Western American Literature 54:4

Western American Literature 54:4

Edited by Tom Lynch

Table Of Contents

Volume 54, No. 4 (Winter 2020)

Essays

Property and the Ideology of Improvement in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don and California Travel Narratives
Valerie Sirenko

Homes On-the-Road, Terrorized Cabins, and Prophetic Nightmare-scapes: Emma J. Ray’s Unsettling Western Fantasies
Shelly Jarenski

Willa Cather’s Southwestern Grave Robbers
Carolyn Dekker

Book Reviews

Jennifer K. Ladino, Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites
Teresa Bergman

Annette Angela Portillo, Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women’s Autobiography
Alicia Cox

Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino, eds., Affective Ecocriticism
Patrick D. Murphy

Justin A. Joyce, Gunslinging Justice: The American Culture of Violence in Westerns and the Law
Marek Paryz

Laura K. Davis and Linda M. Moria, eds., Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland Letters
Frances W. Kaye

Kenneth K. Brandt, Jack London
Earle Labor

Frank Bergon, Two-Buck Chuck and The Marlboro Man: The New Old West
Gregory L. Morris

Louise O’Connor, Wild Rose: The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Early Historian of Texas
Sally Ann Schutz

Don Graham, Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
Daniel Worden

Edward Lueders, The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah
Shelby E. E. Grauberger

Kimberly G. Wieser, Texas . . . To Get Horses
Geary Hobson

Julia Corbett, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
John Tallmadge

Awards

WLA Conference Information