | Monica E. Montelongo |
Review of Greg Kuzma, Mountains of the Moon | Harald Wyndham |
Review of Glenn Frankel, The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend | Edwin Whitewolf |
Review of Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy | Loree Westron |
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
TOM LYNCH WAS THE EDITOR FOR THE ISSUES
FROM SPRING 2014 THROUGH SPRING 2021
Spring 2014 (WAL 49. 1)
Special Issue:
INDIGENOUS WESTS: LITERARY AND VISUAL AESTHETICS
Guest edited by Susan Bernardin
ESSAYS | |
The Significance of the Frontier in Comanche Poetry | Scott Andrews |
The End (of the Trail) Is the Beginning: Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone | John Gamber |
“This Is Our Playground”: Skateboarding, diy Aesthetics, and Apache Sovereignty in Dustinn Craig’s 4wheelwarpony | Joanna Hearne |
“Just by Doing It, We Made It Appear”: Dustinn Craig on We Shall Remain: Geronimo, 4wheelwarpony, and the Apache Scouts Project | Joanna Hearne with Dustinn Craig |
It’s a Good Day to Bike: Indigenous Futures in Ramona Emerson’s Opal | Susan Bernardin |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Chadwick Allen, Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies; Jodi A. Byrd, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism; and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations | Joseph Coulombe |
Joanna Hearne, Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising | Margaret Huettl |
Beth H. Piatote, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature | Nicole Tonkovich |
Ralph Salisbury, So Far So Good | David Christensen |
Liz Stephens, The Days Are Gods | George Handley |
Michael Sowder, House under the Moon | Danielle Beazer Dubrasky |
Stella Pope Duarte, Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories; and Demetria Martínez, The Block Captain’s Daughter | Laura Padilla |
Rudolfo Anaya, The Old Man’s Love Story | Sarah Stoeckl |
Charles L. Crow, History of the Gothic: American Gothic | Amber Bowden Whitlock |
Jennifer K. Ladino, Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature | Johanna R. Landis |
George Venn, Keeping the Swarm: New and Selected Essays | Laurie Ricou |
Robert L. Dorman, Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West | William V. Lombardi |
Janis Stout, South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History | Max Despain |
Summer 2014 (WAL 49. 2)
ESSAYS | |
The Chinaman’s Crime: Race, Memory, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s “The Affair at Grover Station” | Julia H. Lee |
From Mysteries to Manidoos: Language and Transformation in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | Linda Krumholz |
What’s So Critical about Critical Regionalism?: The Case of Fray Angélico Chávez’s New Mexico Triptych | Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Michael K. Johnson, Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West | Bryant Keith Alexander |
Review of Michael C. Steiner, Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West | Forrest G. Robinson |
Review of Wallis R. Sanborn, III, Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy | Maria O’Connell |
Review of Dr. Gordon Haber and Marybeth Holleman, Among Wolves: Gordon Haber’s Insights into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal | Anne Coray |
Review of Don Rearden, The Raven’s Gift | Eric Heine |
Review of Lisa Knopp, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte | Bernard Quetchenbach |
Review of Kayann Short, A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography | Evelyn Funda |
Review of Kim Stafford, 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared | Jenny Emery Davidson |
Fall 2014 (WAL 49.3)
ESSAYS | |
Far from the Pastoral Myth: Basque Sheepherders in Contemporary Western American Fiction | David Rio |
“The Sterility of their art”: Masculinity and the Western in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony | Lydia R. Cooper |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Amaia Ibarraran, Martin Simonson, and David Rio, eds., The Neglected West: Contemporary Approaches to Western American Literature | Nancy S. Cook |
Review of David L. Moore, That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America | O. Alan Weltzien |
Review of Michelle H. Raheja, Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film | Scott D. Emmert |
Review of James H. Cox, The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico | Lisa Tatonetti |
Review of Scott Knickerbocker, Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language | Robert Scott |
Review of William E. Tydeman, Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination | Jason Hertz |
Review of Don Waters, Sunland | Andrea Clark Mason |
Review of Gerald Vizenor, Chair of Tears | Andy Meyer |
Review of N. Scott Momaday, Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems | Matthias Schubnell |
Review of Mary K. Stillwell, The Life & Poetry of Ted Kooser | Scott Knickerbocker |
Review of Jackson J. Benson, Haunted: The Strange and Profound Art of Wright Morris, a Biography and a Photo Gallery | Rodney P. Rice |
Review of Evelyn I. Funda, Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament | Susan H. Swetnam |
Review of Jean Morgan Meaux, ed., In Pursuit of Alaska: An Anthology of Travelers’ Tales, 1879-1909 | Eric Heyne |
Review of R. Mark Liebenow, Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite | Scott Herring |
Review of SueEllen Campbell, et al., The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture | Ann E. Lundberg |
