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Abbey, Edward
Joplin, David D. “Searching for God or Medusa through Allusion in Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.” 43.2 (Summer 2008).
Bryant, Paul T. “The Structure and Unity  of Desert Solitaire.” 28.1 (Spring 1993). 
Burrows, Russell.  "Ontology vs. Epistemology: The Philosophical Dynamic Driving Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire." 35.3  (Fall 2000).
Cahalan, James M. “Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner.” 31.3 (Fall 1996). 
Farmer, Jared. “Desert Solitaire and the Literary Memory of an Imagined Place.” 38.2 (Summer 2003).
Houston, James D. “Note.” 24.2 (Summer 1989).
Joplin, David D. “Searching for God or Medusa through Allusion in Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.” 43.2 (Summer 2008).
Kennedy, Joy. “Artistry of Hunger: Desire and Appetite in Desert Solitaire.” 38.4 (Winter 2004).
Knott, John R. “Edward Abbey and the Romance of Wilderness.” 30.4 (Winter 1996).
Loeffer, Jack. “Edward Abbey, Anarchism and the Environment.” 28.1 (Spring 1993).
Morris, David Copland. “Celebration and Irony: The Polyphonic Voice of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.” 28.1 (Spring 1993).
Peterson, David. “Cactus Ed’s Moveable Feast: A Preview of Confessions of a Barbarian: Pages from the Journals of Edward Abbey.” 28.1 (Spring 1993).
Rawlings, Donn. “Coyote in the Maze: Eighteen Critics Track Edward Abbey.” 33.4 (Winter 1999). 
Romesburg, Rod. “Deterministic Chaos in Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.” 39.2 (Summer 2004).

Abbott, E.C.
Hutson, Richard.  "Ecce Cowboy: E.C. Abbott's We Pointed Them North."  37.2  (Summer 2002).

Adams, Andy
Quissell, Barbara. “Andy Adams and the Real West.” 7.3 (Fall 1972).

Alcott, Louisa May
Erisman, Fred. “Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West.” 34.3 (Fall 1999).

Alexie, Sherman
Tellefsen, Blythe. “America Is a Diet Pepsi: Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues 40.2 (Summer 2005).

Art
Bold, Christine. “How the Western Ends: Fenimore Cooper to Frederic Remington.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).

Asian
Davidson, Michael. "The Lady from Shanghai : California Orientalism and 'Guys Like Us.'"  35.4 (Winter 2001).
Hesford, Walter. “Thousand Pieces of Gold: Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience.” 31.1 (Spring 1996).
Yamazato, Katsunori. “A Note on Japanese Allusions in Gary Snyder’s Poetry.” 18.2 (Summer 1983).

Austin, Mary
Cheney, Jean. "The 'Fine Understanding' of Mary Austin: Recent Criticism and Republished Works."  37.1  (Spring 2002).
Ford, Thomas W. “The American Rhythm: Mary Austin’s Poetic Principle.” 5.1 (Spring 1970).
Hoyer, Mark T. “‘To Bring the World into Divine Focus’: Syncretic Prophecy in The Land of Little Rain.” 31.1 (Spring 1996).
———. “Prophecy in a New West: Mary Austin and the Ghost Dance Religion.” 30.3 (Fall 1995). 
Klimasmith, Betsy. Naturist as Tourist: Mary Austin’s ‘Automobile Eye View’ in The Land of Journeys' Ending.” 39.1 (Spring 2004).
Langlois, Karen S. “Mary Austin and Houghton Mifflin Company: A Case Study in the Marketing of a Western Writer.” 23.1 (Spring 1988). 
Salzer, Maureen. “Native Presence and Survivance in Early Twentieth-Century Translations by Natalie Curtis Burlin and Mary Austin.” 39.1 (Spring 2004).
Staples, Joe. “ ‘Discovering’ New Talent: Charles F. Lummis’s Conflicted Mentorship of Sui Sin Far, Sharlot Hall, and Mary Austin” 40.2 (Summer 2005).
Viehmann, Martha L. “A Rain Song for America: Mary Austin, American Indians, and American Literature and Culture.” 39.1 (Spring 2004). 

Autobiography and Memoir
Blew, Mary Clearman. “Time Enough and Space: A New Expansion.” (Essay Review) 38.3 (Fall 2003).
[Linda M. Hasselstrom, Lisa Knopp, and Jennifer Sinor]
Halverson, Cathryn.  "Opal Whiteley's 'Explores': The Disappearing Region."  37.2  (Summer 2002).
Hogg, Charlotte.  "'Settling Down' in Western Nebraska: Grounding Local History through Memoir."  37.2  (Summer 2002).
Hutson, Richard.  "Ecce Cowboy: E.C. Abbott's We Pointed Them North."  37.2  (Summer 2002).
Tisinger, Danielle.  "Textual Performance and the Western Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims."  37.2  (Summer 2002).
Transcript of Writers' Panel at WLA Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, Fall 2001.  37.2  (Summer 2002). [Julene Bair, Mary Clearman Blew, Norma Elia Cantú, Patricia Hampl, and John Price. Kathleen Boardman, moderator]
Werden, Douglas W.  "Beyond Recovery: Complicating the Study of 'Pioneer' Women's Life Writing."  38.1 (Spring 2003).
Wyatt, David.  "Eastering."  36.2  (Summer 2001).

Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Lynch, Tom.  "Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca."  37.4 (Winter 2003).
Moore, George. “Beyond Cultural Dialogues: Identities in the Interstices of Culture in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martín and Meditations on the South Valley.” 33.2 (Summer 1998).

Bellah, James Warner
Westbrook, Max. “The Night John Wayne Danced with Shirley Temple.” 25.2 (Summer 1990).

Benning, James
MacDonald, Scott.  "The Filmmaker as Lone Rider: James Benning's 'Westerns'."  35.3  (Fall 2000).

Berger, Thomas
Dippie, Brian W. “Jack Crabb and the Sole Survivors of Custer’s Last Stand.” 4.3 (Fall 1969).
Gurian, Jay. “Style in the Literary Desert: Little Big Man.” 3.4 (Winter 1969).
Oliva, Leo F. “Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man as History.” 8. 1,2 (Spring/Summer 1973).
Wylder, Delbert E. “Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man as Literature.” 3.4 (Winter 1969).
Zimmerman, Brett. “The Linguistic Key to Crabb’s Veracity: Berger’s Little Big Man Revisited.” 38.3 (Fall 2003).

Bergon, Frank
Río, David. "Basques in the International West: An  with Frank Bergon." 36.1 (Spring 2001).

Bibliography
Annual bibliographies of studies in western American literature were published in each winter issue up until 1998 when we began publishing our bibliography on the web. The 1998, 1999, and 2000 annual bibliographies can be found under Bibliographies of Studies in Western American Literature.

Brumble, H. David, III. “A Supplement to An Annotated Bibliography of American Indian and Eskimo Bibliographies.” 17.3 (Fall 1982).
Etulain, Richard W. “H. L. Davis: A Bibliographical Addendum.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).
Kellog, George. “Vardis Fisher: A Bibliography.” 5.1 (Spring 1970).
Weixlmann, Joseph. “Ken Kesey: A Bibliography.” 10.3 (Fall 1975).

Bierce, Ambrose
Roth, Russell. “Ambrose Bierce’s ‘Detestable Creature.’” 9.3 (Fall 1974).

Black Elk, Nicholas
Kriefall, Andreas. “Ethics of Polyphony: The Example of Black Elk Speaks.” 33.2 (Summer 1998). 
McCluskey, Sally. “Black Elk Speaks: and So Does John Neihardt.” 6.4 (Winter 1972).
Tatonetti, Lisa. “Disrupting a Story of Loss: Charles Eastman and Nicholas Black Elk Narrate Survivance.” 39.3 (Fall 2004).

Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons
see Zitkala-Sa

Borlan, Hal
Barry, Nora Baker. “The Bear’s Son Folk Tale in When the Legends Die and House Made of Dawn.” 12.4 (Winter 1978).

Burlin, Natalie Curtis
Salzer, Maureen. “Native Presence and Survivance in Early Twentieth-Century Translations by Natalie Curtis Burlin and Mary Austin.” 39.1 (Spring 2004).

Calof, Rachel
Shein, Debra.  "Isaac Raboy's Der Yiddisher Cowboy and Rachel Calof's My Story:  The Role of the Western Frontier in Shaping Jewish American Identity."  36.4 (Winter 2002).

Canadian Literature
Cannon, Helen B. “The Letters of Maragret Laurence and Adele Wiseman.” 33.4 (Winter 1999). 
George, Benjamin. “The French-Canadian Connection: Willa Cather as a Canadian Writer.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).
Greene, Donald. “Western Canadian Literature.” 2.4 (Winter 1968).
Wiebe, Rudy. “Western Canada Fiction: Past and Future.” 6.1 (Spring 1971).

Carter, Forrest
Clayton, Lawrence. “Forrest Carter/Asa Carter and Politics.” 21.1 (Spring 1986). 

Carver, Raymond
Williams, Gary. “Raymond Carver.” 32.1 (Spring 1997). A Special Issue: A Sampler from Updating the Literary West.

