Reader of the purple sage : essays on Western writers and environmental literature / Ann Ronald ; foreward by Melody Graulich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ronald, Ann, 1939-

Series:

Western literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.

American literature.

Natural history literature--West (U.S.)--History.

Natural history literature.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--West (U.S.).

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

History.

West (U.S.)--Intellectual life.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--In literature.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2003]

Summary:

Literary scholar Ann Ronald gathers in one volume her most notable published essays about Nevada, environmental writing, and Western American literature.

Contents:

Nevada writers of the purple sage

The Tonopah ladies

Reno : myth, mystique, or madness?

Idah Meacham Strobridge : the second Mary Austin?

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's brave bird, 'Hook'

The Nevada scene through Edward Abbey's eyes

Other Western writers of the purple sage

Introduction to a lady's life in the Rocky Mountains

A Montana maturity

Introduction to This land is bright

Shane's pale ghost

Company for a lonesome dove

Stegner and stewardship

The purple sage

Environmental journalism

Western literature and natural resources

Kingdom, phylum, class, order : twentieth-century American nature writer

Raising the bar

Afterword from words for the wild

Ghosts from Earthtones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0874175240

OCLC:

50410169