The Popular Frontier
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Author |
: Christine Bold |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2013-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199731794 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199731799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Frontier Club by : Christine Bold
The Frontier Club delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social, political, and financial interests in the making of the modern western.
Author |
: Frederick Jackson Turner |
Publisher |
: Dalcassian Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1920-01-01 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The frontier in American history by : Frederick Jackson Turner
Author |
: Richard White |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 1994-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520915329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520915321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Frontier in American Culture by : Richard White
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. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.
Author |
: Frank Christianson |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2017-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806159942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806159944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Popular Frontier by : Frank Christianson
When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European perceptions of the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West. As editor Frank Christianson explains in his introduction, for the first four years after Cody conceived it, the Wild West exhibition toured the United States, honing the operation into a financially solvent enterprise. When the troupe ventured to England for its first overseas booking, its success exceeded all expectations. Between 1887 and 1906 the Wild West performed in fourteen countries, traveled more than 200,000 miles, and attracted a collective audience in the tens of millions. How did Europeans respond to Cody’s vision of the American frontier? And how did European countries appropriate what they saw on display? Addressing these questions and others, the contributors to this volume consider how the Wild West functioned within social and cultural contexts far grander in scope than even the vast American West. Among the topics addressed are the pairing of William F. Cody and Theodore Roosevelt as embodiments of frontier masculinity, and the significance of the show’s most enduring persona, Annie Oakley. An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West’s foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture.
Author |
: Frederick Jackson Turner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2014-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1614275726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781614275725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Significance of the Frontier in American History by : Frederick Jackson Turner
2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.
Author |
: Matt Neuburg |
Publisher |
: O'Reilly Media |
Total Pages |
: 634 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822025900218 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Frontier by : Matt Neuburg
The first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting Userland Frontier, a collection of powerful, pre-written scripts for total web site management, this book teaches readers Frontier from the ground up. The guide is packed with examples, advice, tricks, and tips.
Author |
: Peter C. Rollins |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2005-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813171807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813171806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hollywood's West by : Peter C. Rollins
American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the "frontier thesis" influenced film and television producers who used the West as a backdrop for an array of dramatic explorations of America's history and the evolution of its culture and values. The common themes found in Westerns distinguish the genre as a quintessentially American form of dramatic art. In Hollywood's West, Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor, and the nation's leading film scholars analyze popular conceptions of the frontier as a fundamental element of American history and culture. This volume examines classic Western films and programs that span nearly a century, from Cimarron (1931) to Turner Network Television's recent made-for-TV movies. Many of the films discussed here are considered among the greatest cinematic landmarks of all time. The essays highlight the ways in which Westerns have both shaped and reflected the dominant social and political concerns of their respective eras. While Cimarron challenged audiences with an innovative, complex narrative, other Westerns of the early sound era such as The Great Meadow (1931) frequently presented nostalgic visions of a simpler frontier era as a temporary diversion from the hardships of the Great Depression. Westerns of the 1950s reveal the profound uncertainty cast by the cold war, whereas later Westerns display heightened violence and cynicism, products of a society marred by wars, assassinations, riots, and political scandals. The volume concludes with a comprehensive filmography and an informative bibliography of scholarly writings on the Western genre. This collection will prove useful to film scholars, historians, and both devoted and casual fans of the Western genre. Hollywood's West makes a significant contribution to the understanding of both the historic American frontier and its innumerable popular representations.
Author |
: Brenda C. Calloway |
Publisher |
: The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0932807348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780932807342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's First Western Frontier, East Tennessee by : Brenda C. Calloway
Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.
Author |
: Nancy Reagin |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2021-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609387907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609387902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-living the American Frontier by : Nancy Reagin
Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.
Author |
: Elliott West |
Publisher |
: UNM Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826311555 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826311559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Growing Up with the Country by : Elliott West
This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.