Cather, Willa
Arnold, Marilyn. “One of Ours: Willa Cather’s Losing Battle.” 13.3 (Fall 1978).
Baker, Bruce, II. “Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Cather.” 3.1 (Spring 1968).
Bennett, Midred R. “Willa Cather’s Bodies for Ghosts.” 17.1 (Spring 1982).
Doane, Margaret. “In Defence of Lillian St. Peter: Men’s Perceptions of Women in The Professor's House.” 18.4 (Winter 1984).
Bohlke, L. Brent. “Godfrey St. Peter and Eugene Delacroix: A Portrait of the Artist in The Professor’s House.” 17.1 (Spring 1982).
Charles, Sister Peter Damian. “My Ántonia: A Dark Dimension.” 2.2 (Summer 1967).
Comeau, Paul. “The Fool Figure in Willa Cather’s Fiction.” 15.4 (Winter 1981).
Fox, Maynard. “Proponents of Order: Tom Outland and Bishop Latour.” 4.2 (Summer 1969).
———. “Symbolic Representation in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!” 9.3 (Fall 1974).
George, Benjamin. “The French-Canadian Connection: Willa Cather as a Canadian Writer.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).
Gleason, John B. “The ‘Case’ of Willa Cather.” 20.4 (Winter 1986).
Hinz, Evelyn J. “Willa Cather’s Technique and the Ideology of Populism.” 7.1 (Spring 1972).
Hoover, Sharon. “The ‘Wonderfulness’ of Thea Kronborg’s Voice.” 30.3 (Fall 1995).
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. “St. Peter and the World All before Him.” 17.1 (Spring 1982).
Love, Glen A. “The Professor’s House: Cather, Hemingway, and the Chastening of American Prose Style.” 24.4 (Winter 1990).
McGiveron, Rafeeq O. “From a ‘Stretch of Grey Sea’ to the ‘Extent of Space’: The Gaze across Vistas in Cather’s The Professor’s House.” 34.4 (Winter 2000). 
Murphy, John J. “Willa Cather’s Archbishop: A Western and Classical Perspective.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).
———. "Willa Cather and Catholic Themes.” 17.1 (Spring 1982).
Moseley, Ann. “Concentric Texts in The Professor’s House.” 31.1 (Spring 1996).
Rosowski, Susan J. “The Pattern of Willa Cather’s Novels.” 15.4 (Winter 1981).
———. “Willa Cather’s Ecology of Place.” 30.1 (Spring 1995). 
Ryder, Mary R. “Prosodic Variations in Willa Cather’s Prairie Poems.” 20.3 (Fall 1985).
Sánchez, María Carla. “Immobile: Willa Cather’s Logic of Art and Place.” 38.2 (Summer 2003).
Stouck, David. “Cather’s Archbishop and Travel Writing.” 17.1 (Spring 1982).
———. “Willa Cather and The Professor’s House.” 7.1 (Spring 1972).
Sullivan, Patrick J. “Willa Cather’s Southwest.” 7.1 (Spring 1972).
Swift, John N. “Memory, Myth, and The Professor’s House.” 20.4 (Winter 1986).
Teague, David. “Getting Back to Cather’s Text: The Shared Dream in O Pioneers.” 30.2 (Summer 1995).
Walker, Don D. “The Western Humanism of Willa Cather.” 1.2 (Summer 1966).
Wild, Barbara. “‘The Thing Not Named’ in The Professor’s House.” 12.4 (Winter 1978).
Yongue, Patricia Lee. “A Lost Lady: The End of the First Cycle.” 7.1 (Spring 1972).

Chandler, Raymond
Kaye, Howard. “Raymond Chandler’s Sentimental Novel.” 10.2 (Summer 1975).

Chicano Studies
Aranda, José F., Jr. "Closing the Circle between Past and Present." 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Cotera, María Eugenia. "Refiguring 'the American Congo': Jovita González, John Gregory Bourke, and the Battle over Ethno-Historical Representations of the Texas Mexican Border." 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Curiel, Barbara Brinson. "The General's Pants: A Chicana Feminist (Re)Vision of the Revolution in Sandra Cisneros's 'Eyes of Zapata'."  35.4  (Winter 2001).
Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda. "Erotics and Politics in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico: Eusebio Chacón’s Tras la tormenta la calma." 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Jacobs, Margaret D.  "Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?" 6.3  (Fall 2001).
Kutchins, Laurie. "'To Make Shadows Burn and Silence Loud': Altars of Change and Continuity in Contemporary Chicana Poetry." (Essay Review) 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Moore, George. “Beyond Cultural Dialogues: Identities in the Interstices of Culture in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martín and Meditations on the South Valley.” 33.2 (Summer 1998).
Paredes, Raymund A. “Stephen Crane and the Mexican.” 6.1 (Spring 1971).
Pérez, Vincent. "Teaching the Hacienda: Juan Rulfo and Mexican American Cultural Memor." 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Rivera, John-Michael. "Miguel Antonio Otero II, Billy the Kid’s Body, and the Fight for New Mexican Statehood." 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Robertson, Jamie. “Stephen Crane, Eastern Outsider in the West and Mexico.” 13.3 (Fall 1978).
Tinnemeyer, Andrea. "Enlightenment Ideology and the Crisis of Whiteness in Francis Berrian and Caballero." 35.1 (Spring 2000).

Chopin, Kate
Dyer, Joyce Coyne, and Robert Emmett Monroe. “Texas and Texans in the Fiction of Kate Chopin.” 20.1 (Spring 1985).

Church, Peggy Pond
Elkins, Andrew. “‘So Strangely Married’: Peggy Pond Church’s The Ripened Fields:Fifteen Sonnets of a Marriage." 30.4 (Winter 1996).

Cisneros, Sandra
Curiel, Barbara Brinson.  "The General's Pants: A Chicana Feminist (Re)Vision of the Revolution in Sandra Cisneros's 'Eyes of Zapata'."  35.4  (Winter 2001).

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
Andersen, Kenneth. “Character Portrayal in The Ox-Bow Incident.” 4.4 (Winter 1970).
Bates, Barclay W. “Clark’s Man for all Seasons: The Achievement of Wholeness in The Ox-Bow Incident.” 3.1 (Spring 1968).
Cochran, Robert W. “Nature and the Nature of Man in The Ox-Bow Incident.” 5.4 (Winter 1971).
Dippie, Brian W. “Bards of the Little Bighorn.” 1.3 (Fall 1966).
Houghton, Donald E. “Man and Animals in ‘The Indian Well.’” 6.3 (Fall 1971).
Stein, Paul. “Cowboys and Unicorns: The Novels of Walter Van Tilburg Clark.” 5.4 (Winter 1971).
Westbrook, Max. “The Archetypal Ethic of The Ox-Bow Incident.”1.2 (Summer 1966).
———. “The Indian in the Mirror: Clark’s The Track of the Cat.” 20.1 (Spring 1985).
———. “Internal Debate as Discipline: Clark’s ‘The Watchful Gods.’” 1.3 (Fall 1966).

Clark, William
Dodd, Elizabeth. “Another Version: Michael S. Harper, William Clark, and the Problem of Historical Blindess.” 33.1 (Spring 1998). 

Clemens, Samuel L.
Alsen, Eberhard. “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Fight for Popularity and Power.” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Bassett, John E. “Life on the Mississippi: Being Shifty in a New Country.” 21.1 (Spring 1986).
Brand, John M. “The Incipient Wilderness: A Study of Pudd’nhead Wilson.” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Burns, Stuart L. “St. Petersburg Re-Visited: Helen Eustis and Mark Twain.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).
Coulombe, Joseph L. "Go East, Young Man: Class Conflict and Degenerate Manhood in Mark Twain's Early Writing." 36.3 (Fall 2001).
Delaney, Paul. “You Can’t Go Back to the Raft Ag’in Huck Honey!: Mark Twain’s Western Sequel to Huckleberry Finn.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).
Holstein, Suzy Clarkson. “‘All Growed Up’ in the True West, or Huck and Tom Meet Sam Shepard.” 29.1 (Spring 1994).
Kime, Wayne R. “Huck among the Indians: Mark Twain and Richard Irving Dodge’s The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants.” 24.4 (Winter 1990). 
McKee, John DeWitt. “Roughing It as Retrospective Reporting.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).
Moffitt, Cecil L. “Tom Sawyer: Missouri Robin Hood.” 4.2 (Summer 1969).
Scharnhorst, Gary.  "A Coda to the Twain-Harte Feud."  36.1  (Spring 2001).

Coleman, Wanda
Comer, Krista. “Revising Western Criticism through Wanda Coleman.” 33.4 (Winter 1999).

Cook, Frederick
Bayers, Peter L. “Frederick Cook, Mountaineering in the Alaskan Wilderness, and the Regeneration of Progressive Era Masculinity.” 38.2 (Summer 2003).

Cooper, James Fenimore
Bold, Christine. “How the Western Ends: Fenimore Cooper to Frederic Remington.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).
Brand, John M. “The Incipient Wilderness: A Study of Pudd’nhead Wilson.” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Lewis, Merrill. “Lost—and Found—in the Wilderness: The Desert Metaphor in Cooper’s The Prairie.” 5.3 (Fall 1970).
Rucker, Mary E. “Natural, Tribal, and Civil Law in Cooper’s The Prairie.” 12.3 (Fall 1977).
Smith, Henry Nash. “Consciousness and Social Order: The Theme of Transcendence in the Leatherstocking Tales.” 5.3 (Fall 1970).

Cowboy Poetry
Barsness, John. “The Dying Cowboy Song.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).
White, John I. “A Ballad in Search of Its Author.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).

Crane, Stephen
Alonzo, Juan. “From Derision to Desire: The ‘Greaser’ in Stephen Crane’s Mexican Stories and D. W. Griffith’s Early Westerns.” 38.4 (Winter 2004).
Deamer, Robert Glen. “Stephen Crane and the Western Myth.” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Paredes, Raymund A. “Stephen Crane and the Mexican.” 6.1 (Spring 1971).
Robertson, Jamie. “Stephen Crane, Eastern Outsider in the West and Mexico.” 13.3 (Fall 1978).

