Anything Will Be Easy after This
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Anything Will Be Easy after This

A Western Identity Crisis

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Anything Will Be Easy after This

A Western Identity Crisis

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Bethany Maile had a mythological American West in mind when she returned to Idaho after dropping out of college in Boston, only to find a farm-town-turned-suburb instead of the Wild West wonderland she remembered. Haunted by what she had so completely misremembered, Maile resolved to investigate her attachment to the western myth, however flawed. Deciding to engage in a variety of "western" events, Maile trailed rodeo queens, bid on cattle, fired.22s at the gun range, and searched out wild horses. With lively reportage and a sharp wit, she recounts her efforts to understand how the western myth is outdated yet persistent while ultimately exploring the need for story and the risks inherent to that need. Anything Will Be Easy after This traces Maile's evolution from a girl suckered by a busted-down story to a more knowing woman who discovers a new narrative that enchants without deluding.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781496222428
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Going West
  10. Anywhere, USA
  11. How Lady Antebellum Wrecked Country Music
  12. The Slaughterhouse
  13. Anything Will Be Easy after This
  14. The Wild Ones
  15. Ladies’ Night at the Shooting Range
  16. True Grit, Country Strong, and Other Lies
  17. The Trouble with Two-Heartedness
  18. This Will See Us Through
  19. Notes
  20. About Bethany Maile
  21. Series List