The Wide Open West?
According to the homepage of the Western Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives: "In 13 Western states, 51.9% of the land is owned by the federal government. In the 37 other states, only 4.1% is federally owned."
"Fingerbone was never an impressive town. It was chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." --Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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