Criticism and Literary History
Ashliman, D.L. “The Novel of Western Adventure in Nineteenth-Century Germany.” 3.2 (Summer 1968).
Attebery, Louie W. “The American West and the Archetypel Orphan.” 5.3 (Fall 1970).
Barsness, John A. “A New Life: The Frontier Myth in Perspective” 3.4 (Winter 1969).
Blackburn, Alexander. “A Western Renaissance.” 29.1 (Spring 1994). 
Brady, Mary Pat. "Scaling the West Differently." (Essay Review) 35.1 (Spring 2000).
Bredahl, Carl A. “Valuing Surface.” 24.2 (Summer 1989). 
Campbell, SueEllen. “The Land and the Language of Desire: Where Deep Ecology and Post-Structuralism Meet.” 24.3 (Fall 1989).
Comer, Krista. “Revising Western Criticism through Wanda Coleman.” 33.4 (Winter 1999).
Cracroft, Richard H. “World Westerns.” 20.2 (Summer 1985). Special Issue: A Sampler from A Literary History of the American West.
Dodd, Elizabeth. “Another Version: Michael S. Harper, William Clark, and the Problem of Historical Blindness.” 33.1 (Spring 1998). 
Ellis, Reuben. “A Thousand Frontiers: An Introduction to Dialogue and the American West.” 33.2 (Summer 1998).
Fisher, Vardis. “The Western Writer and the Eastern Establishment.” 1.4 (Winter 1967).
Folsom, James K. “English Westerns.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).
Guthrie, A. B. “Why Write about the West?” 7.3 (Fall 1972).
Haslam, Gerald. “Alternative Publishing in the West.” 19.2 (Summer 1984).
———. “Predators in Literature.” 12.2 (Summer 1977).
Hesford, Walter. “Thousand Pieces of Gold: Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience.” 31.1 (Spring 1996).
Horgan, Paul. “The Pleasures and Perils of Regionalism.” 8.4 (Winter 1974).
Johnson, Susan Lee. “Gift Horses: Influence, Insurgence, Interdisciplinarity in Western Studies.” 34.1 (Spring 1999). 
Laureano, Frank. “With Dreams or Sweat: Portrait of a Small Western Press.” 19.2 (Summer 1984).
Love, Glen A. “Et in Arcadia Ego: Pastoral Theory Meets Ecocriticsm.” 27.3 (Fall 1992).
———. “Revaluing Nature: Toward An Ecological Criticism.” 25.3 (Fall 1990).
Lyon, Thomas J. “An Ignored Meaning of the West.” 3.1 (Spring 1968).
Maguire, James H.  "Western Literary Regionalism and Globalizing Literary Studies."  36.4  (Winter 2002).
Marovitz, Sanford E. “Romance or Realism? Western Periodical Literature: 1893-1902.” 10.1 (Spring 1975).
Marshall, Ian. “The Eastener in Western Literature—And in the Western Literature Association.” 26.3 (Fall 1991).
Meyer, Row W. “The Outback and the West: Australian and American Frontier Fiction.” 6.1 (Spring 1971).
Nolley, Kenneth S. “The Western as Jidai-Geki.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).
Peterson, Levi S. “Tragedy and Western American Literature.” 6.4 (Winter 1972).
Poland, Tim. “‘A Relative to All That Is’: The Eco-Hero in Western American Literature.” 26.3 (Fall 1991). 
Robertson, Kirk. “A Checklist of Western Small Presses and Magazines.” 19.2 (Summer 1984).
Robinson, Forrest G. “The New Historicism and the Old West.” 25.2 (Summer 1990).
Ronald, Ann. “Raising the Bar.” 34.1 (Spring 1999).
———. “Why Don’t They Write about Nevada?” 24.3 (Fall 1989). 
Rosowski, Susan J. “The Western Hero as Logos, or, Unmaking Meaning.” 32.3 (Fall 1997).
Scharnhorst, Gary. “In Defense of Western Literary Biography.” 33.4 (Winter 1999).
———.   "Western American Literary Scholarship 2001: The Year in Review."  37.1 (Spring 2002).
Schaefer, Jack. “A New Direction.” 10.4 (February 1976).
Sonnichsen, C.L. “Sex on the Lone Prairee.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).
Walker, Don D. “Criticism of the Cowboy Novel: Retrospect and Reflections.” 11.4 (Winter 1977). 
———. “The Minimal Western.” 23.2 (Summer 1988).
———. “Philosophical and Literary Implications in the Historiography of the Fur Trade.” 9.2 (Summer 1974).
Waters, Frank. “Words.” 3.3 (Fall 1968).
Westbrook, Max. “The Authentic Western.” 13.3 (Fall 1978).
———. “The Practical Spirit: Sacrality and the American West.” 3.3 (Fall 1968).
———. “Preface.” 20.2 (Summer 1985). Special Issue: A Sampler from A Literary History of the American West. 
Witkowsky, Paul. “If Prairies Had Trees: East, West, Environmentalist Fiction, and the Great Plains.” 28.3 (Fall 1993).
Wright, Charlotte M. “Rethinking the Literary Review.” 24.2 (Summer 1989).
Zwinger, Ann H. “‘What’s a Nice Girl Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?’” 27.2 (Summer 1992).

Davis, H. L.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. “Honey in the Horn and ‘Acres of Clams’: The Regional Fiction of H. L. Davis.” 2.2 (Summer 1967).
Bryant, Paul T. “H. L. Davis: Viable Uses for the Past.” 3.1 (Spring 1968).
Cleman, John.  "The Belated Frontier: H. L. Davis and the Problem of Pacific Northwest Regionalism."  37.4 (Winter 2003).
Corning, Richard H. “Unity and Point of View in The Distant Music.” 23.2 (Summer 1988).
Etulain, Richard W. “H. L. Davis: A Bibliographical Addendum.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).

Davis, Mike
Hermanson, Scott. "Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles: Mike Davis as Nature Writer." 37.3 (Fall 2002).

DeVoto, Bernard
Sawey, Orlan. “Bernard DeVoto’s Western Novels.” 2.3 (Fall 1967).
Stegner, Wallace. “Bernard DeVoto.” 20.2 (Summer 1985). Special Issue: A Sampler from A Literary History of the American West.

Dickey, James
Kunz, Don. “Learning the Hard Way in James Dickey’s Deliverance.” 12.4 (Winter 1978).

Dodge, Richard Irving
Kime, Wayne R. “Huck among the Indians: Mark Twain and Richard Irving Dodge’s The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants.” 24.4 (Winter 1990).

Downing, J. Hyatt
Wadden, Anthony T. “Late to the Harvest: The Fiction of J. Hyatt Downing.” 6.3 (Fall 1971).

Drama
Cawelti, John G. “Prolegomena to the Western.” 4.4 (Winter 1970).
Erben, Rudolf. “The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues.” 23.4 (Winter 1989).
Houghton, Donald E. “Man and Animals in ‘The Indian Well.’” 6.3 (Fall 1971).
McAllister, Mick. “You Can’t Go Home: Jeremiah Johnson and the Wilderness.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).
Nolley, Kenneth S. “The Western as Jidai-Geki.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).
Westbrook, Max. “Flag and Family in John Wayne’s Westerns: The Audience as Co-Conspirator.” 29.1 (Spring 1994).

Dreiser, Theodore
Bucco, Martin. “The East-West Theme in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” 12.3 (Fall 1977).

Eastlake, William
Graham, Don. “William Eastlake’s First Novel: An Account of the Making of Go in Beauty.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).

Eastman, Charles
Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle.  "A 'Real Indian' to the Boy Scouts: Charles Eastman as a Resistance Writer."  38.1 (Spring 2003).
Tatonetti, Lisa. “Disrupting a Story of Loss: Charles Eastman and Nicholas Black Elk Narrate Survivance.” 39.3 (Fall 2004).

Ecocriticism
Campbell, SueEllen.  "The Credo Series: Language/Nature/Cherishing."  37.3 (Fall 2002).
Elkins, Andrew. “The Ecological Vision of Thomas Hornsby Ferril.” 27.2 (Summer 1992).
Erisman, Fred. “Jack Schaefer: The Writer as Ecologist.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).
Hasselstrom, Linda. “The Owl on the Fence.” 30.1 (Spring 1995).
Kyle, Carol. “Point of View in ‘Returned to Say’ and the Wilderness of William Stafford.” 7.3 (1972).
Love, Glen A. “Et in Arcadia Ego: Pastoral Theory Meets Ecocriticism.” 27.3 (Fall 1992).
———. “Revaluing Nature: Toward An Ecological Criticism.” 25.3 (Fall 1990).
Lynch, Tom.  "Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca."  37.4 (Winter 2003).
Peterson, David. “Knee-Deep in its Absence.” 30.1 (Spring 1995).
Poland, Tim. “‘A Relative to All That Is’: The Eco-Hero in Western American Literature.” 26.3 (Fall 1991). 
Pyle, Robert Michael. “Out-of-Doors America: Seven Contemporary Looks at More-Than-Human.” (Essay Review) 38.4 (Winter 2004).
Roberts, J. Russell, Sr. “Listening to the Wilderness with William Stafford.” 3.3 (Fall 1968). 
Robertson, David. “Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais.” 30.1 (Spring 1995).
Siporin, Ona. “Terry Tempest Williams and Ona Siporin: A Conversation.” 31.2 (Summer 1996).
Slovic, Scott.  "'Be Prepared for the Worst'": Love, Anticipated Loss, and Environmental Valuation."  35.3  (Fall 2000).
Venn, David. “Keeping the Swarm: A Northwest Exploration of Place.” 30.1 (Spring 1995). 
Witkowsky, Paul. “If Prairies Had Trees: East, West, Environmentalist Fiction, and the Great Plains.” 28.3 (Fall 1993).
Zwinger, Ann H. “‘What’s a Nice Girl Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?’” 27.2 (Summer 1992).
(see also Muir, John)

Egan, Timothy
Campbell, Neil.  "Road Narratives and Western Identity."  36.3 (Fall 2001).

Ehrlich, Gretel
Herman, Matt.  "Literature, Growth, and Criticism in the New West."  38.1 (Spring 2003).
MacDonald, Bonney. “Desire of the Middle Ground: Opposition, Dialectics, and Dialogic Context in Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces.” 33.2 (Summer 1998). 

Eiseley, Loren
Franke, Robert G. “Blue Plums and Smoke: Loren Eiseley’s Perception of Time.” 24.2 (Summer 1989).

Ellroy, James
Schmidt-Nowara, Peter.  "Finding God in a World of 'Leg-Breakers' and 'Racist-Shitbirds': James Ellroy and the Contemporary L.A. Crime Novel."  36.2  (Summer 2001).

Elmer, Kelton
Erisman, Fred. “Elmer Kelton’s ‘Other’ West.” 28.4 (Winter 1994).

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Branch, Michael P. “‘Angel guiding gently’: The Yosemite Meeting of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir, 1871.” 32.2 (Summer 1997).

Erdrich, Louise
Sarvé-Gorham, Kristan. “Games of Chance: Gambling and Land Tenure in Tracks, Love Medicine, and The Bingo Palace.” 34.3 (Fall 1999). 

Eustis, Helen
Burns, Stuart L. “St. Petersburg Re-Visited: Helen Eustis and Mark Twain.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).

Fante, John
Scruggs, Charles. “‘Oh for a Mexican Girl!’: The Limits of Literature in John Fante’s Ask the Dust.” 38.3 (Fall 2003).

Ferril, Thomas Hornsby
Elkins, Andrew. “The Ecological Vision of Thomas Hornsby Ferril.” 27.2 (Summer 1992).
———. “The War Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril.” 26.2 (Summer 1991).
Richards, Robert F. “Thomas Hornsby Ferril: A Biographical Sketch.” 9.3 (Fall 1974).
Scherting, Jack. “An Approach to the Western Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril.” 7.3 (Fall 1972).