Review of William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest | Sharman Apt Russell |
Winter 2015 (WAL 49.4)
ESSAYS | |
John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism | John C. Havard |
The First Last Generation: Queer Temporality, Heteropatriarchy, and Cultural Reproduction in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero | Lee Bebout |
“A New American Adam?” White Western Masculinity and American Indians in Dan O’Brien’s Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch | Peter L. Bayers |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi, eds., Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern; and Paul Stasi and Jennifer Greiman, eds., The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire | Judy Nolte Temple |
Review of Don Lago, Canyon of Dreams: Stories from Grand Canyon History; and Lance Newman, ed., The Grand Canyon Reader | Hal Crimmel |
Review of Neil Campbell, Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West | James F. Scott |
Review of George Hart, Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness | Peter Quigley |
Review of Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbuster, eds., The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place | Sarah D. Wald |
Review of Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning | Susan Naramore Maher |
Review of Philipp Meyer, The Son | Don Scheese |
Review of Mark Busby, Cedar Crossing | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
Spring 2015 (WAL 50.1)
ESSAYS | |
A Chaotic and Dark Vitalism: A Case Study of Cormac McCarthy’s Psychopaths amidst a Geology of Immorals | Sean Braune |
Social Space and the Suburb in Mike Cahill’s King of California:Mapping Race, Neoliberalism, and Narratives of the Past in the Southern California Landscape | Emily Cheng |
New Frontiers for Post-Western Cinema: Frozen River, Sin Nombre, Winter’s Bone | Jesús Ángel González |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Review of Michael K. Johnson, Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West | Bryant Keith Alexander |
Review of Stephen Miller and José Pablo Villalobos, eds., Rolando Hinojosa’s Klair City Death Trip Series: A Retrospective, New Directions | Martín Camps |
Review of Brandon D. Shuler, Robert Johnson, and Erika Garza-Johnson, eds. New Border Voices: An Anthology | Cristina Herrera |
Review of Claudine Chalmers, Chronicling the West for Harper’s: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873-1874. | Jessica Dallow |
Review of Stephen J. Mexal. Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West | Nicolas S. Witschi |
Review of Linda Scarangella McNenly, Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney | Arnold Krupat |
Review of Wendy Harding, The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place | O. Alan Weltzien |
Review of Bernard Mergen, At Pyramid Lake | Jeffrey Chisum |
Review of Ken Lamberton, Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz | Hal Crimmel |
Andrew Gulliford, ed., Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology | Linda Helstern |
Review of Julia Corbett. Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West | Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy |
Review of Saúl Sánchez, Rows of Memory: Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker | Luis H. Moreno |
Review of Joshua Doleẑal. Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging | Gregory L. Morris |
Review of Tyra A. Olstad, Zen of the Plains: Experiencing Wild Western Places | Francis Moul |
Review of Iver Arnegard, Whip and Spur | Laura Rebecca Payne |
Summer 2015 (WAL 50.2)
ESSAYS | |
From the Editor: Fifty Years and Counting | Tom Lynch |
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in True Grit: The Lovelorn Character of Mattie Ross |
Lloyd M. Daigrepont |
Ruth Nichols, Sky Girl, and the Aerial Frontier | Fred Erisman |
“August on Sourdough”: An Archival View of Gary Snyder’s Intercultural Poetics | Andrew Hageman |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Susan Naramore Maher, Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains | Robert T. Tally Jr. |
John T. Price, The Tallgrass Prairie Reader | Matthew J. C. Cella |
Katheryn Cornell Dolan, Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905 | Daniel Clausen |
Michael L. Tate, editor; with the assistance of Will Bagley and Richard L. Rieck. The Great Medicine Road, Part 1: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trail, 1840-1848 | Deborah Lawrence |
Joshua B. Nelson, Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture | Phillip H. Round |
Maxine Oland, Siobhan M. Hart, and Liam Frink, eds., Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archeology | Ann E. Lundberg |
Manuel Broncano, Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands | Megan Riley McGilchrist |
Cathryn Halverson, Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives 1839-1987 | Margaret Doane |
Mark Asquith, The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories | Julie Scanlon |
David M. Wrobel, Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression | Susan Roberson |
David Gessner, All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West | Michael P. Branch |
Kim Bancroft, The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher | Gioia Woods |
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence | Eve Oishi |
Fall 2015 (WAL 50.3)
ESSAYS | |
Performing a Strategic Transborder Citizenship: Delfina Cuero Remaps Kumeyaay Presence through Storytelling and Place Naming | Annette Portillo |
The Only Cure Is a Dance: The Role of Night Swan in Silko’s Ceremony | Tara Causey |
