Literary Nevada : writings from the Silver State / edited by Cheryll Glotfelty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glotfelty, Cheryll, editor.

Series:

Western literature series.

Western Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Nevada.

American literature.

Nevada--Literary collections.

Nevada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (718 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Reno, Nevada ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : University of Nevada Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns.The state of Nevada embodies paradox and contradiction--home to one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation and to isolated ranches scattered across a sparsely populated backcountry.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

One - Voices from the Homeland: Native American Stories and Myths

Western Shoshone

Origin Tale

Coyote Wants to Be Chief

Bungling Host

Tso'apittse

Northern Paiute

Stone Mother

Water Babies at Coo yu e Lake

Pa-o-ha

Porcupine and Coyote

Southern Paiute

The Creation of the Indians

Cűnā´waBi

Cűnā´waBi's Grandson

Salt

Washoe

Wolf and Coyote-Origin of Death

Damollale and the Black Widow Spider

Damollale and the Water Baby

Story of the Ong

Two - Great Basin Rangings: Journals of Exploration

Jedediah S. Smith

from The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith

Peter Skene Ogden

from Journal of the Snake Country Expedition, 1828-29

Zenas Leonard

from Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader

John C. Frémont

from A Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44

Joseph C. Ives

from Report upon the Colorado River of the West

James H. Simpson

from Report of Explorations across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah in 1859

George M. Wheeler

Cave in Cave Valley

Three - Fearful Crossings: Emigrant Encounters and Indian Responses

Virginia Reed Murphy

Across the Plains in the Donner Party (1846)

J. Quinn Thornton

from Oregon and California in 1848

William Graham Johnston

from Experiences of a Forty-Niner

Sarah Royce

from A Frontier Lady

Addison Pratt

Diary

William Lewis Manly

from Death Valley in '49

Sarah Winnemucca

from Life among the Piutes

Wovoka

The Messiah Letter

Four - Literary Riches from the Mining Frontier

J. Ross Browne

A Peep at Washoe

Dan De Quille.

Underground Business Arrangements

Fun and Frolic

Mark Twain

from Roughing It

Information for the Millions

Alfred Doten

Nevada Correspondence

Mary McNair Mathews

from Ten Years in Nevada

Sam Davis

The First Piano in Camp

Fred H. Hart

from The Sazerac Lying Club

Idah Meacham Strobridge

The Quest of Old Man Berry

Mrs. Hugh Brown

from Lady in Boomtown

Anne Ellis

from The Life of an Ordinary Woman

Nell Murbarger

Queen of the Black Rock Country

Lucius Beebe

Going for the Mail

Sally Zanjani

Making History

Five - The other Nevada: Reflections on Rural Life

Howard R. Egan

Mountain Rat, Food for Indians

Pine-Nut Harvest

Hunting for Water

Mary Ann Hafen

A New Home in Nevada

Sarah E. Olds

from Twenty Miles from a Match

Will James

from Lone Cowboy: My Life Story

Wallace Stegner

Mormon Trees

Owen Ulph

The Critter

Molly Flagg Knudtsen

Preface to Under the Mountain

A Flake of Flint, A Sherd of Earthenware

Jean McElrath

Rabbit Fighter

Natcherly Dumb

Dennis Parks

from Living in the Country Growing Weird

Sophie Sheppard

Airspace

Carolyn Dufurrena

from Fifty Miles from Home

Gregory Martin

from Mountain City

Six - A Gathering of Cowboy Poetry

Olephia King

The Dappled Grey Mustang

R. Guild Gray

In Defense of Cattlemen

Jack Walther

The Longhorn's Short Career

Georgie Connell Sicking

Nevada's Subtle Beauty

Ernie Fanning

The Vanishing Valley

Linda Hussa

Ride the Silence

Eric Sprado

Wait 'til You Become a Man

Waddie Mitchell

Story with a Moral

Typical

Rod McQueary

Life and Times

Sue Wallis

Coyote Bitch

Seven - The Biggest Little City: Writings About Reno

Jack London

Confession

Arthur Ruhl

The Fight in the Desert

Leslie Curtis

Reno.

Our Alphabet

As Others See Us

Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

from Reno

Max Miller

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

from The City of Trembling Leaves

William Stafford

Reno

Jill Stern

from Not in Our Stars

Arthur Miller

from The Misfits

Rollan Melton

Reno Visitors Center

Truckee Treasures

William A. Douglass

The End of the Line

Emma Sepúlveda

from From Border Crossings to Campaign Trail

Here Am I Now

If I Renounce the Word

Mary Webb

from A Doubtful River

Verita Black Prothro

Porched Suitcases

Eight - Living Las Vegas: Inside the Entertainment Capital of the World

Mario Puzo

from Inside Las Vegas

Sammy Davis Jr., Jane and Burt Boyar

from Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis Jr.