Film (see Western Film)

Fisher, Vardis
Fisher, Vardis. “The Western Writer and the Eastern Establishment.” 1.4 (Winter 1967).
Flora, Joseph M. “Vardis Fisher and Wallace Stegner: Teacher and Student.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).
Kellog, George. “Vardis Fisher: A Bibliography.” 5.1 (Spring 1970).
McAllister, Mick. “You Can’t Go Home: Jeremiah Johnson and the Wilderness.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).
Milton, John. “Vardis Fisher: A Tribute.” 3.2 (Summer 1968).
Taber, Roland W. “Vardis Fisher: New Directions for the Historical Novel.”1.4 (Winter 1967).

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Gross, Barry. “Back West: Time and Place in The Great Gatsby.” 8.1,2 (Spring/Summer 1973).

Folklore
Attebery, Louie W. “The American West and the Archetypel Orphan.” 5.3 (Fall 1970).
Barry, Nora Baker. “The Bear’s Son Folk Tale in When the Legends Die and House Made of Dawn.” 12.4 (Winter 1978).
Barsness, John. “The Dying Cowboy Song.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).
Bartlett, Lee. “Gary Snyder’s Myth & Texts and the Monomyth.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).
Nelson, Nancy Owen. “Fredrick Manfred and the Anglo-Saxon Oral Tradition.” 19.4 (Winter 1985).
White, John I. “A Ballad in Search of Its Author.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).

Foote, Mary Hallock
Etulain, Richard. “Mary Hallock Foote: A Checklist.” 10.1 (Spring 1975).
Gruber, Laura Katherine. “‘The Naturalistic Impulse’: Limitations of Gender and Landscape in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Stories.” 38.4 (Winter 2004).

Fuller, Margaret
Rosowski, Susan J. “Margaret Fuller, and Engendered West, and Summer on the Lakes.” 25.2 (Summer 1990). 

Garland, Hamlin
Alsen, Eberhard. “Hamlin Garland’s First Novel: A Spoil of Office.” 4.2 (Summer 1969).
Jacobson, Marcia. “The Flood of Remembrance and the Stream of Time: Hamlin Garland’s Boy Life on the Prairie.” 17.3 (Fall 1982).
MacDonald, Bonney. “Eastern Imaginings of the West in Hamlin Garlin’s ‘Up the Coolly’ and ‘God’s Ravens.’” 28.3 (Fall 1993).
Meyer, Roy W.  “Hamlin Garland and The American Indian.” 2.2 (Summer 1967).
Miller, Charles T. “Hamlin Garland’s Retreat from Realism.” 1.2 (Summer 1966).

Ghost Dance
Hoyer, Mark T. “Prophecy in a New West: Mary Austin and the Ghost Dance Religion.” 30.3 (Fall 1995).
Tatonetti, Lisa. “Disrupting a Story of Loss: Charles Eastman and Nicholas Black Elk Narrate Survivance.” 39.3 (Fall 2004).

Gold Rush
Penry, Tara. “Manly Domesticity on the Gold Rush Frontier: Recovering California’s Honest Miner.” 38.4 (Winter 2004).

Grey, Zane
Topping, Gary. “Zane Grey: A Literary Reassessment.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).

Griffith, D. W.
Alonzo, Juan. “From Derision to Desire: The ‘Greaser’ in Stephen Crane’s Mexican Stories and D. W. Griffith’s Early Westerns.” 38.4 (Winter 2004).

Guthrie, A. B.
Astro, Richard. “The Big Sky and the Limits of Wilderness Fiction.” 9.2 (Summer 1974).
Bryant, Paul T. “External Characterization in The Big Sky.” 31.3 (Fall 1996). 
Cracroft, Richard H. “The Big Sky: A. B. Guthrie’s Use of Historical Sources.” 6.3 (Fall 1971).
Etulain, Richard W. “A. B. Guthrie: A Bibliography.” 4.2 (Summer 1969).
Ford, Thomas W. “A. B. Guthrie’s Fair Land, Fair Land: A Requiem.” 23.1 (Spring 1988).
Stineback, David C. “On History and its Consequences: A. B. Guthrie’s These Thousand Hills.” 6.3 (Fall 1971).

Hamilton, Donald
Erisman, Fred. “Western Motifs in the Thrillers of Donald Hamilton.” 10.4 (Winter 1976).

Harjo, Joy
Gould, Janice.  "An Interview with Joy Harjo."  35.2  (Summer 2000).

Harper, Michael S.
Dodd, Elizabeth. “Another Version: Michael S. Harper, William Clark, and the Problem of Historical Blindess.” 33.1 (Spring 1998). 

Harrison, Jim
Davis, Todd F., and Kenneth Womack. “Embracing the Fall: Reconfiguring Redemption in Jim Harrison’s The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Dalva, and The Road Home.” 38.2 (Summer 2003).

Harte, Bret
Buckland, Roscoe L. “Jack Hamlin: Bret Harte’s Romantic Rogue.” 8.3 (Fall 1973).
Glover, Donald E. “A Reconsideration of Bret Harte’s Later Work.” 8.3 (Fall 1973).
Hudson, Roy F. “The Contribution of Bret Harte to American Oratory.” 2.3 (Fall 1967).
Hug, William J. “McTeague as Metafiction? Frank Norris’ Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel.” 26.3 (Fall 1991).
Morrow, Patrick D. “Bret Harte, Popular Fiction, and the Local Color Movement.” 8.3 (Fall 1973).
Penry, Tara. "Bret Harte: Celebrity, Commodity-New Views of an Old Western Mythmaker."  36.1 (Spring 2001). 
Scharnhorst, Gary.  "A Coda to the Twain-Harte Feud."  36.1  (Spring 2001).
Scherting, Jack. “Bret Harte’s Civil War Poems: Voice of the Majority.” 8.3 (Fall 1973).
Thomas, Jeffrey F. “Bret Harte and the Power of Sex.” 8.3 (Fall 1973).

Haslam, Gerald
Ronald, Ann. “Gerald Haslam and Ann Ronald: A Conversation.” 31.2 (Summer 1996). 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Deamer, Robert Glen. “Hawthorne’s Dream in the Forest.” 13.4 (Winter 1979).

Hemingway, Ernest
Johnston, Kenneth G. “Hemingway’s ‘Wine of Wyoming’: Disappointment in America.” 9.3 (Fall 1974).
Love, Glen A. “The Professor’s House: Cather, Hemingway, and the Chastening of American Prose Style.” 24.4 (Winter 1990).
Martin, Jr., Lawrence H. “Odd Exception or Mainstream Tradition: ‘The Shot’ in Context.” 24.4 (Winter 1990). 
Putnam, Ann. “‘Wine of Wyoming’ and Hemingway’s Hidden West.” 22.1 (Spring 1987). 

Henderson, Alice Corbin
Rudnick, Lois. “Modernism in the High Desert: The Multivocal Ecology of Alice Corbin Henderson’s Red Earth.” 39.1 (Spring 2004).

Henderson, Zenna
Erisman, Fred. “Zenna Henderson and the Not-So-Final Frontier.” 30.3 (Fall 1995).

Hillerman, Tony
Engel, Leonard. “Landscape and Place in Tony Hillerman’s Mysteries.” 28.2 (Summer 1993).
Roush, Jan. “The Developing Art of Tony Hillerman.” 28.2 (Summer 1993).

History
Aly, Lucile F. “Poetry and History in Neihardt’s Cycle of the West.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).
Boyle, Thomas E. “Frederick Jackson Turner and Thomas Wolfe: The Frontier as History and as Literature.” 4.4 (Winter 1970).
Cracroft, Richard H. “The Big Sky: A. B. Guthrie’s Use of Historical Sources.” 6.3 (Fall 1971).
Dodd, Elizabeth. “Another Version: Michael S. Harper, William Clark, and the Problem of Historical Blindess.” 33.1 (Spring 1998). 
Konkle, Maureen.  "Treaties, History, and the 'Full-Blood' in Indian Territory Native Writing."  35.2  (Summer 2000).
Lamont, Victoria.  "The Bovine Object of Ideology: History, Gender, and the Origins of the 'Classic' Western."  35.4  (Winter 2001).
Meldrum, Barbara H. “Dorothy Johnson’s Short Fiction: The Pastoral and the Uses of History.” 17.3 (Fall 1982).
Stineback, David C. “On History and its Consequences: A. B. Guthrie’s These Thousand Hills.” 6.3 (Fall 1971).
Thompson, Harry F.  "History, Historicity, and the Western American Novel: Frederick Manfred's Scarlet Plume and the Dakota War of 1862."  37.1  (Spring 2002).

Hogan, Linda
Smith, Andrew.  "Hearing Bats and Following Berdache: The Project of Survivance in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit."  35.2  (Summer 2000)

Hopkins, Pauline
Tonkovich, Nicole. “Guardian Angels and Missing Mothers: Race and Domesticity in Winona and Deadwood Dick on Deck.” 32.3 (Fall 1997).

Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca
Tisinger, Danielle.  "Textual Performance and the Western Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims."  37.2  (Summer 2002).

Horsley, Kate
Rawlings, Donn. “Kate Horsley’s New Mexico Trilogy: Masks of Ambivalence in the Southwest.” (Essay Review) 39.1 (Spring 2004).

Hough, Emerson
Hutchinson, W. H. “I Pay for What I Break.” 1.2 (Summer 1966).
———. “Emerson Hough as Conservationist and Muckracker.” 12.2 (Summer 1977).

Howe, E.W.
Mayer, Charles W. “Realizing ‘A Whole Order of Things’: E. W. Howe’s The Story of a Country Town.” 11.1 (Spring 1976).

Howells, William Dean
Bucco, Martin. “The Rise of Silas Lapham: The Western Dimension.” 23.4 (Winter 1989). 

Hugo, Richard
Garber, Frederick. “Large Man in the Mountains: The Recent Work of Richard Hugo.” 10.3 (Fall 1975).

Inada, Lawson Fusao
Grotjohn, Robert. “Remapping Internment: A Postcolonial Reading of Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Janice Mirikitani.” 38.3 (Fall 2003).

Inge, William
Armato, Philip M. “The Bum as Scapegoat in William Inge’s Picnic.” 10.4 (Winter 1976).
Erben, Rudolf. “The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues.” 23.4 (Winter 1989).

