Belonging to the West (Creating the North American Landscape)
By Eric L. Paddock.
Description
"Change is endemic to the West," writes Eric Paddock. "We cannot return, either as a culture or as individuals, to the landscapes of our youth." But images of a vanished or mythic land persist, filled either with buckskinned riders and untouched terrain, or the boisterous, unlimited opportunities of mining towns. Molding our ideas about beauty and scenery, these images continue to be alluring symbols of what the American West is like, or should be. And these ideas, Paddock says, reflect a place that no longer exists. "Even the West's most powerful remaining sym...
ISBN(s)
0801853230, 9780801853234
