Western American Literature

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
True North by Gary Eller1
Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein1
Private Way: A Novel by Ladette Randolph1
Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell (review)0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J. Mahoney0
Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E Cram (review)0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (review)0
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World by John G. Neihardt0
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon (review)0
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura (review)0
Think of Horses by Mary Clearman Blew (review)0
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony0
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 by Jada Ach0
WLA Awards0
Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon ed. by Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro0
"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
Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) by P. Jane Hafen0
Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady0
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don0
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course0
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
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers (review)0
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction0
Outlawed by Anna North (review)0
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley (review)0
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean0
Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park0
Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise0
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus0
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (review)0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
"All That Her Name Recalls": Sexual Violence, the Archive, and the Art of Indirection in My Ántonia0
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin0
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments by McKenzie Long (review)0
Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance by Andrew Gulliford (review)0
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs (review)0
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project0
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Jr0
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River by Paul A. Formisano (review)0
Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz0
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters0
148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty0
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California by Jonathan H. Ebel (review)0
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West by Lynn Downey (review)0
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 20200
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies0
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts ed. by Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson (review)0
Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters by Robert DeMott (review)0
Performing Gender in the Bleeding Kansas Novels of Jane Smiley and James McBride0
Native American Rhetoric ed. by Lawrence W. Gross0
The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera0
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick0
“theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer by John Joseph Mathews (review)0
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History0
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb eds. by Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith (review)0
Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West by Bryce Andrews (review)0
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush0
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels0
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell (review)0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen0
Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy by Bob West (review)0
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead0
California, A Slave State by Jean Pfaelzer (review)0
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861 by Astrid Haas0
57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability0
Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild0
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendrickson0
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright (review)0
Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan0
The Films of Wallace Fox ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne (review)0
New Poetry Collections Grapple with Western Timescapes0
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)0
To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas0
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds by Bryan Giemza (review)0
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa by Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez0
More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett (review)0
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review)0
In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses by Chad Hanson (review)0
Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters by Richard Moreno (review)0
The Starlight Hotel Casino by William A. Douglass (review)0
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol (review)0
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche (review)0
A Little Bit of Land by Jessica Gigot (review)0
Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland0
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature eds. by Jada Ach and Gary Reger (review)0
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry eds. by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield (review)0
This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel by Curtis Bradley Vickers0
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene ed. by Ryan Hediger (review)0
Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post) Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland's Generation X0
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers0
The Leave-Takers by Steven Wingate0
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century by John Joseph Mathews0
Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez0
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales0
All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations by John T. Price (review)0
Voice to Voice in the Dark by Tim Hunt (review)0
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby (review)0
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty0
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo0
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch0
Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez (review)0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt0
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public0
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)0
Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel by John Mort (review)0
Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways ed. by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester0
Biblical Allusions in On the Banks of Plum Creek : The Artistry of Wilder's Characterizations of Pa and Ma0
Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition by Matthew S. Henry (review)0
The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes0
Critical Regionality and(Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career0
A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives0
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye (review)0
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy0
The Racial Railroad by Julia H. Lee (review)0
The Deadliest Shortcut by Lee Bergthold0
Thelma and Louise by Susan Kollin (review)0
Peregrination 20360
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum0
The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses by Peter Josyph (review)0
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique0
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh (review)0
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger0
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University0
Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (review)0
"Pink Eye Was All the Rage": Colonial Identity Sickness in Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone:A Monograph Manifesto0
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (review)0
"That Way Lies Madness": Authenticity and the Limits of Insanity in Little Big Man0
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands by John L. Smith (review)0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist (review)0
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California by Matthew D. Stewart (review)0
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)0
Fight or Flight: Poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (review)0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West ed. by Gregory E. Smoak0
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Brenden W. Rensink (review)0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing ed. by Lauren Delaunay Miller (review)0
Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch by Richard W. Etulain (review)0
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (review)0
A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James0
Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West by Maximilian Werner0
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan0
2023 WLA Award Recipients0
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn0
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele (review)0
Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies 13 ed. by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan0
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti0
Hammer of the Dogs by Jarret Keene (review)0
Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane by Mark Asquith (review)0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary by Tom Lynch (review)0
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives ed. by Shannon Sullivan0
Waltzing Montana: A Novel by Mary Clearman Blew0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández0
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It0
American Energy Cinema ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (review)0
Cuban Quartermoon by Ann Putnam (review)0
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby0
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak by Arnold Krupat0
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram0
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