Interviews Aton, Jim. “An Interview with Barry Lopez.” 21.1 (Spring 1986).
Gould, Janice.  "An Interview with Joy Harjo."  35.2  (Summer 2000).
Haslam, Gerald.  “An Interview with John R. Milton.” 19.2 (Summer 1984).
Río, David. "Basques in the International West: An Interview with Frank Bergon." 36.1 (Spring 2001).
Ronald, Ann. “Gerald Haslam and Ann Ronald: A Conversation.” 31.2 (Summer 1996). 
Siporin, Ona. “Terry Tempest Williams and Ona Siporin: A Conversation.” 31.2 (Summer 1996). 

Irving, Washington
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. “Publishers’ Interests in Western Writing.” 1.4 (Winter 1967).
Dula, Martha. “Audience Response to A Tour on the Prairies in 1835.” 8.1,2 (Spring/Summer 1973).
Kime, Wayne R. “The Completeness of Washinton Irving’s A Tour on the Prairies.” 8.1,2 (Spring/Summer 1973). 
———. “Washington Irving’s Revision of the Tonquin Episode in Astoria.” 4.1 (Spring 1969).
———. “Washinton Irving and ‘The Empire of the West’: An Unacknowledged Review.” 5.4 (Winter 1971).
Lyon, Thomas J. “Washington Irving’s Wilderness.” 1.3 (Fall 1966).

Jackson, Helen Hunt
Jacobs, Margaret D.  "Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?" 6.3  (Fall 2001).

Jeffers, Robinson
Brophy, Robert J. “Jeffers’ ‘Cawdor’ and the Hippolytus Story.” 7.3 (Fall 1972).
———. “Robinson Jeffers.” 20.2 (Summer 1985). Special Issue: A Sampler from A Literary History of the American West.
———. “The Inhumanism of Robinson Jeffers.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).
Houston, James D. “Necessary Ecstasy: An Afterward to ‘Cawdor.’” 19.2 (Summer 1984).
Murphy, Patrick D. “Reclaiming the Power: Robinson Jeffers’s Verse Novels.” 22.2 (Summer 1987).
———. "Robinson Jeffers’ Macabre and Darkly Marvelous Double Axe.” 20.3 (Fall 1985).
Nickerson, Edward A. “Robinson Jeffers and the Paeon.” 10.3 (Fall 1975).
———. “Robinson Jeffers: Apocalypse and His ‘Inevitable Place.’” 12.2 (Summer 1977).
Zaller, Robert. “‘Home’: A ‘Lost’ Jeffers Narrative.” 32.2 (Summer 1997). 
———. "Jeffers, Rexroth, and the Trope of Hellenism."  36.2 (Summer 2001). 

Johnson, Dorothy
Meldrum, Barbara H. “Dorothy Johnson’s Short Fiction: The Pastoral and the Uses of History.” 17.3 (Fall 1982).

Judaism
Shein, Debra.  "Isaac Raboy's Der Yiddisher Cowboy and Rachel Calof's My Story:  The Role of the Western Frontier in Shaping Jewish American Identity."  36.4 (Winter 2002).

Kaplan, Robert D.
Campbell, Neil.  "Road Narratives and Western Identity."  36.3 (Fall 2001).

Kerouac, Jack
Herman, Matt.  "Literature, Growth, and Criticism in the New West."  38.1 (Spring 2003).
Hull, Keith N. “A Dharma Bum Goes West to Meet the East.” 11.4 (Winter 1977).
McKelly, James C. “The Artist and the West: Two Portraits by Jack Kerouac and Sam Shepard.” 26.4 (Winter 1992).
Robertson, David. “Read Matter, Spiritual Mountain: Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac on Mt. Tamalpais.” 27.3 (Fall 1992).

Kesey, Ken
Drout, Michael D. C. “Hoisting the Arm of Defiance: Beowulfian Elements in Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion.” 28.2 (Summer 1993). 
Foster, John Wilson. “Hustling to Some Purpose: Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” 9.2 (Summer 1974).
Weixlmann, Joseph. “Ken Kesey: A Bibliography.” 10.3 (Fall 1975).

King, Thomas
Hirsch, Bud. “‘Stay Clam, Be Brave, Wait for the Signs’: Sign-Offs and Send-Ups in the Fiction of Thomas King.” 39.2 (Summer 2004).

Kingsolver, Barbara
Godfrey, Kathleen.  "Barbara Kingsolver's Cherokee Nation: Problems of Representation in Pigs in Heaven."  36.3 (Fall 2001).

Kloefkorn, William
Pichaske, David R. "William Kloefkorn: Looking Back over the Shoulder of Memory."  38.1 (Spring 2003).

Krutch, Joseph Wood
Pavich, Paul N. “Joseph Wood Krutch: Persistant Champion of Man and Nature.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).

L’Amour, Louis
Nesbitt, John D. “Change of Purpose in the Novels of Louis L’Amour.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).

Lanner, Ronald
Glotfelty, Cheryll Burgess. “Western, Yes, But Is It Literature?: Teaching Ronald Lanner’s The Piñon Pine.” 27.4 (Winter 1993).

Laurence, Margaret
Cannon, Helen B. “The Letters of Maragret Laurence and Adele Wiseman.” 33.4 (Winter 1999). 

Lawrence, D.H.
Waters, Frank. “Quetzalcoatl Versus D. H. Lawrence’s Plumed Serpent.” 3.2 (Summer 1968).

Leffland, Ella
Renfro, Elizabeth. “Ella Leffland.” 32.1 (Spring 1997).  Special Issue: A Sampler from Updating the Literary West.

Lesley, Craig
Brande, David.  "Money, Memory, and Territory in Craig Lesley's Winterkill."  35.3  (Fall 2000)

Lewis, Sinclair
Bucco, Martin. “Black Wolf and Shakespeare: A Note on Sinclair Lewis’s The God-Seeker.” 34.3 (Fall 1999).
———. “The Serialized Novels of Sinclair Lewis.” 4.1 (Spring 1969).

Locklin, Gerald
Haslam, Gerald.  "Six by Locklin."  37.3 (Fall 2002).

London, Jack
Baskett, Sam S. “Martin Eden: Jack London’s ‘Splendid Dream.’” 12.3 (Fall 1977).
Ellis, James. “A New Reading of The Sea Wolf.” 2.2 (Summer 1967).
Giles, James R. “Beneficial Atavism in Frank Norris and Jack London.” 4.1 (Spring 1969).
Kime, Wayne R. “Jack London’s ‘To Build a Fire’: Epistemology and the White Wilderness.” 5.4 (Winter 1971).
Lachtman, Howard. “Man and Superwoman in Jack London’s ‘The Kanaka Surf.’” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Lindquist, Barbara. “Jack London, Aesthetic Theory, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Science.” 32.2 (Summer 1997). 
Pearsall, Robert Brainard. “Elizabeth Barrett Meets Wolf Larsen.” 4.1 (Spring 1969).
Qualtiere, Michael. “Nietzschean Psychology in London’s The Sea-Wolf.” 16.4 (Winter 1982).
Van Der Beets, Richard. “Nietzsche of the North: Heredity and Race in London’s The Son of the Wolf.” 2.3 (Fall 1967).
Ward, Susan. “Social Philosophy as Best-Seller: Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf.” 17.4 (Winter 1983).
Watson, Jr., Charles N. “Sexual Conflict in The Sea-Wolf: Further Notes on London’s Reading of Kipling and Norris.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).

Lopez, Barry
Aton, Jim. “An Interview with Barry Lopez.” 21.1 (Spring 1986).

Macdonald, Ross
Pry, Elmer R. “Ross Macdonald’s Violent California: Imagery Patterns in The Underground Man.” 9.3 (Fall 1974).

Mackenzie, Alexander
Kime, Wayne R. “Poe’s Use of Mackenzie’s Voyages in ‘The Journal of Julius Rodman.’” 3.1 (Spring 1968).

Maclean, Norman
Lojek, Helen. “Casting Flies and Recasting Myths with Norman Maclean.” 25.2 (Summer 1990). 
Simonson, Harold P. “Norman Maclean’s Two-Hearted River.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).
Weltzien, Alan O. “The Lives of Norman Maclean and the Text of Fire in Young Men and Fire.” 29.1 (Spring 1994).
———. “Norman Maclean and Tragedy.” 30.2 (Summer 1995). 

Mailer, Norman
Witt, Grace. “The Bad Man as Hipster: Norman Mailer’s Use of Frontier Metaphor.” 4.3 (Fall 1969).

Malamud, Bernard
Witherington, Paul. “Malamud’s Allusive Design in A New Life.” 10.2 (Summer 1975).

Manfred, Frederick
McAllister, Mick. “‘Wolf That I am...’: Animal Symbology in Lord Grizzly and Scarlet Plume.” 18.1 (Spring 1983).
———. “The Literary Challenge of the West.” 1.4 (Winter 1967).
Nelson, Nancy Owen. “Frederick Manfred and the Anglo-Saxon Oral Tradition.” 19.4 (Winter 1985).
Peterson, Levi S. “The Primitive and the Civilized in Western Fiction.” 1.3 (Fall 1966).
Pilkington, William T. “Aspects of the Western Comic Novel.” 1.3 (Fall 1966).
Thompson, Harry F.  "History, Historicity, and the Western American Novel: Frederick Manfred's Scarlet Plume and the Dakota War of 1862."  37.1  (Spring 2002).

Mathews, John Joseph
Owens, Louis.  "'Disturbed by Something Deeper': The Native Art of John Joseph Mathews."  35.2  (Summer 2000).

McCarthy, Cormac
Pilkington, Tom. “Fate and Free Will on the American Fontier: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Fiction.” 27.4 (Winter 1993).
Pitts, Jonathan. “Writing On: Blood Meridian as Devisionary Western.” 33.1 (Spring 1998).
Schopen, Bernard A. “‘They Rode On’: Blood Meridian and the Art of Narrative.” 30.2 (Summer 1995).
Spurgeon, Sara L. “‘Pledged in Blood’: Truth and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” 34.1 (Spring 1999).

McCunn, Lum
Hesford, Walter. “Thousand Pieces of Gold: Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience.” 31.1 (Spring 1996). 

McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
Haslam, Gerald. “‘Gravy Says A Lot’: The Poetry of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).

