College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first essay in on Yellowstone National Park, the second looks at the 'Western Impact on the Nation', and the third, one of Frantz's most controversial, is called 'The American West: Child of Federal Subsidy' and was originally presented in 1963. Foreword by W. Eugene Holton. The first book to be published in the series 'Essays on the American West.' sponsored by the Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation. 82 pp. ISBN: 0-89096-0232.