CONTENTS
| Acknowledgments [HTML, PDF] | xiii |
| Preface [HTML, PDF] Max Westbrook |
xv |
| Chronology [HTML, PDF] Richard W. Etulain |
xxi |
PART ONE: Encountering the West
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
3 | |
| Section I: Oral Traditions | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
8 | |
| Native Oral Traditions [HTML, PDF] Larry Evers and Paul Pavich |
11 | |
| Folklore in the American West [HTML, PDF] Barre Toelken |
29 | |
| Section II: The Written Donée of Western Literature | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
68 | |
| Across the Wide Missouri: The Adventure Narrative from Lewis and Clark to Powell [HTML, PDF] J. Golden Taylor |
71 | |
| The Military [HTML, PDF] Michael Koury |
104 | |
| Lawmen and Outlaws [HTML, PDF] Kent L. Steckmesser |
119 | |
| Section III: Beginnings of Genres in the West | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
135 | |
| Precursors of the Western Novel [HTML, PDF] James K. Folsom |
141 | |
| The Western Story [HTML, PDF] Gerald W. Haslam |
152 | |
| World Westerns: The European Writer and the American West [HTML, PDF] Richard H. Cracroft |
159 | |
Western Poetry, 1850  1950 [HTML, PDF]Tom Trusky |
180 | |
| Western American Drama to 1960 [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
204 | |
| The Nature Essay in the West [HTML, PDF] Thomas J. Lyon |
221 | |
| The Western Movie to 1960 [HTML, PDF] William T. Pilkington |
266 | |
| Section IV: Beginnings of Literary Historiography | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
273 | |
| Roosevelt, Wister, Turner, and Remington [HTML, PDF] Ben Merchant Vorpahl |
276 | |
| Early Western Literary Scholars [HTML, PDF] Fred Erisman |
303 | |
PART TWO: Settled In: Many Wests
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James H. Maguire |
319 | |
| Section I: The Far West | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] James D. Houston |
326 | |
| Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and the San Francisco Circle [HTML, PDF] Patrick D. Morrow |
339 | |
| Mary Hunter Austin [HTML, PDF] Jacqueline D. Hall |
359 | |
| Frank Norris [HTML, PDF] Don Graham |
370 | |
| Jack London [HTML, PDF] Earle Labor |
381 | |
| Robinson Jeffers [HTML, PDF] Robert Brophy |
398 | |
| H. L. Davis [HTML, PDF] Paul T. Bryant |
416 | |
| John Steinbeck [HTML, PDF] Richard Astro |
424 | |
| Theodore Roethke [HTML, PDF] Kermit Vanderbilt |
447 | |
| William Stafford [HTML, PDF] J. Russell Roberts, Sr. |
458 | |
| William Saroyan [HTML, PDF] Gerald W. Haaslam |
472 | |
| Prophets on the Burning Shore: Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and San Francisco [HTML, PDF] Dennis McNally |
482 | |
| Section II: The Southwest | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] William T. Pilkington |
496 | |
| The Cowboy in Short Fiction [HTML, PDF] W. H. Hutchinson |
515 | |
| The Novel of the Cowboy [HTML, PDF] Lou Rodenberger |
523 | |
| J. Frank Dobie [HTML, PDF] Henry L. Alsmeyer, Jr. |
535 | |
| Harvey Fergusson [HTML, PDF] William T. Pilkington |
546 | |
| Katherine Anne Porter and the Southwest [HTML, PDF] Joan Givner |
559 | |
| Oliver La Farge [HTML, PDF] Everett A. Gillis |
567 | |
| Paul Horgan [HTML, PDF] Robert Gish |
574 | |
| William Eastlake [HTML, PDF] Delbert E. Wylder |
587 | |
| Benjamin Capps [HTML, PDF] James W. Lee |
597 | |
| Edward Abbey [HTML, PDF] Ann Ronald |
604 | |
| Larry McMurtry [HTML, PDF] Jane Nelson |
612 | |
| The Southern Border [HTML, PDF] Lou Rodenberger |
