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Notes Brigham Young University announces the recipients of The David Woolley Evans and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography Award for 1986. James B. Allen and Joseph C. Porter shared this year’s $10,000 prize. Allen’s book, Trials of Discipleship: The Story of William Clayton, A Mormon was pub­ lished by the University of Illinois Press, and Porter’s Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West was published by the University of Oklahoma Press. The award is given annually for a “distinguished biog­ raphy of any person significant in the culture or history of what may be called ‘Mormon Country.’” * * * Study guides on six works of contemporary western American fiction are available on request through September as supplies last as part of the “Angle of Vision: Interpreting Contemporary Western Fiction” project at Arizona State University, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The 16-page guides include a biography of the author, a summary of pub­ lished criticism on the work, and illustrations, as well as discussion questions to help the reader examine the issues raised by the text. Study guides are available for Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner; The Bronc People, by William Eastlake; The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols; Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, The Iguana Killer, by Alberto Rios; and “The Solace of Open Spaces” by Gretel Ehrlich. Also available is a 12-page annotated bibliography of over 40 titles of contemporary fiction about the modern American West. Send a self-addressed 9 x l 2 o r l 0 x l 3 envelope with sufficient postage and a list of the materials requested to “Angle of Vision,” Department of Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287. The study guides each weigh three ounces and the bibliography two ounces. After October 1, 1987, remaining materials will be available through the Arizona Humanities Council, 918 N. 2nd St., Phoenix, Arizona 85004. ...