The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite Artists, historians and filmmakers alike were responsible of making a mythologized model of the U.S. growth to the west Not too lengthy ago, historians of the American West joined their inventive brethren in celebrating what we now think about as the "Old West." For historians and artists, the "triumphing of the West" changed into an excellent fulfillment that heralded the triumph of "civilization" over "savagery." Indeed, through the traditional scholarly know-how and orthodox inventive vision, the vanquishing of Indians and the march of happen future made America wonderful and made Americans special.
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