Show Wi Writer EmPh Emphatic in i in I Outlining Real West j I I Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado and Utah are West Vest Z Nevada Is West Westby Westby by attraction The eastern fringe of ot Washington and Oregon Is West but the rest reM of them Is something else else else- littoral or Pacific or what you ou will an anything to Indicate that the life lived there differs In fundamental ways ways' S' S from rom that Jived Iced within the shadow of ot the 1 es j 1 i California Is not West oh oh decidedly and emphatically and with all nIl tho the Inte In- In te of our nature California Is Is' Is not West Vest To our sorrow Arizona and New w are arEl not West for they a ae nc 0 and Spanish and Indian In dlan dian civilization separates th thin in 11 from us We h uld Jike like L to tp claim tl the ls r regret them afore more than any any other part par I o 0 the country and much more I can cnn cannot not courteously point out how bow loW much more thou than i W we rere regret California r la IThe i iThe iThe The lines JIbes of ot thi this demarcation are arc sharp and the land that It sets seta oft off Is Isan isan an nn entity it once had hall a n separate civilization civilization ch and remnants of that civil civilization civili- civili I- I I are part of us today toay Actually Cheyenne he enne Is not much farther west than North r but spiritually in fn thought and civilization they are un un- I mistakably distinct Che Cheyenne enne Is West Kest w whereas North Platte Is Middle West And we 9 must patiently insist there Isa is isa isa a difference Bernard Bernard DeVoto In fa fah h Harpers Harper's Magazine |