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“Only the eternal nothing of Space”: Richard Hugo’s West Michael Allen Western American Literature, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 1980, pp. 25-35 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1980.0074 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579314/summary Access provided at 25 Feb 2020 08:41 GMT from JHU Libraries MICHAEL ALLEN University of Mississippi "Only the eternal nothing of Space": Richard Hugo's West Any understanding of Richard Hugo's West must begin back in the 1890s when three easterners invented the West that has played such an important part in American culture in this century. The West of Frederick Remington, Theodore Roosevelt and Owen ''''ister grew out of the expansive energies of easterners who made, consciously or uncon sciously, a myth of American toughness overcoming the vast potentialities of the West's natural resources. Owen Wister wanted his novel, The Virginian (1902), to become a national fable, uniting North and South, East and West; what he created was the figure of male hero who would have few feelings, few human connections and few needs; who would do his job in the wilderness successfully and make that wilderness accessible to eastern expansion. Since Wister, the popular understanding of the West as a
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