Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Professor of English at the University of Wyoming presented "Writing the Way West: Authors in America" at the September 2017 Saturday U program in Pinedale. Nineteenth-century writers imagined the west as virgin territory. Robert Louis Stevenson, riding the rails across Wyoming, was disappointed; Oscar Wilde wittily saw only himself—reflected in every prospect. Other explorers in literature and in land, from Walter Scott to John Wesley Powell, had already written over the west. Caroline McCracken-Flesher recounted this race through the landscape, chasing the language that can speak for our expanse of rocks, rivers, and precious few trees. Saturday University in Pinedale is sponsored by the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Humanities Council, Sublette BOCES and Sublette County Libraries. Saturday U is free and open to the public. For more information about Saturday U, visit the website at http://www.uwyo.edu/SaturdayU/ Copyright 2017 University of Wyoming
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