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Papers

(The median citation count of Western American Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pre-apocalypse Now: Gold Fame Citrus as Weird Western Cli-Fi	1
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn	1
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram	1
Guest Editor’s Introduction: What Happens in California Cli-Fi	1
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz	1
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)	1
Solitary Walking as Feminist Practice: Mary Austin’s “The Walking Woman” and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild	1
“A Land of Missing Things”: Extraction, Belonging, and Chinese Immigrant Labor in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold	1
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River by Paul A. Formisano (review)	0
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell (review)	0
Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz ed. by Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith	0
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique	0
Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre by Lee Clark Mitchell	0
We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature by Kiara Kharpertian	0
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers (review)	0
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course	0
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It	0
Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz	0
From the Editors	0
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak by Arnold Krupat	0
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 2020	0
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen	0
A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael K. Johnson (review)	0
Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World by Jennifer Sinor	0
Old Chestnuts: Seeding Alternative Communities and Alternative Futures in/with The Overstory	0

57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability	0
Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots by DJ Lee	0
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell	0
Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower	0
The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West, a Personal History by Frank Bergon	0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J. Mahoney	0
Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Hispanic Literary Heritage by Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas	0
This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel by Curtis Bradley Vickers	0
The Metahybrid Environment: Rewilding, Religion, and the Buffalo Commons Novel	0
Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways ed. by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester	0
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo	0
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)	0
“theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen	0
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University	0
The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera	0
Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane by Mark Asquith (review)	0
Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail by Ellen Waterston	0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives	0
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History	0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer by John Joseph Mathews (review)	0
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger	0
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist (review)	0
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project	0
The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, Part 4: 1856–1869 ed. by Michael L. Tate	0
Critical Regionality and(Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career	0
Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) by P. Jane Hafen	0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West ed. by Gregory E. Smoak	0
Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon ed. by Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro	0
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs (review)	0
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers	0
Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E Cram (review)	0
Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein	0
Pragmatist Individuals and the Nineteenth-Century American West in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing	0
“Trees are better than stone”: Vital Commemoration in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels	0
Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland ed. by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez et al.	0
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele (review)	0
Staying with the White Trouble of Recent Feminist Westerns	0
My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie by Jim Hoy	0
Surrender: The Call of the American West by Joanna Pocock	0
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye (review)	0
Dakotah: The Return of the Future by Charles Bowden	0
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick	0
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century by John Joseph Mathews	0
WLA Conference and Awards Information	0
Simons Town as Heterotopia: The Dynamic Interplay of Barrioization and Barriology in The Brick People	0
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa by Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez	0
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty	0
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy	0
Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (review)	0
Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly by Cathryn Halverson	0

Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework	0
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum	0
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales	0
A Body without a Story: The Immortal Spectacle in The Ballad of Little Jo	0
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherrie Moraga	0
In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition by Erin Murrah-Mandril	0
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan	0
California Dreaming: Reading the Ski Film as Cli-Fi	0
Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West by Maximilian Werner	0
History and Bakhtin's Chronotopes in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop	0
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels	0
Waltzing Montana: A Novel by Mary Clearman Blew	0
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History by James H. Cox	0
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Jr	0
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt	0
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts ed. by Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson (review)	0
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze	0
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley (review)	0
Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez	0
They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans’ Story by Gretchen Cassel Eick	0
Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel by John Mort (review)	0
Private Way: A Novel by Ladette Randolph	0
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus	0
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead	0
The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos by Geneva M. Gano	0
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don	0
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony	0
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin	0
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendrickson	0
Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post) Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland's Generation X	0
A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James	0
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (review)	0
“There Is No Plan B”: Anthropocene Architecture in T. C. Boyle’s The Terranauts	0
Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey ed. by ML Lincoln and Diane Sward Rapaport	0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch	0
What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination by Josh Garrett-Davis	0
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West by Lynn Downey (review)	0
58th Western Literature Association Conference	0
Treatise on the Whole-World by Édouard Glissant, and: Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity by Édouard Glissant, and: The Baton Rouge Interviews (with Alexandre Leupin) by Édouard Glissant	0
Text, Encounter, Genre: Returning (Again) to Black Elk Speaks	0
Teaching Western American Literature ed. by Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen	0
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public	0
Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies 13 ed. by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan	0
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World by John G. Neihardt	0
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster	0
148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty	0
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives ed. by Shannon Sullivan	0
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 by Jada Ach	0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández	0
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction	0
Changed Forever: American Boarding-School Literature by Arnold Krupat	0
Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady	0
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies	0
Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage by O. Alan Weltzien	0
The Essential J. Frank Dobie ed. by Steven L. Davis	0
The Leave-Takers by Steven Wingate	0
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters	0
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush	0
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean	0
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre ed. by Kerry Fine et al.	0
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan	0
Native American Rhetoric ed. by Lawrence W. Gross	0
Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan	0
To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas	0
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby	0
Cuban Quartermoon by Ann Putnam (review)	0
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861 by Astrid Haas	0
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review)	0
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti	0
Uncenter Yourselves: Revisiting Robinson Jeffers’s Inhumanism in the Age of The Overstory	0
Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell (review)	0
Peregrination 2036	0
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol (review)	0
The Deadliest Shortcut by Lee Bergthold	0
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)	0
Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond ed. by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips	0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)	0
True North by Gary Eller	0
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen	0
2023 WLA Award Recipients	0