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Passages West: Nineteen Stories of Youth and Identity (1990), edited by Hugh Nichols, is an anthology of nineteen short stories about coming of age in the West. Selections by writers including Ivan Doig, Norman Maclean, Wallace Stegner, Mary Clearman Blew, and Vardis Fisher chronicle the anxieties and joys of young people searching for identity in a distinctive landscape.

Hugh Nichols is a Professor of English and Acting Academic Vice President at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. He has written about H. L. Davis, Norman Maclean, Dorothy Johnson, and other Western writers.