“The man was forever looking for that which he never found”: The Western and Automotive Tourism in the Early Twentieth Century | Clinton Mohs |
REVIEW ESSAY | |
“Journeys to the Interior”Christopher Cokinos, Bodies, of the Holocene; Melissa Kwasny, Pictograph; Lisa D. Simon and Brady Harrison, eds., These Living Songs: Reading Montana Poetry; and Mary K. Stillwell, Maps and Destinations | Bernard Quetchenbach |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
A. Jennie Bartlett, Elder Northfield’s Home, or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar [1882], ed. Nicole Tonkovich; and W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Struggle for Mormon Whiteness | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
Scott McClintock and John Miller, eds., Pynchon’s California | Casey Shoop |
David Rio, New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction | Cheryll Glotfelty |
Robin Varnum, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer | Mary Docter |
Richard W. Etulain, The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane | Brett Westbrook |
Peter Gough, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West | Steven Garabedian |
Miles Wilson, Fire Season | Gerald W. Haslam |
Blake Allmendinger, The Melon Capital of the World: A Memoir | Linda K. Karell |
Bethany Schultz Hurst, Miss Lost Nation | Harald Wyndham |
Denise Chávez, The King and Queen of Comezón | Lydia Presley |
Kim Zupan, The Ploughmen | Nancy S. Cook |
Winter 2016 (WAL 50. 4)
ESSAYS | |
“Sensation’s Imperial Narratives: Affect in the US’s Democracy of Print, 1846-1848” | Jason Ahlenius |
“New Materialism, Ecomysticism, and the Resolution of Paradox in Edward Abbey” | David Tagnani |
“Laughing for Survival: Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Language in Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger” | João Paulo Guimarães |
REVIEW ESSAY | |
Review Essay “A Language for Vast Space”:
Mark Gonnerman, ed., A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End; ShaunAnne Tangney, ed., The Wild That Attracts Us: New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers
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Alan Williamson |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Anne L. Kaufman and Richard H. Millington, eds., Cather Studies 10: Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century | Kristen R. Egan |
Evelyn P. Mayer, Narrating North American Borderlands: Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher, and Jim Lynch | Albert Braz |
James W. Parins, Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906 | Clarissa W. Confer |
Molly K. Varley, Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity | Andrea Tinnemeyer |
Paul Seydor, The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah’s Last Western Film | Leonard Engel |
Mark J. Dworkin, American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta | William Katerberg |
Dan O’Brien, Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land | Franz Burnier |
Sharon Oard Warner, Sophie’s House of Cards: A Novel | Parley Ann Boswell |
Gaynell Gavin, Attorney-at-Large | Becky Faber |
Spring 2016 (WAL 51.1)
ESSAYS | |
“Too Vast, Too Complex, Too Grand”: Writing Space in John Wesley Powell’s Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons | José Liste Noya |
Resurrection after the “Blue Death”: Literature, Politics, and Ecological Redemption at Glen Canyon | Laura Smith |
“It had all become a natural condition”: California’s Garden Movement, Land Eugenics, and Naturalization in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland | Paul Formisano |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
James Karman, Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet; James Karman, ed., The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Three, 1940-1962 | ShaunAnne Tangney |
MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz, eds., The Western in the Global South | Susan Kollin |
Gary Scharnhorst, Owen Wister and the West | Bonney MacDonald |
Paul Lindholdt, Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design | O. Alan Weltzien |
Christina Robertson and Jennifer Westerman, eds., Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice | Daniel Clausen |
Paul Varner, ed., New Wests and Post-Wests: Literature and Film of the American West | Phillip A. Snyder |
Andrew Patrick Nelson, Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980 | Kevin L. Stoehr |
Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence | Michael H. Auterson |
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., ed., The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones | John Gamber |
Rudolfo Anaya, Poems from the Río Grande | Sandra Dahlberg |
Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey | Don Scheese |
Summer 2016 (WAL 51.2)
SPECIAL ISSUE: QUEER WESTS
Guest edited by Geoffrey Bateman
From the Editor | Tom Lynch |
ESSAYS | |
Queer Wests: An Introduction | Geoffrey Bateman |
Heterochronic West: Temporal Multiplicity in Bret Harte’s Regional Writing | Ryan Wander |
“Left All Alone in This World’s Wilderness”: Queer Ecology, Desert Spaces, and Unmaking the Nation in Frank Norris’s McTeague | Jada Ach |
“Say It Right, Say It Correct:” Documenting the American West in The Laramie Project | Tony R. Magagna |
“Turrrtle”: Displacing and Recovering a Queerly Gendered Body in Helena María Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them | Keri-ann Blanco |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Donnelyn Curtis and Lawrence I. Berkove, eds., Before The Big Bonanza: Dan De Quille’s Early Comstock Accounts | Cheryll Glotfelty |
