An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history

Greg Dickinson is chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life.

Eric Aoki is professor of communication studies at Colorado State University. His scholarship has appeared in several journals.

Brian L. Ott is distinguished professor of communication and media at Missouri State University. He is coauthor of Critical Media Studies: An Introduction.

“The Haunted West is thoughtfully researched and well written, and its organization—critiquing each museum on its own—gives the sense of leading the reader through the center. The authors have done an excellent job of updating their analyses as the museums have updated, while their addition of the unifying themes of ‘spirit’ and ‘haunt’ provides a provocative new theoretical lens to the field.” —Elizabeth Weiser, author of Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces