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The Mountain West

Interpreting the Folk Landscape

The Mountain West( )
Author: Jordan, Terry G.
Kilpinen, Jon T.
Gritzner, Charles F.
Series title:Creating the North American Landscape Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8018-5431-6
Publication Date:Nov 1996
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $48.00
Book Description:

Why is the West--both in the United States and Canada--not like the East? Traditionally, two answers have been given to the question: Either the West is a pioneer culture--the old frontier moved westward from what we now call the East--or the West is a unique subculture originating in a human response to the demands of a dry, rugged physical ......

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Jordan, Terry G. (Author)
The W. P. Webb Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Texas in Austin, Terry G. Jordan received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and was part of the strong tradition in historical geography there. Over the past 20 years, he has produced a set of books that combine the best traditions in cultural geography. In these works he has included both cultural landscape features, such as building types, and more broadly relevant historical topics, such as ethnicity.

Jordan, who has served as president of the Association of American Geographers, also has brought his expertise to general texts in cultural geography.

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