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Title Western places, American myths : how we think about the West / Gary J. Hausladen, editor
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
Contents Understanding western places : the historical geographer's view / William Wyckoff -- An inescapable range, or the ranch as everywhere / Paul F. Starrs -- Land tenure : the spatial musculature of the American West / John B. Wright -- National significance : representation of the West in the National Park System / Lary M. Dilsaver -- Mormon Wests : the creation and evolution of an American region / Richard H. Jackson -- Mex-America : from margin to mainstream / Terrence W. Haverluk -- Native America : the indigenous West / Akim D. Reinhardt -- Narrating imperial adventure : Isabella Bird's travels in the nineteenth-century American West / Karen M. Morin -- The return of the one-armed bandit : gambling and the West / Pauliina Raento -- Magical realism : the West as spiritual playground / Peter Goin -- "Good, by god, we're going to Bodie!" : ghost towns and the American West / Dydia Delyser -- Where the cowboy rides away : mythic places for western film / Gary J. Hausladen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Ethnology -- West (U.S.)
Regionalism -- West (U.S.)
TRAVEL -- General.
Ethnic relations
Ethnology
Frontier and pioneer life
Historical geography
Regionalism
Travel
Etnische minderheden.
Regionalisme.
Historische geografie.
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Historical geography
West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146142
Subject West United States
Form Electronic book
Author Hausladen, Gary, 1946-
ISBN 9780874176704
0874176700