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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard Paperback, HP 21) (Updated Edition) by Henry Nash Smith, Hn Smith, Roger Chartier, Phillippe Aria]S, Georges Duby, Arthur Goldhammer Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1970 ISBN-10: 0-674-93955-7 / 0674939557 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-93955-4 / 9780674939554 The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special |