“Where does the West begin or end?” Dr. Albert L. Hurtado asked rhetorically in my graduate seminar on the West at Arizona State University. Is Hawaii or Alaska the most Western state? Is Minnesota, the eastern edge of the West, and Baja California Sur, Mexico, its southwestern twin on the map? We never came to a consensus, but we did agree that beginning with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock was a little late and too far east. I recommend three new books in 2014 on the origins of the West t


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