“Atlas of the New West delivers a necessary kick in the bluejeans to the old used-up notions of the land of the cowboy and his imitators in celluloid and paperback. These pages offer instead some wicked fine insights into the western constellations of ski resorts; the arid but urban and suburban battlefields where water wars are being waged; the high-tech high country; the 'get-out-the-welcome-wagon-for-those-retiring-Baby-Boomers' West; the nuke-dump West – in short, the West is as it is and as we damned well better get used to it.”

~Ivan Doig