Reader of the purple sage : essays on Western writers and environmental literature /

Reader of the purple sage : essays on Western writers and environmental literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ronald, Ann, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Nature in literature.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > West (U.S.)
Natural history literature > West (U.S.) > History.
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.