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Book Synopsis Mythmakers of the West by : John A. Murray
Download or read book Mythmakers of the West written by John A. Murray and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait, in stories and pictures, of the many ways the American West has been depicted in art, film, literature, music, and popular culture.
Book Synopsis Myths and Mysteries of the Old West by : Michael Rutter
Download or read book Myths and Mysteries of the Old West written by Michael Rutter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles, telling what really happened. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but these 12 legends stand up to scrutiny, and this book will be a must-read for all western history buffs.
Book Synopsis The American West by : David Hamilton Murdoch
Download or read book The American West written by David Hamilton Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth asserts D.H. Murdoch in this study, which presents a sustained analysis of how the myth originated and why.
Book Synopsis Women as Mythmakers by : Estella Lauter
Download or read book Women as Mythmakers written by Estella Lauter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... impressive work of scholarship..." -- Exceptional Human Experience
Book Synopsis The End of the Myth by : Greg Grandin
Download or read book The End of the Myth written by Greg Grandin and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.
Download or read book Bound for Glory written by Woody Guthrie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. “Even readers who never heard Woody or his songs will understand the current esteem in which he’s held after reading just a few pages… Always shockingly immediate and real, as if Woody were telling it out loud… A book to make novelists and sociologists jealous.” —The Nation
Book Synopsis Myth of the West by : Henry Art Gallery
Download or read book Myth of the West written by Henry Art Gallery and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period from 1832 to the present, and beginning with some of the earliest renderings of Western art by artists of the European tradition, here is the work of such famous artists as George Catlin, Frederic Remington, and many others. Essays by experts in the field analyze the historic West and its relevance in mainstream American culture.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the West by : J. W. Schulte Nordholt
Download or read book The Myth of the West written by J. W. Schulte Nordholt and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this fascinating book is the rise, flourishing, and decline of the heliotropic myth, the centuries-old belief that all history is a succession of great civilizations developing, like the movement of the sun, from the East to the West. America is in this vision the last empire, indeed, the fulfillment of history. Esteemed historian Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt draws on works of world poetry and other sources in describing the importance of the heliotropic myth and shows how the expectation of a final completion of history gave meaning and coherence to our civilization and how the mythic yearning for a better world drove our ancestors to distant lands ever farther westward. Now in the twentieth century, with all western horizons gone and the realities of societal life - even in America - not so utopian, we no longer dare to believe in the values of the West and prefer to live instead with an extraordinarily tolerant cultural relativism. With the approach of the new millennium - once predicted by the heliotropic myth to be a time of brilliant living - Schulte Nordholt's work not only offers a perspective that will enhance all areas of study in American and world history, but provokes a fresh desire for the real meaning of human history.
Book Synopsis American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by : Daniel Brinton
Download or read book American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent written by Daniel Brinton and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myths and the American West by : Richard W. Etulain
Download or read book Myths and the American West written by Richard W. Etulain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voices in the Valley by : Frank R. Kramer
Download or read book Voices in the Valley written by Frank R. Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the valleys of the great interior of America came waves of immigrants -- not like the slow thrust of glaciers but tumbling swiftly, from foreign lands and from states nearby, one upon the other. These massive movements left records anonymous but none the less vivid -- the basins and ramifications of folk belief. It is about such beliefs that this book is written. They emerge in dramas staged in Canadian forests and Kentucky farms, where Huron rituals and Methodist revivals renewed the awful sense of intimacy with the sources of natural and spiritual power. They are the colors of the rainbow that arched over Champlain's dream of fresh waters and the terrestrial paradise of the Jesuit missions. They are crystallized in symbols of bankbarns and homesteads, symbols that sum up the little family-worlds of Pennsylvania Germans and settlers in the Middle West and image their differeing ideals of progress. The author's chief concern is to develop the relationship between reality and myth -- to show the influence of folklore on human thought and motivation and the manner in which folklore has been used to further human goals, whether conciously or unconsciously. He does this by examining episodes from the richly varied history of ethnic groups in America's great heartland: French explorers and missionaries in their contacts with the Huron Indians, religion (Peter Cartwright's camp meetings), industry (Henry Ford's Highland Park plant), agrarian revolt (a session of the Grange), and the New England Yankees and Pennsylvania Germans who migrated respectively to the upper and lower Middle West. The study concludes with an exposition of the importance of discovering and evaluating the motives of a whole poeple, rather than by the traditional study of leaders and selected groups.
Book Synopsis American Hero-myths by : Daniel Garrison Brinton
Download or read book American Hero-myths written by Daniel Garrison Brinton and published by Johnson Reprint Corporation. This book was released on 1882 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Women's West by : Susan Armitage
Download or read book The Women's West written by Susan Armitage and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses selections from diaries, public records, letters, interviews, and fiction to describe the experiences of women in the West, including Indians, servants, waitresses, prostitutes, and farmers
Book Synopsis American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by : Daniel G. Brinton
Download or read book American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent written by Daniel G. Brinton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent" by Daniel G. Brinton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis American Mythmaker by : Mark J. Dworkin
Download or read book American Mythmaker written by Mark J. Dworkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago newspaperman changed all that. Walter Noble Burns (1872–1932) served with the First Kentucky Infantry during the Spanish-American War and covered General John J. Pershing’s pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. However history-making these forays may seem, they were only the beginning. In the last six years of his life, Burns wrote three books that propelled New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, Tombstone marshal Wyatt Earp, and California bandit Joaquín Murrieta into the realm of legend. Despite Burns’s remarkable command of his subjects—based on exhaustive research and interviews—he has been largely ignored by scholars because of the popular, even occasionally fictional, approach he employed. In American Mythmaker, the first literary biography of Burns, Mark J. Dworkin brings Burns out of the shadows. Through careful analysis of The Saga of Billy the Kid (1926), Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest (1927), and The Robin Hood of Eldorado: The Saga of Joaquín Murrieta (1932) and their reception, Dworkin shows how Burns used his journalistic training to introduce the history of the American West to his era’s general readership. In the process, Burns made his subjects household names. Are Burns’s books fact or fiction? Was he a historian or a novelist? Dworkin considers these questions as he uncovers the story behind Burns’s mythmaking works. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of western history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends.
Book Synopsis One West, Two Myths II by : Robert Thacker
Download or read book One West, Two Myths II written by Robert Thacker and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents scholarly views on the comparison of the Canadian and American Wests and the various methodologies involved.
Book Synopsis The Mythical West by : Richard W. Slatta
Download or read book The Mythical West written by Richard W. Slatta and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture. Ever since the days of the 49ers and George Armstrong Custer, the Old West has been America's most potent source of legend. But it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. Did you know, for example, that Annie Oakley was a talented marksman who shot an estimated 40,000 rounds per year while practicing and performing for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late l800s? Or that many interpreters believe that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not just a fairy tale, but also a Populist allegory? These are just two of the folk legends dissected and examined in this veritable cultural geography. The volume covers everything from billionaire Howard Hughes and composer Aaron Copeland to Aztlan (the legendary first city of the Aztecs) and Area 51, the top-secret U.S. Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, that has fascinated UFO and conspiracy buffs.
