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Way Out West
An assortment of western American images, stories, and facts includes cowboy songs, a four-alarm chili recipe, instructions for creasing a cowboy hat, tips on recognizing turquoise quality, and a desert life guide. Reprint. National ad/promo.
- GenresTravelHistoryNonfiction
415 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1993
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March 4, 2017
I love the Sterns and this book!
December 15, 2021
Although I had read and liked several of the Sterns' books before, Way Out West is one I had skipped because I wasn't interested in the West at the time. Then I gradually drifted into reading a lot of memoirs from the 1800s, and eventually memoirs about the American West. After some time, I came around to this book again. And you know what? It made me nauseous.
After reading a lot of memoirs filled with suffering and hardship written by people who actually lived and created the history of the American West, the Sterns' obsession with the tasteless twit nonsense that is 20th-century pop Western culture comes across like the most damned childish, silly thing ever. Falling in love with the fatuous media creation is ridiculous once you know the reality. I really regret that they wrote this dumbass book.
After reading a lot of memoirs filled with suffering and hardship written by people who actually lived and created the history of the American West, the Sterns' obsession with the tasteless twit nonsense that is 20th-century pop Western culture comes across like the most damned childish, silly thing ever. Falling in love with the fatuous media creation is ridiculous once you know the reality. I really regret that they wrote this dumbass book.
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