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Tables of Contents
2005–Winter 2010
Spring 2005 (vol. 40, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Crossing the Frontier: Hollow Men, Modernist Militias, and Mixedblood Mimesis in Louis Owens’s Dark River | Stuart Christie |
| The Argonauts of ’49: Class, Gender, and Partnership in Bret Harte’s West | Matthew A. Watson |
| Seeing a Corner of the Sky in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers without End | Julia Martin |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Authenticity, the West, and Literature | Lee Clark Mitchell |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Margaret Bell, When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood and Mary Clearman Blew and Imogene Welch, Writing Her Own Life: Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher |
Evelyn I. Funda |
| Dean Rader and Janice Gould, eds., Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry | Angie Kritenbrink |
| Laurie Ricou, The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest | John Cleman |
| Carol J. Williams, Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest and Mary Murphy, Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942 | Lisa MacFarlane |
| Char Miller, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism | Corey Lewis |
| Joy Passanante, My Mother’s Lovers | Jane Varley |
| John A. Byers, Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn | Ben Quick |
| Eric L. Clements, After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona:Decline in Western Resource Towns | Robert Murray Davis |
| Dwight M. Miller, ed., Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier: Five Perspectives | Laura Cuozzo |
| Alexander Huber and Heinz Zak, Yosemite: Half a Century of Dynamic Rock Climbing | Mikel Vause |
Summer 2005 (vol. 40, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| America Is a Diet Pepsi: Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues | Blythe Tellefsen |
| Closure in Mark Spragg’s Where Rivers Change Direction | Brian Dillon |
| “Discovering” New Talent: Charles F. Lummis’s Conflicted Mentorship of Sui Sin Far, Sharlot Hall, and Mary Austin |
Joe Staples |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| F. Marina Schauffler, Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion | John Tallmadge |
| Linda Lawrence Hunt, Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk across Victorian America | Brandon R. Schrand |
| Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, ed., Louis Owens: Literary Reflections on His Life and Work | David Mogen |
| Seth Kantner, Ordinary Wolves | Eric Heyne |
| Michael Sowder, The Empty Boat: Poems | Theodore Haddin |
| Devon Abbott Mihesuah, Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism | Patrice Hollrah |
| Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum, eds., Reading The Virginian in the New West | Christine Bold |
| Sanora Babb, Whose Names Are Unknown | Douglas Wixson |
| Vickie Leigh Krudwig, Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People | Jennifer Eastman Attebery |
| Richard V. Francaviglia, Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin | Edgar H. Thompson |
| Lawrence Coates, The Master of Monterey | Lois Ann Goossen |
| Sean Belanger, Savage Mountain: A Novel of the Yosemite | Scott Herring |
| Kent Nelson, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still | Diane D. Quantic |
| Kent Meyers, The Work of Wolves | David Cremean |
Scott Herring, Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks |
Brooke Ann Smith |
Fall 2005 (vol. 40, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| It’s About Time Somebody Out Here Wrote the Truth: Betty Bard MacDonald and North/Western Regionalism |
Beth Kraig |
| Western Myth and the End of History in the Novels of Douglas Coupland |
William H. Katerberg |
| E-race-d Presences in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love | Kenneth Speirs |
| Plenary Houston 2003: | |
| The Role of Place in Mexican American Culture |
José Aranda |
| A Border Life by the Book |
Ramón Saldívar |
| Mujeres Testimoniando: No Neutral Position |
Sonia Saldívar-Hull |
| Presentation of the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award |
Krista Comer |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Three Bicentennial Perspectives on Lewis and Clark |
Jason Williams |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Kevin Starr, Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 | Charles L. Crow |
| John Price, Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grassland | Matthew Cella |
| Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, eds., African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000 | Michael K. Johnson |
| Terry Tempest Williams, The Open Space of Democracy | Tara Penry |
| Rigoberto González, Crossing Vines: A Novel |
Daniel R. Martinez |
| Nathaniel Lewis, Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship | Jefferson D. Slagle |
| Jeff Karem, The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures | David A. Allred |
| Edward F. Ricketts, Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts.Ed. by Katherine A. Rodger | Michael J. Meyer |
James Ward Lee, Adventures with a Texas Humanist |
Robert Murray Davis |
| NOTE OF INTEREST | |
| Creating an Indian Place on the American Mall: National Museum of the American Indian | Reginald B. Dyck |
Winter 2006 (vol. 40, no. 4)
| INTRODUCTION | |
| Special Issue Editor | Renny Christopher |
| ESSAYS | |
| The Pacific Northwest and the Post-Colonial Imagination: Robert Cantwell’s The Hidden Northwest |
John Trombold |
| Dana Gioia Is Wrong about Cowboy Poetry |
Barney Nelson |
| Thomas McGrath, T. S. Eliot, and the Commissars of Culture | Ian Peddie |
| ESSAY REVIEWS | |
| “We Almost Killed Ourselves with Rage”: Working-Class Lives in Recent American Writing |
Wendell Ricketts |
| The New West in Contemporary Western Working-Class Poetry: 1990–2005 | Julia Stein |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Mark Dean Johnson, ed., At Work: The Art of California Labor |
M. Elizabeth Boone |
| Wendell Ricketts, ed., Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More or Less Gay Life |
Gerald Haslam |
| Janet Zandy, Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work |
Vanessa Hall |
| Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, eds., WOBBLIES! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World |
Martha A. Sandweiss |
| Joel Daehnke, In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930 |
Jenny Emery Davidson |
| Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 |
Jenny Whisenhunt |
| Richard Logsdon, Todd Scott Moffett, and Tina D. Eliopulos, eds., In the Shadow of the Strip: Las Vegas Stories |
Heather Robison |
| Martin Padget, Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1935 |
Sara L. Spurgeon |
| Tracy Daugherty, Five Shades of Shadow |
Neil P. Baird |
| Diana Lindsay, ed., Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles: An Experiment in Primitive Living |
Thomas J. Lyon |
Spring 2006 (vol. 41, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| “She and I Are Molecules”: The Disabled Body in Denise Chávez’s The Last of the Menu Girls |
Elizabeth J. Wright |
| Home on the Fringe:“Western” Autobiography, 1936–1937 |
Cathryn Halverson |
| Jack London’s “South of the Slot” and William James’s “The Divided Self and the Process of Its Unification” | Patrick K. Dooley |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Western Women’s Biographies |
Susan Armitage |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, John William Byrd, and Bobby Byrd, eds., Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera | Megan Sibbett Inclán |
| Katherine R. Chandler and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, eds., Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams: New Critical Essays |
David Messmer |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Crux: A Novel, ed. and with an intro. by Jennifer S. Tuttle and Charlotte Perkins Gilman,The Crux, with an intro. by Dana Seitler |
Randi Tanglen |
| SueEllen Campbell, Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace in an Age of Extinction | Angela Waldie |
| Leonard Engel, ed., Sam Peckinpah’s West: New Perspectives | Brian McCuskey |
| O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher, eds., Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction | Paul Bogard |
| Jim Kitses, Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood | Leonard Engel |
| Ladette Randolph, ed., A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers | Becky Faber |
| Peter Donahue and John Trombold, eds., Reading Seattle: The City in Prose |
O. Alan Weltzien |
| Gary Ferguson, The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind | Ben Quick |
| David Gessner, Sick of Nature | Robert Murray Davis |
| Sylvia Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger, eds., Let’s Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers |
Carmen Pearson |
| Paul S. Piper and Stan Tag, eds., Father Nature: Fathers as Guides to the Natural World | Sarah Vause |
Summer 2006 (vol. 41, no. 2)
| From the Editor |
Melody Graulich |
| ESSAYS | |
| Remedial Aesthetics |
Nathaniel Lewis |
