New West reader
Subtitle: essays on an ever-evolving frontier
By: edited and introduced by Philip Connors.
Contributors: Connors, Philip.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781560256489
Subjects: American essays -- West (U.S.); American essays -- 20th century.; American essays -- 21st century.; West (U.S.) -- Literary collections.; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Literary collections.
Table of contents: value: Take my saddle from the wall: a valediction / Larry McMurtry; value: Industrial tourism and the national parks / Edward Abbey; value: Redneck secrets / William Kittredge; value: The heart of the game / Thomas McGuane; value: The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich; value: Variations on a theme by Crèvecoeur / Wallace Stegner; value: Illegal aliens / Sharman Apt Russell; value: The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams; value: All but the waltz / Mary Clearman Blew; value: La vida loca / Jimmy Santiago Baca; value: Dust, or erasing the future: the Nevada test site / Rebecca Solnit; value: The maze and aura / Jack Turner; value: Fifth world: the return of Ma ah shra true ee, the giant serpent / Leslie Marmon Silko; value: Believing in the American west / Patricia Nelson Limerick; value: The unauthorized autobiography of me / Sherman Alexie; value: The militia in me / Denis Johnson; value: Creeks of Galiuro / Craig Childs; value: Spirit-fried no-name river brown trout: a recipe / David James Duncan; value: Brides of place / Ellen Meloy; value: My landlady's yard / Dagoberto Gilb.