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The New West is part Ted Kosinski, and part Ted Turner. It is rich land barons and poor farm workers. It is desert oases like Las Vegas and Phoenix, and pristine grandeur like the Grand Tetons and the Grand Canyon. It is too many people in the cities, and too little water for the population. It is a state of mind, and a state of being. The New West is not about the land; it is about who owns the land, and how much they can get out of it. The West is not dying, and while Egan cannot abide much of what is happening in the modern West, from the damming of rivers to the overpopulation of the cities, he will not concede the West it dead, and that may be more of his revisionist theory.
Today, many people believe the West is on a collision course with destiny because of overuse, excess, and just plain stubbornness. Egan still has hope, but he does agree, "subduing the wild is the one sure way to kill the West" (Egan 247). The West is still wild, and that is not revisionist thinking, it is simply the truth about such a diverse and ever-changing area......

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