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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Chicago :
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| Online dostop: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pndfc |
| Izvleček: | 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. |
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| Fizični opis: | 1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografija: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520915329 0520915321 0585115508 9780585115504 9780520088436 0520088433 9780520088443 0520088441 1283382121 9781283382120 9786613382122 6613382124 |