Read the beginning of the Introduction from The Golden West: Fifty Years of Bison Books, Edited by Alicia Christensen, Introduction by David Wrobel: "This superb collection of some of the most enduring writings on the American West is a fitting marker of the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Nebraska Press’s Bison Books imprint. A half century of republication of classic western literature, history, and folklore is not to be taken lightly. Just as The Portable Faulkner (1946) played a vital role in resurrecting that author’s reputation in the late 1940s and establishing his now hallowed place in the American … Continue reading Off the Shelf: The Golden West edited by Alicia Christensen