San Francisco: Mercury House, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - 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.' INSCRIBED on the title page to collector Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-562790781.