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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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
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| Online Access: | ebrary View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 344 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748629732 (electronic bk.) 0748629734 (electronic bk.) |