Hunter S. Thompson

from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

William J. Plummer

from A Quail in the Family

Susan Berman

from Easy Street

A. Wilber Stevens

Vegas: A Few Scruples

Paradise Crest

Phyllis Barber

Mormon Levis

Dave Hickey

A Home in the Neon

John L. Smith

"Flying Nun" Stunt Double Lands on Her Feet in Las Vegas

Kidney Caper: The Making of a Myth Nobody Can Miss

Dayvid Figler

The Shrimp Manifesto

Zamboni

Harry Fagel

Jaywalker

L.S.D. (Street Talk Pt. 4)

Bruce Isaacson

Life in Las Vegas

Lucky

Bill Branon

Seven-Out Sally Is Loose with the Rent

Hart Wegner

The Blue Line

John H. Irsfeld

Stop, Rewind, and Play

Douglas Unger

Second Chances

Gregory Crosby

The Long Shot

Nine - In Our Backyard: Notes from Nuclear Nevada

Frank Waters

from The Woman at Otowi Crossing

At the Bomb Testing Site

Denise Levertov

Watching Dark Circle

Robert Vasquez

Early Morning Test Light over Nevada, 1955

Terry Tempest Williams

The Clan of One-Breasted Women.

Lynn Emanuel

The Planet Krypton

Adrian C. Louis

Nevada Red Blues

Carole Gallagher

from American Ground Zero

Rebecca Solnit

from Savage Dreams

Gary Short

Tidings

Curtis Oberhansly and Dianne Nelson Oberhansly

from Downwinders: An Atomic Tale

Corbin Harney

from The Way It Is

William Kittredge

In My Backyard

Shaun T. Griffin

Nevada No Longer

Richard Rawles

Coyote Learns to Glow

James Conrad

from Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago

Ten - The Loneliest Roads in America: Contemporary Travel Writing

Joan Didion

At the Dam

William Least Heat-Moon

from Blue Highways

Charles Bowden

Tortoises

James Conaway

from The Kingdom in the Country

Tom Robbins

The Real Valley of the Dolls

David Darlington

from Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles

Bruce Sterling

Greetings from Burning Man!

William L. Fox

from Driving By Memory

David Thomson

from In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance

Bill Donahue

Boomtown

Janice Emily Bowers

Remains of the Day

Eleven - A Desert Blooms: Contemporary Poetry

Irene Bruce

Virginia City, Nevada

Arrowhead

Mildred Breedlove

What Hills Are These?

Camping

Joanne De Longchamps

Snowmountain

Bat

Becoming Crippled

Harold Witt

Pyramid

Light on the Subject at Lehman Caves

Stephen S. N. Liu

A Mid-July Invitation

August Mirage

Monologue from the Chicken Ranch

Gary Snyder

Hitch Haiku

Magpie's Song

Old Woodrat's Stinky House

Elaine Dallman

Sparks for a 24/7 Week

Desert

Tom Meschery

Trucks

Weeds-Teaching Poetry at Wittenburg Juvenile Hall

Bill Cowee

More Than Worms Slip through Worm Holes

To the Austrolorps in Wild Abandon

excerpt from "Earth Bone Connected to the Spirit Bone".

The Boy Hears Distant Drums from across the Sierras

Coyote's Circle

Kirk Robertson

Adjusting to the Desert

Fallon

Lure

Lynn Emanuel

Chinoisserie

For Me at Sunday Sermons, the Serpent

What Ely Was

untitled poem from Monody

untitled poem from Reading Sand

disowning

Jim Huskey

Stone Koan

Building the Pumphouse

Bruce Laxalt

Work in Progress

Autumn Fire

nila northSun

sweat preparation checklist

lost in the woods

i gotta be indian tomorrow

A Place of Stone

Trash Run

Those People

Toward Morning

Flying over Sonny Liston

What I Believed

Donald Revell

The Little River Wants to Kee

My Mojave

Aliki Barnstone

You Pray to Rain Falling on the Desert

The Lights of Las Vegas

Freeway Love Poem

Gailmarie Pahmeier

The Promise of Good Food

When You Love Someone for a Long Time

Claudia Keelan

Blue Diamond

Relinquish

Twelve - Anything Is Possible: Contemporary Fiction

Robert Laxalt

from The Basque Hotel

David Kranes

The Phantom Mercury of Nevada

Joanne Meschery

An Otherwise Happy Life

Bernard Schopen

from The Big Silence

from The Desert Look

from The Iris Deception

Frank Bergon

from Wild Game

Thomas Sanchez

from Rabbit Boss

H. Lee Barnes

from The Lucky

Darrell Spencer

My Home State of Nevada

Steven Nightingale

from The Lost Coast

Art Gibney

The Manure Spreader

Monique Laxalt

from The Deep Blue Memory

Teresa Jordan

St. Francis of Tobacco

Sam Michel

Seeing Hunter Creek

Jeffrey Chisum

The Middle of Nowhere

Thirteen - Wild Nevada: Lessons of the Land

John Muir

Nevada Forests

Israel C. Russell

The Great Basin

George R. Stewart

from Sheep Rock.

Sessions S. Wheeler.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-87417-012-5

OCLC:

1017611439