Western Americana : frontier history of the Trans-Mississippi West 1550-1900.

Format:

Book

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 monographs (47,692 pages)) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1800-1930.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection contains autobiographies, biographies, histories and fictional accounts of life on the frontier, all published between 1854 and 1944, demonstrating links between real life as lived on the frontier and the stories told about it. Most works concern the life of a single individual, though historical sketches of areas and communities are also represented. There are tales of the very famous such as Buffalo Bill. Others writings are by those who lived on the frontier, providing first-hand accounts of their own lives. Sensationalistic accounts of bandits, murders, and Native American conquest formed a major strain of literature represented here. At the other end of the spectrum are simple historical accounts. Many of the books have illustrations, engravings, and photographs, and some are signed by the authors or subjects.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1800-1930.

Source institution: Primary Source Media.

Local Notes:

Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

OCLC:

937021588

Access Restriction:

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