David M Wrobel Books

This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.

Looking at both European and American travellers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the US's romantic entanglement with its western past, and suggests the importance of some long- overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to US history who deserve new attention.