The American West

Competing Visions

By: Karen R. Jones, John Wills

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Hardcover | 15 March 2009

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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 White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes.This book explores the bipolar world of Turner's Old West and Limerick's New West and reveals the values and ambiguities associated with both historical traditions. Sections on Lewis and Clark, the frontier and the cowboy sit alongside work on Indian genocide and women's trail diaries. Images of the region as seen through the arcade Western, Hollywood film and Disney theme parks confirm the West as a symbolic and contested landscape.Tapping into popular fascination with the Cowboy, Hollywood movies, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand, the authors show the reader how to deconstruct the imagery and reality surrounding Western history.Key Features*Uses popular subjects (the Cowboy, Hollywood westerns, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand) to enliven the text*Includes 13 b+w illustrations*Interdisciplinary approach covers film, literature, art and historical artefacts

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List of Figures	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Old West
Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West	p. 11
Frontier Germ Theory	p. 39
'The Gun that Won the West'	p. 60
Cowboy Presidents and the Political Branding of the American West	p. 87
New West
Women in the West: The Trailblazer and the Homesteader	p. 121
Women in the West: The 'Indian Princess' and the 'Lady Wildcat'	p. 141
The Wild West Defiled: The American Indian, Genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre	p. 171
The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas	p. 194
Recreating the West
The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the Return of Jesse James	p. 231
The Arcade Western	p. 260
Turn here for 'The Sunny Side of the Atom': Tourism, the Bomb and Popular Culture in the Nuclear West	p. 284
Re-creation and the Theme Park West	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 324
Index	p. 338
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