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It’s still the West against itself

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Mar 18, 2025
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Cattle drive on Smoky Mountain Road, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Photo courtesy of Stephen Trimble.

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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