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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jones, Karen R., 1972- (Autor), Wills, John, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Historiography
Mythos
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > In popular culture.
West United States
USA > Weststaaten
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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