| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-337) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part One Old West -- Chapter 1 Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West -- Chapter 2 Frontier Germ Theory -- Chapter 3 'The Gun that Won the West' -- Chapter 4 Cowboy Presidents and the Political Branding of the American West -- Part Two New West -- Chapter 5 Women in the West: The Trailblazer and the Homesteader -- Chapter 6 Women in the West: The 'Indian Princess' and the 'Lady Wildcat' -- Chapter 7 The Wild West Defiled: The American Indian, Genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre -- Chapter 8 The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas -- Part Three Recreating The West -- Chapter 9 The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the Return of Jesse James -- Chapter 10 The Arcade Western -- Chapter 11 Turn here for 'The Sunny Side of the Atom': Tourism, the Bomb and Popular Culture in the Nuclear West -- Chapter 12 Re-creation and the Theme Park West -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men. During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
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West (U.S.) -- In popular culture.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wills, John, 1971-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Karen R., 1972- American west. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 0748622519 9780748622511 (OCoLC)297500000 |
| ISBN |
9780748629732 (electronic book) |
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0748629734 (electronic book) |
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1282088025 |
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9781282088023 |
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0748622519 |
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9780748622511 |
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0748622527 |
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9780748622528 |
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