Brady Harrison is a professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author of Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature and the editor of a scholarly edition of Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune.   Contributors: William W. Bevis, Nancy Cook, Steve Davenport, Tamas Dobozy, Roger Dunsmore, Brady Harrison, Matthew Jockers, Gregory L. Morris, Karl Olson, Andrea Opitz, Jim Rains, Lois Welch, and O. Alan Weltzien

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Postpopulist Criticism Part I: Does Place Matter? 1. Burning Montana: Richard Ford's Wildlife and Regional Crisis Tamas Dobozy 2. All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets Roger Dunsmore 3. West of Eire: Butte's Irish Ethos Matthew L. Jockers Part II: Women Writing Montana 4. Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope Nancy Cook 5. Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women's Writing since 1990 William W. Bevis Part III: Gay and Lesbian Literature Under a Big Sky 6. West of Desire: Queer Ambivalence in Montana Literature Karl Olson 7. "Just Regular Guys": Homophobia, the Code of the West, and Constructions of Male Identity in Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx O. Alan Weltzien Part IV: Native Revisions/The Problems of History 8. "He Never Wanted to Forget It": Contesting the Idea of History in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded Jim Rains 9. A Haunted Nation: Cultural Narratives and the Persistence of the Indigenous Subject in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk Andrea Opitz 10. "I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times": The Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen Gregory L. Morris Part V: Hugo-Land 11. Richard Hugo's Montana Poems: Blue Collars, Indians, and Tough Style Steve Davenport 12. Semicolonial Moments: The History and Influence of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program Lois M. Welch Select Bibliography of Montana Writing Contributors Index

"Harrison's collection includes a range of critical perspectives that invite both the general reader and the academic scholar to reconsider the richness of Montana writing."-Linda K. Karell, Montana, the Magazine of Western History -- Linda K. Karell Montana the Magazine of Western History "This remarkable collection of essays offers something for every reader interested in Montana literature, from the well read to newcomers to the field... Editor Brady Harrison deserves thanks and praise for a job very well done."-Sue Hart, Great Plains Quarterly -- Sue Hart Great Plains Quarterly

Brady Harrison is a professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author of Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature and the editor of a scholarly edition of Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune.   Contributors: William W. Bevis, Nancy Cook, Steve Davenport, Tamas Dobozy, Roger Dunsmore, Brady Harrison, Matthew Jockers, Gregory L. Morris, Karl Olson, Andrea Opitz, Jim Rains, Lois Welch, and O. Alan Weltzien

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Postpopulist Criticism Part I: Does Place Matter? 1. Burning Montana: Richard Ford's Wildlife and Regional Crisis Tamas Dobozy 2. All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets Roger Dunsmore 3. West of Eire: Butte's Irish Ethos Matthew L. Jockers Part II: Women Writing Montana 4. Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope Nancy Cook 5. Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women's Writing since 1990 William W. Bevis Part III: Gay and Lesbian Literature Under a Big Sky 6. West of Desire: Queer Ambivalence in Montana Literature Karl Olson 7. "Just Regular Guys": Homophobia, the Code of the West, and Constructions of Male Identity in Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx O. Alan Weltzien Part IV: Native Revisions/The Problems of History 8. "He Never Wanted to Forget It": Contesting the Idea of History in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded Jim Rains 9. A Haunted Nation: Cultural Narratives and the Persistence of the Indigenous Subject in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk Andrea Opitz 10. "I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times": The Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen Gregory L. Morris Part V: Hugo-Land 11. Richard Hugo's Montana Poems: Blue Collars, Indians, and Tough Style Steve Davenport 12. Semicolonial Moments: The History and Influence of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program Lois M. Welch Select Bibliography of Montana Writing Contributors Index

"Harrison's collection includes a range of critical perspectives that invite both the general reader and the academic scholar to reconsider the richness of Montana writing."-Linda K. Karell, Montana, the Magazine of Western History -- Linda K. Karell Montana the Magazine of Western History "This remarkable collection of essays offers something for every reader interested in Montana literature, from the well read to newcomers to the field... Editor Brady Harrison deserves thanks and praise for a job very well done."-Sue Hart, Great Plains Quarterly -- Sue Hart Great Plains Quarterly

Brady Harrison is a professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author of Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature and the editor of a scholarly edition of Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune.   Contributors: William W. Bevis, Nancy Cook, Steve Davenport, Tamas Dobozy, Roger Dunsmore, Brady Harrison, Matthew Jockers, Gregory L. Morris, Karl Olson, Andrea Opitz, Jim Rains, Lois Welch, and O. Alan Weltzien

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Postpopulist Criticism Part I: Does Place Matter? 1. Burning Montana: Richard Ford's Wildlife and Regional Crisis Tamas Dobozy 2. All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets Roger Dunsmore 3. West of Eire: Butte's Irish Ethos Matthew L. Jockers Part II: Women Writing Montana 4. Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope Nancy Cook 5. Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women's Writing since 1990 William W. Bevis Part III: Gay and Lesbian Literature Under a Big Sky 6. West of Desire: Queer Ambivalence in Montana Literature Karl Olson 7. "Just Regular Guys": Homophobia, the Code of the West, and Constructions of Male Identity in Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx O. Alan Weltzien Part IV: Native Revisions/The Problems of History 8. "He Never Wanted to Forget It": Contesting the Idea of History in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded Jim Rains 9. A Haunted Nation: Cultural Narratives and the Persistence of the Indigenous Subject in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk Andrea Opitz 10. "I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times": The Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen Gregory L. Morris Part V: Hugo-Land 11. Richard Hugo's Montana Poems: Blue Collars, Indians, and Tough Style Steve Davenport 12. Semicolonial Moments: The History and Influence of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program Lois M. Welch Select Bibliography of Montana Writing Contributors Index

"Harrison's collection includes a range of critical perspectives that invite both the general reader and the academic scholar to reconsider the richness of Montana writing."-Linda K. Karell, Montana, the Magazine of Western History -- Linda K. Karell Montana the Magazine of Western History "This remarkable collection of essays offers something for every reader interested in Montana literature, from the well read to newcomers to the field... Editor Brady Harrison deserves thanks and praise for a job very well done."-Sue Hart, Great Plains Quarterly -- Sue Hart Great Plains Quarterly