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Centenary now
Modernism, James Michener and the crisis of the endless 1970s
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Bloody beef
The spectacular, structureless violence of 'Yellowstone,' America's most-watched cable series
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The end of the mystery
What to do when the only histories are ghost stories
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The time Colorado's most iconic national park became a British lord's private hunting ground
Estes Park, the Earl of Dunraven and the West's forgotten history of aristocrat land grabs
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Consider the sagebrush
Towards a simple test for the categorization of Western literature
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The West's oldest surviving literature is being destroyed
On petroglyphs, language and the inexpressible
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'Roughing It' and the Western roots of an American voice
Or, why it wasn't Bret Harte who ended up being taught in every classroom in the country
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The time Colorado's governor aimed cannons at Denver City Hall
On the Populists, Soapy Smith and the changing face of the con
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