One of the most interesting books published today is this analysis of the environment in Western cinema. Gunfight at the Eco-Corral, by Robin L. Murray & Joseph K. Heumann, takes as its starting point the backstory of the Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider and hydraulic mining—the bad guys in the picture—and then moves on to deal with the depletion of water, oil, lumber, minerals, buffalo and other natural resources, in other words the driving engines, literally and figuratively, of the
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