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Hardcover Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West Book

ISBN: 0700615016

ISBN13: 9780700615018

Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West

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Just what was so wild about the Wild West?

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Now one of the most knowing observers of the Western scene offers a monumental cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five hundred years. Bringing the sensibility of a poet to...

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