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Four Ways of Looking West
A Log Cabin Reading Group
Sponsored by the Log Cabin Literary Center in Boise, Idaho.
The Program: February - Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher
Fisher's romantic valedictory to the American West.
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March - Wolf Willow, by Wallace Stegner
A classic essay on the meaning of place.
April - Fools Crow, by James Welch
A tour-de-force historical novel which blends historical fact and native folk perspective to create a unique vision of the frontier West.
May - Always Coming Home, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Set in the California valley south of Mount Lassen in what may be the future, Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home blends science fiction, folklore, and the Westerner's sensitivity to the landscape, creating a new world, a West that could have been. |
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