American West
Subtitle: competing visions
By: Karen R. Jones and John Wills.
Contributors: Wills, John, 1971-
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780748622511; 9780748622528
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Historiography; West (U.S.) -- In popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Part One:; title: Old West --; title: Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West --; title: Frontier germ theory -- -- 'The; title: gun that won the West ' --; title: Cowboy presidents and the political branding of the American West -- -- Part Two:; title: New West --; title: Women in the West: The trailblazer and the homesteader --; title: Women in the West: The 'Indian Princess' and the 'Lady Wildcat' -- -- The; title: wild West defiled: The American Indian, genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre -- -- The; title: Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas -- -- Part Three:; title: Recreating the West -- -- The; title: Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the return of Jesse James -- -- The; title: Arcade Western --; title: Turn here for 'The Sunny Side of the Atom': Tourism, the bomb and popular culture in the nuclear West --; title: Re-creation and the theme park West.