American west competing visions /

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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Main Author: Jones, Karen R., 1972-
Other Authors: Wills, John, 1971-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
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