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The Essential West: Collected Essays by Elliott West (English) Paperback Book
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- The Essential West: Collected Essays
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Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on West's wide array of interests, this collection of his essays touches on topics ranging from viruses and the telegraph to children, bison, and Larry McMurtry. Drawing from the past three centuries, West weaves the western story into that of the nation and the world beyond, from Kansas and Montana to Haiti, Africa, and the court of Louis XV. Divided into three sections, the volume begins with conquest. West is not the first historian to write about Lewis and Clark, but he is the first to contrast their expedition with Mungo Park's contemporaneous journey in Africa. The Lewis and Clark expedition, West begins, is one of the most overrated events in American history - and one of the most revealing. The humor of this insightful essay is a chief characteristic of the whole book, which comprises ten chapters previously published in major journals and magazines - but revised for this edition - and four brand-new ones. West is well known for his writings about frontier family life, especially the experiences of children at work and play. Fans of his earlier books on these subjects will not be disappointed. In a final section, he looks at the West of myth and imagination, in part to show that our fantasies about the West are worth studying precisely because they have been so at odds with the real West. In essays on buffalo, Jesse James and the McMurtry novel Lonesome Dove, West directs his formidable powers to subjects that continue to shape our understanding - and often our misunderstanding - of the American West, past and present.
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The Essential West: Collected Essays
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Paperback
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English
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Literary Theory
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2014
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344 Pages
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152mm
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