The mythic West in twentieth-century America
By: Robert G. Athearn ; foreword by Elliott West.
Contributors: West, Elliott.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780700603770
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Elliott West; title: Robert Athearn's West; title: Prologue; title: The ephemeral West; title: How the Old West was lost; title: The nervous years; title: Eden is jeopardized; title: The dreaming is finished!; title: Colonialism : the enduring dilemma; title: The dudes' West; title: The wilderness evangelists; title: The man, the land, the legend; title: Epilogue : The genesis of the mythic West; title: Essays on sources