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The frontier club : popular westerns and cultural power, 1880-1924 / Christine Bold.
LIBRA PS271 .B65 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bold, Christine, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 Boone and Crockett Writers 14
- The Boone and Crockett Club, 1893 15
- Boone and Crockett Clubmen 18
- Theodore Roosevelt 19
- George Bird Grinnell 22
- Owen Wister 27
- Winthrop Chanler 29
- Madison Grant 31
- Henry Cabot Lodge 32
- Caspar Whitney 33
- Frederic Remington 35
- The Books of the Boone and Crockett Club 37
- Shaping the Voice 37
- Clearing the Enclave 40
- Writing the Frontier Club Western 43
- Lobbying the Federal Government 48
- Conclusion 53
- 2 Cowboys and Publishers 55
- Avery Proper Philadelphian 57
- Frontier Club Neurasthenia 58
- A Man's Gotta Do... 61
- Aristocrats Out West 65
- Frontier Club Investments 66
- The Cheyenne Club 68
- Cowboys and Vigilantes 73
- Showdown on Publishers' Row 80
- Frontier Club Investments 80
- The Frontier Club Western and the Literary Marketplace 82
- The Frontier Club vs. Alkali Ike 90
- Conclusion 94
- 3 Women in the Frontier Club 96
- Frontier Club Women and Families 97
- The Wister Women 105
- Molly Wister 111
- Women's Space in the Frontier Club Western 117
- Conclusion 127
- 4 Jim Crow and the Western 131
- Wister: "White for a Hundred Years" 133
- Roosevelt's Rough Riders 142
- The Black Rough Riders 142
- Whitening the Rough Rider 145
- Remington: with the Eye of the Mind 152
- Black Rough Riders Redux 155
- Tearing a Piece off the Flag 155
- "These cats was the original posse" 162
- Conclusion 166
- 5 Immigrants and Indians 169
- Vanishing Acts 169
- Immigration Restriction 173
- Owen Wister 178
- Madison Grant 181
- Another Hank 185
- American Indian Assimilation 188
- George Bird Grinnell 191
- Jack the Young Frontier Clubman 197
- Conclusion 205
- 6 Outside the Frontier Club 207
- Princess Chinquilla 209
- Cheek By Jowl 216
- Rewriting 1902 223
- Conclusion 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199731794
- 0199731799
- 9780199913022
- 0199913021
- OCLC:
- 798437855
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