How to Read the American West

How to Read the American West: A Field Guide
By William Wyckoff
Foreword by William Cronon
This innovative field guide includes stories, photographs, maps, and diagrams on one hundred landscape features across the American West. Features are grouped according to type, such as natural landscapes, farms and ranches, places of special cultural identity, and cities and suburbs. Unlike the geographic organization of a traditional guidebook, Wyckoff's field guide draws attention to the connections and the differences between and among places. Emphasizing features that recur from one part of the region to another, the guide takes readers on an exploration of the eleven western states with trips into their natural and cultural character.