Arnold R. Krupat, Companion to James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk | Lori Burlingame |
Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, eds., Oil Culture | Robert Lifset |
Lawrence Coates, Camp Olvido and The Goodbye House | Joe Plicka |
Richard Edwards, Natives of a Dry Place: Stories of Dakota Before The Oil Boom | Steven J. Bucklin |
Kyle Boelte, The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting. A Memoir | Kathleen Boardman |
Annick Smith, Crossing the Plains with Bruno | Susan H. Swetnam |
Fall 2016 (WAL 51.3)
ESSAYS | |
“My dear Judge”: Owen Wister’s Virginian, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Natural Law Conservatism | Stephen J. Mexal |
The Displaced Aristocrat as Tragic Hero in Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life | Myles Weber |
“Fables” of the Material World in James Ellroy’s Los Angeles | Joshua Meyer |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Carmen Boullosa, Cuando México se (re)apropia de Texas: Ensayos / When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays | Lorena Gauthereau |
Dominique Brégent-Heald, Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era | Camilla Fojas |
Karen R. Jones, Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West | Lydia R. Cooper |
Deborah Fleming, Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats’s Influence on Robinson Jeffers | Terence Diggory |
Steven M. Avella, Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism | Mark D. Ludwig |
Donna Coates, ed. Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre | Anne Nothof |
Tim Sullivan, Ways to the West: How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America’s Frontier | Carlos A. Schwantes |
Eric Magrane and Christopher Cokinos, eds., The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide | Jennifer Lair |
David G. Pace, Dream House on Golan Drive | Katherine Bahr |
Winter 2017 (WAL 51. 4)
From the Editor | Tom Lynch |
ESSAYS | |
Up from the Ground: Living with/in Petrocultures in the US and Canadian Wests | Jenny Kerber |
From Fields of Wheat to Fields of Value: The Energy Unconscious of The Octopus | Jeff Diamanti |
Reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias Triptych as Petrofiction | Brent Ryan Bellamy |
A Formal Spilling: Leaking and Leaching in Warren Cariou’s Petrography and “Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto” | Taylor McHolm |
Salvage Ecology: annie ross’s Forest One and Happy Birthday Super Cheaper | Deena Rymhs |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London; Joseph McAleer, Call of the Atlantic: Jack London’s Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916 | Susan Nuernberg |
Jan Whitt, The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West | Katherine R. Chandler |
Margery Fee, Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat | Jennifer Henderson |
Jean Toomer, A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play by Jean Toomer, edited by Carolyn J. Dekker | Bill D. Toth |
José Skinner, The Tombstone Race | Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán |
James Terry, Kingdom of the Sun: Stories | Evan Lavender-Smith |
Michael P. Branch, Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness | English Brooks |
Shaun T. Griffin, Anthem for a Burnished Land: What We Leave in this Desert of Work and Words | Jeffrey Chisum |
George Hodgman, Bettyville: A Memoir | Chase Dimock |
Sharon Butala, Wild Rose | Megan Riley McGilchrist |
Spring 2017 (WAL 52.1)
Special Issue: Settler Colonial Studies and Western American Culture
Guest edited by Alex Trimble Young and Lorenzo Veracini
ESSAYS | |
“If I am native to anything”: Settler Colonial Studies and Western American Literature | Alex Trimble Young and Lorenzo Veracini |
“Do We Reverse the Medal?”: Settler Guilt, the Indian Speech, and the Untold Side of the Story | Rebecca Weaver-Hightower |
Beyond Possession: Animals and Gifts in Willa Cather’s Settler Colonial Fictions | Alex Calder |
Animating the Indigenous, Colonial Affects, and “Going Native” in the City: Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles | Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne |
REVIEW ESSAY | |
Willa Cather Here and Now, Out West | Daryl W. Palmer |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West | Gioia Woods |
Lydia R. Cooper, Masculinities in Literature of the American West | James J. Donahue |
Sean P. Harvey, Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation Matthew N. Johnston, Narrating the Landscape: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century |
Andrew B. Ross |
Brenda Beckman-Long, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic | Wendy Roy |
Timothy G. Anderson, Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt | Pamela Gossin |
Julie Riddle, The Solace of Stones: Finding a Way through Wilderness | Nancy S. Cook |
Larry Watson, As Good as Gone: A Novel | Peter L. Bayers |
Patrick Madden, Sublime Physick | Russell Burrows |
Rudolfo Anaya, The Sorrows of Young Alfonso | Sandra Dahlberg |
Ron Hansen, The Kid | Richard W. Etulain |
Summer 2017 (WAL 52.2)
ESSAYS | |
A Failed Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the Indian: Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and the Power of Paratext | Kimberly E. Armstrong |
The Interconnected Bioregion: Transregional Networks in Mary Austin’s The Ford | John Peterson |
Amid the Mockingbird’s Laughter: Non-Indian Removals in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Depression-Era Novels | Amy S. Fatzinger |
