The Frontier in American Culture by Richard White

The Frontier in American Culture by Richard White

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Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. This work explores our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image.

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The Frontier in American Culture by Richard White

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. This work explores our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image.
Richard White is McClelland Professor of Pacific Northwest History at the University of Washington. Patricia Nelson Limerick is Professor of History at the University of Colorado. James R. Grossman is Director of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
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ISBN 13 9780520088443
ISBN 10 0520088441
Title The Frontier in American Culture
Author Richard White
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1994-10-17
Number of pages 152
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.