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This historian wants to shatter the myth of the Old West

CPR News | By Ryan Warner
Published July 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM EDT

Megan Kate Nelson, author of The Westerners wants to shatter the myth of the frontier, one of white easterners coming west in covered wagons with a nuclear family.

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