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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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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  978.02 W941p    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  978.02 Wro    ---  Available
Description xi 322 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 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.
ISBN 0700612041 (alk. paper)

 
    
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