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The American West and Its Interpreters
Essays on Literary History and Historiography
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful evaluations of individual historians—revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.
Product Details
- Publisher: UNM Press (May 1, 2023)
- Length: 304 pages
- ISBN13: 9780826364463
Raves and Reviews
“Interlaced throughout the collection is Etulain’s career-long fondness for the literary and cultural West, emphasizing the connections between western American history and literature and how the latter has moved through similar periodizations… His writing is clear and poignant, from that measured ‘central position’ of a wise western sage.”
– Western Historical Quarterly
Richard Etulain is one of the most significant interpreters of Western history, and especially its literary and cultural history, of the past half-century. To gather his essays, old and new, in one volume is a great contribution.
– —Michael S. Green, author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State
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