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05620aam a2200637 i 4500 001 59900186DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210111s2021 iauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021001154 020 $a 1609387902 020 $a 9781609387907 035 $a (OCoLC)1232014138 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usc-- $a e-gx--- $a n-usc-- 050 4 $a F596 $b .R248 2021 082 00 $a 978 $2 23 100 1 $a Reagin, Nancy Ruth, $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a Re-living the American frontier : $b western fandoms, reenactment, and historical hobbyists in Germany and America since 1900 / $c Nancy Reagin. 246 30 $a Western fandoms, reenactment, and historical hobbyists in Germany and America since 1900 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 265 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Fandom & culture 520 $a "The past offers a pleasant refuge from the present for many people, including historical reenactors and other historically-focused fan communities. Historical reenactment and living history groups extend far beyond modern hobbyists who recreate American Civil War battles (probably the best known type of historical reenactment) and go back more than a century in the United States and Europe. Many of these fandoms were inspired by literary works that vividly depicted idealized, romanticized historical cultures. These fans have received relatively little attention from either historians or scholars of popular culture. The historic and mythic elements of the American Old West--covered wagon trains, stockade forts, herds of buffalo that stretch as far as the eye can see, teepee villages, Indian warriors on horseback, cowboys on open ranges, and white settlers "taming" a wilderness with their plows and log cabins--have exerted a global fascination over 200 years, and became the foundation for fan communities that have endured for generations. Artists, writers, entertainment media, and quite ordinary people around the world have mined Old West images, tropes, and settings for almost two centuries, often with joyful absorption and fascinated attention to the artifacts and cultures of the West. This book examines some of those fan communities, particularly German fans originally inspired by the Western novels of Karl May, and American enthusiasts of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series. But the Old West (like all visions of the past) proved to be shifting cultural terrain, as each generation rewrites its own past. In both Germany and the U.S., Western fan communities were initially uncontroversial, since Western narratives of white settlement were seen as "unpolitical" and generally widely accepted by both white Americans and Europeans. But in Germany, the American West was reevaluated and politically repurposed during the Nazi period, and in both East and West German culture. During the late twentieth century, popular understandings of the West (and scholarly ones) changed in the United States as well, as white colonial settlement and the displacement of Native American cultures became a flashpoint in the culture wars between right and left. Ultimately, the past that fan communities sought to recreate was reshaped by the changing present, as each generation of fans adapted and recreated their own West"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history. 600 10 $a Wilder, Laura Ingalls, $d 1867-1957 $x Appreciation. 600 17 $a Wilder, Laura Ingalls, $d 1867-1957. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00041414 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Historical reenactments $z Germany $x History. 650 0 $a Indianists $z Germany. 650 0 $a Indian hobbyists $z Germany. 650 0 $a Cowboys in popular culture $z Germany. 650 0 $a Fans (Persons) $v Cross-cultural studies. 650 0 $a Heritage tourism $z Middle West. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z West (U.S.) $x Historiography. 650 7 $a Art appreciation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815447 650 7 $a Cowboys in popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902926 650 7 $a Fans (Persons) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920677 650 7 $a Frontier and pioneer life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935370 650 7 $a Frontier and pioneer life $x Historiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935376 650 7 $a Heritage tourism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00955465 650 7 $a Historical reenactments. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958207 650 7 $a Indian hobbyists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01747326 650 7 $a Indianists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00969305 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 $a Middle West. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240052 651 7 $a West United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243255 655 7 $a Cross-cultural studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423769 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a University of Iowa Press, $e donor. $e donor. $5 IaU 830 0 $a Fandom & culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023215.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59900186DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search