TY - BOOK ID - 77876551 TI - American west AU - Jones, Karen R AU - Wills, John PY - 2009 SN - 1282088025 9786612088025 0748629734 9780748629732 9781282088023 0748622519 9780748622511 0748622527 9780748622528 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - West (U.S.) KW - American West KW - Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) KW - United States, Western KW - Western States (U.S.) KW - Western United States KW - Historiography. KW - In popular culture. KW - Historiography KW - In popular culture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876551 AB - The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men. ER -