The frontier club : popular westerns and cultural power, 1880-1924 /
'The Frontier Club' is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century, they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes - from big-game hunting to conservation, im...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 'The Frontier Club' is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century, they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes - from big-game hunting to conservation, immigration restriction to Jim Crow segregation - and aligned themselves with cattle kings and 'quality' publishers. This book tells the story of that cultural sleight-of-hand. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199333721 0199333726 9781299241213 1299241212 9780199332441 0199332444 |
| Access: | Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff. |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