REVIEW ESSAY | |
Cormac McCarthy: Prophecy and Metaphysics | Nell Sullivan |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions | Nicholas Bradley |
Jeffrey Bilbro, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature | Will Lombardi |
Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue,Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature | Crystal Parikh |
Ángel Chaparro Sainz and Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo, eds.,Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders | Stephen J. Mexal |
John E. Carter, ed., Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream | Audrey Goodman |
Ken Ilgunas,Trespassing across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike across the Heartland | Don Scheese |
Doreen Pfost, This River beneath the Sky: A Year on the Platte | Doug Meigs |
Richard Shelton, Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir | W. T. Pfefferle |
Shelley Armitage, Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place | Cynthia Brandimarte |
Melissa A. Sevigny, Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest | Hal Crimmel |
Fall 2017 (WAL 52.3)
Special Issue: Nature and Culture in (and Outside) the Academy
Guest edited by by Helena Feder
ESSAYS | |
Introduction | Helena Feder |
“The Universe is Imaginative”: The Art of David Robertson | Helena Feder with David Robertson |
The Culture of Arboretums, or, My Adventures with Tree People | Cheryll Glotfelty |
Poetry and Place in Hawai‘i: Notes from a Writer and Resident | Eric Shaffer |
Two Farming Cultures in the Sacramento Valley | Mike Madison |
Nature Meets Culture in California’s Central Valley | Jan Goggans |
When the Water Hits the Road: The Return of the Westslope Cutthroat | Scott Herring |
Alchemy | Laurie Glover |
Teaching with Wolves | Scott Slovic |
The Move West: Gary Snyder | Alan Williamson |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Victoria Lamont, Westerns: A Woman’s History | Cathryn Halverson |
Sarah D. Wald, The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl | Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao |
Steven Frye, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West | Geneva M. Gano |
Catherine Rainwater, ed., Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller: New Perspectives | René Dietrich |
Daniel Glick, dir., The Search for a Place to Stand: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Forging of a Life of Letters | Seth Michelson |
James Perrin Warren, Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists | David Thomas Sumner |
Red Shuttleworth, High Plains Fandango | Kathy L. Privatt |
Robert S. McPherson and Susan R. Neel, Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875, and Samuel Nugent Townshend and John George Hyde, Our Indian Summer in the Far West: An Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Indian Territory. Ed. by Alex Hunt and Kristin Loyd | Tom Huber |
Michael Engelhard, American Wild: Explorations from the Grand Canyon to the Arctic Ocean | Jennifer Schell |
Ernestine Hayes, The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir | Eric Heyne |
Alan Weltzien, Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes | Jeff L. Smoot |
Bruce L. Smith, Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places | Ashley E. Reis |
Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, eds. Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art | Daniel Arbino |
Linda LeGarde Grover, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives | Gwen N. Westerman |
Winter 2018 (WAL 52.4)
ESSAYS | |
Resistance to Containment and Conquest in Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Piutes and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? | A. Laurie Lowrance |
Literary Didacticism and Collective Human Rights in US Borderlands: Ana Castillo’s The Guardians and Louise Erdrich’s The Round House | Tereza M. Szeghi |
Wrighting the West: Leaving Marks in Frank X Walker’s York Poems | Jimmy Dean Smith |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Jennifer L. Jenkins, Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Southwest | George Porter Thomas |
Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel, eds., Breaking Down Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives | Maya Silver |
Billy J. Stratton, ed., The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion | Eric Gary Anderson |
Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary | Lori Burlingame |
Alan Louis Kishbaugh, Deep Waters: Frank Waters Remembered in Letters and Commentary | Jolene K. Buehrer |
John Nichols, The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! | Cory Willard |
Kevin Holdsworth, Good Water | Russ Beck |
Cindy Crosby, The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction | Laura Jackson |
Scott Abbott, Immortal for Quite Some Time | Johnny Townsend |
Jennifer A. Smith, Magpie’s Blanket: A Novel | Kurt E. Kinbacher |
Daryl Farmer, Where We Land: Stories | Rob Davidson |
Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, eds., Building Fires in the Snow | Robert Lipscomb |
Julie Hungiville LeMay, The Echo of Ice Letting Go and Matt Schumacher, Ghost Town Odes | Michael J. Beilfuss |
Daniel Simon, ed., Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867–2017 | Robert Brooke |
Spring 2018 (WAL 53.1)
Introduction: Pasts, Presents, Futures | Krista Comer and Susan Bernardin |
Genealogies | |
The Indigenous Erotics of Riding Bareback, or, the West Has Always Been Queer | Lisa Tatonetti |
Toward a Feminist Turn | Krista Comer |
Anthropocene Frontiers: The Place of Environment in Western Studies | Sylvan Goldberg |
Unhomely Wests | Stephen Tatum |
Keywords | |
Land | Cheryll Glotfelty |
Mexican | José Aranda |
Pedagogy | Randi Tanglen |
Postwestern | Susan Kollin |
Queer | Ryan Wander |
Regionality | Neil Campbell |
Settler | Alex Young |
Sovereignty | Kirby Lynn Brown |
Visuality | Audrey Goodman |
Methodologies | |
Lines of Sight in the Western | Joanna Hearne |
Outbreak from the Vaudeville Archive | Christine Bold |
Reviews | |
Daniel Robert King, Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author | Herb Thompson |
Jennifer Sinor, Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe | Luke Morgan |
Pete Fromm, The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds | O. Alan Weltzien |
Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart’s Starling | Nathaniel Otjen |
Jennifer Sinor, Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir | Gaynell Gavin |
Melvin R. Adams, Atomic Geography: A Personal History of the Hanford Reservation | Max Frazier |
Michael P. Branch, Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert | Jeremy Elliott |
Brit Bennett, The Mothers | Kalenda Eaton |
Summer 2018 (WAL 53.2)
ESSAYS | |
Social Critique in the Writings of Clarence King | G. A. Starr |
Modernist Mythologies: The Turquoise Trail Anthology and the Poets of Santa Fe | Michael S. Begnal |
Little House in Albania: Rose Wilder Lane and the Transnational Home | Donna Campbell |
“The seam of something else unnamed”: Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End | Neil Campbell |
REVIEWS | |
David J. Carlson, Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature | Jace Weaver |
Sara Dant, Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West | James E. Sherow |
Tadeusz Lewandowski, Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša | Julianne Newmark |
James Perrin Warren, Placing John Haines | John Knott |
Richard W. Etulain, Ernest Haycox and the Western | Daniel Worden |
Rilla Askew, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place | Lindsey Claire Smith |
Marc Beaudin, Seabring Davis, and Max Hjortsberg, editors, Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone | Nathaniel Lewis |
Mark Spitzer, Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West | Cory Willard |
Michael Tate, editor, The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, Part 3: 1850–1855 | Deborah Lawrence |
George Venn, editor, Beaver’s Fire: A Regional Portfolio (1970-2010) | Eleanor Berry |
Fall 2018 (WAL 53.3)
ESSAYS | |
The Pandora’s Box of Solomon Carvalho: Ethnic Transformation in the Age of Manifest Destiny | Scott Palmer |
The Museum as West and West as Museum: The Micro–Politics of Museum Display in George Catlin’s Vanishing American Indians | Nilak Datta |
Alternative Histories of the Old Indian Territory: John Milton Oskison’s Outlaw Hypotheses | Jenna Hunnef |
“I Think a Look at the West Would Do You Good”: Queer Visibility and Mythological Refuge in The Price of Salt | Lindsay Stephens |
BOOK REVIEWS | |
Michael Lynn Crews, Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences | Aihua Chen |
Antonio C. Márquez. Volver: A Persistence of Memory | Elena V. Valdez |
Phillip Garrison, What the Pig Said to Jesus: On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life | Louis Mendoza |
Robert Coover, Huck Out West: A Novel | Alex Hunt |
Winter 2019 (WAL 53.4)
ESSAYS | |
“We Ain’t a Christian Outfit”: Protestantism and Secularism in the Formation of the Popular Western Novel | Ben Nadler |
Sounding Silence in Sundown: Survivance Ecology and John Joseph Mathews’s Bildungsroman | April Anson |
The Child and the Latina Immigrant: Reimagining the Southern California Imaginary in Héctor Tobar’s The Barbarian Nurseries | Sarah Ropp |
REVIEWS | |
Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith, eds., An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson
Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith, eds., Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson |
Helmbrecht Breinig |
Linda Ray Pratt, Great Plains Literature | Matthew J. C. Cella |
Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum, Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West | Jeffrey Chisum |
Stacey Peebles, Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen | Nell Sullivan |
Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel, eds., The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives | David Sterritt |
Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | English Brooks |
Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal | Mary Clearman Blew |
John Nichols, My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose | Russell Burrows |
Christine Granados, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children | Diana Noreen Rivera |
Jonis Agee, The Bones of Paradise | Diane D. Quantic |
Spring 2019 (WAL 54.1)
Special Issue: THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC LANDS IN THE CONTEMPORARY US WEST
Guest Editor: Jennifer Ladino
ESSAYS | |
Introduction: Setting the Stage for Justice: The Politics of Public Lands in the Contemporary US West | Jennifer Ladino |
Revisiting the Radical Middle (What’s Left of It)
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Stephanie LeMenager and Marsha Weisiger |
“Trespassing in sovereign territory”: Place, Patriarchy, and the Ideology of Public Lands in Longmire | Luke Morgan |
Performing the Empty Archive: Feeling and Public Lands in the Bundy Case and Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon, Inc. | Meagan Meylor |
The President Stole Your Land: Public Lands and the Settler Commons | April Anson
