Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West

by Michael L . Johnson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $63.29

  Just what was so wild about the Wild West? Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. This book offers a cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five hundred years.