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Global West, American Frontier demonstrates why we need to know history. Understanding nineteenth-century travel narratives, guidebooks, and other 'mythologies' gives us a solid context for grasping our own issues today. This book is written with clarity and savvy. Ron Primeau, author of Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway A provocative, revealing book overflowing with new information and fresh insights. Illustrates once again why Wrobel is at the top of the list of cultural-intellectual historians interpreting the American West. --Richard W. Etulain, author of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West In this perceptive, splendidly researched book David Wrobel upends enduring impressions of the army of travelers who wrote about the American West. Rather than dewey-eyed innocents caught up in the mythic West, many were surprisingly shrewd observers who understood that the place they saw emerging, as well as their own travels, were part of a global story of exploration and empire-building. Full of intriguing characters and revelatory moments, it is itself an eye-opening trip into the well-traveled West. --Elliott West, author of The Way to the West

Global West, American Frontier demonstrates why we need to know history. Understanding nineteenth-century travel narratives, guidebooks, and other 'mythologies' gives us a solid context for grasping our own issues today. This book is written with clarity and savvy. Ron Primeau, author of Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway

In this perceptive, splendidly researched book David Wrobel upends enduring impressions of the army of travelers who wrote about the American West. Rather than dewey-eyed innocents caught up in the mythic West, many were surprisingly shrewd observers who understood that the place they saw emerging, as well as their own travels, were part of a global story of exploration and empire-building. Full of intriguing characters and revelatory moments, it is itself an eye-opening trip into the well-traveled West.--Elliott West, author of The Way to the West A provocative, revealing book overflowing with new information and fresh insights. Illustrates once again why Wrobel is at the top of the list of cultural-intellectual historians interpreting the American West.--Richard W. Etulain, author of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West

"""A provocative, revealing book overflowing with new information and fresh insights. Illustrates once again why Wrobel is at the top of the list of cultural-intellectual historians interpreting the American West.""--Richard W. Etulain, author of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West ""In this perceptive, splendidly researched book David Wrobel upends enduring impressions of the army of travelers who wrote about the American West. Rather than dewey-eyed innocents caught up in the mythic West, many were surprisingly shrewd observers who understood that the place they saw emerging, as well as their own travels, were part of a global story of exploration and empire-building. Full of intriguing characters and revelatory moments, it is itself an eye-opening trip into the well-traveled West.""--Elliott West, author of The Way to the West"

Global West, American Frontier demonstrates why we need to know history. Understanding nineteenth-century travel narratives, guidebooks, and other 'mythologies' gives us a solid context for grasping our own issues today. This book is written with clarity and savvy. Ron Primeau, author of Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway Global West, American Frontier demonstrates why we need to know history. Understanding nineteenth-century travel narratives, guidebooks, and other 'mythologies' gives us a solid context for grasping our own issues today. This book is written with clarity and savvy. Ron Primeau, author of Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway A provocative, revealing book overflowing with new information and fresh insights. Illustrates once again why Wrobel is at the top of the list of cultural-intellectual historians interpreting the American West. --Richard W. Etulain, author of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West In this perceptive, splendidly researched book David Wrobel upends enduring impressions of the army of travelers who wrote about the American West. Rather than dewey-eyed innocents caught up in the mythic West, many were surprisingly shrewd observers who understood that the place they saw emerging, as well as their own travels, were part of a global story of exploration and empire-building. Full of intriguing characters and revelatory moments, it is itself an eye-opening trip into the well-traveled West. --Elliott West, author of The Way to the West

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David M. Wrobel holds the Merrick Chair in Western History at the University of Oklahoma. He is also the author of The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal and Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West.

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