Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains\u3c/i\u3e By Elliott West

In one delightful volume, Elliott West offers four engaging, far-ranging essays on the Central Plains. Originally presented in 1993 as the ninth annual Calvin Horn Lectures on Western History and Culture at the University of New Mexico, these expanded essays are now available to a wider audience. The Horn lectures enabled West, a distinguished social historian, to explore some new aspects of western American history, specifically environmental and Native American studies. Interweaving secondary materials from a multiplicity of disciplines-anthropology, ecology and environmental studies, history, literature, sociology-with ample primary materials, West \u27presents engrossing essays from which we can all benefit. He weaves an intricate fabric, often slowly unraveling long and dearly held notions about the West in general and the Central Plains in particular