| Spectral Beauty and Forensic Aesthetics in the West |
Stephen Tatum |
| Engaging the Politics and Pleasures of Indigenous Aesthetics |
Chadwick Allen |
| Moving Stories: Visualization, Mise-en-scène, and Native American Fiction |
John Purdy |
| ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
| The Arrival of Regions: The Blackwell Companion to the Regional Literatures of America |
Jeremy Wells |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
| Stephanie LeMenager, Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States |
Nicole Tonkovich |
| Jane Varley, Flood Stage and Rising and Thomas Fox Averill, Ordinary Genius |
Jennifer Henderson |
| Deborah Paes De Barros, Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women’s Road Stories |
Stephanie LeMenager |
| Martin Bucco, Sinclair Lewis as Reader and Critic |
Sanford E. Marovitz |
| Michael K. Johnson, Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature |
Kathryn West |
| Amelia María de la Luz Montes and Anne Elizabeth Goldman, eds., María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives |
María C. González |
| Robert Murray Davis, The Ornamental Hermit: People and Places of the New West |
Neil Campbell |
| Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis, eds., Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West |
Beth Kalikoff |
| Bernard DeVoto, DeVoto’s West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good, ed. by Edward K. Muller |
Charles Waugh |
| Cathryn Halverson, Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West 1900–1936 |
Jennifer Dawes Adkison |
| David Axelrod, Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West and John Daniel, Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone |
Kathleen Boardman |
| Charles Bowden, A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior |
David Cremean |
| Roberta Price, Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture | Robert Murray Davis |
Fall 2006 (vol. 41, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Riddle of Ghost Towns in the Environmental Imagination |
Cheryll Glotfelty |
| All the Pretty Horses: Cormac McCarthy’s Reading of For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Dennis Cutchins |
| Embodying the Indian: Rethinking Blood, Culture, and Identity in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney |
Christopher Nelson |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| “The Like of Which Is Found Nowhere Else in All the World”: Placing and Imagining an African American West |
Michael K. Johnson |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWER |
| Rick Van Noy, Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place |
Kent C. Ryden |
| Brewster E. Fitz, Silko: Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman |
Joshua Dolezal |
| Philip J. Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places |
Nancy Cook |
| Maureen Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 |
Nicole Tonkovich |
| Jennifer Henderson, Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada |
Connie Brim |
| Elvira Pulitano, Toward a Native American Critical Theory |
Gregory Wright |
| Mary Cimarolli, The Bootlegger’s Other Daughter |
Angie Kritenbrink |
Lauren Coodley, ed., |
Lawrence Coates |
| David J. Wishart, ed., Encyclopedia of the Great Plains |
Brian W. Dippie |
Daniel J. Philippon, Conserving Words: |
Jim Dwyer |
| Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren, eds., East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture |
Joel Miyasaki |
| Joel Pfister, Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern |
Linda Lizut Helstern |
| Dayton O. Hyde, The Pastures of Beyond: An Old Cowboy Looks Back at the Old West |
Stephen Cook |
Winter 2007 (vol. 41, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Under the Neon Worm: Ideological Consciousness and Code Switching in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream |
John Wegner |
| How the West Was Whitened: “Racial” Difference on Cather’s Prairie |
Jean C. Griffith |
| The Mythology of the Buffalo Commons in Proulx’s That Old Ace in the Wall and King’s Truth & Bright Water |
Matthew J. C. Cella |
| ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
| Disappearing Fathers and Domineering Mothers: Biography in the Canadian West |
Dick Harrison |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
| Kathleen A. Boardman and Gioia Woods, eds., Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West |
Judy Nolte Temple |
| Marilee Lindemann, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather and Janis P. Stout, Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World |
Evelyn I. Funda |
| Lisa Lenard-Cook, Coyote Morning and Rudolfo Anaya, Serafina’s Stories |
Andrea Tinnemeyer |
| Jonathan Johnson, Hannah and the Mountain: Notes Toward a Wilderness Fatherhood |
Sanford E. Marovitz |
| Don Lago, On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America |
Jennifer Eastman Attebery |
| Sharon Butala, Lilac Moon |
Megan Riley McGilchrist |
| W. K. Stratton, Chasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man’s Search for the West |
Liz Stephen |
| Mary Clearman Blew and Phil Druker, eds., Forged in Fire: Essays by Idaho Writers |
Brandon Schrand |
| Chelsea Blackbird and Barney Nelson, eds., Mary Austin’s Southwest: An Anthology of Her Literary Criticism |
Sara Spurgeon |
| David Strohmaier, Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire |
Sheldon Lawrence |
| Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life |
Charles Crow |
| Aaron Abeyta, As Orion Falls | Wayne Sheldrake |
Spring 2007 (vol. 42, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Winning the West in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s
Black Mesa Poems |
Bernard Quetchenbach |
| Looking at the Big Picture:
Percival Everett’s Western Fiction |
Michael K. Johnson |
| “Ineffectual Chase”: Indians, Prairies, Buffalo,
and the Quest for the Authentic West in
Washington Irving’s A Tour on the Prairies |
Mark K. Burns |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
| Alan Williamson,
Westernness: A Meditation |
Diane Quantic |
| Sara L. Spurgeon,
Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier and Dan Moos, Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging |
Patrick J. Walsh |
| Jessica G. Rabin,
Surviving the Crossing: (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and
Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen; Lionel Rolfe,
The Uncommon Friendship of
Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather |
Matthew Lavin |
| Thomas H. Pauly, Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women |
David Fenimore |
| Brian McGinty,
The Oatman Massacre:
A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival |
Wendy Witherspoon |
| Lawrence Buell,
The Future of Environmental Criticism:
Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination |
Nathan C. Crook |
| Rose Castillo Guilbault,
Farmworker’s Daughter:
Growing Up Mexican in America |
Melissa Bowles |
| Verne Huser, ed.,
River Reflections:
A Collection of River Writings |
Katherine Fischer |
| Ken Egan Jr.,
Hope and Dread in Montana Literature |
Vanessa Hall |
| Gail Caldwell,
A Strong West Wind |
Edith B. Vandervoort |
| Stephen R. Jones,
The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal |
Sarah Hulme Hill |
| Lesley Poling-Kempes, Ghost Ranch | Rod Streng |
| Jim Reese, These Trespasses | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Jackson J. Benson, The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Joseph M. Flora |
| Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock, The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears | Sarah E. McFarland |
| Susan Lang,
Juniper Blue |
Nancy Owen Nelson |
| Andrew Wingfield, Hear Him Roar: A Novel | Harriet Rafter |
| Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, eds., Hollywood’s West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History;Angela Aleiss, Making the White Man’s Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies | Robert Murray Davis |
Summer 2007 (vol. 42, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Sight in the Sound:
Seeing and Being Seen in The Lone Ranger Radio Show |
Chadwick Allen |
| Against Nostalgia:
Turning the Page of Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain |
Trenton Hickman |
| Bringing Contexts Closer:
James Welch Rewrites Elio Vittorini’s In Sicily |
Roberta Orlandini |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| A New Day in the Study of Western
Women’s Experience:
Who’ll Follow? |
Susan H. Swetnam |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
J. Scott Bryson,
The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry |
Laurie Ricou |
| Albert L. Hurtado, John Sutter:
A Life on the North American Frontier |
David Fenimore |
| Liza J. Nicholas,
Becoming Western: Stories of Culture
and Identity in the Cowboy State |
Sara Humphreys |
| Carl Abbott, Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction
and the American West |
David Mogen |
| Lee Rozelle, Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror
from New World to Oddworld |
Nicholas Lawrence |
| Terry Gifford,
Reconnecting with John Muir:
Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice |
Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy |
| Arthur J. Bachrach, D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico: “The
Time Is Different There” |
Earl Ganz |
| Peter Richardson, American Prophet: The Life & Work
of Carey McWilliams |
Forrest G. Robinson |
| W. Scott Olsen, At Speed: Traveling the Long Road between
Two Points |
Kathe Lison |
| Ann Ronald, Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations |
Mary Clearman Blew |
| Alberto Ríos, The Theater of Night |
Maria Melendez |
Fall 2007 (vol. 42, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Casa Grande, the Ruin of Expectations |
Ann E. Lundberg |
| My Ántonia and the Making
of the Great Race |
Linda Lizut Helstern |
| Imagining Bigfoot |
Gregory L. Morris |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| The Languages of Landscape:
Contemporary Writing from the West |
Susan Naramore Maher |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
José R. López Morín,
The Legacy of Américo Paredes |
Javier Rodríguez |
| Jovita González, Life along the Border: A Landmark Tejana Thesis | Javier Rodríguez |
| Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson, eds.,
Race, Religion, Region:
Landscapes of Encounter in the American West |
Diane Quantic |
| Andrea Tinnemeyer,
Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 |
Marissa López |
| Charlotte Hogg,
From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community |
Liz Rohan |
| Ivan Doig,
The Whistling Season |
O. Alan Weltzien |
| William Kittredge, The Willow Field | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler,
Frank Norris: A Life |
Harriet Rafter |
| Gerald W. Haslam,
Grace Period |
Andrew Wingfield |
| Richard C. Blum, Erica Stone, and Broughton Coburn, eds., Himalaya: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge, and Hope | Mikel Vause |
| Kingsley M. Bray, Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life | Julie Foster |
| Steve Hendricks, The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country | Julie Foster |
| Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle | John Trombold |
| John-Michael Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in US Culture | Sandra L. Dahlberg |
| Tom Lynch, ed., El Lobo: Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf | Sherry Booth |
| Deborah A. Carmichael, ed., The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre | Robert Murray Davis |
Winter 2008 (vol. 42, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| The White Nomad and the New Masculine Family
in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road |
Victoria Elmwood |
| The Frontier Origins of North American
Realism:
Metarealism and the Travel Writings of
Susanna Moodie and Caroline Kirkland |
Noreen Groover Lape |
| Lessons from the Past:
The Cliff Dwellers and New Historicism |
Michael Tavel Clarke |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Toward Red Readings in Literature,
History, and Film |
Janis Johnson and Georgia Grady Johnson |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
Robert Thacker,
Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives |
Doug Werden |
| Luis G. Gómez, Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant’s Life in the 1880s | Rodrigo Lazo |
| Vincent Pérez, Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest | Rodrigo Lazo |
| Jane E. Simonsen, Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860–1919 | Donelle Dreese |
| Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt, eds., Body My House: May Swenson’s Work and Life | Sarah Stoeckl |
| Dagoberto Gilb, ed., Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature | Bernard Quetchenbach |
| Jim Stiles, Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed | James M. Cahalan |
| Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon, eds., John Graves, Writer | Clay Reynolds |
| María Meléndez, How Long She’ll Last in This World | Pamela St. Clair |
| Robert Laxalt, Sweet Promised Land | David Rio |
| James D. Houston, Bird of Another Heaven | Mikage Kuroki |
Spring 2008 (vol. 43, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Rewriting the West(ern):
Shane, Jane, and Agricultural Change
in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine |
Matt Burkhart |
| Translating Nature: The Discourse of Natural
History
in The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
Michael G. Buckley |
| Nebraska, New England, New York: Mapping
the Foreground
of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis’s Creative Partnership |
Melissa J. Homestead and Anne L. Kaufman |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Where’s the Justice?
The Environmental Justice Movement in Transition |
Charles Waugh |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
Ned Blackhawk,
Violence over the Land: Indians and
Empires in the Early American West |
Frank Bergon |
| Christine Allen-Yazzie, The Arc and the Sediment | Dayna Patterson |
| Peggy Shumaker, Just Breathe Normally | Eric Heyne |
| Mary Biddinger, Prairie Fever | Pamela St. Clair |
| John Clayton, The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart | Victoria Lamont |
| Cormac McCarthy, The Road | David Cremean |
| David Rio et al., eds., Exploring
the American Literary West: International Perspectives |
Robert Murray Davis |
| Valerie Mendenhall Cohen, ed., Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West: 1850–1935 | Bridget R. Cooks |
| Scott L. Baugh, ed., Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular | Rodney Streng |
| Michael L. Johnson, Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West | Nathan C. Crook |
| Gerald Locklin, open thy effing ears (please) Mark Weber, long story short Gerald Locklin, New Orleans, Chicago, and Points Elsewhere |
Jacoba Mendelkow |
| María Raquél Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880 | Maria O’Connell |
| Valerie Miner, After Eden | Andrew Wingfield |
| Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed, eds., Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers | Richard D. Jensen |
Summer 2008 (vol. 43, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Searching for God or Medusa through Allusion
in Abbey’s Desert Solitaire |
David D. Joplin |
| Miguel Antonio Otero: Destabilizing
Identity in the West |
Erin Murrah |
| Clothing
The Prairie in Furs:
The International Trade Contexts of Cooper’s Western Novel |
Susan Kalter |
| Writing
Women’s Biographies:
Processes, Challenges, Rewards (Transcript from a 2007 WLA Conference Panel) |
Mary
Clearman Blew Susanne George Bloomfield Melody Graulich Judy Nolte Temple |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
Judy Nolte Temple,
Baby Doe Tabor:
The Madwoman in the Cabin |
Susanne George Bloomfield |
| Lawrence I. Berkove, ed., The Sagebrush Anthology: Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West | Ann Ronald |
| Robert T. Self, Robert Altman’s “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”: Reframing the American West | Neil Campbell |
| Gerald Vizenor, Almost Ashore | Jerry D. Mathes II |
| Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Axes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner | Jeffrey Bilbro |
| Beef Torrey, ed., Conversations with Thomas McGuane Thomas McGuane, Gallatin Canyon |
Nancy S. Cook |
| Deirdre McNamer, Red Rover | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Greta Gaard, The Nature of Home: Taking Root in a Place | Candace Barlow |
| Joanne Wilke, Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West | Amy Brumfield |
| Percival Everett, The Water Cure | Brian Yost |
| Eric Gardner, ed., Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West | Michael K. Johnson |
| Ethan Rarick, Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West | Diane Bush |
| Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dreaming the End of War | Herb Thompson |
Jennifer Brice, Unlearning to Fly |
Eric Heyne |
Joni Tevis, The Wet Collection |
Andrea Clark Mason |
| David Mason, Ludlow: A Verse-Novel | Maria O’Connell |
Fall 2008 (vol. 43, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Baby Boom Generation and the Reception
of
Native American Literatures: D’Arcy McNickle’s Runner in the Sun |
John Lloyd Purdy |
| Culture-Tectonics: California Statehood
and
John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta |
Molly Crumpton Winter |
| Captive Subjects:
Point of View and Initiation in Hombre |
Matt Wanat |
| ESSAY
REVIEW |
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| Comparative American Borderlands: The New Face of Western American Literatures | Sandra L. Dahlberg |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
Jennifer Eastman Attebery,
Up in the Rocky Mountains:
Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience |
Diane Quantic |
| Kenneth W. Brewer, Whale Song: A Poet’s Journey into Cancer | Katharine Coles |
| Hal K. Rothman, Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West | Nate Botsis |
| Dagoberto Gilb, The Flowers | Frank Bergon |
| Aaron A. Abeyta, Rise, Do Not Be Afraid | Alex Hunt |
| Guy Reynolds, ed., Willa Cather as Cultural Icon, vol. 7 of Cather Studies | Ann Romines |
| Zeese Papanikolas, American Silence | R. L. Streng |
| Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals | Andrea Clark Mason |
| Stephen P. Cook, Realizing Westward: American Character and Cowboy Mythology | Claire Hughes |
| Lawrence I. Berkove, Insider Stories of the Comstock Lode and Nevada’s Mining Frontier, 1859–1909 | Charles L. Crow |
| Kathryn Kalinak, How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford | David Fenimore |
| David Río, Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Willard Wyman, High Country: A Novel | Stephen Tatum |
Ben Railton, Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876–1893 |
Pablo Ramirez |
Jeffrey O. Durrant, Struggle over Utah’s San Rafael Swell: Wilderness, National Conservation Areas, and National Monuments |
Lyra Hilliard |
| Lee Gutkind, ed., Hurricanes and Carnivals: Essays by Chicanos, Pochos, Pachucos, Mexicanos, and Expatriates | Amy T. Hamilton |
Winter 2009 (vol. 43, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Erased by Space, Ignored by History: Place and Gender in Marilynne Robinson’s West |
Tony R. Magagna |
| Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail and the US-Mexican War: Appropriations of Counter-Imperial Dissent | Nicholas Lawrence |
| The Lost Works of Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Jeffrey Chisum |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
N. Scott Momaday, Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, The Moon in Two Windows |
Chadwick Allen |
| The Native Critics Collective, Reasoning Together | Daniel Gustav Anderson |
Brandon Schrand, The Enders Hotel |
Jennifer Sinor |
| Rick Bass, Why I Came West | Paul Bogard |
| D. Seth Horton, ed., New Stories from the Southwest | Justin St. Germain |
| Rebecca Seiferle, Wild Tongue | Pamela St. Clair |
| Mary Clearman Blew, Jackalope Dreams | Tara Penry |
| Robert Campbell, In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire along the Inside Passage | Kevin Maier |
| Laurie Ricou, Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory | Michael McDowell |
| Michael Tate, ed., Best of Covered Wagon Women | Stephanie Barko |
| Jana Richman, The Last Cowgirl | Andrew Wingfield |
| Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work | Max Despain |
| Leonard Engel, ed., Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director | Paul Wilson |
Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape |
Jessie L. Embry |
Spring 2009 (vol. 44, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| “An Eloquent and Impassioned Plea”: The Rhetoric of Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don |
Elisa Warford |
| “Rough Justice” for Farmworkers: The Specter of Joaquín Murrieta in Raymond Barrio’s The Plum Plum Pickers |
Daniel Griesbach |
| Poetic Travelers: Figuring the Wild in Parkman, Fuller, and Kirkland | Ken Egan Jr. |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| Stegner, the Cypress Hills, and an “Impenetrable Foreignness”: Still Writing the Wests |
Robert Thacker |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
Sharon Butala, The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation of Friendship, Memory, and Murder |
Megan Riley McGilchrist |
| Jordana Finnegan, Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory | Sara Spurgeon |
Carmen Pearson, Modernism and Mildred Walker |
Mary Clearman Blew |
| Susan Kollin, ed., Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space | Alex Hunt |
| Wanda Coleman, Jazz and Twelve O’Clock Tales | Robert Headley |
| Sean Kicummah Teuton, Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Novel | Michael Terry |
| Katharine Coles, Fault | Genevieve Betts |
| Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows | Pamela Pierce |
| Jeanne Farr McDonnell, Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California | Anne Goldman |
| Cheryll Glotfelty, ed., Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State | Lawrence I. Berkove |
| Gary Paul Nabhan, Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts | SueEllen Campbell |
| Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses | Jerry D. Mathes II |
| Colleen Skidmore, ed., This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada | Carmen Pearson |
Kim Barnes, A Country Called Home |
O. Alan Weltzien |
| Tom Wolf, Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet | David Cremean |
| Gabrielle Burton, Searching for Tamsen Donner | Diane Bush |
| Paul S. Powers, Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street. Edited by Laurie Powers | David Fenimore |
Summer 2009 (vol. 44, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Plenty of signs and wonders to make a landscape: Space, Place, and Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy | Ashley Bourne |
| Disappearance in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian | Phillip A. Snyde |
| “in a time before nomenclature was and each was all”: Blood Meridian’s Neomythic West and the Heterotopian Zone |
David Holmberg |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| On Recent Chicano Literature | John Alba Cutler |
| The Long March in Mark Twain Studies | Neil Schmitz |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | |
| Neil Campbell,
The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age |
Robert Bennett |
| Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O’Connor, As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart | Andrew R. Graybill |
| James D. Houston, Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea | Andrew Wingfield |
| Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects | Christopher Schaberg |
| Janis P. Stout, Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin | Steven B. Shively |
| John Sepich, Notes on “Blood Meridian” | Carole Juge |
| Hector A. Torres, Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers | Michael L. Trujillo |
