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Author Ronald, Ann, 1939-

Title Reader of the purple sage : essays on Western writers and environmental literature / Ann Ronald ; foreword by Melody Graulich
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages)
Series Western literature series
Western literature series.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
Natural history literature -- West (U.S.) -- History
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
Intellectual life
Literature
Natural history literature
Nature in literature
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life
West (U.S.) -- In literature
Subject West United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002012924
ISBN 0874175585
9780874175585