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El Rapto (the Abduction)

p. i

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0044

Essays

She and I Are Molecules: The Disabled Body in Denise Chávez’s The Last of the Menu Girls

Elizabeth J. Wright

pp. 5-22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0058

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Home on the Fringe: “Western” Autobiography, 1936–1937

Cathryn Halverson

pp. 23-48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0073

Jack London’s “South of the Slot” and William James’s “The Divided Self and the Process of Its Unification”

Patrick K. Dooley

pp. 50-64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0088

Essay Review

Western Women’s Biographies

Susan Armitage

pp. 66-72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0009

Book Reviews

Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera ed. by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, John William Byrd, Bobby Byrd (review)

Megan Sibbett Inclán

pp. 73-74

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0024

Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams: New Critical Essays ed. by Katherine R. Chandler, Melissa A. Goldthwaite (review)

David Messmer

pp. 75-76

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0038

The Crux: A Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (review)

Randi Tanglen

pp. 76-77

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0052

Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace in an Age of Extinction by SueEllen Campbell (review)

Angela Waldie

pp. 78-79

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0067

Sam Peckinpah’s West: New Perspectives ed. by Leonard Engel (review)

Brian McCuskey

pp. 79-80

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0082

Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction ed. by O. Alan Weltzien, Susan N. Maher (review)

Paul Bogard

pp. 80-82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0003

Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood by Jim Kitses (review)

Leonard Engel

pp. 82-83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0018

A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers ed. by Ladette Randolph (review)

Becky Faber

p. 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0033

Reading Seattle: The City in Prose ed. by Peter Donahue, John Trombold (review)

O. Alan Weltzien

pp. 85-86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0047

The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind by Gary Ferguson (review)

Ben Quick

pp. 86-87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0062

Sick of Nature by David Gessner (review)

Robert Murray Davis

pp. 87-88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0077

Let’s Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers ed. by Sylvia Ann Grider, Lou Halsell Rodenberger (review)

Carmen Pearson

pp. 88-89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0092

Father Nature: Fathers as Guides to the Natural World ed. by Paul S. Piper, Stan Tag (review)

Sarah Vause Snow

pp. 89-90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0013

Contributors

pp. 91-92

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2006.0028

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