''The West is the place where everybody was supposed to escape failure,'' she continues, ''but it didn't happen that way.'' Limerick, along with a growing number of scholars, is busily promoting an entirely unromantic vision of the history of the American West, a vision where failure thrusts itself rudely into former, more comforting notions of success. ''If you live in Western America, you know that there are relics all over the place of things that didn't work out,'' she says, using her exhibits to make a broader point. Patricia Nelson Limerick, who teaches Western history at the University of Colorado, takes out a bundle of glossy black-and-white prints that she keeps at her home in Boulder and shows me scenes of dilapidated cabins, saloons, sagging mining shacks amid empty landscapes. GHOST TOWNS ARE AMONG HER FIRST EXHIBITS.
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