Rough Drafts 5/15

Over the decades, numerous pundits and pessimists have announced the end of the West, Western films, Western novels, Western music and Western culture. The fact is that the West—and what it was, what it is and what it might be—is in the news every day in film and television, in print, on the radio and the Internet. On January 30, Amazon.com announced that the South Dakota Historical Society Press’s December 2014 release, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder,