Bernard De Voto Quote

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop—for convenience, the one hundredth meridian—you have reached the West.


The Plundered Province. In Harper's Magazine [August 1934]


The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop—for convenience, the one ...

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop—for convenience, the one ...

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop—for convenience, the one ...

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop—for convenience, the one ...