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Book SynopsisThis broad-ranging survey considers the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western (in literature, film and history) and America in the 20th century
Trade ReviewThe American Western places depictions of the West into the complex history and spectacular landscape of this emblematically American region McVeigh's work lays claim to an impressive, interdisciplinary field of study. It should be read, taught, and appreciated. -- Professor Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming Taken as a while The American Western further demonstrates the ongoing contemporaneous appeal and diverse meanings of the nation's frontier past... there is considerable merit in the author's integration of teh historical and literary along with cinematic depictions that illustrate the importance of the West in American political culture. -- John H Lenihan, Texas A&M University Western Historical Review The American Western places depictions of the West into the complex history and spectacular landscape of this emblematically American region McVeigh's work lays claim to an impressive, interdisciplinary field of study. It should be read, taught, and appreciated. Taken as a while The American Western further demonstrates the ongoing contemporaneous appeal and diverse meanings of the nation's frontier past... there is considerable merit in the author's integration of teh historical and literary along with cinematic depictions that illustrate the importance of the West in American political culture.
Table of ContentsPreface 1. The American West in the 1890s -- a Pivotal Decade 2. Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner 3. Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western 4. Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane 5. Western Film from Silent to Noir 6. The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture 7. New Western Perspectives: History and Literature 8. The Western and Political Culture 1960--1992: Revisions of Shane 9. Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western Bibliography Index
