Vol. 59, no. 3 (Fall 2024)
Contents
Essays
“That Way Lies Madness”: Authenticity and the Limits of Insanity in
Little Big Man
Monica David and Lloyd Alimboyao Sy
“All That Her Name Recalls”: Sexual Violence, the Archive, and the Art of Indirection in
My Ántonia
Betty Jay
Biblical Allusions in
On the Banks of Plum Creek: The Artistry of Wilder’s Characterizations of Pa and Ma
Ethan Smilie
Review Essay
New Poetry Collections Grapple with Western Timescapes
Kasey Peters
Book Reviews
Mary Clearman Blew,
Think of Horses
Linda Sumption
Chad Hanson, In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses
Susan Nance
Thomas C. Gannon,
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir
Rebecca McIntosh
Susan Kollin,
Thelma and Louise
Darcie Rives-East
Jean Pfaelzer,
California, A Slave State
Terri A. Castaneda
Julia H. Lee,
The Racial Railroad
Bowen Du
John L. Smith,
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West’s Public Lands
Iker Saitua
Jonathan H. Ebel,
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California
Sharon Reynolds
Bob West with Janet Fogg.
Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy
Ian Jones
2024 WLA Award Recipients
2025 WLA Conference Call for Papers
