{"product_id":"the-portable-western-reader-isbn-9780140230260","title":"The Portable Western Reader","description":"The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for \"Western\" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the \u003cb\u003ePortable Wester Reader\u003c\/b\u003e, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Western Reader\u003c\/b\u003e redefines the Western literary landscape.Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \"West of Your Town: Another Country\" by William Kittredge\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Ancient Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eWashington Matthews, \"House Made of the Dawn\" (Navajo night chant)\u003cbr\u003eA. L. Kroeber, \"The Woman and the Horse,\" from \u003ci\u003eGros Ventre Myths and Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatharine McClellan, \"The Girl Who Married the Bear\"\u003cbr\u003eJarold Ramsey, \"Coyote and Eagle Go to the Land of the Dead\"\u003cbr\u003eC. C. Uhlenbeck, \"How the Ancient Peigans Lived\" (Blackfeet tale)\u003cbr\u003eJames Welch, from \u003ci\u003eFools Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Mooney, from \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda Hogan, from \u003ci\u003eMean Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Graves, \"The Last Running\"\u003cbr\u003eLouise Erdrich, \"Fleur\"\u003cbr\u003eJoy Harjo, \"Deer Dancer\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Transcending the Western\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman, \"Song of the Redwood-Tree\" from \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ee. e. cummings, \"Buffalo Bill's\"\u003cbr\u003eD. H. Lawrence, from \"Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales,\" in \u003ci\u003eStudies in Classic American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeriwether Lewis and William Clark, from the \u003ci\u003eJournals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. B. Guthrie Jr., from \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeddy Blue Abbott, from \u003ci\u003eWe Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO. E. Rolvaag, from \u003ci\u003eGiants in the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElinore Rupert Stewart, from \u003ci\u003eLetters of a Woman Homesteader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWallace Stegner, \"Carrion Spring,\" from \u003ci\u003eWolf Willow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMari Sandoz, from \u003ci\u003eOld Jules\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy M. Johnson, \"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\u003cbr\u003eJack London, \"A Raid on the Oyster Pirates\"\u003cbr\u003eJOhn Steinbeck, \"The Squatters' Camps,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Harvest Gypsies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobinson Jeffers, \"Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind\"\u003cbr\u003eErnest Hemingway, \"The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming\"\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Roethke, \"All Morning\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Far Field\"\u003cbr\u003eNorman Maclean, from \u003ci\u003eA River Runs Through It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWright Morris, from \u003ci\u003eCeremony in Lone Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Haines, \"If the Owl Calls Again,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Three Days,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Stars, the Snow, the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvan Doig, from \u003ci\u003eThis House of Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry McMurtry, \"Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction\"\u003cbr\u003eMary Clearman Brew, from \u003ci\u003eAll But the Waltz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Our Own Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eW. H. Auden, \"The West from the Air,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Dyer's Hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGalway Kinnell, \"The Bear\"\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Stafford, \"Traveling Through the Dark\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Help from History\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePaso por Aqui\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Late, Passing Prairie Farm\"\u003cbr\u003eDavid Wagoner, \"A Guide to Dungeness Spit\"\u003cbr\u003eKen Kesey, from \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas McGrath, \"Legends, Heroes, Myth-Figures and Other American Liars\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Pleasures of the Great Salt Lake\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Longing\"\u003cbr\u003eKeith Wilson, \"The Poem Politic 10: A Note for Future Historians\"\u003cbr\u003eEdward Abbey, from \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Snyder, \"Above Pate Valley\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Painting the North San Juan School\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Getting in the Wood\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar\"\u003cbr\u003eRichard Hugo, \"Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Silver Star\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Driving Montana\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Fort Benton\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Duwamish\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Salt Water Story\"\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Levine, \"Sierra Kid\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Soloing\"\u003cbr\u003eRichard Shelton, \"The Hole\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Stones\"\u003cbr\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston, \"American Father,\" from \u003ci\u003eChina Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Carver, \"My Father's Life\"\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ford, \"Communist\"\u003cbr\u003eDavid Quammen, \"Orphan Calves,\" from \"Walking Out\"\u003cbr\u003eThomas McGuane, \"The Heart of the Game\"\u003cbr\u003eRick Demarinis, \"Paraiso: An Elegy\"\u003cbr\u003eGreg Pape, \"Some Names\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Blessing at the Citadel\"\u003cbr\u003eTess Gallagher, \"Cougar Meat\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Borrowed Ones\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: Brilliant Possibilities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eCzeslaw Milosz, \"To Robinson Jeffers\"\u003cbr\u003eN. Scott Momaday, from \u003ci\u003eThe Names: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hass, \"On the Coast near Sausalito\"\u003cbr\u003e\"On Squaw Peak\"\u003cbr\u003eGretel Ehrlich, \"On Water,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Solace of Open Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko, \"Storyteller\"\u003cbr\u003eMarilynne Robinson, from \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Long, \"Lightning\"\u003cbr\u003ePattiann Rogers, \"A Passing\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Why Lost Divinity Remains Lost\"\u003cbr\u003eGarrett Hongo, \"Yellow Light\"\u003cbr\u003e\"What For\"\u003cbr\u003eRobert Wrigley, \"Ravens at Deer Creek\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Majestic\"\u003cbr\u003eAlberto Rios, \"The Secret Lion,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Iguana Killer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJimmy Santiago Baca, from \"Martin,\" in \u003ci\u003eMartin and Meditations on the South Valley\u003c\/i\u003e #Section V#\u003cbr\u003eRay Gonzalez, \"Snakeskin (A Dream)\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Talk with the Priest\"\u003cbr\u003eJames Galvin, \"Water Table\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Coming into His Shop from a Bright Afternoon,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Meadow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry Tempest Williams, \"The Clan of One-Breasted Women,\" from \u003ci\u003eRefuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard K. Nelson, \"The Gifts of Deer,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Island Within\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian C. Louis, \"In the Ghetto on the Prairie There Is Unrequited Love\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Sometimes a Warrior Comes Tired\"\u003cbr\u003e\"America Loomed Before Us\"\u003cbr\u003eSherman Alexie, \"The Business of Fancydancing\"\u003cbr\u003e\"My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys\"\u003cbr\u003eBarry Lopez, \"The Passing Wisdom of Birds\"\u003cbr\u003eAllen Ginsberg, \"A Supermarket in California\"","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299967193317,"sku":"NP9780140230260","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140230260.jpg?v=1767741015","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-portable-western-reader-isbn-9780140230260","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}