The Frontier Centennial by Jacob W Olmstead
In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city's identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the Frontier Centennial from its inception as a commemorative fair to theme park enshrining the mythic West to show the various ways centennial planners, boosters, and civic leaders sought to use the celebration as a means to bolster the city's identity and image as a modern city of the American West.Olmstead's retelling of the Frontier Centennial looks at two distinctive processes. The first addresses the interplay of memory, identity, and image in the evolution of the celebration's commemorative messages. Fort Worth's image as a progressive western metropolis also impacted other areas, less central, to Frontier Centennial planning. Debates over how outsiders would interpret features of the celebration, carried on by club women and others, reveal the interest the citizenry held in upholding or contesting the city's modern image. Overlapping with the issues of memory and identity, the second process addresses how the larger narratives of the mythic West influenced the content of the celebration. Though drawn from actual events and people, the myth reduces the past to its "ideological essence." Mythmakers, like historians, draw upon facts to explain and give meaning to a particular worldview.
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Birds of the Texas Coast
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Down in the Dirt
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The Story the Bones Tell
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Equal Opportunity Hero
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Engineering the Modern American West
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Artists of the Horse
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Horned Lizards
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Plants of Central Texas Wetlands
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Opus in Brick and Stone
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Brujerías
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Blackdom, New Mexico
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More Than Running Cattle
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Auto Touring America's National Parks
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Texas Natural History in the 21st Century
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The Edge Rover
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Seat of Empire
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Dance All Night
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Bronx Faces and Voices
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Dancin' in Anson
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Finding the Great Western Trail
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Little Big Bend
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Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
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Don't Count the Tortillas
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Pecans
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A Kineno's Journey
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Javelinas
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Brujerias
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Myth, Memory, and Massacre
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Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls
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Cacti of Texas
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The Wineslinger Chronicles
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Truly Texas Mexican
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Texas Quilts and Quilters
Jacob W. Olmstead is a Curator of Historic Sites in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2011 he received a Ph.D. in American History from Texas Christian University, where he studied civic memory and identity in the American West. His research and writing has appeared in BYU Studies, Journal of Mormon History, Mormon Historical Studies, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and Utah Historical Quarterly.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781682832462 |
| ISBN 10 | 1682832465 |
| Title | The Frontier Centennial |
| Author | Jacob W Olmstead |
| Series | Grover E Murray Studies In The American Southwest |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Texas Tech University Press |
| Year published | 2024-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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