Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region

by Flannery Burke

Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alike

Just as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, reshaping American culture. Back East flips the script of American regional narratives.

In novels, travel narratives, popular histories, and dude ranch brochures, twentieth-century western US writers saw the East through the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295753854
• ISBN13: 9780295753850
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher