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1966-1977
Spring 1966 (vol. 1, no. 1)

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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Tables of Contents

2010-2013

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	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)	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
#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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Western American Literature (WAL)

(The Journal)

Black Lives Matter