Welcome to English 101.

This site is intended as a space for the exploration of ideas, information, and images related to the American West. I hope this site serves as an introduction and perhaps even an inspiration to my English 101 students who will be studying the American west as imagination, place, history, and culture.

For early European settlers, the American West represented opportunity and adventure. For many people across the world today, it still does. Many enjoy attending western events and rendezvous across the country, even around the world.

The American West, is a symbol, region, place of the imagination. Its openness seems to offer infinite access; its vastness seems to exemplify the scope of its monumental nature.

Enjoy!