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Author:

Jones, Karen R., 1972-

Title:

American west : competing visions / Karen R. Jones and John Wills.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vi, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

West (U.S.)--Historiography.
West (U.S.)--In popular culture.
Mythos.
USA / Weststaaten.

Other Authors:

Wills, John, 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index.

Contents:

The Part One: Re-creation and the theme park West. Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West -- Frontier germ theory -- 'The gun that won the West ' -- Cowboy presidents and the political branding of the American West -- Part Two: New West -- Women in the West: The trailblazer and the homesteader -- Women in the West: The 'Indian Princess' and the 'Lady Wildcat' -- The wild West defiled: The American Indian, genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre -- The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas -- Part Three: Recreating the West -- The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the return of Jesse James -- The Arcade Western -- Turn here for 'The Sunny Side of the Atom': Tourism, the bomb and popular culture in the nuclear West -- Re-creation and the theme park West.

ISBN:

9780748622528 (pbk.)
0748622527 (pbk.)
9780748622511
0748622519

OCLC:

(OCoLC)297500000

LCCN:

2009482147

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)