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Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature Editor: John S. Bullen, California State College, Sonoma Staff: Henry L. Alsmeyer, Jr., Texas A & M University; Robert J. Brophy, California State University at Long Beach; Jan Harold Brunvard, University of Utah; Richard W. Etulain, Idaho State University; Howard L. Lachtman, University o f the Pacific; Thomas J. Lyon, Utah State University; Valerie Neal, University of Minnesota; Donald S. Pady, Iowa State University. Anyone interested in joining the bibliographical staff is invited to write to John S. Bullen, English Departm ent, California State College, Sonoma, Rohnert Park, California, 94928. Authors of books and articles are invited to call our attention to items for inclusion in the bibliography. General. Alsmeyer, Henry L., Jr. “A Preliminary Southwestern Recon­ naissance.” Southwestern American Literature, I (May 1971), 67-71. Andrews, Clarence A. A Literary History ofIowa. Iowa City: Univer­ sity of Iowa Press, 1972. Baird, Newton D. and Robert Greenwood. An Annotated Bibliog­ raphy of California Fiction 1664-1970. Georgetown, Calif.: Talis­ man Literary Research, 1971. Beeler, M. S. “Inyo.” Names, XX (March 1972), 56-59. Bly, Robert. “American Poetry: On the Way to the Hermetic.” Books Abroad, XVLI (W inter 1972), 17-24. Brotherston, Gordon. “Ubirajara, Hiwatha, Cumanda: National Virtue from American Indian Literature.”Comparative Literature 280 Western American Literature Studies, IX (September 1972), 243-252. Bullen, John S., ed. “Annual Bibliography of Studies in W estern American Literature.” Western American Literature, VI (W inter 1972), 277-288. Cady, Edwin H. The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971. Dillingham, Peter. “The Literature of the American Indian.”Eng­ lishJournal, LXII (January 1973), 37-41. Donelson, Kenneth L. “Some Adolescent Novels About the West: An Annotated Bibliography.” Elementary English, XLIX (May 1972), 735-739. --------- . “The Southwest in Literature and Culture: A New Horizon for the English Class.” English Journal, LXI (February 1972), 193-204. Erisman, Fred. “ ‘W here We Plan to Go’: The Southwest in Utopi­ an Fiction.” Southwestern American Literature, I (September 1971), 137-143 Etulain, Richard W. “Frontier and Region in W estern Literature.” Southwestern American Literature, I (September 1971), 121-128. --------- . “Historians, Archivists, and American Popular Culture.” The New Archivist, I (March 1972), 3-4 --------- . “T he New W estern Novel.” Idaho Yesterdays, XV (W inter 1972), 12-17. --------- . “Origins of the W estern,” Journal of Popular Culture, VI (Spring 1972), 799-805. --------- . Western American Literature: A Bibliography of Interpretive Books and Articles. Vermillion: Dakota Press, 1972. --------- . “W estern American Literature: A Selective Annotated Bibliography.” Rendezvous, VII (W inter 1972), 67-78. French, Carol Anne. “W estern Literature and the Myth-Makers.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, XXII (April 1972), 76-81. Guthrie, A. B., Jr. “Why Write About the West?” Western American Literature, VII (Fall 1972), 163-169. Hall, Halbert W. “Texas and Science Fiction.” Southwestern Ameri­ can Literature, I (September 1971), 144-148. Hansen, Klaus J. “The Millenium, the West, and Race in the Antebellum American Mind.” Western Historical Quarterly, III (October 1972), 373-390. Haslam, Gerald. “Literature of The People: Native American Voices.” CLA Journal, XV (December 1971), 153-170. --------- . “Who Speaks for the Earth?” English Journal, LX III Bibliography 281 (January 1973), 42-48. [Ecology and literature. Includes selected bibliography of American Indian, W estern American, and nature literature.] Hine, Robert V., and Edwin R. Bingham. The American Frontier: Readings and Documents. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Igo, John. “A H idden Southwest Cycle.” Southwestern American Literature, I (May 1971), 60-66. Interpretative Appproaches to Western American Literature. Pocatello: Idaho State University Press, 1972. [The contents of this book are identical to those of Rendezvous, V II (W inter 1972). Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr., and Lonnie E. Underhill. “Renaming the American Indian: 1890-1913.” American Studies, XII (Fall 1971), 33-45. Love, Glen A. “Ecology in A rcadia.” Colorado Quarterly, XXI (Autumn 1972), 175-185. Lyon, Thomas J. “Research in W estern American Literature.” Western American Literature, VI (Winter 1972), 289-293. McCorison, Marcus A. “Donald McKay Frost — a Collector of W estern Americana.” Western Historical Quarterly, III (January 1972), 67-76. Milton, John R. “The W estern Novel: Whence and W hat?” Ren­ dezvous, VII (W inter 1972), 7-21. Peterson...

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