Under Western Skies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Worster
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1860-1990
- Setting: The American West; the emphasis is on the High Plains, but Alaska is included
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Nature writing
- Subjects: Cattle, Nature, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Economics, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Natural resources
- Locales: West (U.S.), Alaska
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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