The Frontier Club
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The Frontier Club
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Author : Christine Bold
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-03
The Frontier Club written by Christine Bold and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with History categories.
From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats-a cadre she terms "the frontier club" -created and propagated the myth of the Wild West to advance their own self-interest as well as larger systems of privilege and exclusion. Mining institutional archives, personal papers, novels, and films, The Frontier Club excavates the hidden social, political, and financial interests behind the making of the modern western. It re-reads frontier-club fiction, most notably Owen Wister's bestseller The Virginian, in relation to federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos); it casts new light on key clubmen, both the famous and the forgotten-figures such as Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Silas Weir Mitchell, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Frederic Remington-while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist; and it considers the costs of the frontier-club formula, in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices, including western writings by African Americans, women, and working-class white men. An engaging cultural history that covers print culture, big-game hunting, politics, immigration, Jim Crow segregation, and environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century, The Frontier Club provides a welcome new perspective on the enduring American myth of the Wild West.
Westerns
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Author : Victoria Lamont
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2016-08
Westerns written by Victoria Lamont and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08 with History categories.
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the western genre as we now know it emerged. Victoria Lamont offers detailed studies of some of the many women who helped shape the western. Their novels bear the classic hallmarks of the western—cowboys, schoolmarms, gun violence, lynchings, cattle branding—while also placing female characters at the center of their western adventures and improvising with western conventions in surprising and ingenious ways. In Emma Ghent Curtis’s The Administratrix a widow disguises herself as a cowboy and infiltrates the cowboy gang responsible for lynching her husband. Muriel Newhall’s pulp serial character, Sheriff Minnie, comes to the rescue of a steady stream of defenseless female victims. B. M. Bower, Katharine Newlin Burt, and Frances McElrath use cattle branding as a metaphor for their feminist critiques of patriarchy. In addition to recovering the work of these and other women authors of popular westerns, Lamont uses original archival analysis of the western-fiction publishing scene to overturn the long-standing myth of the western as a male-dominated genre.
Army Host
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Army Host written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Mythic Frontiers
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Author : Daniel R. Maher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-30
Mythic Frontiers written by Daniel R. Maher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-30 with Culture and tourism categories.
"Maher explores the development of the Frontier Complex as he deconstructs the frontier myth in the context of manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and white male privilege. A very significant contribution to our understanding of how and why heritage sites reinforce privilege."-- Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking "Peels back the layer of dime westerns and True Grit films to show how their mythologies are made material. You'll never experience a 'heritage site' the same way again."--Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see and serve to craft a cultural memory that reinforces contemporary ideologies. In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the "American frontier," have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights. Examining the frontier complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas--where visitors are greeted at a restored brothel and the reconstructed courtroom and gallows of "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker feature prominently--Maher warns that creating a popular tourist narrative and disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
Nevada Yesterdays
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Author : Frank Wright
language : en
Publisher: Stephens Press, LLC
Release Date : 2005
Nevada Yesterdays written by Frank Wright and has been published by Stephens Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
For 18 years, Las Vegans have enjoyed small helpings of their own rich history, served up by public radio station KNPR. Hearing well-told tales of characters with names like "Whiskey Pete," and the comic-opera romance between a famous female evangelist and a boyfriend called "Whataman," many a listener has wished for a transcript. This book fulfills that wish, presenting more than 100 selected mostly by the program's original author, historian Frank Wright. Wright mined the pits and pockets of local lore for nuggets little-known to the public, misunderstood by most, or merely enough fun to be worth telling once more.
National 4 H Club News
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
National 4 H Club News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with 4-H clubs categories.
Midwestern Women
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Author : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-22
Midwestern Women written by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-22 with History categories.
Examining four centuries of Midwestern women's history, contributors discuss ways these women's lives both resemble and differ from those of women of other regions. Midwestern female experience is shown to be distinctive in terms of degrees of migration, which resulted in the Midwest becoming a cultural crossroads.
Frontier Vignettes
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Author : Tucson, Arizona. Sunnyside High School. History Club
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Frontier Vignettes written by Tucson, Arizona. Sunnyside High School. History Club and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Arizona categories.
Reno S Big Gamble
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Author : Alicia Barber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Reno S Big Gamble written by Alicia Barber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
Chronicles the creation and transformation of Reno's reputation from backward railroad town to a nationally known "Sin Central." The author shows how Reno civic leaders, in their never-ending quest for tourist dollars, dramatically altered the economy and physical appearance of the city.
Investigation Of Organized Crime In Interstate Commerce Illinois
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Investigation Of Organized Crime In Interstate Commerce Illinois written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Crime categories.