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A detailed and comprehensive look at one of America's most enduring institutions.

About the Author

Paul F. Starrs is associate professor of geography at the University of Nevada at Reno, editor of the Geographical Review, and a former cowhand.

Reviews

This is an important book, a contribution both to scholarship and to urgent public debate. Few of its readers will find their view of the American West unchanged, and those few will probably be of Starrs's party already. -- Hugh Brogan Times Literary Supplement

This is an important book, a contribution both to scholarship and to urgent public debate. Few of its readers will find their view of the American West unchanged, and those few will probably be of Starrs's party already. -- Hugh Brogan Times Literary Supplement