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- LAST REVIEWED: 15 May 2023
- LAST MODIFIED: 30 June 2014
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0077
- LAST REVIEWED: 15 May 2023
- LAST MODIFIED: 30 June 2014
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0077
Aquila, Richard, ed.
Popular western authorsWanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Ten essays and an introduction explore the popular representation of the West across several media, including film, live performance, music, commercial art, and, in the two essays most relevant to this bibliography, the history of western American dime novels and formula fiction.
Crow, Charles L., ed.
A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America.
Famous western authors and their books
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
A wide-ranging and theoretically informed study of the complexities that tie region to literary production. Most pertinent to the West are the essays on the Great Plains, The Old Northwest, California, the Southwest, the Sagebrush School of Nevada journalists, Texas, the Pacific Northwest, and the entri