The frontier in American culture :: an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995 /

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...

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1. Verfasser: White, Richard, 1947-
Körperschaft: Newberry Library
Weitere Verfasser: Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-, Grossman, James R.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : The Library, ©1994.
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Zusammenfassung: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 l.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520915329
0520915321
0585115508
9780585115504
9780520088436
0520088433
9780520088443
0520088441
1283382121
9781283382120
9786613382122
6613382124