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#EquityOutdoors: Public Lands and the Decolonial Mediascape | Ashley E. Reis |
REVIEWS | |
Natchee Blu Barnd, Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism | Mika Kennedy |
Michael Snyder, John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer | Frances W. Kaye |
Christian Knoeller, Reimagining Environmental History: Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change | William Barillas |
Jeb Rosebrook, Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah in the Summer of 1971 | Leonard Engel |
Steven Frye, Understanding Larry McMurtry | John E. Dean |
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, That Guy Wolf Dancing | Kathleen Danker |
Armistead Maupin, Logical Family: A Memoir | Robert Kellerman |
Michael P. Branch, How to Cuss in Western (And Other Missives from the High Desert) | Paul Lindholdt |
Gertrude Skivington, Echevarria | Hank Nuwer |
Summer 2019 (WAL 54.2)
Special Issue: WRITING THE GLOBAL WESTERN: CIRCULATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE AMERICAN WEST IN WORLD LITERATURE
Guest editors: Christopher Conway and David Rio
ESSAYS | |
Introduction: The Case for Transnationalism in the American Literary West | Christopher Conway and David Rio |
What West? Worlding the Western in Hernan Diaz’s In the Distance | Neil Campbell |
Captives on the Frontier: Perla Suez and the Cultural Genealogies of the Argentinian Western | Christopher Conway |
The American West as a Space of Re-Inscription: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Polish Adaptation of Mayne Reid’s The Headless Horseman | Marek Paryz |
The Norwegian Imagination of the American West as Presented in Louis Masterson’s Morgan Kane | Karoline Aksnes |
A Basque Chronicle of Nine Months in the New West: Bernardo Atxaga’s Nevada Days | David Rio |
Doomed Quests in the Old West: An Interview with Dominique Scali, Author of In Search of New Babylon | Victoria Addis |
REVIEWS | |
Amanda J. Zink, Fictions of Western Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950 | Cathryn Halverson |
Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment | Linda Garcia Merchant |
Gary Scharnhorst, The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years 1835-1871 | Bonney MacDonald |
Anthony Shafton, The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Jeffrey Chisum |
Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien, eds., Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time | John Shoptaw |
Gary Lantz, Heart Stays Country: Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills | Jim Hoy |
Mary Clearman Blew, Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin | O. Alan Weltzien |
Jeff Metcalf, Back Cast: Fly-Fishing and Other Such Matters | Cory Willard |
Denise Low, The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival | Lisa King |
Fall 2019 (WAL 54.3)
ESSAYS | |
The Other “Others”: The construction of the West in José Mallorquí’s El Coyote | Amaia Ibarrarán-Bigalondo |
Foundational Myths and National Identity in European Transnational Post-Westerns | Jesús Ángel González |
Make Settler Fantasy Strange Again: Unsettling Normative White Masculinity in Robert E. Howard’s Weird West | Travis Franks |
REVIEWS | |
Mark Rifkin, Beyond Settler Sovereignty: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination | Penelope Kelsey |
Katherine Ann Roberts, West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative | Johannes Fehrle |
Amy T. Hamilton, Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature | Beth Boyens |
Charles J. Shields, The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life | John Plotz |
Daniel Davis, Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew J. Russell | Emily J. Rau |
Tracy Daugherty, Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society | Don Graham |
Michael K. Johnson, Can’t Stand Still: Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance | O. Alan Weltzien |
Neil Campbell, ed., Under the Western Sky: Essays on the Fiction and Music of Willy Vlautin | Justin St. Clair |
Winter 2020 (WAL 54.4)
ESSAYS | |
Property and the Ideology of Improvement in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don and California Travel Narratives | Valerie Sirenko |
Homes On-the-Road, Terrorized Cabins, and Prophetic Nightmare-scapes: Emma J. Ray’s Unsettling Western Fantasies | Shelly Jarenski |
Willa Cather’s Southwestern Grave Robbers | Carolyn Dekker |
REVIEWS | |
Jennifer K. Ladino, Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites | Teresa Bergman |
Annette Angela Portillo, Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women’s Autobiography | Alicia Cox |
Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino, eds., Affective Ecocriticism | Patrick D. Murphy |
Justin A. Joyce, Gunslinging Justice: The American Culture of Violence in Westerns and the Law | Marek Paryz |
Laura K. Davis and Linda M. Moria, eds., Margaret Laurence & Jack McClelland Letters | Frances W. Kaye |
Kenneth K. Brandt, Jack London | Earle Labor |
Frank Bergon, Two-Buck Chuck and The Marlboro Man: The New Old West | Gregory L. Morris |
Louise O’Connor, Wild Rose: The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Early Historian of Texas | Sally Ann Schutz |
Don Graham, Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film | Daniel Worden |
Edward Lueders, The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah | Shelby E. E. Grauberger |
Kimberly G. Wieser, Texas . . . To Get Horses | Geary Hobson |
Julia Corbett, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday | John Tallmadge |
