David M. Wrobel

About The Author

David M. Wrobel holds the Merrick Chair in Western History at the University of Oklahoma. He is also the author of The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal and Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West.

Books by David M. Wrobel

Global West, American Frontier

Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression

By David M. Wrobel
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue...
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