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Book SynopsisBoundaries - lines imposed on the landscape - shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. Historian Derek Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular.
Trade ReviewWith Derek Everett as our guide, what might seem one of the simplest acts of creating the West-defining its states by drawing lines on the map-becomes a revelation into the many crosscurrents-political, social, ethnic, economic, and, let's face it, idiosyncratic-that shaped the emergence of a distinctive American region.
Creating the American West is also a reminder of how the lines we draw have always both divided and united us."" - Elliott West author of
The Essential West: Collected Essays
