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Hemingway Western Studies Series

James Castle: His Life & Art
(2nd edition)
by Tom Trusky (BSU)
The sold-out, award-winning, first edition biography of Outsider and deaf and/or autistic Idaho artist/bookmaker James Castle (1899-1977) has been completely revised and updated. This Smythe-sewn second edition contains over 150 illustrations (including 60 new b&w and color photographs—and a map), plus two new chapters with revelations about Castle’s education, medical condition, and his recently-discovered Early Attic books. An appendix of sources, a comprehensive, selected bibliography and a helpful index conclude this publication from The Idaho Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book.

“Trusky’s devotion to the life and art of self-taught Idaho artist James Castle provides a compassionate air to this brief biography....Recommended.” –Choice/American Library Association

the DVD
James Castle: Dream House
Directed by Dr. Peter Lutze (BSU) and Rod Cashin (BSU)
Artist/bookmaker James Castle’s life is recreated through his art works in this moving biography which first aired on Idaho Public Television and now includes a 2008 “Epilogue.” Exclusive interviews with family, childhood friends, collectors, artists and art professors, gallery directors and curators provide an inspirational portrait of an American original!

Life in the Upper Country:
The Diary of Evelyn E. Amos, 1948-1957
(2nd edition)
by Evelyn Amos
Before waking her family at 5 am, Evelyn Amos arose to inscribe on paper bags, bulk mailings and other scrap papers diary entries recording a lifestyle that was—unbeknownst to anyone—vanishing. The Amos children grow up, leave, off to graduate college, raise families, and live urban lives. Inadvertently, but so memorably, Amos captures the passing of an American institution: the single-family farm. With maps and family photos.

Suicide or Murder?: The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis
by Vardis Fisher
A detailed account of the mysterious death of famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis at Grinder’s Stand, a remote wayhouse in frontier Tennessee.

Preserving the Game: Gambling, Mining, Hunting and Conservation in the Vanishing West: Western Stories and Yellowstone Essays
by J. R. Jones

The King’s Pines of Idaho;
a Story of the Browns of McCall
by Grace Jordan
King’s Pines refers to the giant trees of New England that the King of England reserved for the masts of his great navy. The Brown family emigrated from New England to the village of McCall, Idaho. Jordan evocatively portrays the Brown family and the village that has known them for more than 50 years. This is the story of rural Idaho, of strong people and rugged land.

The Literature of Idaho:
An Anthology
Edited by Dr. James Maguire (BSU)
The definitive anthology of Gem State fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with concise author bio- and bibliographies. Selected and with introductory essays by Maguire, noted scholar and past president of the Western American Literature Association. Photographs, index.

The Lapwai Mission Press
by Wilfred P. Schoenberg
First press in the Pacific Northwest (established at what is now Lapwai—Nez Perce for “the place of the butterflies”—Idaho), oldest surviving press in the American West, this is the saga of Western America’s most famous pioneer press and its rare imprints.

Tiger on the Road
by Tim Woodward
This is the first complete biography of one of the greatest pioneers of Western literature. Fisher was an author whose lifestyle was as colorful and unpredictable as his writing. He was often controversial, frequently infuriating, and never boring. In a career spanning four decades and thirty-six books, Fisher published the first (and most-acclaimed) WPA State Guide and won the Harper Prize for Children of God. ICB edition with Index.

The Silent Screen
& My Talking Heart
(3rd edition)
by Nell Shipman
Best-selling autobiography of silent film screenwriter, actor, producer, director and editor Nell Shipman. Cinema pioneer Shipman builds her wilderness film studio Lionhead Lodge in north Idaho where, with her zoo of wild animals, she makes remarkable, on-location films whose heroes are invariably women. Includes filmography, endnotes, maps, photos, index and an afterword by Shipman’s son, Barry.

Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom
the Bell Tolls
Edited by Dr. Rena Sanderson (BSU)
This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls demonstrates the centrality of this Spanish Civil war novel in the author’s life and canon and reestablishes the book’s status as an American masterpiece. It provides a long overdue reassessment of the novel, which was an overwhelming critical and popular success in 1940. Following Sanderson’s introduction, the volume begins with a reconsideration of Hemingway’s career by novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Ten literary essays follow.

Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Dr. Sandra Schackel (BSU)
This collection is arranged around five themes: politics and power; women and mobility; staying on the land; uncovering women’s voices; and reshaping cultural images and ideas. Seventeen essays address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century. Together, the essays illustrate the complex mix of experiences shaping how women lived in the West during the past century.

WESTERN WRITERS SERIES
Edited by Drs. Tara Penry and Tom Hillard (BSU)
The Boise State University Western Writers Series is pleased to announce forthcoming book-length explorations of topics and issues related to authors and literature of the American West. Still available (in print and on-line) are the renowned WWS booklets (over 160 published since 1972) providing brief, authoritative introductions to writers such as Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Dana Gioia, Jack Kerouac, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marilyn Robinson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

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contact information:
http://library.boisestate.edu/westernwriters/