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A Chaotic and Dark Vitalism: A Case Study of Cormac McCarthy’s Psychopaths amid a Geology of Immorals

Sean Braune
pp. 1-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0017
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Social Space and the Suburb in Mike Cahill’s King of California: Mapping Race, Neoliberalism, and Narratives of the Past in the Southern California Landscape

Emily Cheng
pp. 25-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0021
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New Frontiers for Post-Western Cinema: Frozen River, Sin Nombre, Winter’s Bone

Jesús Ángel González
pp. 51-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0025
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West by Michael K. Johnson (review)

Bryant Keith Alexander
pp. 77-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0028
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New Border Voices: An Anthology ed. by Brandon D. Shuler, Robert Johnson, Erika Garza-Johnson (review)

Cristina Herrera
pp. 80-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0034
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Chronicling the West for Harper’s: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873–1874 by Claudine Chalmers (review)

Jessica Dallow
pp. 82-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0015
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Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)

Nicolas S. Witschi
pp. 83-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0019
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Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney by Linda Scarangella McNenly (review)

Arnold Krupat
pp. 85-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0023
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The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place by Wendy Harding (review)

O. Alan Weltzien
pp. 86-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0027
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At Pyramid Lake by Bernard Mergen (review)

Jeffrey Chisum
pp. 88-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0030
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Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz by Ken Lamberton (review)

Hal Crimmel
pp. 90-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0033
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Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology ed. by Andrew Gulliford (review)

Linda Helstern
pp. 91-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0014
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Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West by Julia Corbett (review)

Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
pp. 93-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0018
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Rows of Memory: Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker by Saúl Sánchez (review)

Luis H. Moreno
pp. 95-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0022
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Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging by Joshua Doleẑal (review)

Gregory L. Morris
pp. 96-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0026
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Zen of the Plains: Experiencing Wild Western Places by Tyra A. Olstad (review)

Francis Moul
pp. 97-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0029
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Whip and Spur by Iver Arnegard (review)

Laura Rebecca Payne
pp. 99-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0032
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Call for Nominations: Thomas J. Lyon Book Award

p. 102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0016
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Western Literature Association: Fiftieth Annual Conference

p. 103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0020
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Rolando Hinojosa’s Klair City Death Trip Series: A Retrospective, New Directions ed. by Stephen Miller, José Pablo Villalobos (review)

Martín Camps
pp. 79-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0031
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Contributors

p. 101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2015.0035
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