The American West: A Twentieth-Century History a Twentieth-Century History

by Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain

Book Overview

The mystique of the Wild West perpetuated by Buffalo Bill, Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, John Wayne, and the Marlboro Man has hindered the serious study of the real region west of the ninety-eighth meridian. Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain move beyond myth and beyond the influential frontier thesis advanced by Frederick Jackson Turner to write about the American West as it has actually developed in the twentieth century. In vivid detail they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803230931
• ISBN13: 9780803230934
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.