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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Foundations for a Western Mythology | |
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| Mapping the Terrain | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1861) | |
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| from "What Is an American?" from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) | |
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| "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) | |
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| from Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 (1905) | |
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| "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) | |
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| Focus on Film: John Ford (director), Stagecoach (1939) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| Crossing Frontiers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Buffalo Bull's Backfat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe (1832) | |
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| "The Village" from Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail (1850) | |
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| Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians in Front of Their Medicine Lodge (1836) | |
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| from Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier (1860) | |
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| The Concealed Enemy (1845) | |
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| "Mountain Medicine" (1947) | |
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| Advice on the Prairie (1853) | |
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| Focus on Film: Elliot Silverstein (director), A Man Called Horse (1970) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| Working the Land | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rounding Up (1904) | |
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| "The Jimmyjohn Boss" (1900) | |
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| The Summit Springs Rescue--1869 (1908) | |
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| A Dash for the Timber (1889) | |
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| Sunday Morning at the Mines (1872) | |
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| Custer's Last Fight (1896) | |
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| "El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional" (1901) | |
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| Smoke of a .45 (1908) | |
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| "The Ranger" (1927) | |
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| Focus on Film: Howard Hawks (director), Red River (1948) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| Spiritual Landscapes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Kindred Spirits (1849) | |
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| Among the Sierra Mountains, California (1868) | |
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| from My First Summer in the Sierra (1869/1911) | |
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| The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872) | |
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| Eocene Bluffs, Green River, Wyoming (1878) | |
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| Canon de Chelly--Navaho (1904) | |
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| Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettias (1936) | |
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| Focus on Film: Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey (directors), The Wilderness Idea (1990) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| Challenges to a Western Mythology | |
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| Satires and Entertainments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Kit Carson (1878) | |
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| from Roughing It (1872) | |
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| Great Wild West Exhibition (1883) | |
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| "The Blue Hotel" (1898) | |
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| "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1949) | |
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| The End of the Trail (1915) | |
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| from "The Western" from Hollywood Genres (1981) | |
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| Focus on Film: Robert Altman (director), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| Women in the West | |
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| Introduction | |
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| from "Diary of a School Teacher on the Arizona Frontier" (1881/1990) | |
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| Madonna of the Prairie (1922) | |
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| "The Fakir" and "The Walking Woman" from Lost Borders (1909) | |
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| "In the Land of the Free" (1909) | |
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| "Spring," "Seasons in South Dakota," and "Homesteading in Dakota" from Dakota Bones (1993) | |
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| "Drag's a Life: Women, Gender, and Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth-Century West" (1997) | |
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| Focus on Film: King Vidor (director), Duel in the Sun (1946) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| Native American Images and Voices | |
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| Introduction | |
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| from Life Among the Piutes (1883) | |
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| Salish Handbag, Montana (ca. 1915-1920) | |
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| from "The Priest of the Sun," from House Made of Dawn (1968) | |
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| "morning talking mother" (1980) and "The Language of Weather" (1990) | |
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| American Indian Gothic (1993) | |
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| "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" (1984) | |
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| "Civilize Them with a Stick" from Lakota Woman (1990) | |
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| "Black Kettle National Grasslands, Western Oklahoma" (1988) | |
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| Cheyenne in the Moon (1991) | |
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| "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" (1996) | |
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| Focus on Film: Chris Eyre (director), Smoke Signals (1998) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| The New West | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "And the Soul Shall Dance" (1966) | |
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| "The Campesinos" from The Plum Plum Pickers (1969) | |
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| "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" (1973) | |
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| "Redneck Secrets" from Owning It All (1987) | |
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| from "A Different Yield" from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995) | |
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| Focus on Film: John Huston (director), The Misfits (1961) | |
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| Topics for Research and Writing | |
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| How to Watch a Film | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |