Reader of the purple sage
Subtitle: essays on Western writers and environmental literature
By: Ann Ronald ; foreward by Melody Graulich.
Series: Western literature series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nevada writers of the purple sage; title: The Tonopah ladies; title: Reno : myth, mystique, or madness?; title: Idah Meacham Strobridge : the second Mary Austin?; title: Walter Van Tilburg Clark's brave bird, 'Hook'; title: The Nevada scene through Edward Abbey's eyes; title: Other Western writers of the purple sage; title: Introduction to a lady's life in the Rocky Mountains; title: A Montana maturity; title: Introduction to This land is bright; title: Shane's pale ghost; title: Company for a lonesome dove; title: Stegner and stewardship; title: The purple sage; title: Environmental journalism; title: Western literature and natural resources; title: Kingdom, phylum, class, order : twentieth-century American nature writer; title: Raising the bar; title: Afterword from words for the wild; title: Ghosts from Earthtones.