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- Western American Literature
- University of Nebraska Press
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- Life on the Mississippi: Being Shifty in a New Country Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 1986, pp. 39-45
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This issue contains 43 articles in total
- Notes
- Faces of the Wilderness by Harvey Broome (review)
- Lakota Myth by James R. Walker (review)
- Prairie Fire: the 1885 Rebellion by Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, and: The Riel Rebellion: A Biographical Approach by Charles and Cynthia Hou (review)
- People of the Moonshell by Nancy M. Peterson (review)
- Will James: The Spirit of the Cowboy ed. by J. M. Neil (review)
- Oregon or Bust by Max Westbrook, and: Moon by David Romtvedt, and: The Porcine Canticles by David Lee (review)
- The Hunting Years by David Kranes (review)
- The Gates of the Mountains by Will Henry (review)
- Scorpio Rising by R. G. Vliet (review)
- Of Huck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature by Neil Schmitz (review)
- American Poetry and Japanese Culture by Sanehide Kodama (review)
- The Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth, and: Poets’ Fellowship by T. M. Pearce (review)
- Ken Kesey by Stephen L. Tanner (review)
- One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture ed. by Robert Sattelmeyer and J. Donald Crowley (review)
- Stephen Crane by James B. Colvert (review)
- Ambrose Bierce: The Making of a Misanthrope by Richard Saunders (review)
- Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett by Gregory Sinda (review)
- River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest ed. by Ron Strickland (review)
- A Pride of Kin by Callie Coe Wilson and Ellen Walker Rienstra (review)
- The Leather Throne by Owen Ulph (review)
- The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass (review)
- Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women ed. by Jo Ella Powell Exley (review)
- Lewis and Clark Among the Indians by James P. Ronda (review)
- The Prairie Frontier ed. by Sandra Looney, Arthur Husebo, and Geoffrey Hunt (review)
- Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada by Ronald Rees (review)
- Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour (review)
- When the Wind is in the South and Other Stories by O. E. Rølvaag (review)
- Gone the Dreams and Dancing by Douglas C. Jones (review)
- The Raven Steals the Light by Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst (review)
- Hopi Coyote Tales: Istutuwutsi by Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway’ma (review)
- The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman (review)
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (review)
- Tales of El Huitlacoche by Gary D. Keller (review)
- Alaskan Stories by John Mitchell (review)
- Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (review)
- Harvesting Ballads by Phillip Kimball, and: Astonishment of Heart by Edwin Moses, and: Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger (review)
- The Godless World of Jim Thompson
- Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations ed. by Ellen G. Friedman (review)
- Life on the Mississippi: Being Shifty in a New Country
- The Virginian and Molly in Paradise: How Sweet Is It?
- Forrest Carter/Asa Carter and Politics
- An Interview with Barry Lopez
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