What Came West by Josh Weil Economics and a love worth staying

and a love worth staying alive

or if something else lurks in the freezing wilderness

institutional hurdles

But the concert is in Arcadia

What Came West by Josh Weil Economics and a love worth stayingA gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide. What Came West is astonishing. Unraveling the mythology of the Western with a genius for insight and description, Weil tells the story anew: a beautiful, ruminative, bloody, terrifying and brilliant book about a chapter in the life of one man and in the life of our country. Unmissable. Andrew Sean Greer,