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Author
Wrobel, David M.
Title
Promised lands : promotion, memory, and the creation of the American West / David M. Wrobel.
Imprint
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2002.
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Axe 2nd Floor Stacks
978.02 W941p
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Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction
978.02 Wro
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Description
xi 322 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-310) and index.
Contents
Introduction : imagining and remembering -- Promotional contours and claims -- Second boosterist phase -- Photo essay, imagined Wests -- Remembered journeys -- Organizing memories -- Photo essay, remembered Wests -- Promotion, reminiscence, and race -- Ghost of Western future and past.
Subject
Regionalism -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
City promotion -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Memory -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
West (U.S.) -- Civilization -- 19th century.
West (U.S.) -- History, Local.
West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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0700612041 (alk. paper)
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