In The Legacy of Conquest, author Patricia Limerick writes that an entire era of time in a civilization can be summarized by the trash it left behind. Using a migrant's diary as an example, she notes that the day-to-day of the vernacular Old Wild West is summarized by the proliferation of not weathered saddles or …
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