McElrath, Frances
Lamont, Victoria.  "The Bovine Object of Ideology: History, Gender, and the Origins of the 'Classic' Western."  35.4  (Winter 2001)

McMurtry, Larry
Campbell, Neil.  "Road Narratives and Western Identity."  36.3 (Fall 2001).
Peavy, Charles D. “Coming of Age in Texas: The Novels of Larry McMurtry.” 4.3 (Fall 1969).
———. “Larry McMurtry and Black Humor: A Note on The Last Picture Show.” 2.3 (Fall 1967).
Sewell, Ernestine P. “McMurtry’s Cowboy-God in Lonesome Dove.”  21.3 (Fall 1986). 
Stout, Janis P. “Cadillac Larry Rides Again: McMurtry and the Song of the Open Road.” 24.3 (Fall 1989).
———.”Journeying as a Metaphor for Cultural Loss in the Novels of Larry McMurtry.” 11.1 (Spring 1976).

McNichols, Charles L. 
Berner, Robert L. “Charles L. McNichols and Crazy Weather: A Reconsideration.” 6.1 (Spring 1971).

McNickle, D’Arcy
Owens, Louis. “The ‘Map of the Mind’: D’Arcy McNickle and the American Indian Novel.” 19.4 (Winter 1985).

McPhee, John
Terrie, Philip G. “River of Paradox: John McPhee’s ‘The Encircled River.’” 23.1 (Spring 1988).

McWilliams, Carey
Robinson, Forrest G. “Remembering Carey McWilliams.” 34.4 (Winter 2000).

Medoff, Mark
Erben, Rudolf. “The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues.” 23.4 (Winter 1989).

Mexican-American Studies (see Chicano Studies)

Miller, Arthur
Glotfelty, Cheryll.  "Old Folks in the New West:  Surviving Change and Staying Fit in The Mistfits."  37.1  (Spring 2002).

Miller, Joaquin
Resenus, A. H. “Joaquin Miller and His ‘Shadow.’” 11.1 (Spring 1976).

Milton, John R.
Haslam, Gerald.  “An Interview with John R. Milton.” 19.2 (Summer 1984).

Mirikitani, Janice
Grotjohn, Robert. “Remapping Internment: A Postcolonial Reading of Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Janice Mirikitani.” 38.3 (Fall 2003).

Momaday, N. Scott
Barry, Nora Baker. “The Bear’s Son Folk Tale in When the Legends Die and House Made of Dawn.” 12.4 (Winter 1978).
Clements, William M.  "'image and word cannot be divided':  N. Scott Momaday and Kiowa Ekphrasis."  36.2  (Summer 2001).
Evers, Lawrence J. “Words and Place: a Reading of House Made of Dawn.” 11.4 (Winter 1977).
Hafen, Jane P. “Pan-Indianism and Tribal Sovereignties in House Made of Dawn and The Names.” 34.1 (Spring 1999).
Hersch, Bernard A. “Self-Hatred and Spiritual Corruption in House Made of Dawn.” 17.4 (Winter 1983).

Mormonism
Arrington, Leonard, and Jon Haupt. “Community and Isolation: Some Aspects of ‘Mormon Westerns.’” 8.1,2 (Spring/Summer 1973).

Mountaineering
Bayers, Peter L. “Frederick Cook, Mountaineering in the Alaskan Wilderness, and the Regeneration of Progressive Era Masculinity.” 38.2 (Summer 2003).
Cracroft, Richard H.“‘Half Froze for Mountain Doins’: The Influence and Significance of George F. Ruxton’s Life in the Far West.” 10.1 (Spring 1975).
Stouck, David. “The Art of the Mountain Man Novel.” 20.3 (Fall 1985).

Morris, Wright
Barret, Laura. “‘The true witness of a false event’: Photography and Wright Morris’s Fiction of the 1950’s.” 33.1 (Spring 1998). 
Crump, G.B. “Wright Morris, Author in Hiding.” 25.1 (Spring 1990).
Hall, Joe. “Three Consciousnesses in Wright Morris’s Plains Song.” 31.4 (Winter 1997).
Harper, Robert D. “Wright Morris’s Ceremony in Lone Tree: A Picture of Life in Middle America.” 11.3 (Fall 1976).
Wydeven, Joseph J. “Focus and Frame in Wright Morris’s The Works of Love.” 23.2 (Summer 1988).

Muir, John 
Branch, Michael P. “‘Angel guiding gently’: The Yosemite Meeting of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir, 1871.” 32.2 (Summer 1997).
Cohen, Michael P. “John Muir’s Public Voice.” 10.3 (Fall 1975).
Lundberg, Ann.  "John Muir and Yosemite's 'Castaway Book'":  The Troubling Geology of Native America."  36.1  (Spring 2001).
Morris, David Copland. “A Dog’s Life: Anthropomorphism, Sentimentality, and Ideaology in John Muir’s Stickeen.” 31.2 (Summer 1996).
Simonson, Harold P. “The Tempered Romanticism of John Muir.” 13.3 (Fall 1978).
Witschi, Nicolas. “John of the Mines: Muir’s Picturesque Rewrite of the Gold Rush.” 34.3 (Fall 1999). 

Muro, Amado Jesus
Haslam, Gerald. “The Enigma of Amado Jesus Muro.” 10.1 (Spring 1975).

Myth
Barsness, John A. “A New Life: The Frontier Myth in Perspective” 3.4 (Winter 1969).
Bartlett, Lee. “Gary Snyder’s Myth & Texts and the Monomyth.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).
Deamer, Robert Glen. “Stephen Crane and the Western Myth.” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Erisman, Fred. “Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West.” 34.3 (Fall 1999).
Haslam, Gerald. “Predators in Literature.” 12.2 (Summer 1977). 
Lojek, Helen. “Casting Flies and Recasting Myths with Norman Maclean.” 25.2 (Summer 1990).
Person, Jr., Leland S. “James Kirke Paulding: Myth and the Middle Ground.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).
Ramsey, Jarold. “From ‘Mythic’ to ‘Fictive’ in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).
Rice, Julian C. “Symbols: Meat for the Soul in Cheyenne Myth and Lakota Ritual.” 18.2 (Summer 1983).
Swift, John N. “Memory, Myth, and The Professor’s House.” 20.4 (Winter 1986).

Native American Art
Owens, Louis.  "'Disturbed by Something Deeper': The Native Art of John Joseph Mathews."  35.2  (Summer 2000).

Native American Literature/Criticism/Studies
Allen, Chadwick.  "Demons and Dilemmas: American (Indian) Studies and the Persistence of the Tribal."  37.4 (Winter 2003).
Barry, Nora. “‘The Lost Children’ in James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney.”  25.1 (Spring 1990).
Bernardin, Susan. “The Lessons of a Sentimental Education: Zitkala-Sa’s Autobiographical Narratives.” 32.3 (Fall 1997).
Bevis, W. William. “James Welch.” 32.1 (Spring 1997). A Special Issue: A Sampler from Updating the Literary West.
Espey, David B. “Endings in Contemporary American Indian Fiction.” 13.2 (Summer 1978). 
Godfrey, Kathleen.  "Barbara Kingsolver's Cherokee Nation: Problems of Representation in Pigs in Heaven."  36.3 (Fall 2001).
Griffin, Gwen.  "Touring Indian Country: A Review of Native Fiction from 1999 and 2000."  36.3  (Fall 2001).
Haslam, Gerald. “American Indians: Poets of the Cosmos.” 5.1 (Spring 1970).
Konkle, Maureen. "Treaties, History, and the 'Full-Blood' in Indian Territory Native Writing."  35.2  (Summer 2000).
McAllister, H.S. “‘The Language of Shamans’: Jerome Rothenberg’s Contribution to American Indian Literature.” 10.4 (Winter 1976).
McAllister, Mick. “Native Sources: American Indian Autobiography.” 32.1 (Spring 1997). Special Issue: A Sampler from Updating the Literary West.
Meyer, Roy W.  “Hamlin Garland and The American Indian.” 2.2 (Summer 1967).
Newmark, Julianne.  "Writing (and Speaking) in Tongues: Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories."  37.3 (Fall 2002).
wens, Louis. “The ‘Map of the Mind’: D’Arcy McNickle and the American Indian Novel.” 19.4 (Winter 1985).
Ramsey, Jarold. “From ‘Mythic’ to ‘Fictive’ in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).
Revard, Carter.  "Some Indian Territory Songs."  35.2  (Summer 2000).
Rice, Julian C. “Symbols: Meat for the Soul in Cheyenne Myth and Lakota Ritual.” 18.2 (Summer 1983).
Salzer, Maureen. “Native Presence and Survivance in Early Twentieth-Century Translations by Natalie Curtis Burlin and Mary Austin.” 39.1 (Spring 2004).
Sonnichsen, C. L. “The Ambivalent Apache.” 10.2 (Summer 1975).
Tisinger, Danielle.  "Textual Performance and the Western Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims."  37.2  (Summer 2002).
Viehmann, Martha L. “A Rain Song for America: Mary Austin, American Indians, and American Literature and Culture.” 39.1 (Spring 2004).
(see also Momaday, N. Scott)

Neihardt, John G.
Aly, Lucile F. “John G. Neihardt and the American Epic.” 13.4 (Winter 1979).
———. “Poetry and History in Neihardt’s Cycle of the West.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).
Black, W.E. “Ethic and Metaphysic: A Study of John G. Neihardt.” 1.3 (Fall 1967).
Kriefall, Andreas. “Ethics of Polyphony: The Example of Black Elk Speaks.” 33.2 (Summer 1998). 
McCluskey, Sally. “Black Elk Speaks: and So Does John Neihardt.” 6.4 (Winter 1972).
Neihardt, John. “The Book That Would Not Die.” 6.4 (Winter 1972).

Nichols, John
Lynch, Tom.  "Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca."  37.4 (Winter 2003).

Norman, Marsha
Erben, Rudolf. “The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues.” 23.4 (Winter 1989).