| O. Alan Weltzien, A Father and an Island: Reflections on Loss | Ron McFarland |
| Phillip H. Round, The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California’s Imperial Valley | Brett Garcia Myhren |
| Ladette Randolph, A Sandhills Ballad | Willis G. Regier |
| Tom Lynch, Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature | Dani Johannesen |
| Patrick K. Dooley, A Community of Inquiry: Conversations between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature | Nicolas Witschi |
| Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | Chris Robertson |
Fall 2009 (vol. 44, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | AUTHORS |
| “A man is a fool who prefers poor California beef to human flesh”:
(Re)Definitions of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century
US Donner Party Literature |
Carey R. Voeller |
| “A Home for Civilization”: Nostalgia, Innocence, and the Frontier
in Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose |
Jennifer Ladino |
| Mary Barnard’s “North Window”: Imagism and the Pacific Northwest | Sarah Barnsley |
| ESSAY REVIEW | |
| The Both/And of American Indian Literary Studies | Lisa Tatonetti |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWED BY |
| Margot Mifflin, The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman | Judy Nolte Temple |
| Sharon McCartney,
The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Joanna Dawson |
| Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez and Evelina Zuni Lucero, Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance | Reginald Dyck |
| Elizabeth Hutchinson, The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915 | Leah Dilworth |
| S. R. Martin Jr., On the Move: A Black Family’s Western Saga | Bruce A. Glasrud |
| Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride | Diane Bush |
| Christine Hill Smith, Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote | James H. Maguire |
| Sherman Alexie, Face | Jennifer Ladino |
| Jackson J. Benson, Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | Fred Erisman |
| Page Stegner, Adios Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West | Jennie A. Camp |
| Shannon Applegate,Living among Headstones | Michael J. Kowalewski |
| Ron McFarland, The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region | Liz Stephens |
Winter 2010 (vol. 44, no. 4)—published in February 2010
NOTE: Western American Literature no longer includes an index with its winter issue. This information is available right here.
| ESSAYS | AUTHORS |
| Double-Crossings: The Trans-American Patriotism
of Francis Berrian |
Keri Holt |
| Doctor Bat’s Ass: Buffon, American Degeneracy,
and Cooper’s The Prairie |
Matthew Wynn Sivils |
| Competing Visions: The Alternate Wests of Elinore Pruitt Stewart and N.C. Wyeth | Jason Williams |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWED BY |
| Laurie Champion and Bruce A. Glasrud, eds., Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman, Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell, eds., Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman |
Melody Graulich |
| Alex Hunt, ed., The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism | Jenny Shank |
| John W. Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 | David H. Fenimore |
| Cari M. Carpenter, Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians |
Martha L. Viehmann |
| Kevin Starr, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 |
Charles L. Crow |
| Reginald Dyck and Cheli Reutter, eds., Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West |
Nicholas Petzak |
| Craig S. Womack, Daniel Heath Justice, and Christopher B. Teuton, eds., Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective |
Eric Gary Anderson |
| Jennifer Dawes Adkison, ed., Across the Plains: Sarah Royce’s Western Narrative, by Sarah Royce |
Jane Simonsen |
| Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish ◊ Death without Company ◊ Kindness Goes Unpunished ◊ Another Man’s Moccasins ◊ The Dark Horse |
Ann Ronald |
| David Porter, On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather |
Anne L. Kaufman |
| Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception across the Color Line |
Michael K. Johnson |
| Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite, eds., African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology |
Diane Quantic |
Erin Hogan, Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West, |
Don Scheese |
| Elizabeth Dodd, In the Mind’s Eye: Essays across the Animate World | Beth Kraig |
Spring 2010 (vol. 45, no. 1)—forthcoming in May 2010
| ESSAYS | AUTHORS |
| Locating the Modern Mexican inJosefina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother |
Emily Lutenski |
| “Truer ’n Hell”: Lies, Capitalism, and Cultural Imperialismin Owen Wister’s The Virginian, B. M. Bower’s The Happy Family, and Mourning Dove’s Cogewe | Sara Humphreys |
| Stepping onto the Yakama Reservation: Land and Water Rights in Raymond Carver’s “Sixty Acres” | Chad Wriglesworth |
| BOOKS REVIEWED | REVIEWED BY |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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