Sun's myth (oral tradition) / Kathlamet Chinook --
Ventura to Santa Barbara in 1776 from Pedro Font's diary / Pedro Font --
North Dakota journals from the spring of 1805 from The journals of Lewis and Clark --
Through the foothills with a flock of sheep from My first summer in the Sierra / John Muir --
Valley of the Virgen from Tertiary history of the Grand Canon District / Clarence Dutton --
Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims / Sarah Winnemucca.
Under the lion's paw from Main travelled roads / Hamlim Garland --
Enter the man from The Virginian / Owen Wister --
My neighbor's field from The land of little rain / Mary Austin --
All gold canyon from Moon-face and other stories / Jack London --
Lassiter from Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey --
My Antonia (excerpt) / Willa Cather --
Wind (excerpt) / Dorothy Scarborough.
Answer / Robinson Jeffers --
Nature from Land of the spotted eagle / Luther Standing Bear --
Grapes of wrath (chapters 1-3) / John Steinbeck --
Big Sky (chapters 31, 32) / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. --
Shane (chapter 1) -/ Jack Schaefer --
Hopi ceremonialism from Masked gods / Frank Waters --
Pocho (excerpt) / Jose Antonio Vallarreal --
In response to a question --
Representing far places --
Montana Eclogue / William Stafford.
Way to Rainy Mountain (introduction) / N. Scott Momaday --
Farewell to Manzanar (chapter 4) / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston --
Great American Desert from The journey home / Edward Abbey --
Recapitulation (excerpt) / Wallace Stegner --
True West / Sam Shepard --
B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca from The Anaya reader / Rudolfo Anaya.
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout --
True night / Gary Snyder --
On water from The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich --
Last of the breed / Louis L'Amour --
Last of the menu girls / Denise Chavez --
Camping in Madera Canyon / May Swenson --
Frog Mountain blues (afterword) / Charles Bowden --
Rules of the game from The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan --
Snowy plovers from Refuge / Terry Tempest Williams --
Reimagining Warner from Heart of the land / Dennis Sanders --
Days of heaven from In the Loyal Mountains / Rich Bass --
Why I am a danger to the public from Homeland and other stories / Barbara Kingsolver --
Creations from Heart of the land / Linda Hogan.
