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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.

Frontier and pioneer life --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Historiography. --- In popular culture. --- Historiography --- In popular culture

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Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. "Bud" Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthrie's historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky, the latest in his celebrated series of biographies of Western writers, Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of this true giant on th

Authors, American --- Western stories --- Authorship. --- Guthrie, A. B. --- Guthrie, Alfred Bertram, --- Homes and haunts --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- In literature. --- Civilization --- Authorship --- Guthrie, A. B.,

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A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, ""'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it."" In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West.

Minorities --- Ethnophilosophy --- Folklore --- Group identity --- Social life and customs. --- West (U.S.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization. --- In literature. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Folk philosophy --- Indigenous peoples --- Philosophy, Primitive --- Primitive philosophy --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Philosophy --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cognition and culture --- Ethnology --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation

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This book offers a new interpretation of the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in long-term histories of arid regions. It compares ancient Southwest Arabia (3500 BC-AD 600) with the American West (2000 BC-AD 1950) in global context to illustrate similarities and differences among environmental, cultural, political, and religious dynamics of water. It combines archaeological exploration and field studies of farming in Yemen with social theory and spatial technologies, including satellite imagery, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping. In both ancient Yemen and the American West, agricultural production focused not where rain-fed agriculture was possible, but in hyper-arid areas where massive state-constructed irrigation schemes politically and ideologically validated state sovereignty. While shaped by profound differences and contingencies, ancient Yemen and the American West are mutually informative in clarifying human geographies of water that are important to understandings of America, Arabia, and contemporary conflicts between civilizations deemed East and West.

Irrigation --- Water-supply --- Human geography --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Water in agriculture --- Chemigation --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- History --- History. --- Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology --- East and West --- Yemen (Republic) --- West (U.S.) --- Antiquities. --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Archaeology --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Methodology --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States

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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 lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians-and bloody battles-at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity.Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices-those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American.Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.

Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History --- Turner, Frederick Jackson, --- Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, William Frederick, --- Cody, William F. --- Bill, --- Cody, W. F. --- Cody, Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, Bill, --- Tʻe-na, --- Tʻe-na, Fo-lei-te-li-kʻo Chieh-kʻo-hsün, --- Turner, F. J. --- F. J. T. --- T., F. J. --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- West (U. S.) --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1999 --- american culture. --- american hero. --- american history. --- american west. --- annie oakley. --- buffalo bill. --- columbian exposition. --- cowboys. --- custer. --- empty continent. --- folk tales. --- folklore. --- frontier. --- indians. --- indigenous peoples. --- jack crawford. --- land rights. --- little bighorn. --- log cabins. --- manifest destiny. --- military. --- national identity. --- native americans. --- nonfiction. --- oregon trail. --- pioneers. --- popular culture. --- settler colonialism. --- settlers. --- settling the west. --- sitting bull. --- wagon trains. --- western movement. --- western. --- wild west show. --- wild west.