622 | |
| Section III: The Midwest | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] George F. Day |
636 | |
| Hamlin Garland and Midwest Farm Fiction [HTML, PDF] Roy W. Meyer |
664 | |
| Willa Cather [HTML, PDF] John J. Murphy |
686 | |
| Rølvaag and Krause: Two Novelists of the Northwest Prairie Frontier [HTML, PDF] Arthur R. Huseboe |
716 | |
| John G. Neihardt [HTML, PDF] Lucile Aly |
739 | |
| The Western Writings of Sinclair Lewis [HTML, PDF] Glen A. Love |
754 | |
| Mari Sandoz [HTML, PDF] Helen W. Stauffer |
764 | |
| Wright Morris [HTML, PDF] G. B. Crump |
777 | |
| Frederick Manfred [HTML, PDF] Robert C. Wright |
792 | |
| Thomas McGrath [HTML, PDF] Frederick C. Stern |
806 | |
| Robert Bly [HTML, PDF] Douglas Smith |
813 | |
| Section IV: The Rocky Mountains | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] Levi S. Peterson |
822 | |
| Mormon Novels [HTML, PDF] Kenneth B. Hunsaker |
849 | |
| Vardis Fisher [HTML, PDF] Louie W. Attebery |
862 | |
| "Intellectualoids," Westering, and Thomas Hornsby Ferril [HTML, PDF] Tom Trusky |
887 | |
| Bernard DeVotor [HTML, PDF] Wallace Stegner |
899 | |
| A. B. Guthrie, Jr. [HTML, PDF] Wayne Chatterton |
912 | |
| Frank Waters [HTML, PDF] Charles L. Adams |
935 | |
| Jack Schaefer [HTML, PDF] Fred Erisman |
958 | |
| Wallace Stegner [HTML, PDF] Joseph M. Flora |
971 | |
| Walter Van Tilburg Clark and the American Dream [HTML, PDF] Max Westbrook |
989 | |
| The Northern Boundary [HTML, PDF] Morton L. Ross |
1000 | |
PART THREE: Rediscovering the West
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] Gerald W. Haslam |
1017 | |
| Section I: Earth Tones: Ethnic Expression in American Literature | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] Gerald W. Haslam |
1026 | |
| Western American Indian Writers, 1854 1960 [HTML, PDF] A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff |
1038 | |
| American Indian Fiction, 1968 1983 [HTML, PDF] Paula Gunn Allen |
1058 | |
| Coyote's Sons, Spider's Daughters: Western American Indian Poetry, 1968 1983 [HTML, PDF]Patricia Clark Smith |
1067 | |
| Early Mexican-American Literature [HTML, PDF] Raymund A. Paredes |
1079 | |
| Contemporary Mexican-American Literature, 1960 Present [HTML, PDF] Raymund A. Paredes |
1101 | |
| Asian-American Literary Traditions [HTML, PDF] Jeffery Paul Chan and Marilyn Alquiloza |
1119 | |
| Afro-American Writers in the West [HTML, PDF] James W. Byrd |
1139 | |
| Scandinavian Immigrant Literature [HTML, PDF] Christer Lennart Mossberg |
1148 | |
| Section II: Present Trends | ||
| Introduction [HTML, PDF] Gerald W. Haslam |
1162 | |
| Unknown Diversity: Small Presses and Little Magazines in the West, 1960 1980 [HTML, PDF]Gerald W. Haslam |
1167 | |
| Trends in Western Women's Writing [HTML, PDF] Lou Rodenberger |
1178 | |
| Contemporary Trends in Western American Fiction [HTML, PDF] Mark Siegel |
1182 | |
| Present Trends in Western Poetry [HTML, PDF] William Lockwood |
1202 | |
| Contemporary Western Drama [HTML, PDF] Mark Busby |
1232 | |
| The Western Nature Essay Since 1970 [HTML, PDF] Thomas J. Lyon |
1246 | |
| Western Movies Since 1960 [HTML, PDF] Don Graham |
1256 | |
| The Modern Popular Western: Radio, Television, Film and Print [HTML, PDF] Michael T. Marsden and Jack Nachbar |
1263 | |
| Epilogue: The Development of Western Literary Criticism [HTML, PDF] Martin Bucco |
1283 | |
| Major Reference Sources on the West [HTML, PDF] George F. Day |
1317 | |
| Contributors [HTML, PDF] | 1324 | |
| Index [HTML, PDF] | 1330 | |
