FROM THE EDITOR
ESSAYS
Written on the Body: A Third Space Reading of Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo
Cordelia E. Barrera
"No Transient Spectacle": Bayard Taylor, Wilderness Tourism, and the Re-creation of the United States
James Weaver
"New England Innocent" in the Land of Sunshine: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and California
Jennifer S. Tuttle
PANEL DISCUSSION
From Blood Simple to True Grit: A Conversation about the Coen Brother's Cinematic West
Neil Campbell, Susan Kollin, Lee Clark Mitchell, and Stephen Tatum
BOOK REVIEWS
Nicolas S. Witschi
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
Reviewed by David Wrobel
Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz, eds.
The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro's Western Experience
Reviewed by Emily Lutenski
David Rio, Amaia Ibarraran, and Martin Simonson, eds.
Beyond the Myth: New Perspectives on Western Texts
Reviewed by O. Alan Weltzien
Nina Baym
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927
Reviewed by Christie Smith
Denice Turner
Writing the Heavenly Frontier: Metaphor, Geography, and Flight Autobiography in America 1927-1954
Reviewed by Bernard Quetchenbach
Bill Mohr
Hold-Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948-1992
Reviewed by Lisa Lacascio
Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, eds.
Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
Reviewed by Andrew Uzendoski
Ernest J. Finney
Sequoia Gardens: California Stories
and Lawrence Coates
The Garden of the World
Reviewed by Chris Muniz
Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem
The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx
Reviewed by Corey Dethier
Ned Buntline
The Hero of a Hundred Fights: Collected Stories from the Dime Novel King, from Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill Hickok
Reviewed by Adele H. Bealer
David Carpenter
A Hunter's Confession
Reviewed by Henry Hudson
Daniel Worden
Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism
Reviewed by David Peterson
Patrick Hicks, ed.
A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry
Reviewed by Jeffrey Howard
Melissa J. Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds, eds.
Cather Studies 9: Willa Cather and Modern Cultures
Reviewed by Steven B. Shively
CONTRIBUTORS