The concept of the American West is an essential part of our national psyche. Identifying the West, however, is a difficult matter. From pinpointing the region'

A dozen scholars from several disciplines examine popular perceptions about the West in their quest to interpret the region's geography.

Much has been written about the west—most of it clouded by exaggeration and fabrication. Since 1953, True West magazine has been devoted to celebrating the We

Something has been going badly wrong in America. But what is really happening, why, and what does it mean? Could the US itself now be the greatest threat to the

The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the lea