First Things RSS Feed - Thomas Zebrowski https://www.firstthings.com/author/thomas-zebrowski en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:07 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/thomas-zebrowski 60 Changes in the Land https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/09/changes-in-the-land https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/09/changes-in-the-land Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Conjuring images of the old American West is not hard to do: the empty plain and the big sky, the wagon train, cowboys versus Indians, the gold-crazed forty-niner or the oil baron, probably corrupt, in search of a financial bonanza. And of course we cannot forget the rugged individualist on horseback who rides into town at high noon and saves the day by gunning down the lawless evildoer before again disappearing over the mammoth horizon¯alone. If we have also learned to see beyond these compelling Hollywood tropes and the plots of pulp fiction, it will likely be due in no small part to the life’s work of Wallace Stegner (1909“1993).

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