The American West has been romanticised as an unspoiled paradise ripe for consumption

摘要

When French philosopher Jean Baudrillard took a trip across the American West in the late 1980s he remarked: 'The desert you pass through is like the set of a Western.' His phrase succinctly summed up the power of the mythical West in our collective imagination: so vivid, it seems more realthan the real thing.