Imagining the Big Open
Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West
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Edited by Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey
6 x 9, 296 pp.
20 illustrations
Paper $24.95
978-0-87480-738-7
Western Americana
The American West has long played a role in our consciousness as a place apart, a site of perpetual optimism and romanticism. In Imagining the Big Open a wide range of scholars deftly examine our projections upon and uses of the New West — a projection that not only includes how we imagine the West but how we use Western places. Addressing the history, popular culture, geography, and public policy of the region the contributors unravel our collective psyche where SUVs and REI cards exist in symbiosis with the wilderness movement and Sierra Club memberships.
Elaine Bapis is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Utah and teaches at Westminster College of Salt Lake City.
Thomas Harvey is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Utah and a news editor of government and education at the Salt Lake Tribune.
Liza Nicholas lives, writes, and teaches in Bozeman, Montana. Her first book, Culture and the Cowboy State: The Making of Westerners, is forthcoming.
Praises and Reviews
"Imagining the Big Open skillfully dissects the warring notions that threaten to rip apart the places and products that define the New West."
- Western Historical Quarterly
Salt Lake City Weekly • October 16, 2003
Contents and Contributors
Michael A. Amundson, Northern Arizona University
Elaine M. Bapis
Alicia Barber, Austin, Texas
Lawrence Culver, Los Angeles, California
Robert R. Dykstra, State University of New York, Albany
Thomas J. Harvey
Karen Jones, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Michael Lundblad, Charlottesville, Virginia
Jo Ann Manfra, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Liza Nicholas
Ken Owens, California State University, Sacramento
Amanda Rees, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Wendy Rex-Atzet, Boulder, Colorado
Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
Joseph E. Taylor III, Iowa State University
Meredith Wiltsie and William Wyckoff, Bozeman, Montana
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