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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Victor of the Mountains and Plains Publication Seller's Relationship Award "They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, slice it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the Western; still, "this region's hang on the American persona has never looked stronger." In this brilliant and revealing journey through the eleven expresses western of the 100th meridian, Egan, a third-generation westerner, evokes a pleasant and stressed country where land is religious beliefs and the holy conflict between preservers and possessors never ends. Egan leads us by using an unconventional, freewheeling travel: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Az, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt natural stone by natural stone; from the delicate beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross more than NEVADA, a city built as if in defiance of its arid environment. In a unique mixture of travel writing, historical reflection, and excited polemic, Egan has produced a moving review of the Western: how it became what it is, and where it is certainly going.
