Becoming Western: Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State
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In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming), the Wild West has never died. The West has long been the favored repository of the East's cultural fantasies, and in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern expectations and demands largely shaped Wyoming's image in this role. Becoming Western shows how the myth of the "American West" has acted as a force both in history and in individual lives. Liza J. Nicholas interrogates...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803220693
ISBN13:9780803220690
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:218 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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