The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis obs

A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin colo

In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in lite

John C. Frémont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditions he would lead to the Far West, Frémont and a small part