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Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West Frank Smith and an unexpected outbreak ofHorizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U. S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet unknown future under climate catastrophe. Examining an eclectic but interrelated and interdisciplinary range of photographs, films, and novels of the West; Western historiography; geological science; Tony Kushner's Angels in America; the Los Angeles