Norris, Frank
Crow, Charles L. “The Real Vanamee and His Influence on Frank Norris’ The Octopus.” 9.2 (Summer 1974).
Davison, Richard Allan. “An Undiscovered Early Review of Norris’ Octopus.” 3.2 (Summer 1968).
Giles, James R. “Beneficial Atavism in Frank Norris and Jack London.” 4.1 (Spring 1969).
Goldman, Suzy Bernstein. “McTeague: The Imagistic Network.” 7.2 (Summer 1972).
Goldsmith, Arnold L. “Charles and Frank Norris.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).
Hochman, Barbara. “Vandover and the Brute: The Decisive Experience of Loss.” 19.1 (Spring 1984).
Hug, William J. “McTeague as Metafiction? Frank Norris’ Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel.” 26.3 (Fall 1991). 
Jolly, John. “The Genesis of the Rapist in The Octopus: Frank Norris’s Revision of Vandover and the Brute.”
Love, Glen A. “Frank Norris’s Western Metropolitans.” 11.1 (Spring 1976).
McFatter, Susan Prothro. “Parody and Dark Projections: Medieval Romance and the Gothic in McTeague.” 26.2 (Summer 1991). 
Walker, Don D. “The Western Naturalism of Frank Norris.” 2.1 (Spring 1967).

Nugent, Frank S. 
Westbrook, Max. “The Night John Wayne Danced with Shirley Temple.” 25.2 (Summer 1990).

Oatman, Olive
Putzi, Jennifer. “Capturing Identity in Ink. The Captives of Olive Oatman.” 39.2 (Summer 2004).

O’Brien, Dan
Poland, Tim. “‘The Picture Written on the Dirt’: The Old and New West in Dan O’Brien’s Spirit of the Hills.” 25.3 (Fall 1990).

O’Brien, Flann
Lee, L. L. “The Dublin Cowboys of Flann O’Brien.” 4.3 (Fall 1969).

Oklahoma
Konkle, Maureen.  "Treaties, History, and the 'Full-Blood' in Indian Territory Native Writing."  35.2  (Summer 2000).
Owens, Louis.  "'Disturbed by Something Deeper': The Native Art of John Joseph Mathews."  35.2  (Summer 2000).
Revard, Carter.  "Some Indian Territory Songs."  35.2  (Summer 2000).

Owens, Louis
Bernardin, Susan.  "Closing the Distance: Reading Louis Owens."  37.4 (Winter 2003).

Parkman, Francis
Moore, L. Hugh. “Francis Parkman on the Oregon Trail: A Study in Cultural Prejudice.” 12.3 (Fall 1977).
Scherting, Jack. “Tracking the Pequod along The Oregon Trail: The Influence of Parkman’s Narrative on Imagery and Characters in Moby-Dick.” 22.1 (Spring 1987). 

Paulding, James Kirke
Person, Jr., Leland S. “James Kirke Paulding: Myth and the Middle Ground.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).

Peterson, Levi
England, Eugene. “Wilderness as Salvation in Peterson’s The Canyons of Grace.” 19.1 (Spring 1984).

Photography
Hutchinson, Elizabeth. “Many Wests: Photographic Images of Western Peoples.” (Essay Review) 39.3 (Fall 2004). 

Poe, Edgar Allan
Kime, Wayne R. “Poe’s Use of Mackenzie’s Voyages in ‘The Journal of Julius Rodman.’” 3.1 (Spring 1968).

Poetry
Aly, Lucile F. “Poetry and History in Neihardt’s Cycle of the West.” 16.1 (Spring 1981).
Hart, George. "The Discursive Mode: Kenneth Rexroth, the California State Guide, and Nature Poetry in the 1930s."  37.1  (Spring 2002).
Haslam, Gerald. “‘Gravy Says A Lot’: The Poetry of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).
———. "Six by Locklin."  37.3 (Fall 2002).
Moore, George. “Beyond Cultural Dialogues: Identities in the Interstices of Culture in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martín and Meditations on the South Valley.” 33.2 (Summer 1998).
Pichaske, David R. "William Kloefkorn: Looking Back over the Shoulder of Memory."  38.1 (Spring 2003).
Pavich, Paul N. “Joseph Wood Krutch: Persistant Champion of Man and Nature.” 13.2 (Summer 1978).
Ross, Morton L. “Allan Swallow and Modern, Western American Poetry.” 1.2 (Summer 1966).
Scherting, Jack. “Bret Harte’s Civil War Poems: Voice of the Majority.” 8.3 (Fall 1973).
(see also Jeffers, Robinson, Snyder, Gary)
 

Powers, J. F.
Stewart, D. H. “J. F. Powers’ Morte D’Urban as Western.” 5.1 (Spring 1970).

Raboy, Isaac
Shein, Debra.  "Isaac Raboy's Der Yiddisher Cowboy and Rachel Calof's My Story:  The Role of the Western Frontier in Shaping Jewish American Identity."  36.4 (Winter 2002).

Ranching
Schrand, Brandon R. “Ranching the Literary West: New Perspectives on an Old Way of Life.” (Essay Review) 39.2 (Summer 2004).

Reed, Ishmael
Tietchen, Todd F.  "Cowboy Tricksters and Devilish Wangols:  Ishmael Reed's Hoodoo West."  36.4  (Winter 2001).

Regionalism
Almon, Bert. “A Fruitful Emptiness: Poets and Artists of the Great Basin Region.” 34.3 (Fall 1999).
Baker, Bruce, II. “Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Cather.” 3.1 (Spring 1968).
Brunvand, Jan Harold. “Honey in the Horn and ‘Acres of Clams’: The Regional Fiction of H. L. Davis.” 2.2 (Summer 1967).
Cleman, John.  "The Belated Frontier: H. L. Davis and the Problem of Pacific Northwest Regionalism."  37.4 (Winter 2003).
Dyer, Joyce Coyne, and Robert Emmett Monroe. “Texas and Texans in the Fiction of Kate Chopin.” 20.1 (Spring 1985).
———. “Running Out of Space: Vanishing Landscapes in California Novels.” 26.3 (Fall 1991).
Haslam, Gerald. “California Writing and the West.” 18.3 (Fall 1983).
———. “California’s Last Vaquero.” 21.2 (Summer 1986).
Herman, Matt.  "Literature, Growth, and Criticism in the New West."  38.1 (Spring 2003).
Hermanson, Scott. "Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles: Mike Davis as Nature Writer." 37.3 (Fall 2002).
Horgan, Paul. “The Pleasures and Perils of Regionalism.” 8.4 (Winter 1974).
Love, Glen A. “Et in Arcadia Ego: Pastoral Theory Meets Ecocriticsm.” 27.3 (Fall 1992).
———. “Revaluing Nature: Toward An Ecological Criticism.” 25.3 (Fall 1990).
Maguire, James H.  "Western Literary Regionalism and Globalizing Literary Studies."  36.4  (Winter 2002).
Maher, Susan Naramore.  "Deep Mapping the Great Plains:  Surveying the Literary Cartography of Place." 36.1  (Spring 2001).
Robinson, Forrest G.  "Josiah Royce's California."  36.4  (Winter 2001)
Ronald, Ann. “Why Don’t They Write about Nevada?” 24.3 (Fall 1989).
Schmidt-Nowara, Peter.  "Finding God in a World of 'Leg-Breakers' and 'Racist-Shitbirds': James Ellroy and the Contemporary L.A. Crime Novel."  36.2  (Summer 2001).

Reid, Mayne
Meyer, Roy W. “The Western Fiction of Mayne Reid.” 3.2 (Summer 1968).

Remington, Frederic
Bold, Christine. “How the Western Ends: Fenimore Cooper to Frederic Remington.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).

Rexroth, Kenneth
Hart, George. "The Discursive Mode: Kenneth Rexroth, the California State Guide, and Nature Poetry in the 1930s."  37.1  (Spring 2002).
Zaller, Robert. "Jeffers, Rexroth, and the Trope of Hellenism." 36.2 (Summer 2001).

Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
Hutchinson, W.H. “I Pay for What I Break.”1.2 (Summer 1966).
Ross, Morton L. “Allan Swallow and Modern, Western American Poetry.” 1.2 (Summer 1966).

Ridge, John Rollin. 
Goeke, Joe.  "Yellow Bird and the Bandit: Minority Authorship, Class, and Audience in John Rollin Ridge's Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta."  37.4 (Winter 2003).

Rølvaag, O. E.
Martin, Dexter. “Rølvaag’s ‘Roggish Smile’ in Peder Victorious.” 24.3 (Fall 1989).

Ross Sinclair
Stouck, David. “Cross-Writing and the Unconcluded Self in Sinclair Ross’s As for Me and My House.” 34.4 (Winter 2000). 

Rothenberg, Jerome
McAllister, H.S. “‘The Language of Shamans’: Jerome Rothenberg’s Contribution to American Indian Literature.” 10.4 (Winter 1976).

Royce, Josiah
Robinson, Forrest G.  "Josiah Royce's California."  36.4  (Winter 2001).

Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo
Jacobs, Margaret D.  "Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?"  36.3  (Fall 2001).

Ruxton, George F.
Cracroft, Richard H.“‘Half Froze for Mountain Doins’: The Influence and Significance of George F. Ruxton’s Life in the Far West.” 10.1 (Spring 1975).

Sandoz, Mari
Graulich, Melody. “Every Husband’s Right: Sex Roles in Mari Sandoz’s Old Jules.” 18.1 (Spring 1983).
Greenwell, Scott L. “Fascists in Fiction: Two Early Novels of Mari Sandoz.” 12.2 (Summer 1977).
Stauffer, Helen. “Narrative Voice in Sandoz’s Crazy Horse.” 18.3 (Fall 1983).

Savage, Thomas
Scheckter, John. “Thomas Savage and the West: Roots of Compulsion.” 20.1 (Spring 1985).

Schaefer, Jack
Erisman, Fred. “Jack Schaefer: The Writer as Ecologist.” 13.1 (Spring 1978).

Scott, Ridley
Putnam, Ann. “The Bearer of the Gaze in Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise.” 27.4 (Winter 1993).

Shepard, Sam
Holstein, Suzy Clarkson. “‘All Growed Up’ in the True West, or Huck and Tom Meet Sam Shepard.” 29.1 (Spring 1994).
McKelly, James C. “The Artist and the West: Two Portraits by Jack Kerouac and Sam Shepard.” 26.4 (Winter 1992).

Sherrill, Rowland A.
Campbell, Neil.  "Road Narratives and Western Identity."  36.3 (Fall 2001).

Sherwood, Robert E.
Erben, Rudolf. “The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues.” 23.4 (Winter 1989).

Shute, Nevil
Erisman, Fred. “Nevil Shute and the Closed Frontier.” 21.3 (Fall 1986).

