Title: Where the tall grass grows : becoming indigenous and the mythological legacy of the American West /
Authors: Bridger, Bobby.
Publisher: Fulcrum Pub.,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Indian mythology West (U.S.); Indians of North America West (U.S.) History.; Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) History.; Indians in popular culture.; Indians in literature; Indians in motion pictures.; Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)
Abstract: Explores the impact of Indian mythology on American culture, particularly the Hollywood film industry.
Contents: Flaming Rainbow, the word sender -- Across the wide Missouri -- The road of the emigrants -- The iron cyclops and the lightning slingers -- A fierce artfulness -- A star appears -- The showman, the medicine man, and the messiah -- The wizards and the western -- The dream factory and a new Red scare -- A WASP in the wilderness -- The Indian "New Deal" -- A clarion call for heroes -- When Johnny comes marching home -- The oracle of the hearth -- The Searchers and the captivity narrative -- Custer died for your sins -- A librarian's notebook -- The trail of broken treaties -- Dances with Wolves and Avatar -- Playing Indian.