Title: Reader of the purple sage : essays on Western writers and environmental literature /
Authors: Ronald, Ann, 1939-
Publisher: University of Nevada Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: American literature West (U.S.) History and criticism; Natural history literature West (U.S.) History.; Authors, American Homes and haunts West (U.S.); Nature in literature.; West (U.S.) Intellectual life.; West (U.S.) In literature.
Contents: Nevada writers of the purple sage -- The Tonopah ladies -- Reno : myth, mystique, or madness? -- Idah Meacham Strobridge : the second Mary Austin? -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark's brave bird, 'Hook' -- The Nevada scene through Edward Abbey's eyes -- Other Western writers of the purple sage -- Introduction to a lady's life in the Rocky Mountains -- A Montana maturity -- Introduction to This land is bright -- Shane's pale ghost -- Company for a lonesome dove -- Stegner and stewardship -- The purple sage -- Environmental journalism -- Western literature and natural resources -- Kingdom, phylum, class, order : twentieth-century American nature writer -- Raising the bar -- Afterword from words for the wild -- Ghosts from Earthtones.