"A lucid and rewarding synthesis of cultural and western history". -- Richard W. Etulain, author of Writing Western History. "Wrobel makes a fine contribution to the study of myth by analyzing the anxiety, or angst, Americans felt about the frontier in the half-century after 1890. This is an excellent book on a big subject, executed with much skill". -- Western Historical Quarterly. "Direct, admirably brief, and crisply written". -- Journal of American History.
