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Article: Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2009
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Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West. By Michael L. Johnson. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xviii, 533. $34.95.)
How the American West came to be known as "wild" is the central question the author of this book sets out to explore. More importantly, what social, economic, political, and environmental impacts have notions of wildness had on the West over time? As this sweeping volume reveals, there are no easy answers to these questions. Michael L. Johnson's study of wildness is complicated, nuanced, messy, and filled with contradictions; it ultimately forces the reader to confront the ugliness of what Johnson ...
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