All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature

Index

INDEX Page references in italics indicate a photograph; the first part of the reference indicates the page of text the photograph section follows; the second part of the reference indicates the page within the photograph section. “1614 Boren” (Hugo), 211 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (Hugo), xi “About Men” (Ehrlich), 128 Academy of American Poets, 232 aesthetic approaches, conservative, xi, xiii agency, role of in Ford, 17 “Agnes” (Charlo), 28–29 Alcosser, Sandra, 231, 233 Alderson, Nannie, 92 All But the Waltz (Blew), xix, 78–91; family in, 83–91; the Other in, 89– 90; skepticism in, 80–81, 83–84 Allen, Michael S., 210, 214 American Protective Association, 41 American Sympathy (Crain), 103–04 Anaconda Copper Mining Company, 37, 41; and University of Montana, 221 Anderson, Kim, 232 animal husbandry in romance novels, 59–60, 66, 67–68, 69, 75n14 anthropology, 149 antitheorism, xv–xvi Armstead mt, 135 Ashcroft, Bill, 146 Asian-American experience, 162–64 assimilation: in The Heartsong of Charging Elk, 173–74; of immigrants, 163; and Native Americans, 142, 161–62; in romance novels, 69–71; in The Surrounded, 153 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 233 “At the Stilli’s Mouth” (Hugo), 200 Austin, Mary, 61, 224 Baldwin, James, 112 Balsamroot (Blew), 80, 83–84 Baltimore Sun, 220 Balzac, Honoré de, 136n5 Barber, Stephen M., Regarding Sedgwick, 118, 131 Barnes, Kim, 78–80, 217, 231; Circle of Women, 231 Barry, Wendell, 229 “Bear Paw” (Hugo), 208–09 Beer, Ralph, 231 Bell, Margaret, 94 Benjamin, Walter, 160, 177; “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 160 Bergland, Renée, 176 Berryman, John, 232 Bevis, William, xiii, xiv, xix; and creative writing program, 227, 230; on homothanaticism, 111, 112; on Hugo, 199; Ten Tough Trips, 89, 119, 199 The Big Sky (Guthrie), 89, 102, 224 bildungsroman, The Heartsong of Charging Elk as, 170–72 Billings mt, 218–19 biographical detail, use of by Hugo, 202–04 “Birds of a Feather” (Lahey), 25–26 Bitterroot Valley mt, 26–27 Black Cherries (Coates), 224 256 Index Blackfeet, 230 Blanchot, Maurice, 5, 8–10, 13–14, 16; “Literature and the Right to Death,” 8 Blew, Mary Clearman, 55, 78–83, 94, 95– 96, 231; All But the Waltz, xix, 78– 91; Balsamroot, 80, 83–84; Circle of Women, 231; and postmodernism, 89; Writing Her Own Life, 94 The Blind Horses (Lahey), 23 Blood Meridian (McCarthy), 56, 101 Blue Dusk (DeFrees), 232 Blunt, Judy, 72, 90–96, 217; Breaking Clean, 72, 78–79, 90–92, 217, 220; and feminist writing, 78–79, 231; and Guggenheim Fellowship, 234; and mythology of the Old West, 55, 220; “Salvage,” 95; as student of Bevis, 227, 237n34 Bowen, Peter, xx, 182–95; Imperial Kelly, 185–86, 192–93; Kelly and the Three-toed Horse, 185, 193–95; Kelly Blue, 185, 188–91; Yellowstone Kelly, 185–88 Bradshaw, Pansey, 132–33 Breaking Clean (Blunt), 72, 78–79, 90–92, 217, 220; and calving, 67–68; family in, 91–93 Brenner, Tom (Savage, Thomas), 125 Breton, André, 83 Bridger, Jim, 189–90 Brinig, Myron, 104–05, 108–11; sexual orientation of, 114n4; Footsteps on the Stair, 105, 108–11; Singermann, 105; The Sun Sets in the West, 105; This Man is My Brother, 105, 111 “Brinig: The Truth Game” (Ganz), xv Brokeback Mountain (film), 128, 130–31 “Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx), 112, 117, 119, 127–31 “The Brook” (Tennyson), 211 Bubash, Carole, 229 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 165–66, 178n1 Buntline, Ned (E. Z. C. Judson), 186 Burke, James Lee, 229 Burke, William, 39,“Butte,” 39–40; Rymes of the Mines, 39; “They’ve Moved Our Marcus Daly,” 40–41 Burt, Struthers, 224 “Butte” (Burke), 39–40 Butte mt: in gay/lesbian literature, 108–10; homosexuality in, 133; Irish in, 38–50, 51n4; writers from, x. See also Irish-American writing Butte Was Like That (Duffy), 38, 42 Calder Born, Calder Bred (Dailey), 64 Calloway, Colin, 145–46 Carr, Helen, 164 Carrier, Warren, 231, 237n33; and creative writing program, 219, 226–27, 228–29 Carver, Ray, 231 Charlo, Vic, 21, 26–31, 35; “Agnes,” 28–29; “Churchill Bear Jail,” 30; “Generations of Need,” 29–30; “Last Leave of Loyola,” 27–28; “Moving In,” 28; “St. Francis Xavier Novitiate, Sheridan, Oregon 1957,” 28; “Walking Bear Song,” 31 Charlot (Salish leader), 26 Chesnutt, Charles, 156n1 Chodorow, Nancy, 62 The Chronicle of Higher Education, 133 “Churchill Bear Jail” (Charlo), 30 Ciardi, John, 229 A Circle of Women (Barnes and Blew, eds.), 78–79, 231 “Ci Vediamo” (Hugo), 212...