St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1987). A collection of 18 essays which look at the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land. Kittredge grew up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, so his writings - both provocative and thoughtful - are rooted in his personal experience. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-915308967.