Acknowledgments
Introduction: West of Your Town: Another Country by William Kittredge
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part One: Ancient Stories
Introduction
Washington Matthews, House Made of the Dawn (Navajo night chant)
A. L. Kroeber, The Woman and the Horse, from Gros Ventre Myths and Tales
Catharine McClellan, The Girl Who Married the Bear
Jarold Ramsey, Coyote and Eagle Go to the Land of the Dead
C. C. Uhlenbeck, How the Ancient Peigans Lived (Blackfeet tale)
James Welch, from Fools Crow
James Mooney, from The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
Linda Hogan, from Mean Spirit
John Graves, The Last Running
Louise Erdrich, Fleur
Joy Harjo, Deer Dancer
Part Two: Transcending the Western
Introduction
Walt Whitman, Song of the Redwood-Tree from Leaves of Grass
e. e. cummings, Buffalo Bill's
D. H. Lawrence, from Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, in Studies in Classic American Literature
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, from the Journals
A. B. Guthrie Jr., from The Big Sky
Teddy Blue Abbott, from We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher
O. E. Rolvaag, from Giants in the Earth
Elinore Rupert Stewart, from Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Wallace Stegner, Carrion Spring, from Wolf Willow
Mari Sandoz, from Old Jules
Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Jack London, A Raid on the Oyster Pirates
JOhn Steinbeck, The Squatters' Camps, from The Harvest Gypsies
Robinson Jeffers, Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind
Ernest Hemingway, The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming
Theodore Roethke, All Morning
The Far Field
Norman Maclean, from A River Runs Through It
Wright Morris, from Ceremony in Lone Tree
John Haines, If the Owl Calls Again, from The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer
from Three Days, in The Stars, the Snow, the Fire
Ivan Doig, from This House of Sky
Larry McMurtry, Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction
Mary Clearman Brew, from All But the Waltz
Part Three: Our Own Stories
Introduction
W. H. Auden, The West from the Air, from The Dyer's Hand
Galway Kinnell, The Bear
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Help from History
Paso por Aqui
Late, Passing Prairie Farm
David Wagoner, A Guide to Dungeness Spit
Ken Kesey, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Thomas McGrath, Legends, Heroes, Myth-Figures and Other American Liars
The Pleasures of the Great Salt Lake
Longing
Keith Wilson, The Poem Politic 10: A Note for Future Historians
Edward Abbey, from Desert Solitaire
Gary Snyder, Above Pate Valley
Painting the North San Juan School
Getting in the Wood
Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar
Richard Hugo, Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
Silver Star
Driving Montana
Fort Benton
Duwamish
Salt Water Story
Philip Levine, Sierra Kid
Soloing
Richard Shelton, The Hole
The Stones
Maxine Hong Kingston, American Father, from China Men
Raymond Carver, My Father's Life
Richard Ford, Communist
David Quammen, Orphan Calves, from Walking Out
Thomas McGuane, The Heart of the Game
Rick Demarinis, Paraiso: An Elegy
Greg Pape, Some Names
Blessing at the Citadel
Tess Gallagher, Cougar Meat
The Borrowed Ones
Part Four: Brilliant Possibilities
Introduction
Czeslaw Milosz, To Robinson Jeffers
N. Scott Momaday, from The Names: A Memoir
Robert Hass, On the Coast near Sausalito
On Squaw Peak
Gretel Ehrlich, On Water, from The Solace of Open Spaces
Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller
Marilynne Robinson, from Housekeeping
David Long, Lightning
Pattiann Rogers, A Passing
Why Lost Divinity Remains Lost
Garrett Hongo, Yellow Light
What For
Robert Wrigley, Ravens at Deer Creek
Majestic
Alberto Rios, The Secret Lion, from The Iguana Killer
Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Martin, in Martin and Meditations on the South Valley #Section V#
Ray Gonzalez, Snakeskin (A Dream)
Talk with the Priest
James Galvin, Water Table
Coming into His Shop from a Bright Afternoon, from The Meadow
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women, from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Richard K. Nelson, The Gifts of Deer, from The Island Within
Adrian C. Louis, In the Ghetto on the Prairie There Is Unrequited Love
Sometimes a Warrior Comes Tired
America Loomed Before Us
Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancydancing
My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys
Barry Lopez, The Passing Wisdom of Birds
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
