Reader of the purple sage : essays on Western writers and environmental literature / Ann Ronald ; foreward by Melody Graulich.

Author/creator Ronald, Ann, 1939-
Format Book
Publication InfoReno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxviii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
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.
West (U.S.)--Intellectual life.
West (U.S.)--In literature.

SeriesWestern literature series
Western literature series. ^A259047
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002012924
ISBN0874175240 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS271 .R66 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold