Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2023
Contents
Essays
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels
Mark Asquith
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University
Pamela Pierce
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History
Patricia J. Rettig
Book Reviews
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination
Tom Hertweck
John Joseph Mathews, Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century. Edited by Michael Snyder
Sheldon Yeakley
Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
O. Alan Weltzien
Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez, El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa
Juan M. Gallegos
Tracy Daugherty, 148 Charles Street: A Novel
Max Frazier
Gregory Smoak, Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West
Emily Gowen
Michael P. Branch, On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer
Hal Crimmel
Mary Dartt, On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection
Erica Hannickel
Barbara Schmitz, Sundown at Faith Regional
Mark Sanders
Cordelia E. Barrera, The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature
Bailey Moorhead
2023 WLA Conference Announcement