English 8:114
The Literature
of the American West
cactus

Instructor: Phillip Round

Office: 317 EPB
Phone: 335-0476
Office Hours: T, Th. 1:30-3:00

e-mail: phillip-round@uiowa.edu

Week 1

 

1/17: Introduction

1/19: "Passage to More that India" (White, "It's Your Misfortune,3-84)

Week 2

 

1/24-1/26: Twain, Roughing It (1872) (White, 85-236)

Week 3

 

1/31-2/2: Cody, The Life of William Cody

Week 4

 

2/7-2/9: Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage

Week 5

 

2/14-2/16: Siringo, A Texas Cowboy

Week 6

2/21-2/23: Ford, The Searchers

Other

Navajo

Week 7

 

 

2/28: The Native American West (White, 85-118).Winnemucca, Life Among the Paiutes

Week 8

3/7: Zitkala Sa, American Indian Stories (1900-1901)

 

post war west

Week 11

4/13: Steinbeck, Cannery Row (1940)

(White: 459-496)

Week 12

4/20: Yamauchi, Songs My Mother Taught Me

Week 13

4/18: Valdez, Actos (Early Works)

4/20: Welch, Riding the Earthboy 40

Week 14

4/27: Silko, Ceremony

Week 15

5/4: Dideon, Play it as it Lays