Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis

by Bethany Maile

Book Overview

Bethany Maile had a mythological American West in mind when she returned to Idaho after dropping out of college in Boston, only to find a farm-town-turned-suburb instead of the Wild West wonderland she remembered. Haunted by what she had so completely misremembered, Maile resolved to investigate her attachment to the western myth, however flawed.

Deciding to engage in a variety of "western" events, Maile trailed rodeo queens, bid on cattle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496220218
• ISBN13: 9781496220219
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"