Dan Flores

In part, my West is a kind of a first contact West, a theme of much science fiction and fascination with exploring places like Mars in the next few decades. It's about travel to strange places, new country and new animals, the meeting place of an exotic ancient world and modernity.

In part, my West is a kind of a first contact West, a theme of much science fiction and fascination with exploring places like Mars in the next few decades. It's about travel to strange places, new country and new animals, the meeting place of an exotic ancient world and modernity.

Come to think of it, the natural West is not only our future on Mars, it's also our deep past when modern humans left Africa more than 50,000 years ago and began to explore the rest of the Earth. America's West, in many ways, was a last earthly experience of that first contact moment in human history.

Come to think of it, the natural West is not only our future on Mars, it's also our deep past when modern humans left Africa more than 50,000 years ago and began to explore the rest of the Earth. America's West, in many ways, was a last earthly experience of that first contact moment in human history.

Come to think of it, the natural West is not only our future on Mars, it's also our deep past when modern humans left Africa more than 50,000 years ago and began to explore the rest of the Earth. America's West, in many ways, was a last earthly experience of that first contact moment in human history.

When new peoples first meet, everybody experiences first contact, but usually only one side sees the natural world as new and exotic, a new world. The resident people tend to think invasion, and so it is. Yet all of us have ancestors who bequeathed us more than 20,000 years of first contact experiences in North America.

When new peoples first meet, everybody experiences first contact, but usually only one side sees the natural world as new and exotic, a new world. The resident people tend to think invasion, and so it is. Yet all of us have ancestors who bequeathed us more than 20,000 years of first contact experiences in North America.

When new peoples first meet, everybody experiences first contact, but usually only one side sees the natural world as new and exotic, a new world. The resident people tend to think invasion, and so it is. Yet all of us have ancestors who bequeathed us more than 20,000 years of first contact experiences in North America.

So I think I come by a fascination for stories like this naturally, and of course so do you. Those of us who are in love with the natural West are usually attracted to the world of native people, to natural landscapes, and to wild animals. Being intrigued by the native West is self-evidently at the core of Western fascination.

So I think I come by a fascination for stories like this naturally, and of course so do you. Those of us who are in love with the natural West are usually attracted to the world of native people, to natural landscapes, and to wild animals. Being intrigued by the native West is self-evidently at the core of Western fascination.

So I think I come by a fascination for stories like this naturally, and of course so do you. Those of us who are in love with the natural West are usually attracted to the world of native people, to natural landscapes, and to wild animals. Being intrigued by the native West is self-evidently at the core of Western fascination.

Judging by the volume and quality of Western landscape art and the way the Western landscape becomes a character in so many films, judging by the number of crown jewel national parks in the West, the same can be said of the Western landscape. But let's say at the outset, the West I'm talking about is not synonymous with the frontier.

Judging by the volume and quality of Western landscape art and the way the Western landscape becomes a character in so many films, judging by the number of crown jewel national parks in the West, the same can be said of the Western landscape. But let's say at the outset, the West I'm talking about is not synonymous with the frontier.

Judging by the volume and quality of Western landscape art and the way the Western landscape becomes a character in so many films, judging by the number of crown jewel national parks in the West, the same can be said of the Western landscape. But let's say at the outset, the West I'm talking about is not synonymous with the frontier.

When the old world came to North America, every place on the continent had a frontier, a meeting point between what existed and what was coming. But the natural West of which I speak is not defined by a moment in time, a frontier. It's a place, a region of plains, mountains, and deserts on the sunset side of the Mississippi River. The timeframe of the natural West is not just its frontier stage.

When the old world came to North America, every place on the continent had a frontier, a meeting point between what existed and what was coming. But the natural West of which I speak is not defined by a moment in time, a frontier. It's a place, a region of plains, mountains, and deserts on the sunset side of the Mississippi River. The timeframe of the natural West is not just its frontier stage.

When the old world came to North America, every place on the continent had a frontier, a meeting point between what existed and what was coming. But the natural West of which I speak is not defined by a moment in time, a frontier. It's a place, a region of plains, mountains, and deserts on the sunset side of the Mississippi River. The timeframe of the natural West is not just its frontier stage.

The story of this West is much more ancient, and it also takes place more recently than the frontier. Because the past does not remain in the past, but affects us in our own time, the story of the West continues beyond the frontier and into the 21st century.

The story of this West is much more ancient, and it also takes place more recently than the frontier. Because the past does not remain in the past, but affects us in our own time, the story of the West continues beyond the frontier and into the 21st century.

The story of this West is much more ancient, and it also takes place more recently than the frontier. Because the past does not remain in the past, but affects us in our own time, the story of the West continues beyond the frontier and into the 21st century.