Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of “land” and “the West” have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essay

"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American comm

Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land us

A wide-ranging exploration of human interactions with the land over thousands of years, as well as a model for teaching art and design in the field.

The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century