Essays on the changing images of the Southwest
By: edited by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett ; introduction by David J. Weber ; by Richard Francaviglia ... [et al.].
Contributors: Francaviglia, Richard V.; Narrett, David E., 1951-; University of Texas at Arlington.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;; no. 28; Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;; 28.
Publisher: Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press; Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Southwest, New, in art; Southwest, New -- Description and travel; Southwest, New -- In literature
Description: The American Southwest has been variously celebrated as a place of enormous beauty with a sense of deep historical roots and condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present. The extremes of southwestern life modern and traditional, urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure - pervade the region.

How America has come to view the Southwest and its distinctive images - and why it has formed these views - is the subject of this intriguing interdisciplinary book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.