This collection of 12 essays examines films from an ecocritical point of view. Ecocriticism generally means exploring the role of nature in a given subject, in this case, Western movies. It is not a new idea that landscape is an influential character in Westerns, but these eco writers analyze a rich variety of subjects, including the silent images in The Wind, the dust bowl tragedy of Grapes of Wrath, settlers versus oilmen in Tulsa, coming-of-age in The River Runs Through It and the iconic 1
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