Western American Literature

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan1
Voice to Voice in the Dark by Tim Hunt (review)1
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds by Bryan Giemza (review)0
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley (review)0
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies0
Native American Rhetoric ed. by Lawrence W. Gross0
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Brenden W. Rensink (review)0
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum0
Peregrination 20360
Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West by Maximilian Werner0
Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (review)0
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California by Matthew D. Stewart (review)0
Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways ed. by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester0
The Leave-Takers by Steven Wingate0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (review)0
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby0
A Little Bit of Land by Jessica Gigot (review)0
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (review)0
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don0
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars ed. by Erin Sharkey (review)0
Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) by P. Jane Hafen0
Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings by Cristina Herrera (review)0
Fight or Flight: Poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (review)0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations by John T. Price (review)0
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project0
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World by John G. Neihardt0
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan0
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh (review)0
Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch by Richard W. Etulain (review)0
The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses by Peter Josyph (review)0
Waltzing Montana: A Novel by Mary Clearman Blew0
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River by Paul A. Formisano (review)0
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush0
The Beach Boys' Postwestern Dirge: The Haunting Terminus of the Beach Boys' Aquatic-Asphalt New Western Frontiers0
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin0
New Poetry Collections Grapple with Western Timescapes0
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist (review)0
Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies 13 ed. by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan0
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands by John L. Smith (review)0
American Energy Cinema ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (review)0
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (review)0
Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America by Terry Hamburg (review)0
Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland0
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers (review)0
Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts for American Environmental Literature by Lauren E. Perry-Rummel (review)0
Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez0
The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes0
Young, Tough, Beautiful, and a Little Bit Crazy: The Forestry of Norman Maclean's Prose in USFS 1919: The Ranger, The Cook, and a Hole in the Sky0
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels0
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb eds. by Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith (review)0
Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz0
We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood by Jennifer Case (review)0
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell (review)0
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique0
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)0
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick0
The Starlight Hotel Casino by William A. Douglass (review)0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary by Tom Lynch (review)0
2023 WLA Award Recipients0
"That Way Lies Madness": Authenticity and the Limits of Insanity in Little Big Man0
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public0
Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West by Bryce Andrews (review)0
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt0
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon (review)0
Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance by Andrew Gulliford (review)0
Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel by John Mort (review)0
Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory by Tatiana Reinoza (review)0
Unhomely Wests: Essays from A to Z by Stephen Tatum (review)0
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger0
In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses by Chad Hanson (review)0
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Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape by Dana Fritz (review)0
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century by John Joseph Mathews0
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy0
“theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen0
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (review)0
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram0
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan0
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 20200
Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America by Gary Reger (review)0
The Films of Wallace Fox ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne (review)0
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It0
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn0
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel by Debra Magpie Earling (review)0
This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel by Curtis Bradley Vickers0
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele (review)0
Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy by Bob West (review)0
A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition by Matthew S. Henry (review)0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (review)0
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction0
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)0
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters0
Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon by Yolonda Youngs (review)0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West ed. by Gregory E. Smoak0
Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane by Mark Asquith (review)0
Escape from Taos Reality: Mass Tourism, Paradise, and Enclosure in Mabel Dodge Luhan's Winter in Taos0
Genre Hybridity in Jean Luc Herbulot's Saloum (2021)0
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives ed. by Shannon Sullivan0
148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty0
Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E Cram (review)0
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene ed. by Ryan Hediger (review)0
Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo by Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield (review)0
The Deadliest Shortcut by Lee Bergthold0
Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West ed. by Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers (review)0
Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth ed. by Laura Paskus (review)0
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature eds. by Jada Ach and Gary Reger (review)0
Outlawed by Anna North (review)0
The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera0
To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas0
57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability0
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus0
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Jr0
More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett (review)0
Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park0
Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell (review)0
Hammer of the Dogs by Jarret Keene (review)0
The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower by Victoria Lamont (review)0
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West by Lynn Downey (review)0
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course0
True North by Gary Eller0
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo0
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts ed. by Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson (review)0
Thelma and Louise by Susan Kollin (review)0
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review)0
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs (review)0
Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch0
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On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy by Meredith McCoy (review)0
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University0
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History0
Cuban Quartermoon by Ann Putnam (review)0
A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James0
Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse by Carol Bradley (review)0
Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein0
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments by McKenzie Long (review)0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing ed. by Lauren Delaunay Miller (review)0
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems by JJJJJerome Ellis (review)0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J. Mahoney0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives0
Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon ed. by Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández0
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry eds. by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield (review)0
You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Kelly Weber (review)0
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura (review)0
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak by Arnold Krupat0
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861 by Astrid Haas0
Performing Gender in the Bleeding Kansas Novels of Jane Smiley and James McBride0
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk (review)0
Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea by Gretchen Ernster Henderson (review)0
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen0
Private Way: A Novel by Ladette Randolph0
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean0
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren (review)0
"A Convenient Hallway for Men to Pass Through": Chicana Adolescence and the San Diego City Space in Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility0
"Pink Eye Was All the Rage": Colonial Identity Sickness in Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone:A Monograph Manifesto0
The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles by Michael Docherty (review)0
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The Arches Reader ed. by Jeffrey D. Nichols (review)0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer by John Joseph Mathews (review)0
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol (review)0
Echolocation by Sage Marshall (review)0
The Racial Railroad by Julia H. Lee (review)0
Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise0
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty0
Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters by Richard Moreno (review)0
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa by Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez0
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby (review)0
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright (review)0
Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth Century Dam Building by Margaret Ziolkowski (review)0
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye (review)0
The Hermann Hesse of the American West: Der Steppenwolf as a Companion Piece to Desert Solitaire0
Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez (review)0
California, A Slave State by Jean Pfaelzer (review)0
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers0
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony0
Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post) Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland's Generation X0
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti0
Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady0
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead0
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche (review)0
Critical Regionality and(Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career0
Reading the Texas Bioregion: The Ecological Housewife in The Tree of Life0
Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters by Robert DeMott (review)0
The Selected Works of Ora Eddleman Reed: Author, Editor, and Activist for Cherokee Rights ed. by Cari M. Carpenter and Karen L. Kilcup (review)0
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendrickson0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
Biblical Allusions in On the Banks of Plum Creek : The Artistry of Wilder's Characterizations of Pa and Ma0
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales0
Think of Horses by Mary Clearman Blew (review)0
"All That Her Name Recalls": Sexual Violence, the Archive, and the Art of Indirection in My Ántonia0
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)0
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 by Jada Ach0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition by Sarah Hernandez (review)0
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California by Jonathan H. Ebel (review)0
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