Prelude - No Traveller Remains Untouched

"Whatever it might want to be, the West is still primarily a series of brief visitations or a trail to somewhere else; and western literature, from Roughing It to On the Road, from The Log of a Cowboy to Lonesome Dove, from The Big Rock Candy Mountain to The Big Sky, has been largely a literature not of place but of motion."

Actors playing Indians in the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove. Photo by Bill Wittliff. Wittliff Gallery.



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					"Whatever it might want to be, the West is still primarily a series of brief visitations or a trail to somewhere else; and western literature, from Roughing It to On the Road, from The Log of a Cowboy to Lonesome Dove, from The Big Rock Candy Mountain to The Big Sky, has been largely a literature not of place but of motion." – Wallace Stegner Actors playing Indians in the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove. Photo by Bill Wittliff. Wittliff Gallery.