Under Western Skies

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Under Western Skies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Donald Worster has written several sustained examinations of events or processes in the history of the American West. The two most prominent are a history of the Dust Bowl (Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, 1979) and a study of the development of irrigation agriculture (Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, 1986). Under Western Skies—the title recalls Joseph Conrad’s novel Under Western Eyes (1911)—is a collection of eleven essays on topics of Western American history. They include Frederick Jackson Turner’s...

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