The literature of the American West, [electronic resource] edited by J. Golden Taylor.

Includes bibliographies.

The rise and fall of Barney Tullus / Don D. Walker -- Conservative, liberal, and western : three modes of American realism / Max Westbrook -- The Western novel : a symposium ; Frederick Manfred ; Frank Walters ; Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; Vardis Fisher ; Harvey Fergusson ; Forrester Blake ; Paul Horgan ; Michael Straight/ John R. Milton -- The philosophical Joads / Frederic I. Carpenter -- The archetypal ethic of The ox-bow incident / Max Westbrook -- Thomas Berger's Little big man as literature / Delbert E. Wylder -- Further reading -- The canyon / Jack Shaefer -- Pasó por aqúi / Eugene Manlove Rhodes -- The watchful gods / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Further reading -- The right eye of the commander / Bret Harte -- Bakers bluejay yarn ; The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- In the hands of his friends / Andy Adams -- The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane -- A corner in horses / Stewart Edward White -- Love of life / Jack London -- Mountain medicine / A.B. Guthrie -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- The peach stone / Paul Horgan -- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- Further reading -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- The Missouri / Joaquin Miller -- Pioneers! O pioneers! / Walt Whitman -- Boats in a fog ; Shine, perishing republic ; Hurt Hawks ; Tor House / Robinson Jeffers -- Wildwest ; Burying ground by the ties ; Empire Builders / Archibald Macleish -- Buffalo Bill's / E.E. Cummings -- Once by the Pacific ; Desert places / Robert Frost -- The valley harvest ; Baking bread ; The Rain-crow / H.L. Davis -- Time of mountains ; Ghost town ; Something starting over / Thomas Hornsby Ferril -- The difference ; Year of drought / Winfield Townley Scott -- Conjugality ; Envy in the Mountains / Max Jordan -- Rolling in at twilight ; Marin-An ; Nooksack Valley ; Milton by Firelight / Gary Snyder -- A Missouri traveller writes home : 1846 ; Hatred of men with black hair / Robert Bly -- Rainy mountain cemetery / N. Scott Momaday -- Alan Swallow and modern, western American poetry / Norton L. Ross -- Listening to the wilderness with William Stafford / J. Russell Roberts, Sr. -- Further reading -- The sturdy corporate homesteader / Bernard Devoto -- Indian humor / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- The unhappy days / BIll Hosokawa -- Further reading -- Wilderness letter / Wallace Stegner -- The unrelenting land / John Dewitt McKee -- The mystique of the desert ; Selections from The great chain of life, Grand Canyon and Human nature and the human condition / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From Wilderness Alps ; Preface to Not man apart ; Introduction to This is the American Earth / David Ross Brower -- Further Reading -- Plans for the great adventure / Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and William Clark -- Explorations in the Western Desert / Jedediah Strong Smith -- From Life in the Far West George Frederick Ruxton -- From Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail / Lewis H, Garrard -- Further reading -- From The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- High horse's courting / John G. Neihardt -- The legend of the pacing white mustang / J. Frank Dobie -- Take my saddle from the wall : a valediction / Larry McMurtry -- The governor's right eye / Charles M. Skinner -- Further reading -- A petrified man / Mark Twain -- From The great Port Townsend controvsery / J. Ross Browne -- The Humorist ; The genesis of embarrassment ; Treasury and arms / Ambrose Bierce -- The lop-eared lovers of Little Laramie : A tale of love and parental cussedness ; One kind of fool ; The cow-boy ; Early day justice / Bill Nye -- Gitting our seed back / Frederick Manfred.