San Francisco: Mercury House, (1996.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Essays on growing up in his bit of heaven - on his father's huge ranch in Eastern Oregon - and on the inevitable changes coming to the West now. 'Kittredge gives us not easy answers but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. The three essays in Who Owns the West? comprise both a celebration of the new West and an elegy for an old West that is fading.' 168 pp. ISBN: 1-562790781.