Santa Monica, where the wooden pier juts out into the Pacific Ocean, marks the end of Route 66. The great American journey west culminates here, and it is on this short stretch of coast that Sarah Lee began shooting her photographic series in 2015. Back then, America and the California coast seemed to mean something quite different. But as the months and this project unfolded, America's identity was reshaped - by an election, by gathering questions of immigration, environment, gender, race and gun ownership. Here, Sarah Lee and Laura Barton explore in photographs and words the idea of the West in shaping American identity, with its idealism and notions of the frontier, and what the American West means in an age of political turbulence, when the East is the rising global force and the frontier is shifting once more.