Wallace Stegner

Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City, not for his aunt's funeral, but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect. But the realities of the present recede in the face of the ghosts of his past. As he makes the perfunctory...

John Wesley Powell's contributions to the opening of the West, and to the scientific study of the nation.

Collects brief fictional works and legends by the nineteenth-century New England literary master.

"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applied childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of a pioneer community existing on the verge of a modern world."--Jacket.

A collection of essays by the renowned author, written over a period of twenty-five years, presents sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as San Juan and Glen Canyon, while examining the state of literature of the American West, the mythical past versus the diminished present, and the difficulties facing the contemporary Western writer.