Spring 2020 (WAL 55.1)
Carceral Colonialism in Arizona Territory |
Joe Lockard |
Variations of Time: The Crafting of Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs through It” |
George H. Jensen and Heidi Skurat Harris |
Survivalism, the Jeremiad and the Settler Colonial Utopian Imaginary in James Wesley Rawles’s Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse |
Brittany Henry |
REVIEWS | |
Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide, eds., Cormac McCarthy’s Violent Destinies: The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism |
Nell Sullivan |
Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks, eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion |
Alicia Cox |
Terry Beers, The End of Eden: Agrarian Spaces and the Rise of the California Social Novel |
Lawrence Coates |
Kerry Driscoll, Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples |
Joseph L. Coulombe |
James Maynard, Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime |
Joshua Hoeynck |
Shaun T. Griffin, Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet |
Bernard Quetchenbach |
Téa Obreht, Inland |
Margaret Doane |
Summer 2020 (WAL 55.2)
Gunshots, Indian Scouts, and Train Robberies: Frontier Mythology in William Dean Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes | Margie Judd |
Queering the Waters: The Subversive Potential in E. Pauline Johnson’s Canoe | Kristen Brown |
Pretty Shield’s Thumbprint: Body Politics in Paratextual Territory | Amy Gore |
REVIEWS | |
Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray, eds., Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial | Regina Marie Mills |
Robert Nichols, Theft Is Property: Dispossession and Critical Theory | Caitlin Simmons |
Peter Quigley, The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts | David Copland Morris |
Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee, eds., Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy | Raymond Pierotti |
Leslie Miller and Louise Excell, eds., Reimagining a Place for the Wild | James Barilla |
John Gifford, Red Dirt Country: Field Notes and Essays on Nature | Rodney Rice |
Nick Neely, Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State | Alan Weltzien |
Mary Clearman Blew, Sweep Out the Ashes: A Novel | Evelyn Funda |
Rebecca Wigod, He Speaks Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering | Miriam Nichols |
Fall 2020 (WAL 55.3)
Plotting Class: A Marxist Introduction to “Trio” Westerns | Jerry D. Leonard |
“Young America” and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing | Anthony Hutchison |
“He’s a ghost. But he’s out there”: Borderlands Science Fiction and the Gothic in No Country for Old Men | Micah K. Donahue |
REVIEWS | |
Dean J. Franco, The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles | Richard T. Rodríguez |
Guy J. Reynolds, ed. Willa Cather and the Arts | Holly Blackford |
Gary Scharnhorst, The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871-1891 | Nicolas S. Witschi |
Donald Anderson, Below Freezing: Elegy for the Melting Planet | Daryl W. Palmer |
Bernard Quetchenbach, Accidental Gravity: Residents, Travelers, and the
Landscape of Memory |
Ryan McWilliams |
Winter 2021 (WAL 55.4)
History and Bakhtin’s Chronotopes in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop | Molly Metherd |
Pragmatist Individuals and the Nineteenth-Century American West in
Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose and John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing |
Gregory Alan Phipps |
The Metahybrid Environment: Rewilding, Religion, and the Buffalo Commons Novel | Jerome Tharaud |
REVIEWS | |
Cathryn Halverson, Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly | Susan Goodman |
Josh Garrett-Davis, What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination | Richard Aquila |
Erin Murrah-Mandril, In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition | Guadalupe Escobar |
Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips, eds. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond | Cathryn Halverson |
Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith, eds. Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz | Nicole Gray |
Frank Bergon, The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West, a Personal History | Elliott J. Gorn |
Charles Bowden, Dakotah: The Return of the Future | Maria O’Connell |
Jennifer Sinor, Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World | Gaynell Gavin |
Spring 2021 (WAL 56.1)
Solitary Walking as Feminist Practice: Mary Austin’s “The Walking Woman” and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild | Nina Bannett |
A Body Without a Story: The Immortal Spectacle in The Ballad of Little Jo | Shelby E. E. Grauberger |
“There Is No Plan B”: Anthropocene Architecture in T. C. Boyle’s The Terranauts | John Schwetman |
REVIEWS | |
Lee Clark Mitchell, Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre | Rebecca Trammell Couch |
Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West | Maura Bradshaw |
Steven L. Davis, ed., The Essential J. Frank Dobie | William Jensen |
Alan Weltzien, Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage | Paul Lindholdt |
Cherrie Moraga, Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir | Sandra K. Soto |
Joanna Pocock, Surrender: The Call of the American West | Alan Weltzien |
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem | Deborah A. Miranda |
DJ Lee, Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots | Linda Karell |
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