Western places, American myths : how we think about the West / Gary J. Hausladen, editor.
Uniform Title: | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
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Language: | English |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2003], ©2003.
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Series: | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
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Physical Description: | xiv, 343 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Understanding western places : the historical geographer's view / William Wyckoff
- An inescapable range, or the ranch as everywhere / Paul F. Starrs
- Land tenure : the spatial musculature of the American West / John B. Wright
- National significance : representation of the West in the National Park System / Lary M. Dilsaver
- Mormon Wests : the creation and evolution of an American region / Richard H. Jackson
- Mex-America : from margin to mainstream / Terrence W. Haverluk
- Native America : the indigenous West / Akim D. Reinhardt
- Narrating imperial adventure : Isabella Bird's travels in the nineteenth-century American West / Karen M. Morin
- The return of the one-armed bandit : gambling and the West / Pauliina Raento
- Magical realism : the West as spiritual playground / Peter Goin
- "Good, by god, we're going to Bodie!" : ghost towns and the american West / Dydia Delyser
- Where the cowboy rides away : mythic places for western film / Gary J. Hausladen.