Hunger for the Wild – America`s Obsession with the Untamed West Johnson Hardback

Hunger for the Wild\nby Michael L. Johnson\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Michael L. Johnson\nTitle: Hunger for the Wild\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas\nPublication year: 2007\nISBN-13: 9780700615018\nISBN-10: 0700615016\nRRP: \u00A341.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nJust what was so wild about the Wild West? Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. This book offers a cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five hundred years.\n\nJust what was so wild about the Wild West? Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsess.