Title: Frontiers of boyhood : imagining America, past and future /
Authors: Woodside, Martin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Mythology West (U.S.); Frontier and pioneer life in literature; Boys Books and reading United States; Boys in literature; Masculinity in popular culture United States History.; Boys Books and reading; Boys in literature; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; Masculinity in popular culture; West (U.S.) In popular culture.; United States; West United States
Abstract: "Revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another-and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress"--
Contents: Boy life on the prairie : Garland, Twain, Cody, and ideal boyhood -- Dangerous adolescence and the dime western -- The Wild West : making history and American boyhood -- Children, spectacle, and agency in Wild West performance -- Work and play : building character on the imagined frontier -- Conclusion.