The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature
Featuring more than 40 selections, this anthology provides a tantalizing overview of western American literature from the sixteenth century to the present. Lyon has carefully chosen a representative range of essays, stories, plays, poetry, and excerpts from novels and journals to most accurately reflect both the historical evolution and the essential diversity of the western experience. From the colorfully simplistic to the starkly realistic, the American West as a literary subject has consistently intrigued a broad spectrum of readers. Celebrated authors such as John Muir, Owen Wister, Zane Gray, Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, and Amy Tan are predictably included, but a host of lesser-known, multicultural writers are also represented. A culturally and historically significant literary collection.Margaret Flanagan--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.