The American West is a time both in history and in myth. Outlaws and sheriffs, cowboys and Indians, wide-open plains with herds of buffalo and tumbling tumbleweeds: these are the iconic images of ...

The cowboy hat is the foremost symbol of the American West. But the hat also tells a much more complex story about the USA, ...

assign groups of students different periods in American history and ask them to research how the Myth of West appears (or doesn’t); compare and contrast the version of the Old West represented ...

Eventually, the photographer Bryan Schutmaat told me, the strip malls fade into the rearview mirror, the landscape opens, and the American West begins ... His new book, Sons of the Living ...

Seeking to build a comprehensive and authoritative literature on Western economic development in all of its facets, this renowned series features books from ... throughout the West and the world.