American west competing visions /

• Main Author: Jones, Karen R., 1972-
• Other Authors: Wills, John, 1971-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Electronic resource.; HISTORY > State & Local.; West (U.S.) > Historiography.; West (U.S.) > In popular culture.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of 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.