Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley
Subtitle: making the modern old West
By: Thomas J. Harvey
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780806141909
Subjects: Civilization; Colorado Plateau; In popular culture; Navajo Indians; Landscapes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 207-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : an American occidentalism : the archaeology of a space; title: Send out a rainbow : making Rainbow Bridge a Navajo place; title: "Discovering" Rainbow Bridge for modern America; title: The storehouse of unlived years : Zane Grey and the modern old West; title: John Ford and Monument Valley : the production of a mythical national space; title: Last notes of the canyon wren : saving a remnant of nature at Rainbow Bridge; title: Salting the scenery : modern tourists in the modern landscape; title: Conclusion : artifacts in the museum of a modern American space.