This collection shows that Wallace Stegner's work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West. Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments --...
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This collection shows that Wallace Stegner's work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West. Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Openings -- 1. Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country -- Ruin -- 2. The American West as Exploited Space -- 3. Creation as Erasure -- 4. Exploits against the Effete -- 5. Returning to the Best Idea We Ever Had -- Realism -- 6. The Legacies of Wallace Stegner and the Stegner Fellowships in a Changing American West -- 7. Sludge in the Cup -- 8. Hope in Public Lands -- Possibility -- 9. The Education of Wallace Stegner -- 10. Revisiting "The Marks of Human Passage" -- 11. The Geography of Hope in an Age of Uncertainty -- 12. The American West as Unlivable Space -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.
