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The Myth and the Mud: Writing the American West
Walt Whitman dreamed the American West into existence. John Muir walked into it and came back changed — and then changed policy. Willa Cather wrote with clear eyes about what the pioneer dream actually cost. In Episode 15, The TOP Podcast examines how three of America's greatest writers shaped the myth of the frontier — and what that myth got right, and got wrong, about the real human lives lived inside it.
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By Michael DiMatteoWalt Whitman dreamed the American West into existence. John Muir walked into it and came back changed — and then changed policy. Willa Cather wrote with clear eyes about what the pioneer dream actually cost. In Episode 15, The TOP Podcast examines how three of America's greatest writers shaped the myth of the frontier — and what that myth got right, and got wrong, about the real human lives lived inside it.