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332 Western American Literature Index to Volume IX ARTICLES Astro Richard, “The Big Sky and the Limits of Wilderness Fiction” ...... 105 Bums, Stuart L., “The Turtle or the Gopher: Another Look at the Ending of The Grapes of Wrath” .......................................................... 53 Cawelti, John, “God’s Country, Las Vegas and the Gunfighter: Differing Visions of the West” ............................................................. 273 Crow, Charles L., “The Real Vanamee and His Influence on Frank Norris’ The Octopus” ................................................................... 131 Davis, Jack L. and June H. Davis, “Frank Waters and the Native American Consciousness” ....................................................................... 33 Fontana, Ernest L., “The Territory of the Past in Hoagland’s Notes From the Century Before” ....................................................................... 45 Foster, John Wilson, “Hustling to Some Purpose: Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” ......................................................................... 115 Fox, Maynard, “Symbolic Representation in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers” 187 Johnston, Kenneth G., “Hemingway’s Wine of Wyoming” .................... 159 Lee, Hector H. “Tales and Legends in Western American Literature” 239 Pilkington, Tom, “Edward Abbey: Western Philosopher” ........................ 17 Pry, Elmer R., “Ross Macdonald’s Violent California” ............................. 197 Richards, Robert F., “Thomas Hornsby Ferril: A Biographical Sketch” 205 Roth, Russell, “Ambrose Bierce’s Detestable Creature” ............................. 169 Snyder, Gary, “The Incredible Survival of Coyote” ................................. 255 Towers, Tom H.„ “ ‘Hateful Reality’: The Failure of the Territory in Roughing It” .............................................................................................. 3 Walker, Don D., “Philosophical and Literary Implications in the Historiography of the Fur Trade” .......................................................... 79 Zlotnick, Joan, “Nathaneal West and the Pictorial Imagination” ........ 177 NOTES Haslam, Gerald . . . Shane: Twenty-Five Years Later............................. 215 Sheppard, Keith S. ... A New Note for McTeague’s Canary................ 217 BOOKS REVIEWED Astro, Richard . . . John Steinbeck and Edward R. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist....................................................................... 68 Astro, Richard and Jackson J. Benson, eds. . . . Hemingway in Our Time.................................................................................................... 150 Reviews 333 Capps, Benjamin . . . The Warren Wagontrain Raid ............................ 60 Chatterton, Wayne and James H. Maguire, eds. . . . Western Writers Series ........................................................................................................... 312 Crouch, Steve . . . Steinbeck Country .......................................................... 144 Dary, David A. . . . The Buffalo: The Full Saga of the American Animal ..................................................................................... 314 Eaton, Herbert . . . The Overland Trail to California in1852 ................ 151 Emerson, Dorothy . . . Among the Mescalero Apaches: The Story of Father Albert Braun, OFM..................................................................... 227 Gifford, Barry . . .Coyote Tantras ............................................................ 63 Haslam, Gerald . .. “Okies” ....................................................................... 309 Hartley, Wm. and Ellen . . . “Osceloa: The UnconqueredIndian ......... 310 Jackson, Carleton .. . Zane Grey................................................................ 61 Kelton, Elmer . . .The Time It Never Rained ..................................... 230 Kesterson, David B. . . . Josh Billings .......................................................... 225 Kaplan, Harold . . . Democratic Humanism and AmericanLiterature .. 70 Kazin, Alfred . . . Bright Book of Life: American Novelistsand Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer ............................................. 141 London, Jack . . . The Road ......................................................................... 65 Lyon, Thomas J. . . . Frank Waters ............................................................ 69 Marty, Sid . . . Headwaters ........................................................................... 63 Matthews, Jack . . . Pictures of the Journey Back ..................................... 66 Meeker, Joseph . . . The Comedy of Survival: Studies in Literary Ecology ....................................................................................... 220 Quam, Alvina, Trans. . . . The Zunis: Self-Portrayals ............................. 66 Rosen, Kenneth . . . The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians .................................................................. 315 Sanders, Scott . . . D. H. Lawrence: The World of the Five Major Novels ........................................................................................................ 149 Short, Clarice . . . The Old One and the W ind......................................... 145 Slote, Bernice . . . Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather’s Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 ................................................. 329 Slote, Bernice . . . Willa Cather: A Pictorial Memoir ............................. 329 Smith, C. W. . . . Thin Men of Haddam...................................................... 317 Smith, H. Allen . . . Return of the Virginian ............................................. 222 Speck, Ernest B., Ed. . . . Mody Boatright, Folklorist: A Collection of Essays .................................................................................................... 228 Starr, Devin . . . Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915 ....... 147 Stegner, Wallace . . . The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto ....................................................................................... 231 Stevenson, Robert Louis . . . Travels in Hawaii ....................................... 223 Stone, Christopher, . . . Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects .................................................................... 319 Sund, Robert . . . Bunch Grass .................................................................... 320 Vliet, R. G. . . . Rockspring ......................................................................... 219 334 Western American Literature Vroman, A. C. . . . Dwellers at the Source, Southwestern Indian Photographs ................................................................................................ 322 Wagoner, David . . . TheRoad to Many aWonder ................................... 323 Water, Frank ... To Possess the Land: A Biography of Arthur Rochford Manby........................................................................................ 326 Watkins, T. H. . . . On theShore of theSundownSea .............................. 328 ...

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