A collection as broad as the Great Basin and as dynamic as California's coastline fiction and essays by Wallace Stegner Literary critic Charles E. Cascio compared reading Wallace Stegner's short fiction to entering a great community, one that invites readers into a larger conversation, not through soaring prose or gimmicky plots, but with writing that is as real as the moment and as enduring as history. In his nonfiction Stegner explores with equal...

Documented historical account of the Trail, westward--from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, during the early period of Mormon migrations, 1845-1869.