Readings

Novels:

Edward Wheeler, Deadwood Dick: The Prince of the Road

Owen Wister, The Virginian

Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage

Wallace Stegner, Big Rock Candy Mountain

Mari Sandoz, Slogum House

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

Larry McMurtry, Horseman, Pass By

Elmer Kelton, The Time It Never Rained

Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

 

Texts:

Jane Thompkins, West of Everything

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land