Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard Etulain in Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West. Professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, Etulain is the author or editor of more than 40 books and specializes in the history and cultures of the American West. Some of his most rec


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