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Western stories. --- American Western stories --- Western fiction --- Western stories, American --- Westerns --- American fiction --- Fiction
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In this darkly humorous short story, a miner is subjected to mortifying humiliation in front of the entire camp and takes matters into his own hands to set things right. From a toxic friendship to a marriage that's doomed to fail, "Tennessee's Partner" is a bracing case study of the dark side of human relationships.
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Western stories. --- Apache Indians --- American Western stories --- Western fiction --- Western stories, American --- Westerns --- American fiction --- Fiction --- Wars
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This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century. Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. The author argues that America's frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the 'American century'. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols
Western stories --- Western films --- History and criticism.
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Western stories. --- Western stories --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American Western stories --- Western fiction --- Western stories, American --- Westerns --- American fiction --- Fiction --- West (U.S.) --- Social life and customs
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Whatever we might think of them, popular Westerns, both movies and cheap paperbacks on the newsstand racks, have had a powerful impact on both U.S. culture and Western European culture in general. Collected here are new studies from a variety of critical approaches of popular Westerns by scholars from the U.S., the U.K., and Europe, new studies of classic William S. Hart, John Ford, Clint Eastwood, and Sam Peckinpah film Westerns as well as new studies of seldom studied writers such as James ...
Western films --- Western stories --- History and criticism.
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Authors, American --- Humorists, American --- Western stories --- Authorship.
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