Preface / Max Westbrook -- Chronology, 1980-1996 / Dan Flores with the Editors -- "Connecting the countrey": what's new in western lit crit? / SueEllen Campbell -- Feminism, women writers and new western regionalism: revising critical paradigms / Krista Comer -- Reperceiving ethnicity in western American literature / Robert F. Gish -- Western American literature and the canon / Kathleen A. Boardman -- Encountering the west / James H. Maguire -- Early western literary women / Ida Rae Egli -- The literature of the mining camps / Lawrence I. Berkove and Michael Kowalewski -- Children's literature in and of the west / Fred Erisman -- Native sources: American Indian autobiography / Mick McAllister -- Pre-Lewis and Clark exploration narratives of western North America / Donald A. Barclay and Peter Wild -- Ranch-life narratives and poems / Jan Roush -- Paper trail: diaries, letters and reminiscences of the overland journey west / Kathleen A. Boardman -- Joaquin Miller / Benjamin S. Lawson -- Ambrose Bierce / Lawrence I. Berkove -- New wests / Susan J. Rosowski -- The far west / Glen A. Love -- Washington / Bruce Barcott -- Oregon / Michael Powell -- Nevada / Ann Ronald -- Alaska / Erick Heyne -- Hawaii / Seri I. Luangphinith and Russell H. Sitabata -- The pacific northwest as a cross-border region / Laurie Ricou -- Raymond Carver / Gary Williams -- John Haines / Kevin Bezner -- Ursula K. Le Guin / Heinz Tschachler -- Berry Holstun Lopez / Cheryll Glotfelty -- David Wagoner / Laurie Ricour -- California / Gerald Haslam -- Gary Snyder ; Kenneth Rexroth / John P. O'Grady -- Robert Hass / Gerald Haslam -- William Everson / Robert Brophy -- Joan Didion / Krista Comer -- Charles Bukowski / Gerald Locklin -- Maxine Hong Kingston / Charles L. Crow -- Diane Wakoski / Joanne Allred -- Luis Valdez / Jaime Herrera -- Dorothy Bryant / Joanne Greenberg / Richard Rodriquez / Marek Breiger -- James D. Houston / Michael Kowalewski -- Gerald Haslam / Gerald Locklin -- Ella Leffland / Elizabeth Renfro -- Gary Soto / Robin Granz -- The Hollywood novel / David Fine -- The California detective novel / Paul Skenazy.
The southwest / Tom Pilkington -- Tony Hillerman / Jan Roush -- Cormack McCarthy / Steven Tatum -- John Nichols / Russell Burrows -- Charles Portis / Bob J. Frye -- Barbara Kingsolver / Charlotte M. Wright -- Sam Shepard ; Ralph Ellison / Mark Busby -- Leslie Marmon Silko / Paul M. Hadella -- Rudolfo A. Anaya ; N. Scott Momaday / Robert F. Gish -- Edward Abbey / Ann Ronald -- Simon J. Ortiz / Marie-Madeleine Schein -- Texas / Tom Pilkington / R.G. Vliet / William B. Bartin -- John Graves / Craig Clifford -- Elmer Kelton ; Robert Flynn / Kenneth Davis -- Dorothy Scarborought / Sylvia Ann Grider -- Rolando Hinojosa / Joyce Lee -- Shelby Hearon, Beverly Lowry, Sarah Bird / Lou Rodenberger / Walter McDonsld / Michael Hobbs -- The southern corner: Foote, Humphrey, Goyen / Kim Martin Long / Larry McMurtry / Ernestine Sewell Linck -- Americao Paredes / Ramon Saldivar -- The midwest and the great plains / Diane Dufva Quantic -- Recent Hamlin Garland reprints and scholarship / Bonney MacDonald -- The Cather enterprise: the last dozen years / John J. Murphy -- Recent research on the works of Ole E. Rolvaag / Arthur R. Huseboe -- Additions to the Neihardt and Sandoz bibliographies / Barbara Rippey -- Sinclair Lewis / Robert Fleming -- Wright Morris: update / Joseph J. Wydeven -- Midwestern autobiographical nonfiction / John T. Price -- Native American writers of the midwest / P. Jane Hafen -- Contemporary fiction of the great plains / Diane Dufva Quantic -- The Rocky Mountains / Gregory L. Morris -- Ivan Doig / A. Carl Bredahl -- William Kittredge / Mary Clearman Blew -- Thomas McGuane / Dexter Westrum -- Jean Stafford / Charlotte Margolis Goodman -- Rocky Mountain nature writing / Allison Bulsterbaum Wallace and Harry Crockett -- James Welch / William W. Bevis -- A.B. Guthrie, Jr.: a remembrance / David Peterrsen -- Wallace Stegner: an update and a retrospect / Joseph M. Flora -- Frank Waters / Charles L. Adams --The popular west / Christine Bold -- The movie western / Richard Slotkin -- The six-gun mystique: twenty-five years after / John G. Cawelti -- Critical theory, heading west / Lee Mitchell -- The market for popular western fiction / Judy Alter -- Women writers of popular westerns / Vicki Piekarski -- African Americans and the popular west / Blake Allmendinger -- Writing back: the American Indian western / Robert F. Gish -- The popular west across the Americas / Pamela Maria Smorkaloff -- European popular westerns / Geoff Sadler -- B.M. Bower / Victoria Lamont -- Max Brand / William A. Bloodworth, Jr. -- Zane Grey / Franz Blaha -- Louis L'Amour / Robert Lee Gale -- Epilogue: what is happening in the west today, and what it might mean / Thomas J. Lyon.
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