In this Issue

Table of Contents

River of Paradox: John McPhee’s “The Encircled River”

Philip G. Terrie
pp. 3-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0126
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A. B. Guthrie’s Fair Land, Fair Land: A Requiem

Thomas W. Ford
pp. 17-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0149
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Mary Austin and Houghton Mifflin Company: A Case Study in the Marketing of a Western Writer

Karen S. Langlois
pp. 31-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0173
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The Woman at Otowi Crossing by Frank Waters (review)

Charles L. Adams
pp. 45-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0069
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A Literary History of the American West (review)

John Milton
pp. 50-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0093
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Reprints of Note

p. 54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0206
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Wild Westerns: Stories from the Grand Pulps ed. by Bill Pronzini (review)

Edward C. Lynskey
p. 55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0117
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Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860–1960 by Christine Bold (review)

John D. Nesbitt
p. 56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0140
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The Best of the West ed. by Joe R. Lansdale (review)

Kenneth W. Scott
pp. 56-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0163
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Good-bye, Son and Other Stories by Janet Lewis (review)

Deanna L. Kern Ludwin
pp. 57-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0187
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The News of the World by Ron Carlson (review)

Janet L. Jacobsen
p. 58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0059
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Golden Days by Carolyn See (review)

Charles L. Crow
p. 59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0083
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The Earth Abideth by George Dell (review)

Joseph J. Wydeven
pp. 59-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0107
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Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler ed. by Frank MacShane (review)

Ernest Fontana
pp. 60-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0131
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“The Tools of My Trade”: Annotated Books in Jack London’s Library by David Mike Hamilton (review)

George H. Tweney
pp. 61-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0154
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Jack London’s California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings ed. by Sal Noto, and: With a Heart Full of Love: Jack London’s Presentation Inscriptions to the Women in His Life ed. by Sal Noto (review)

Earle Labor
pp. 62-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0178
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Beats & Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation by Ann Charters (review)

Richard Ardinger
pp. 64-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0202
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The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook ed. by Arthur and Kit Knight (review)

M. Gilbert Porter
pp. 65-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0074
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The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart by Nell Shipman (review)

Sharon Kahin
pp. 66-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0098
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 30, 1803–August 24, 1804 ed. by Gary E. Moulton, and: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 25, 1804–April 6, 1805 ed. by Gary E. Moulton (review)

Rex E. Robinson
pp. 67-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0122
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Escape From Death Valley, As Told by William Lewis Manley and Other ’49ers ed. by Leroy and Jean Johnson (review)

David Wellenbrock
pp. 68-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0145
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Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice by Sharon O’Brien, and: Cather’s Kitchens: Foodways in Literature and Life by Roger L. and Linda K. Welsch (review)

George F. Day
pp. 69-70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0168
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A History of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row by Tom Mangelsdorf (review)

Robert E. Morsberger
p. 71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0192
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Classics of Texas Fiction by James Ward Lee (review)

Lawrence Clayton
p. 72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0064
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Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth by James M. Marshall (review)

Penelope Reedy
pp. 72-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0088
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Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin (review)

Thomas W. Ford
pp. 73-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0112
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Stories We Listened To by John Haines (review)

Robert Hedin
pp. 74-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0136
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The Men in My Life by James D. Houston (review)

David A. Carpenter
pp. 75-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0159
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Stephen Crane by Bettina L. Knapp (review)

Donald E. Gribble
p. 76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0183
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I See by My Get-Up by Ron Querry (review)

Robert Murray Davis
p. 77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0055
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Images of America: Travelers from Abroad in the New World by Robert B. Downs (review)

Wayne R. Kime
pp. 77-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0079
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The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women’s Writing and Art ed. by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk (review)

Pamela R. Howell
pp. 78-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0103
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Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by 14 Regional Authors ed. by Lex Runciman and Steven Sher, and: Owning It All by William Kittredge (review)

Carol S. Long
pp. 80-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0127
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A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada ed. by Robert Leonard Reid (review)

Orvis Burmaster
p. 81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0150
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Beyond Forget: Rediscovering The Prairies by Mark Abley (review)

Peter Wild
pp. 81-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0174
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In Condor Country by David Darlington (review)

Gerald Haslam
pp. 82-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0198
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The Vanishing White Man by Stan Steiner (review)

Jack L. Davis
pp. 83-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0070
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Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour (review)

Starr Jenkins
pp. 84-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0094
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The Treble V: The Legacy of a Cattle Baron of the Old West by R. Guild Gray (review)

John D. Nesbitt
p. 85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0118
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Blood Moon by K. Patrick Conner (review)

Gerald Haslam
p. 86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0141
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The Man Who Rode Midnight by Elmer Kelton (review)

Lawrence Clayton
pp. 86-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0164
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The Western Writer’s Handbook ed. by James L. Collins (review)

Dale L. Walker
pp. 87-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0188
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Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music by Robert Bringhurst, and: The Nootka Rose by Sam Hamill (review)

Steven Pugmire
pp. 88-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0060
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Little Lucy’s Papa: A Story of Silverland by Dan DeQuille/William Wright (review)

Charlotte M. Wright
p. 89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0084
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Artifacts by B. J. Buckley (review)

Charlotte M. Wright
p. 90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0108
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Balzac’s Dolls and Other Essays, Studies, and Literary Sketches by Greg Boyd (review)

Charlotte M. Wright
p. 90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0132
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Cowboy by Bernard Wolf (review)

Scott Cheney
p. 90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0155
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Jack London on the Road: The Tramp Diary and Other Hobo Writings ed. by Richard W. Etulain (review)

Scott Cheney
p. 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0179
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Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God by Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway’ma (review)

p. 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0203
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The Sadness of Days: Selected and New Poems by Luis Omar Salinas (review)

Charlotte M. Wright
p. 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0075
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A Shroud in the Family by Lionel G. Garcia (review)

p. 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0099
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Stories of Maasaw, A Hopi God by Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway’ma (review)

p. 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0123
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The Way To Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840–1920 by Gilbert L. Wilson (review)

p. 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0146
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Life of Bishop Machebeuf by W. J. Howlett (review)

p. 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0169
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The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath by James Fenimore Cooper, and: The Pilot; A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper (review)

Charlotte M. Wright
p. 93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0193
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American Indian Woman, Telling Their Lives by Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands (review)

Penelope Reedy
p. 93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0065
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Notes

p. 43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0197
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