Send us Fan Mail Find Michele at bookclues.com The Westerners MythMaking and Belonging on the American Frontier We talk with historian Megan Kate Nelson about how the American West gets turned into a story and how that story shapes who counts as a “real” Westerner. We follow seven lives that expose the networks, conflicts and choices that the frontier myth often hides. • Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis and why it dominated US western history • Historians as mythmakers along with no...