Abstract
“Memory mapping,” including “rememory” (as stirringly pioneered by Toni Morrison), has become crucial within the humanities. Beginning with 1950s Nevada, the present article seeks deeper rememories of the American West, then critiques more recent history. Included are responses by Native Americans, Samuel Clemens recording the goldrush era, and interpretation of McCarthyism in light of the author's family's eviction from the US. Nevada was a nuclear testing ground. “Robot” aircraft have lately been deployed from the Nellis base in delivery of Hellfire missiles in Iraq. Overall, this layering of (often violent) history is shown to support a “poetics” of cultural memory.
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