American west : competing visions / Karen R. Jones and John Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Karen R., 1972-

Contributor:

Wills, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--Historiography.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--In popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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 WestChapter 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index.

ISBN:

9786612088025

9781282088023

1282088025

9780748629732

0748629734

OCLC:

367663566