Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924
by
Christine Bold
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the...