ESSAYS
Games of Chance: Gambling and Land Tenure in Tracks, Love Medicine, and The Bingo Palace
Kristan Sarve-Gorham
Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West
Fred Erisman
John of the Mines: Muir's Picturesque Rewrite of the Gold Rush
Nicolas Witschi
NOTE
Black Wolf and Shakespeare: A Note on Sinclair Lewis's The God-Seeker
Martin Bucco
ESSAY REVIEW
A Fruitful Emptiness: Poets and Artists of the Great Basin Region
Bert Almon
BOOK REVIEWS
Rick Bass
Fiber
Reviewed by Michael P. Branch
Robert Schuler
Journeys toward the Original Mind: The Long Poems of Gary Snyder
Reviewed by Sarah Sloane
John Daniel, ed.,
Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World
Reviewed by Robert Scott
Nancy Lord
Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast
Reviewed by Eric Heyne
Scott Russell Sanders
Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journey
Reviewed by Erin Edwards
Lisa Knopp
Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape
Reviewed by Gregory L. Morris
Peter Hedges
An Ocean in Iowa
Reviewed by Natalie Meenderink
Janis P. Stout
Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion
Reviewed by Cynthia Taylor
Willa Cather, Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of
Obscure Destinies
Reviewed by Martin Padget
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction
Reviewed by Tony Williams
Luci Tapahonso
Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories; nila northSun, a snake in her mouth: poems 1974-96
Reviewed by Tom Lynch
David Robertson
Photo and Word
Reviewed by Melody Graulich
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
WLA 1999 AWARD WINNERS