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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: "West of Your Town: Another Country" | |
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| "House Made of Dawn" (Navajo night chant) | |
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| "The Woman and the Horse," from Gros Ventre Myths and Tales | |
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| "The Girl Who Married the Bear" | |
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| "Coyote and Eagle Go to the Land of Dead" | |
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| "How the Ancient Peigans Lived" (Blackfeet tale) | |
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| from Fools Crow | |
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| from The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 | |
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| from Mean Spirit | |
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| "The Last Running" | |
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| "Fleur" | |
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| "Deer Dancer" | |
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| "Song of the Redwood-Tree" from Leaves of Grass | |
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| "Buffalo Bill's" | |
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| from "Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales," in Studies in Classic American Literature | |
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| from the Journals | |
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| from The Big Sky | |
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| from We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher | |
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| from Giants in the Earth | |
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| from Letters of a Woman Homesteader | |
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| "Carrion Spring," from Wolf Willow | |
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| from Old Jules | |
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| "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" | |
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| "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates" | |
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| "The Squatters' Camps," from The Harvest Gypsies | |
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| "Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind" | |
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| "The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming" | |
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| "All Morning" | |
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| "The Far Field" | |
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| from A River Runs Through It | |
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| from Ceremony in Lone Tree | |
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| "If the Owl Calls Again," from The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer | |
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| from "Three Days," in The Stars, the Snow, the Fire | |
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| from This House of Sky | |
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| "Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction" | |
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| from All But the Waltz | |
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| "The West from the Air," from The Dyer's Hand | |
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| "The Bear" | |
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| "Traveling Through the Dark" | |
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| "Help from History" | |
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| "Paso por Aqui" | |
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| "Late, Passing Prairie Farm" | |
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| "A Guide to Dungeness Spit" | |
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| from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
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| "Legends, Heroes, Myth-Figures and Other American Liars" | |
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| "The Pleasures of the Great Salt Lake" | |
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| "Longing" | |
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| "The Poem Politic 10: A Note for Future Historians" | |
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| from Desert Solitaire | |
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| "Above Pate Valley" | |
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| "Painting the North San-Juan School" | |
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| "Getting in the Wood" | |
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| "Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar" | |
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| "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" | |
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| "The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field" | |
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| "Silver Star" | |
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| "Driving Montana" | |
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| "Fort Benton" | |
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| "Duwamish" | |
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| "Salt Water Story" | |
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| "Sierra Kid" | |
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| "Soloing" | |
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| "The Hole" | |
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| "The Stones" | |
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| "American Father," from China Men | |
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| "My Father's Life" | |
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| "Communist" | |
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| "Orphan Calves," from "Walking Out" | |
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| "The Heart of the Game" | |
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| "Paraiso: An Elegy" | |
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| "Some Names" | |
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| "Blessing at the Citadel" | |
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| "Cougar Meat" | |
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| "The Borrowed Ones" | |
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| "To Robinson Jeffers" | |
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| from The Names: A Memoir | |
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| "On the Coast near Sausalito" | |
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| "On Squaw Peak" | |
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| "On Water," from The Solace of Open Spaces | |
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| "Storyteller" | |
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| from Housekeeping | |
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| "Lightning" | |
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| "A Passing" | |
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| "Why Lost Divinity Remains Lost" | |
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| "Yellow Light" | |
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| "What For" | |
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| "Ravens at Deer Creek" | |
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| "Majestic" | |
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| "The Secret Lion," from The Iguana Killer | |
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| from "Martin," in Martin and Meditations on the South Valley [Section V] | |
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| "Snakeskin (A Dream)" | |
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| "Talk with the Priest" | |
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| "Water Table" | |
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| "Coming into His Shop from a Bright Afternoon" | |
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| from The Meadow | |
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| "The Clan of One-Breasted Women", from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place | |
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| "The Gifts of Deer," from the Island Within | |
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| "In the Ghetto on the Prairie There is Unrequited Love" | |
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| "Sometimes a Warrior Comes Tired" | |
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| "America Loomed Before Us" | |
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| "The Business of Fancydancing" | |
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| "My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys" | |
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| "The Passing Wisdom of Birds" | |
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| "A Supermarket in California" | |
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