1. Indigenous memories and Western American literary history Susan Bernardin; 2. The recovery project and the role of history in Chicano/a literary studies José F. Aranda, Jr; 3. Domestic frontiers: settler narratives by European American women writers Nicole Tonkovich; 4. Labor and the land: narratives of trading, mining, and ranching Nathaniel Lewis; 5. Nature writing and the American West Sarah Jaquette Ray; 6. Tall tales and short stories Nicolas S.

Witschi; 7. The popular western Daniel Worden; 8. Literature of the great plains: nature, culture, and community Susan Naramore Maher; 9. Southwest literary borderlands Audrey Goodman; 10. Imagining the Rocky Mountain region Nancy S. Cook; 11. Writing the Pacific Northwest Stephanie LeMenager; 12. The far north: literatures of Alaska and Canada Ernestine Hayes; 13.

The problem of the critical in global wests Krista Comer; 14. Early cinematic westerns Christine Bold; 15. The environmental novel of the American West Dana Phillips; 16. Hardboiled fiction and noir narratives Lee Clark Mitchell; 17. The Beats and the American West Robert Bennett; 18. Contested Wests: indigenous Americans and the literature of sovereignty John Gamber; 19. Asian American writers and the making of the Western US landscape Jane Hseu; 20. African American literature: recasting region through race Jonathan Munby; 21.

Hollywood westerns: 1930s to the present Andrew Patrick Nelson; 22. Urban new Wests Stephen Tatum; 23. Queer frontiers: gender and sexuality in the American West David Agruss; 24. Post-western literature and criticism Neil Campbell.