Introduction -- Beaver and the Grande Ronde River -- Where the Crooked River rises by Ellen Waterston -- They also served : a soldier's Pacific Theater album, WW II -- Northwest Review Symposium on Northwest literature -- Soldier to advocate : C.E.S. Wood's 1877 legacy -- Rider in the wilderness : Minor White in La Grande -- Down in my heart by William Stafford -- Chief Joseph's 'Surrender Speech' as literary text -- William Stafford in Northwest literature -- StoryLines Northwest (NEH & ALA) -- Editing an Invisible literature : the Oregon literature series -- Remembering Wallace Stegner -- Dialogue at Wallowa Lake -- Yellow by Anne Pitkin & All that comes to light by Lisa Steinman -- Ursula Le Guin with Eastern Oregon University writers -- Nard Jones, Weston, and Oregon detour -- Seal Rock by John Haislip -- Marking the magic circle -- Northwest variety : personal essays by 14 regional authors -- The paradox of Ai Qing -- Carolyn Kizer at Cannon Beach, 1981...with Tim Barnes -- Northwest poetry and the land : Peter Balakian, William Stafford, Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, Kim Stafford, George Venn, Ann Copeland, with Brian Attebery -- The search for sacred space in western American literature -- The literature of Eastern Oregon -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : bringing down Missoula -- Richard Hugo with Ronald H. Bayes.