LEADER 03099nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910808698303321 005 20230721021215.0 010 $a1-282-08802-5 010 $a9786612088025 010 $a0-7486-2973-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748629732 035 $a(CKB)1000000000747916 035 $a(EBL)434296 035 $a(OCoLC)367663566 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102495 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113754 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102495 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10051088 035 $a(PQKB)10161680 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC434296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL434296 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288228 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208802 035 $a(DE-B1597)614832 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748629732 035 $a(OCoLC)1306540504 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000747916 100 $a20090506d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican west$b[electronic resource] $ecompeting visions /$fKaren R. Jones and John Wills 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2251-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index. 327 $aCopyright; 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 327 $aPart 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 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.) 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistoriography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn popular culture 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 676 $a978.0072 700 $aJones$b Karen R.$f1972-$01653724 701 $aWills$b John$0950151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808698303321 996 $aAmerican west$94116439 997 $aUNINA