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001 2002012924
003 DLC
005 20130330081532.0
008 020810s2003 nvu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002012924
020 $a0874175240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aPS271$b.R66 2003
082 00 $a810.9/978$221
100 1 $aRonald, Ann,$d1939-
245 10 $aReader of the purple sage :$bessays on Western writers and environmental literature /$cAnn Ronald ; foreword by Melody Graulich.
260 $aReno :$bUniversity of Nevada Press,$cc2003.
300 $axviii, 248 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aWestern literature series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aNevada 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNatural history literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts$zWest (U.S.)
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aNature in literature.