The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic

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Summary: Award Winning Examination of Attitudes about Desert SW
Review: Focuses on early Anglo American views of the desert Southwest, and the destructiveness which threatens to destroy the landscape as it originally existed. Uses literature to show how attitudes have changed, have come to support the sustenance of the desert rather than its destructive transformation. But is there still time? Winner, Border Regional Library Association's 1998 Southwest Book Award.