Wallace Stegner: the quiet revolutionary / A Brief reminiscence: father teacher, collaborator / Thoughts on Wallace Stegner / Good rain: Stegner and the wild / Wallace Stegner and influence / Wallace Stegner, western humanist / Stegner, storytelling, and western identity / Citizen of a larger country: Wallace Stegner, the environment, and the west / Stegner and stewardship / Precedents to wisdom / 'Huts of time': Wallace Stegner's historical legacy / Wallace Stegner the historian / 'Joe Hill ain't never died': Wallace Stegner's act of literary imagination / Frontiers and borders: Wallace Stegner in Canada / Finding a voice of his own: the sotry of Wallace Stegner's fiction / Book learning: Angle of repose as literary history / Stegner: the civic style