Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 - History - 850 pages
The concluding volume of Richard Slotkin's highly acclaimed trilogy draws on a wide range of sources to examine the pervasive influence of Wild West myths on American culture and politics.
 

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Contents

The Significance of the Frontier Myth in
1
The Mythology of Progressivism 18801902
27
Buffalo Bill and
63
Frontier and the Sanctification of Imperialism
79
Modernization
88
Outlaws Detectives
125
Virility Vigilante Politics
156
Myth
194
The Zapata
405
Scenario and Vera Cruz 1954
433
Imagining
441
The IndianHater as Counterguerrilla The Magnifi
474
Gunfighter Nation Myth Ideology
487
Watts Newark Detroit 19651967 Exceptional
549
The Mylai Massacre The Wild Bunch
578
The Crisis of Public Myth
624

Origins of the Hardboiled Detective 19101940
217
Colonizing a Mythic Landscape
229
The Studio System the Depression and the Eclipse
255
The Western and
313
Democracy and Force The Western
345
1950
366
The Cult of the Gunfighter 19501953
379
Myth and Genre After the Western Back in the Saddle
643
Imagining America
654
Notes
663
Bibliography
767
Index
829
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America
Richard Slotkin
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century ..., Volume 2
Richard Slotkin
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Gunfighter Nation: The Frontier Myth in 20th Century America
Richard Slotkin
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About the author (1998)

Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Bibliographic information

TitleGunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America
Oklahoma paperbacks
AuthorRichard Slotkin
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1998
ISBN0806130318, 9780806130316
Length850 pages
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History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / State & Local / General
Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  
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