Writing as the expression of belief -- The battle against rugged individualism -- Artist as environmentalist -- Evaluating the environmentalist -- Why I can't read Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Finding a voice of his own : the story of Wallace Stegner's fiction -- The short stories : the college years -- A friendship with consequences : Robert Frost and Wallace Stegner -- "Eastering" : Wallace Stegner's love affair with Vermont in Crossing to safety -- An introduction to Wallace Stegner's Angle of repose.