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

by Michael L. Johnson and Michael L. Johnson

Book Overview

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. Now one of the most knowing observers of the Western scene offers a monumental 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. Bringing the sensibility of a poet to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615016
• ISBN13: 9780700615018
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"