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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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