
By Stephen Trimble, Writers on the Range
Nearly 80 years ago, Bernard DeVoto, the Utah-born writer and historian, wrote an essay titled “The West Against Itself” for Harper’s Magazine.
DeVoto summed up the platform pressed by Western e…
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