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Modernism, James Michener and the crisis of the endless 1970s
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Chase Woodruff

February 2022

Bloody beef
The spectacular, structureless violence of 'Yellowstone,' America's most-watched cable series
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Chase Woodruff

December 2021

The end of the mystery
What to do when the only histories are ghost stories
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Chase Woodruff

October 2021

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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Chase Woodruff

August 2021

Consider the sagebrush
Towards a simple test for the categorization of Western literature
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Chase Woodruff

July 2021

The West's oldest surviving literature is being destroyed
On petroglyphs, language and the inexpressible
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Chase Woodruff

May 2021

'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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Chase Woodruff
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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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Chase Woodruff

April 2021

Myth and memory in 'Joaquín Murieta'
How a forgotten Cherokee writer’s 1854 dime novel wove its way into the Chicano movement, the modern western and Batman
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Chase Woodruff
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