Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-360) and index.
Contents
How divine these studies : the challenge of the unsung land -- Henry David Thoreau's Walden and The Maine woods -- A pilot's memory : Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi and Huckleberry Finn -- Community of sin : George Washington Cable's Old Creole days and The grandissimes -- The bishop's face : Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop -- Plainsong : Mari Sandoz's Old Jules -- Place spirits : William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and "The bear" -- The valley of the world : John Steinbeck's East of Eden -- Of local interest : William Carlos Williams's In the American grain and Paterson -- Voice out of the land : Leslie Marmon Silko's ceremony.
