Roundup of Western Books

Here is a partial list of recent anthologies and works on contemporary Western literature:

* “Growing Up Western,” edited by Clarus Backes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990).

* “The Best of the West,” Vols. I & II, edited by James Thomas (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1988).

* “Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Recent Western Writing,” edited by Russell Martin and Marc Barasch (New York: Viking Penguin, 1986).

* “Old Southwest New Southwest: Essays on a Region and Its Literature,” edited by Judy Nolte Lensink (Tucson Public Library, 1987).

* “The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology,” edited by William Kittredge and Annick Smith (Missoula: Montana Historical Society, 1989).

* “The American West in Fiction,” edited by Jon Tuska (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).

* “West of the West,” edited by Leonard Michaels, David Reid and Raquel Scherr (Oakland: North Point Press, 1989).

* “Westward the Women,” edited by Vicki Piekarski (New York: Doubleday, 1984).

* “O California!” edited by Stephen Vincent and Pal Chadbourne Mills. (San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989).

* “West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon and Washington” by James Houston. (New York: Bantam, 1979).

* “A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature” by Richard Etulain (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982).

Works by nature writers, American Indians and Latino Americans are broad enough to be recognized as separate genres.