The American West: Competing Visions

by John Wills and Karen R. Jones

Book Overview

The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748622527
• ISBN13: 9780748622528
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"