Essays
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives
Surabhi Balachander and Jillian Moore
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony
Alyssa Revels
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)
Stefan Rabitsch and Tracey Salisbury
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course
Sarah Jane Kerwin
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies
Leanne P. Day
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters
Alison Turner
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project
Zainab Abdali
Peregrination 2036
Mika Kennedy
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public
Krista Comer
Book Reviews
Rafael Acosta Morales, Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.–Mexico Frontier
Cordelia E. Barrera
Curtis Bradley Vickers, This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel
Jeffrey Chisum
Mary Emerick, The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast
Sjana Schanning
David Horgan. Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West
David Rio
Maximilian Werner, Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West
Dan Aadland
Astrid Haas, Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861
Jennifer Dawes
Patrick J. Mahoney, Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail
Jill Brady Hampton
Arnold Krupat, Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak
Susan D. Rose
P. Jane Hafen, Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)
Julianne Newmark
WLA Conference Information