wester

This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]

President-elect Nixon … pointed out that Alaska is even wester than Hawaii. … had Mr. Nixon searched just a few leagues wester our Secretary of the Interior might have turned out to be a citizen of Kichighinsk. Nor is there anything in the history of the United States that validates the presupposition that anyone who is wester than anybody is simultaneously and necessatily more interior than anybody.