| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill; The Adventures of the Frontier in the Twentieth Century; Checklist of Materials Exhibited. |
| Summary |
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential l. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 -- Exhibitions.
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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932. |
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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Exhibitions.
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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. |
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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 -- Exhibitions. |
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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Exhibitions. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Exhibitions.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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West (U.S.) -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Electronic books.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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History.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-
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Grossman, James R.
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Newberry Library.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: White, Richard, 1947- Frontier in American culture. Chicago : The Library, ©1994 0520088433 (DLC) 94008534 (OCoLC)30035142 |
| ISBN |
9780520915329 (electronic book) |
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0520915321 (electronic book) |
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0585115508 (electronic book) |
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9780585115504 (electronic book) |
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9780520088436 (alkaline paper) |
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0520088433 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520088443 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520088441 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520088433 (alkaline paper) |
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0520088441 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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