“As long as we are attempting to fit our cultures to the landscape, we are still going to need writers to help us… understand and to articulate it for us and to show us the human drama of it” (Meine 1997)
The American West is both a geographic location and a cultural phenomenon. It is a vast expanse of land with a huge variety of geology and ecology. The American West defines some aspect of the American identity because it is the frontier where pioneering, rugged, individualistic Americans can forge and discover. This expanse of American wilderness has been source for imagination. I am curious to discover how the literature of the American West creates and responds to the geographic and cultural landscapes that compose this region.
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