Sean Dennis Cashman's America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is described by its publisher as "the only comprehensive survey of the entire period." New York University recently issued a second edition of Cashman's history, expanded and with additional illustrations [$40.00 cloth, $17.50 paper]. A recent addition to Harper & Row's Perennial Library is The Republic of Reason: The Personal Philosophies of the Founding Fathers, selected, edited, and with commentary by Norman Cousins, former editor of The Saturday Review [$10.95]. There is a foreword by Richard B. Morris, author of Witnesses at the Creation. Perennial Books has also issued a revised edition of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought which was originally titled American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century, Edited with introductions by William F. Buckley, Jr., and Charles R. Kesler, the book contains the writings by such American conservatives as Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell [$15.95]. A third Perennial Library offering is Patricia Penton Leimbach's Harvest of Bittersweet, a collection of essays celebrating the joys and trials of farm living, which Booklist called "the rural answer to Erma Bombeck" [$6.95]. When Duncan Emrich's Folklore on the American Land was published in 1972, The Christian Science Monitor has this reaction to the book: "an utterly enthralling love affair with the vast and inexhaustible beauties of American folklore. For sheer, unadulterated joy of reading, this book cannot be too highly recommended." Now Little, Brown has come out with a paper edition of Folklore on the American Land [$12.95]. The folklore of a more specific area is examined in Up Cutshin & Down Greasy: Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family by Leonard W. Roberts. Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River—Cutshin and Greasy Creeks—Roberts found the Couches, a mountain family who had preserved the traditional ways of their forebears, and he describes their lives [$16.00 cloth, $8.00 paper]. Bison Books has published a new paper edition of Jon Tuska's The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western. Among the directors discussed by Tuska are John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Sam Peckinpah [$10.95], Another recent Bison Paperback is Enos A. Mills's Wild Life on the Rockies, with an introduction and notes by James H. Pickering. Mills spent three successive winters beginning in 1902 traversing the upper slopes of the Rockies to report to the government on weather and topography. He became known as the "Father of Rocky Mountain National Park," and his book about life in the great mountains was originally published in 1909 [$27.95 cloth, $8.95 paper]. Bison has also reissued Carrie Adell Strahorn's two-volume work, Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, with Volume I covering the years 1877—1880, and Volume II 1880—1898. Originally published in 1911 and now reprinted for the first time in more than 70 years, Fifteen Thousand Miles is an account of the 30 years Robert and Carrie Adell Strahorn spent traveling by coach, saddle, and railroad car in the service of the Union Pacific Railroad [Volume I, $28.85 cloth, $9.95 paper; Volume II, $26.95 cloth, $8.95 paper].