The American West has long played a role in our consciousness as a place apart, a site of perpetual optimism and romanticism. In Imagining the Big Open a wide range of scholars deftly examine our projections upon and uses of the New West a projection that not only includes how we imagine the West but how we use Western places. Addressing the history, popular culture, geography, and public policy of the region the contributors unravel our collective psyche where SUVs and REI cards exist in symbiosis with the wilderness movement and Sierra Club memberships."
- ISBN10 0874807387
- ISBN13 9780874807387
- Publish Date 30 March 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 311
- Language English