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Western Rider: Views from a Car Window. By Chuck Forsman. Introduction by William Kittredge. Santa Fe, NM: Center for American Places, 2003. xv + 104 pp. Photographs. $29.95.
The history of the American West and its unique American-ness is intimately associated with our advances in mobility. Foot travel, wagon and ox, railroad, and, finally, automobile. Nothing has come to symbolize the vastness of the West more than a stretch of two-lane highway racing arrow-straight toward the distant horizon. Robert Frank codified that image in his book The Americans (1959), the first photographic meditation on, among other things, postwar car culture.
The car is king but it's the interstate highway system...