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John R. Milton Western American Literature, Volume 1, Number 4, Winter 1967, pp. 267-284 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1967.0058 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528610/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:02 GMT from JHU Libraries J O H N R. MILTON University of South Dakota The A. merican W est: A Challenge to the Literary Im agination The American West poses a problem for the literary imagina tion partly because it is the largest and most varied region within the United States. It is a land of extremities and of relatively few people, tempting the writer to focus his attention upon the land scape and to view the people either as pawns of nature or, if they survive, as heroes. In addition to low rainfall, the Western states share climatic extremes, a comparatively high elevation of land, and wide expanses of either plains or mountains. Weather is easily visible and has a direct effect upon the people. Most of the land is open and unprotected, so that the Westerner must always con front his total environment. In many places the landscape is mono tonous, and yet there are accessible and often unavoidable con
Western American Literature – The Western Literature Association
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