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The Portable Western Reader

The Portable Western Reader

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The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape.
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Portable Library Series

The Portable Louisa May Alcott
The Portable Edmund Burke
The Portable American Realism Reader
The Portable Western Reader
The Portable Enlightenment Reader
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
The Portable Jack London
The Portable Darwin
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
The Portable Karl Marx
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William Kittredge
William Kittredge is the author, The Willow Field, The Nature of Generosity, among others, and, with Annick Smith, he edited The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. He grew up in Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana, where for many years he taught at the University of Montana. More by William Kittredge
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About the Author

William Kittredge
William Kittredge is the author, The Willow Field, The Nature of Generosity, among others, and, with Annick Smith, he edited The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. He grew up in Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana, where for many years he taught at the University of Montana. More by William Kittredge
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About the Author

William Kittredge
William Kittredge is the author, The Willow Field, The Nature of Generosity, among others, and, with Annick Smith, he edited The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. He grew up in Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana, where for many years he taught at the University of Montana. More by William Kittredge
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