>>1550794Charles Bowden really inspired me - drawing on his roots as an Anglo whose family entered the Southwest in his early life, during the era of postwar promise, he was able to correctly analyze the subsequent "Sunbelt" expansion into the "New West" decades later - and drive it home to the heart of America's extractive relationship to the "frontier" and "nature". He did not shy away from the demons of the country or of his own inculcated mind. I really cannot recommend enough; Blue Desert is probably the best starting point
