Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth

Henry Nash Smith

336 pages first pub 1950 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-cent...

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