Silko, Leslie Marmon
Hobbs, Michael. “Living In-Between: Tayo as Radical Reader in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” 28.4 (Winter 1994). 
Hunt, Alex. “The Radical Geography of Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” 39.3 (Fall 2004).
Morris, Daniel. “‘The Word Gets Around’: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Theory of Narrative Survival in The Delicacy and Strength of Lace.” 34.1 (Spring 1999).

Siringo, Charlie
Sawey, Orlan. “Charlie Siringo: Reluctant Propagandist.” 7.3 (Fall 1972).

Smythe, William Ellsworth
Sarver, Stephanie. “William Ellsworth Smythe’s Drama of Reclamation.” 31.3 (Fall 1996). 

Snyder, Gary
Bartlett, Lee. “Gary Snyder’s Myth & Texts and the Monomyth.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).
Lyon, Thomas. “Gary Snyder, A Western Poet.” 3.3 (Fall 1968).
Martin, Julia. “The Pattern Which Connects:  Metaphor in Gary Snyder’s Later Poetry.” 22.2 (Summer 1987). 
Mills, Louise. “Riprap of Things: Subject and Object in Gary Snyder's Early Poetry.” 39.3 (Fall 2004).
Robertson, David. “Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais.” 30.1 (Spring 1995). 
 ———. “Read Matter, Spiritual Mountain: Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac on Mt. Tamalpais.” 27.3 (Fall 1992).
Yamazato, Katsunori. “A Note on Japanese Allusions in Gary Snyder’s Poetry.” 18.2 (Summer 1983).

Stafford, Jean
Jenson, Sid. “The Noble Wicked West of Jean Stafford.” 7.4 (Winter 1973).
Leary, William G. “Checkmate: Jean Stafford’s ‘A Slight Maneuver.’” 21.2 (Summer 1986). 
———. “Grafting Onto Her Roots: Jean Stafford’s ‘Wooden’s Day.’” 23.2 (Summer 1988). 
———. “Native Daughter: Jean Stafford’s California.” 21.3 (Fall 1986).

Stafford, William
Kyle, Carol. “Point of View in ‘Returned to Say’ and the Wilderness of William Stafford.” 7.3 (1972).
Roberts, Sr., J. Russell. “Listening to the Wilderness with William Stafford.” 3.3 (Fall 1968).

Stegner, Wallace
Ahearn, Kerry. “The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Angle of Repose.” 10.1 (Spring 1975).
Benson, “‘Eastering’: Wallace Stegner’s Love Affair with Vermont in Crossing to Safety.” 25.1 (Spring 1990). 
Burrows, Russell. “Wallace Stegner’s Version of Pastoral.” 25.1 (Spring 1990).
Flora, Joseph M. “Vardis Fisher and Wallace Stegner: Teacher and Student.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).
Peterson, Audrey C. “Narrative Voice in Stegner’s Angle of Repose.” 10.2 (Summer 1975).
Robinson, Forrest G. “Wallace Stegner’s Family Saga: From The Big Rock Candy Moutain to Recapitulation.” 17.2 (Summer 1982).
Tyburski, Susan J. “Wallace Stegner’s Vision of Wilderness.” 18.2 (Summer 1983).

Steinbeck, John
Alexander, Stanley. “Cannery Row: Steinbeck’s Pastoral Poem.” 2.4 (Winter 1967).
Astro, Richard. “Steinbeck and Ricketts: Escape or Commitment in the Sea of Cortez?” 6.2 (Summer 1971).
Autrey, Max L. “Men, Mice, and Moths: Gradation in Steinbeck’s ‘The Leader of the People.’” 10.3 (Fall 1975).
Goldhurst, William. “Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck’s Parable of the Curse of Cain.” 6.2 (Summer 1971).
Houghton, Donald E. “‘Westering’ in ‘Leader of the People.’” 4.2 (Summer 1969).
Owens, Louis.  "Deadly Kids, Stinking Dogs, and Heroes: The Best Lid Plans in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men."  37.3 (Fall 2002).
Schmidt, Gary D. “Steinbeck’s ‘Breakfast’: A Reconsideration.” 26.4 (Winter 1992).
West, Philip J. “Steinbeck’s ‘The Leader of the Poeple’: A Crisis in Style.” 5.2 (Summer 1970).
Work, James C. “Coordinate Forces in ‘The Leader of the People.’” 16.4 (Winter 1982).
Wyatt, David.  "Eastering."  36.2  (Summer 2001).

Suckow, Ruth
Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. “A Book of Resolutions: Ruth Suckow’s Some Others and Myself.” 21.2  (Summer 1986).

Swallow, Alan
Ross, Morton L. “Allan Swallow and Modern, Western American Poetry.” 1.2 (Summer 1966).

Thoreau, Henry David
Erisman, Fred. “Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West.” 34.3 (Fall 1999).

Thurman, Wallace
Haslam, Gerald. “Wallace Thurman: A Western Renaissance Man.” 6.1 (Spring 1971).

Turner, Frederick Jackson
Boyle, Thomas E. “Frederick Jackson Turner and Thomas Wolfe: The Frontier as History and as Literature.” 4.4 (Winter 1970).

Twain, Mark
See Samuel L. Clemens

Van Dyke, John C. 
Wilde, Peter. “A Western Sun Sets in the East: The Five ‘Appearances’ Surrounding John C. Van Dyke's The Desert.” 25.3 (Fall 1990). 

Walker, Don D. 
Walker, Don D. “The Rise and Fall of Barney Tullus.” 3.2 (Summer 1968).

Waters, Frank
Pilkington, William T. “Character and Landscape: Frank Waters’ Colorado Trilogy.” 2.3 (Fall 1967).
Blackburn, Alexander. “Frank Waters’s The Lizard Woman and the Emergence of the Dawn Man.” 24.2 (Summer 1989). 
Lyon, Thomas J. “Pure Waters and Recycled Waters.” (Essay Review) 38.2 (Summer 2003).
Lynch, Tom.  "Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca."  37.4 (Winter 2003).
Waters, Frank. “Words.” 3.3 (Fall 1968).

Welch, James
Barry, Nora. “‘The Lost Children’ in James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney.”  25.1 (Spring 1990).
Bevis, W. William. “James Welch.” 32.1 (Spring 1997). A Special Issue: A Sampler from Updating the Literary West.

West, Nathanael 
Strychacz, Thomas. “Making Sense of Hollywood: Mass Discourses and the Literary Order in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.” 22.2 (Summer 1987).
Zlotnick, Joan. “Nathanael West and the Pictorial Imagination.” 9.3 (Fall 1974).

Western Film
Alonzo, Juan. “From Derision to Desire: The ‘Greaser’ in Stephen Crane’s Mexican Stories and D. W. Griffith’s Early Westerns.” 38.4 (Winter 2004).
Strychacz, Thomas. “Making Sense of Hollywood: Mass Discourses and the Literary Order in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.” 22.2 (Summer 1987).
Folsom, James K. “‘Western’ Themes and Western Films.” 2.3 (Fall 1967).
Putnam, Ann. “The Bearer of the Gaze in Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise.” 27.4 (Winter 1993).
Westbrook, Max. “Flag and Family in John Wayne’s Westerns: The Audience as Co-Conspirator.” 29.1 (Spring 1994).
———. “The Night John Wayne Danced with Shirley Temple.” 25.2 (Summer 1990).

Wheeler, Edward
Tonkovich, Nicole. “Guardian Angels and Missing Mothers: Race and Domesticity in Winona and Deadwood Dick on Deck.” 32.3 (Fall 1997). 

White, William Allen
Dubbert, Joe. “William Allen White’s American Adam.” 7.4 (Winter 1973).

Whiteley, Opal
Halverson, Cathryn.  "Opal Whiteley's 'Explores': The Disappearing Region."  37.2  (Summer 2002).

Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Erisman, Fred. “Farmer Boy: The Forgotten ‘Little House’ Book.” 28.2 (Summer 1993).

Williams, John
Brenner, Jack. “Butcher’s Crossing: The Husks and Shells of Exploitation.” 7.4 (Winter 1973).

Williams, Terry Tempest
Siporin, Ona. “Terry Tempest Williams and Ona Siporin: A Conversation.” 31.2 (Summer 1996). 

Wilson, Lanford
Erben, Rudolf. “The Western Holdup Play: The Pilgrimage Continues.” 23.4 (Winter 1989).

Winther, S.K.
Meldrum, Barbara. “Structure and Meaning in S.K. Winther’s Beyond the Garden  Gate.” 6.3 (Fall 1971). 

Wiseman, Adele
Cannon, Helen B. “The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman.” 33.4 (Winter 1999). 

Wister, Owen
Lambert, Neal. “Owen Wister’s ‘Hank’s Woman’: The Writer and His Commitment.” 4.1 (Spring 1969).
———. “Owen Wister’s Lin McLean: The Failure of the Vernacular Hero.” 5.3 (Fall 1970).
———. “Owen Wister’s Virginian: The Genesis of a Cultural Hero.” 6.2 (Summer 1971).
Lamont, Victoria.  "The Bovine Object of Ideology: History, Gender, and the Origins of the 'Classic' Western."  35.4  (Winter 2001)
Nesbitt, John D. “Owen Wister’s Achievement in Literary Tradition.” 18.3 (Fall 1983).
Robinson, Forrest G. “The Virginian and Molly in Paradise: How Sweet Is It?” 21.1 (Spring 1986). 
Vorpahl, Ben M. “Very Much Like a Fire-cracker: Owen Wister on Mark Twain.” 6.2 (Summer 1971).
Westbrook, Max. “Bzarov, Prince Hal, and the Virginian.” 24.2 (Summer 1989).

Wolfe, Thomas
Boyle, Thomas E. “Frederick Jackson Turner and Thomas Wolfe: The Frontier as History and as Literature.” 4.4 (Winter 1970).

Yamada, Mitsuye
Grotjohn, Robert. “Remapping Internment: A Postcolonial Reading of Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Janice Mirikitani.” 38.3 (Fall 2003).

Zitkala-Sa/Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Bernardin, Susan. “The Lessons of a Sentimental Education: Zitkala-Sa’s Autobiographical Narratives.” 32.3 (Fall 1997).
Newmark, Julianne.  "Writing (and Speaking) in Tongues: Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories."  37.3 (Fall 2002).

Zwinger, Ann
Zwinger, Ann H. “‘What’s a Nice Girl Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?’” 27.2 (Summer 1992).