Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature

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Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature Editor: John S. Bullen, Sonoma State College Staff: Henry L. Alsmeyer, Jr., Texas A&M University; Jan Harold Brunvand, University of Utah; Richard W. Etulain, Dartmouth College; Thomas J. Lyon, Utah State University; Patrick Morrow, University of Southern California; D. John Murchie, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Ben M. Vorpahl, University of California, Los Angeles. Anyone interested in joining the bibliographical staff is invited to write to John S. Bullen, English Department, Sonoma State College, Rohnert Park, California, 94928. Authors of books and articles are invited to call our attention to items for inclusion in the bibliography. General. Andrews, Thomas F. “Satire and the Overland Guide: John B. Hall’s Fanciful Advice to Gold Rush Emigrants.” The California Historical Society Quarterly, XLV III (June 1969), 99-111. Boatright, Mody C. “The Formula in Cowboy Fiction and Drama.’” Western Folklore, XXVIII (April 1969), 136-145. Bullen, John S., ed. “Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature.” Western American Literature, III (Winter 1969), 327-336. Burke, John Gordon. “The Encino Press: A Brief Note and a Bibliography.” American Book Collector, X IX (September 1968), 19-23. Carver, Wayne. “Literature, Mormon Writers, and the Powers that Be.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 65-73. Durham, Philip and Everett L. Jones, eds. The Frontier in American Liter­ ature. New York: The Odyssey Press, 1969. Etulain, Richard Wayne. “Recent Views of the American Literary West.” Journal of Popular Culture, III (Summer 1969), 144-153. Fife, Austin E. and Alta S. Cowboy and Western Song. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1969. Herron, Ima Honaker. The Small Town in American Drama. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1969. Hunsaker, Kenneth B. “Mid-Century Mormon Novels.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 123-128. Keim, Charles J. “Writing the Great Alaska Novel.” Alaska Review, III (Fall-Winter 1969), 47-51. 322 Western American Literature Keller, Karl. “On Words and the Word of God: The Delusions of a Mormon Literature.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 13-20. Lee, W. Storrs, ed. California: A Literary Chronicle. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969. Leithead, J. Edward. “The Diamond Dicks: Frontier Lawmen.” American Book Collector, X X (September 1969), 19-25. ___________ “Legendary Heroes and the Dime Novel.” American Book Collector, XVIII (March 1968), 22-27. ___________ “The Outlaws Rode Hard in Dime Novel Days.” American Book Collector, X IX (December 1968), 13-19. ___________. “The Saga of Young Wild West.” American Book Collector, X IX (March 1969), 17-22. Lyon, Thomas J., ed. “Research in Western American Literature.” Western American Literature, III (Winter 1969), 337-341. McMurtry, Larry. In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas. Austin, Texas: The Encino Press, 1968. Meyer, Roy W. “Character types in Literature about the American West.” Opinion, X III (December 1969), 21-29. Morgan, Dale L. “Literature in the History of the Church: TheImportance of Involvement.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 26-32. [On Mormon literature.] Nichols, Robert E. Jr. “Beowulf and Nepi: A Literary View of the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 40-47. Polos, Nicholas C. “Early California Poetry.” California Historical Society Quarterly XLV III (September 1969), 243-255. Povey, John F. “A New Second-Language Indian Literature.” Alaska Re­ view, III (Fall-Winter 1969), 73-78. Redekip, Ernest. “The Redmen: Some Representations of Indians in Ameri­ can Literature Before the Civil War.” Canadian Association for American Studies Bulletin, III (Winter 1968), 1-44. Rees, Robert A. “The Imagination’s New Beginning: Thoughts on Esthetics and Religion.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 21-25. [On Mormon literature.] Rowley, T. Leonard. “The Church’s Dramatic Literature.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, IV (Autumn 1969), 129-138. [On Mormon drama.] Scott, Winfield Townley. “A Dirty Hand.” Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. [Selections from Scott’s notebooks.] Steckmesser, Kent L. “Paris and the Wild West.” Southwest Review, LIV (Spring 1969), 168-174. Steensma, Robert C. “ ‘Stay Right There and Toughy It Out’: The American Homesteader as Autobiographer.” Western Review, VI (Spring 1969), 10-18. Stegner, Wallace. The Sound of Mountain Water. New York...