The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995

By Richard White

Book Overview

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. The authors explore here the USA's pre-occupation with this uniquely American image.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520088433
• ISBN13: 9780520088436
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 10.3"