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Even before the New World was discovered, people dreamt of a legendary place west of the Atlantic. In his beautiful book, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, Samuel Eliot Morison tells the story of the many adventurers from Western Europe, starting with Saint Brendan and ending with Sir Walter Raleigh, who risked everything ...
Jul 20, 2022 · Vintage. Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn. Born in Kansas in 1945, Dunn was the daughter of migrant farmworkers and sharecroppers. Her family of five siblings roved throughout the American West before ...
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Reading and Rodeos. “The American West” conjures visions of tipis, cabins, cowboys, Indians, farm wives in sunbonnets, and outlaws with six-shooters. Such images pervade American culture, but they are as old as the West itself: novels, rodeos, and Wild West shows mythologized the American West throughout the post–Civil War era.
Jun 21, 2012 · Objects that exemplify that complexity can be found throughout the museum’s collections, from cowboy attire inspired by Mexican vaqueros to evidence of Native American oppression. The following slideshow features just a few of the objects that exemplify the true Old West and its role in a greater American story.
Feb 28, 2012 · It’s based on Port Angeles. What I wanted to do was write America’s story, but couched in the light of one small town, and Port Angeles is the quintessential American story. In 1890, when the novel begins, it’s the last frontier in the American West, technologically, culturally, in all sorts of different ways.
When thinking about the American West, Professor Allitt stresses a balanced view that encompasses both the achievements and the sufferings of this period in American history. It's an insightful conclusion to the grand, fascinating, sometimes troubling story of how exactly America became a vast nation stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific ...
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A frontier is a zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement. Theorist Frederick Jackson Turner went deeper, arguing that the frontier was the scene of a defining process of American civilization: "The frontier," he asserted, "promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people."
