As a sixth-generation Westerner and a fourth-generation Idahoan, William V. Studebaker has lived his entire life in the "antique land." Using this phrase from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" (1818) in a Western context, Studebaker conveys the antiquity of Western lands in terms of both time and space. Spatially, the antique land refers to contiguous portions of Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming--acres and acres of mountains, hills, river valleys, and ranch and farm lands as well as great stretches of high desert. Temporally, the antique land encompasses the prehistorical as well as the historical and the eventual that together evoke the past and the present. As might be expected, this thoroughly regionalist perspective has cost the poet the renown of a broader readership. Absorbed in his own geographical and cultural territorial imperatives, he has not actively sought recognition beyond the confines of his Western locales and, consequently, has...