The sun's myth / Kathlamet Chinook -- from Pedro Font's diary / Pedro Font -- from The journals of Lewis and Clark / Lewis and Clark -- Through the foothills with a flock of sheep, from My first summer in the Sierra / John Muir -- The Valley of the Virgen, from Tertiary history of the Grand Cañon district / Clarence Dutton -- from Life among the Piutes: their wrongs and claims / Sarah Winnemucca -- Under the lion's paw, from Main travelled roads / Hamlin Garland -- Enter the man, from The Virginian / Owen Wister -- My neighbor's field, from The land of little rain / Mary Austin -- All Gold Canyon, from Moon-face and other stories / Jack London -- Lassiter, from Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey -- from O pioneers! ; from My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- from The wind / Dorothy Scarborough -- Granite and cypress ; Tor House ; November surf ; Gray weather ; Signpost ; The answer / Robinson Jeffers -- Nature, from Land of the spotted eagle / Luther Standing Bear -- Chapters 1, 2, and 3 from The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- Chapters 31 and 32, from The big sky / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- from Shane / Jack Schaefer -- Hopi ceremonialism, from Masked gods / Frank Waters -- from Pocho / José Antonio Villarreal -- In response to a question ; Speaking frankly ; Representing far places ; Montana eclogue / William Stafford -- Introduction to The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Dancing, from Dancing / Al Young -- Chapter 4, from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- The great American desert, from The journey home / Edward Abbey -- Part 2, Chapter 5, from Recapitulation / Wallace Stegner -- True West / Sam Shepard -- B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca, from The Anaya reader / Rudolfo Anaya -- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain lookout ; Marin-An ; Anasazi ; Magpie's song ; True night / Gary Snyder -- On water, from The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Chapter 16 from Last of the breed / Louis L'Amour -- The last of the menu girls, from The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez -- The centaur ; The poplar's shadow ; Camping in Madera Canyon / May Swenson -- Afterword, from Frog Mountain blues / Charles Bowden -- Rules of the game, from The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan -- Snowy plovers, from Refuge / Terry Tempest Williams -- Reimagining Warner, from Heart of the land / William Kittredge -- Days of Heaven, from In the Loyal Mountains / Rick Bass -- Why I am a danger to the public, from Homeland and other stories / Barbara Kingsolver -- Creations, from Heart of the land / Linda Hogan.
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