The American West: Competing Visions

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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.During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0748622527

ISBN13:9780748622528

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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