ambiguities of innocence
Subtitle: the hero and the American frontier.
Publisher: The Program
Published: 1990
Place of publication: [Bellingham, Wash.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Western Washington University; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U. S.); College students' writings, American -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham
Other titles: Hero and the American frontier; Campus History Collection.
Description: These papers were prepared and presented as part of Honors 354, Spring 1990.  The theme of the class was American cultural life in the nineteenth century.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Forward / Tom Moore; title: Puritans and the paradox of the wilderness -- Nathan Cranston; title: Rousseau and the pastoral vision -- Matt Helm; title: Rousseau -- Kathy McGinnis; title: Manifest destiny: a closer look -- Sharon L. Waitt; title: Images of women in the wild West : fact versus fiction -- Kristin Denise Allen; title: Pioneer women : the West's unsung heroines -- Lori A. Church; title: Women on the Overland Trail -- Stephanie D. Pender; title: Moses figure of the old West : the American lawman -- Dave Johnnson [sic]; title: Profit in words: product as hero 1940-1945 -- Kathy Kiefer; title: American Adam in the twentieth century -- Elizabeth S. Ewing; title: Development of the cowboy hero in American popular and folk music -- Don Helling.