03072nam 2200637Ia 450 991080869830332120230721021215.01-282-08802-597866120880250-7486-2973-410.1515/9780748629732(CKB)1000000000747916(EBL)434296(OCoLC)367663566(SSID)ssj0000102495(PQKBManifestationID)11113754(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102495(PQKBWorkID)10051088(PQKB)10161680(MiAaPQ)EBC434296(Au-PeEL)EBL434296(CaPaEBR)ebr10288228(CaONFJC)MIL208802(DE-B1597)614832(DE-B1597)9780748629732(OCoLC)1306540504(EXLCZ)99100000000074791620090506d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican west competing visions /Karen R. Jones and John WillsEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20091 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2251-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index.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 VegasPart 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; IndexThe 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.Frontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)West (U.S.)HistoriographyWest (U.S.)In popular cultureFrontier and pioneer life978.0072Jones Karen R.1972-1653724Wills John950151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808698303321American west4116439UNINA