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In d e x t o V o l u m e 4 3 43.1 (Spring 2008) 1-100 43.3 (Fall 2008) 229-340 43.2 (Summer 2008) 101-228 43.4 (Winter 2009) 341-440 E s s a y s Mary Clearman Blew, Susanne George Bloomfield, Melody Graulich, Judy Nolte Temple Writing Women’s Biographies: Processes, Challenges, Rewards (Transcript from a 2007 WLA Conference Panel).............................179 Michael G. Buckley Translating Nature: The Discourse of Natural History in The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.....................................25 Matt Burkhart Rewriting the West(ern): Shane, Jane, and Agricultural Change in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine....................................................................5 Jeffrey Chisum The Lost Works of Walter Van Tilburg C la rk .....................................393 Melissa J. Homestead and Anne L. Kaufman Nebraska, New England, New York: Mapping the Foreground of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis’s Creative Partnership......................41 David D. Joplin Searching for God or Medusa through Allusion in Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.........................................................................103 Susan Kalter Clothing The Prairie in Furs: The International Trade Contexts of Cooper’s Western Novel. . . . 149 Nicholas Lawrence Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail and the US-Mexican War: Appropriations of Counter-Imperial Dissent..................................... 373 Tony R. Magagna Erased by Space, Ignored by History: Place and Gender in Marilynne Robinson’s W est......................... 345 Erin Murrah Miguel Antonio Otero: Destabilizing Identity in the W est............. 129 John Lloyd Purdy The Baby Boom Generation and the Reception of Native American Literatures: D’Arcy McNickle’s Runner in the Sun......... ...................................... 233 In d e x t o V o l u m e 4 3 4 3 5 Matt Wanat Captive Subjects: Point of View and Initiation in Hombre............................................ 279 Molly Crumpton Winter Culture-Tectonics: California Statehood and John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquin Murieta................................................... 259 E s s a y R e v i e w s Sandra L. Dahlberg Comparative American Borderlands: The New Face of Western American Literatures.............................307 Charles Waugh Where’s the Justice? The Environmental Justice Movement in Transition........................ 71 B o o k R e v i e w s Aaron A. Abeyta Rise, Do Not Be Afraid..................................................... Alex Hunt 320 Christine Allen-Yazzie The Arc and the Sediment......................................Dayna Patterson 80 Jennifer Eastman Attebery Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience..................Diane Quantic 315 Rick Bass Why I Came West .......................................................... Paul Bogard 417 Scott L. Baugh, ed. Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular.............................Rodney Streng 90 Lawrence I. Berkove Insider Stories of the Comstock Lode and Nevada’s Mining Frontier, 1859-1909 ..................................... Charles L. Crow 325 Lawrence I. Berkove, ed. The Sagebrush Anthology: Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West.............................................. Ann Ronald 206 Mary Biddinger Prairie Fever............................................................Pamela St. Clair 82 Ned Blackhawk Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West......................................... Frank Bergon 78 4 3 6 W e s t e r n A m e r ic a n L it e r a t u r e W in t e r 2 0 0 9 Mary Clearman Blew Jackalope Dreams................................................................ Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed, eds. Adventures in the West: Tara Penry 421 Stories for Young Readers Richard D. Jensen 97 Kenneth W. Brewer Whale Song: A Poet’s Journey into Cancer. Katharine Coles 316 Jennifer Brice Unlearning to Fly Eric Heyne 221 Robert Campbell In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire along the Inside Passage Kevin Maier 422 Maria Raquel Casas Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880 . Maria O’Connell 94 John Clayton The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart. . Victoria Lamont 83 Valerie Mendenhall Cohen, ed. Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall........................... Cheryll Glotfelty 88 Stephen P. Cook Realizing Westward: American Character and Cowboy Mythology .........Claire Hughes 324 Jeffrey O. Durrant Struggle over Utah’s San Rafael Swell: Wilderness, National Conservation Areas, and National Monuments.........................................................Lyra Hilliard 333 Leonard Engel, ed. Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director................................. Paul Wilson 428 Percival Everett The Water Cure...................................................................Brian Yost 216 Jared Farmer On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape . . Jessie L. Embry 429 Greta Gaard The Nature of Home: Taking...

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