One West, Two Myths II

Aritha van Herk is a professor at the University of Calgary, where she teaches Creative Writing, Canadian Literature and Contemporary Narrative. Carol Higham is a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Carol Higham is a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Robert Thacker is a professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Munro's biography Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (2005, revised 2011) and the editor of The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro (1999). Robert Thacker is a professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Munro's biography Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (2005, revised 2011) and the editor of The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro (1999). R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of Canadian and western Canadian intellectual and cultural history. Sarah Carter teaches history at the Univerisity of Alberta.

• Introduction: No Catlin without Kane. or Really Understanding the "American" West. Turner versus Innis: Two Mythic Wests. One West, One Myth: Transborder Continuity in Western Art. A Northern Vision: Frontiers & the West in the Canadian & American Imagination. Transnational Perspectives on the History of Great Plains Women: Gender, Race, Nations & the Forty-ninth Parallel. Myths & Realities in American-Canadian Studies: Challenges to Comparing Native Peoples' Experiences. Prairies & Plains: The Levelling of Difference in Stegner's Wolf Willow. Whose West is it Anyway? or, What's Myth Got to Do with it? The Role of "America" in the Creation of the Myth of the West. Leading the Parade. Index.