You describe the West, with all its (“The West is more than heroes and villains,” HCN, 11/11/19). I could barely get through the inside cover of This Land; it’s a fiction of romantic idealism disconnected from the realities of our region, and the complex and pragmatic work to “save” it.
Chase Gunnell
Ballard, Washington, via Twitter
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Nailed it, Carl Segerstrom.
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