title: Pushed Off the Mountain Sold Down the River: Wyoming's Search for Its Soul
author:  Samuel Western 
description: "Great survey of the relationship between Wyoming's myth and its economic history, and even better analysis of how those two match up in the minds of Wyomingites, but not in the real world. A bit weak in the "solutions" department (what we really need is a better myth?), and the next edition should probably have the last sentence edited, given that it calls for "rick, change, and hope" (which is not currently a popular call in Wyoming). "
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  "My main complaint is that Western focuses too much on the economic side of things, which makes sense given that he's an economist. I think both his analysis and his proposed solutions would be helped by a healthy dose of the Southern Agrarian ideas..."
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  From Coyle's reviews on Goodreads.com
zlib_text: WYOMING:A STORY OF THE OUTDOOR WEST
  1
  WYOMING
  A STORY OF THE OUTDOOR WEST
  William MacLeod Raine
  
  WYOMING:A STORY OF THE OUTDOOR WEST
  2
  CHAPTER 1. A DESERT
  MEETING
  An automobile shot out from a gash in the hills and slipped swiftly
  down to the butte. Here it came to a halt on the white, dusty road, while its
  occupant gazed with eager, unsated eyes on the great panorama that
  stretched before her. The earth rolled in waves like a mighty sea to the
  distant horizon line. From a wonderful blue sky poured down upon the
  land a bath of sunbeat. The air was like wine, pure and strong, and above
  the desert swam the rare, untempered light of Wyoming. Surely here was a
  peace primeval, a silence unbroken since the birth of creation.
  It was all new to her, and wonderfully exhilarating. The infinite roll of
  plain, the distant shining mountains, the multitudinous voices of the desert
  drowned in a sunlit sea of space--they were all details of the situation that
  ministered to a large serenity.
  And while 