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  1. Focus and Frame in Wright Morris’s The Works of Love
  2. Joseph J. Wydeven
  3. pp. 99-112
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0010
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  1. Unity and Point of View in The Distant Music
  2. Richard H. Corning
  3. pp. 113-120
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0019
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  1. The Minimal Western
  2. Don D. Walker
  3. pp. 121-127
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0028
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  1. Grafting onto Her Roots: Jean Stafford’s “Woden’s Day”
  2. William Leary
  3. pp. 129-139
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0036
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  1. Essay Review
  2. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  3. pp. 141-144
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0044
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  1. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (review)
  2. Russell Burrows
  3. pp. 145-146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0052
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  1. Sam Shepard’s Metaphorical Stages by Lynda Hart (review)
  2. Jasbir Jain
  3. pp. 146-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0006
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  1. Howard Hawks: A Jungian Study by Clark Branson (review)
  2. Mark Busby
  3. p. 147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0015
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  1. Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom by Morgan Gibson (review)
  2. Steven Pugmire
  3. p. 148
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0024
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  1. Three Pacific Northwest Poets: William Stafford, Richard Hugo, and David Wagoner by Sanford Pinsker (review)
  2. Paul Varner
  3. pp. 148-149
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0033
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  1. Jack London: Adventures, Ideas, and Fiction by James Lundquist (review)
  2. Jeanne Campbell Reesman
  3. pp. 149-150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0041
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  1. Willa Cather: A Literary Life by James Woodress (review)
  2. Chapel Petty-Schmitt
  3. pp. 150-151
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0049
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  1. Willa Gather in Person: Interviews, Speeches and Letters ed. by L. Brent Bohlke (review)
  2. Diane D. Quantic
  3. pp. 151-152
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0003
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  1. On Mark Twain: The Best from American Literature ed. by Louis J. Budd, Edwin H. Cady (review)
  2. Dorys Crow Grover
  3. pp. 152-153
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0012
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  1. Frank Norris: Collected Letters ed. by Jesse S. Crisler (review)
  2. Virgil Albertini
  3. pp. 153-154
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0021
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  1. Zane Grey, Born to the West: A Reference Guide by Kenneth W. Scott (review)
  2. Gary Topping
  3. pp. 154-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0030
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  1. Prairies Within by Harold P. Simonson (review)
  2. Arthur G. Huseboe
  3. pp. 155-156
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0038
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  1. The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez by Fray Angelico Chavez (review)
  2. Robert Gish
  3. pp. 158-159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0000
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  1. Western Trails: A Collection of Short Stories by Mary Austin ed. by Melody Graulich (review)
  2. Peter Wild
  3. p. 159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0008
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  1. Griever: An American Monkey King in China by Gerald Vizenor (review)
  2. Dexter Westrum
  3. p. 160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0017
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  1. Heart of a Western Woman by Leslie Leek Durham (review)
  2. Scott Preston
  3. pp. 160-161
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0026
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  1. Prettyfields by William Eastlake, and The Man Who Cultivated Fire & Other Stories by Gerald Haslam (review)
  2. Gerald I. Locklin
  3. pp. 161-162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0035
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  1. Small Faces by Gary Soto (review)
  2. Gerald W. Haslam
  3. pp. 162-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0043
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  1. Prize Stories: Texas Institute of Letters ed. by Marshall Terry (review)
  2. David A. Carpenter
  3. pp. 163-164
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0051
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  1. O. Henry’s Texas Short Stories by O. Henry (review)
  2. Dick Heaberlin
  3. p. 164
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0005
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  1. The Interior Country: Stories of the Modern West ed. by Alexander Blackburn, Craig Lesley, Jill Landem (review)
  2. Robert A. Roripaugh
  3. p. 165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0014
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  1. A Beautiful, Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce (review)
  2. Judy Nolte Lensink
  3. p. 166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0023
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  1. Voices of a Place by Gerald Haslam (review)
  2. Penelope Reedy
  3. p. 167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0032
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  1. Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn (review)
  2. Charles L. Crow
  3. pp. 167-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0040
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  1. Ringer by Marshall Terry (review)
  2. James Ward Lee
  3. pp. 168-169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0048
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  1. Dancing At The Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig (review)
  2. A. Carl Bredahl
  3. pp. 169-170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0002
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  1. Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn (review)
  2. Jim Stull
  3. p. 170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0029
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  1. Rats Alley by John H. Irsfeld (review)
  2. Lora K. Reiter
  3. pp. 170-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0011
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  1. A Man in the Wheatfield by Robert Laxalt (review)
  2. Dorys Crow Grover
  3. p. 171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0020
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  1. Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country by Albert Pike (review)
  2. Robert D. Harper
  3. pp. 172-173
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0037
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  1. Night Freight by Clyde Rice (review)
  2. Dale L. Walker
  3. pp. 173-174
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0045
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  1. Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher by Linda M. Hasselstrom (review)
  2. Kate Arneson
  3. pp. 174-175
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0053
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  1. Plain Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains by Jim Hoy, Tom Isern (review)
  2. George F. Day
  3. pp. 175-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0007
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  1. At the Field’s End: Interviews with Twenty Pacific Northwest Writers by Nicholas O’Connell (review)
  2. D. A. Hecker
  3. pp. 176-177
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0016
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  1. Liquid City: Houston Writers on Houston ed. by Rita Saylors (review)
  2. Thomas W. Ford
  3. pp. 177-178
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0025
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  1. Wingbone: Poetry from Colorado ed. by Janice Hays, Pamela Haines, and City Kite on a Wire: 38 Denver Poets ed. by Ray Gonzalez (review)
  2. Robert D. Harper
  3. pp. 178-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0034
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  1. Marking the Magic Circle: an Intimate Geography by George Venn (review)
  2. Carol S. Long
  3. pp. 179-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0042
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  1. The American West as Living Space by Wallace E. Stegner (review)
  2. C. L. Rawlins
  3. pp. 180-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0050
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  1. Shrubs of the Great Basin: A Natural History by Hugh N. Mozingo (review)
  2. Thomas J. Lyon
  3. p. 183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0013
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  1. No Wild Dog Howled by Bruce Embree (review)
  2. Scott Preston
  3. pp. 183-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0022
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  1. To the Fierce Guard in the Assyrian Saloon by Howard W. Robertson (review)
  2. S. S. Moorty
  3. p. 184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0031
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  1. Indian Country: Americas Sacred Land by Tony Hillerman, and Tarahumara: Where Night is the Day of the Moon by Bernard L. Fontana (review)
  2. Jean T. Groulx
  3. pp. 185-186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0039
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  1. The Good Red Road by Kenneth Lincoln, Al Logan Slagle (review)
  2. Jack L. Davis
  3. pp. 186-187
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0047
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  1. The Western Apache: Living with the Land Before 1950 by Winfred Buskirk (review)
  2. Catherine S. Fowler
  3. pp. 187-188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0001
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  1. At Home in Texas: Early Views of the Land by Robin W. Doughty (review)
  2. Lou Rodenberger
  3. p. 188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0009
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  1. A Miner’s Christmas Carol by Sam Davis (review)
  2. Charlotte S. McClure
  3. p. 189
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0018
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  1. Staying the Winter by Nancy McCleery (review)
  2. Robert Hedin
  3. p. 190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0027
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