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Author Tompkins, Jane P.

Title West of everything : the inner life of westerns / Jane Tompkins.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Reserve Book 1st Floor  813.087409 T599w    ---  Available
Description xi, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.
Contents Death -- Women and the language of men -- Landscape -- Horses -- Cattle -- Dry-gulched : a reckoning -- The Virginian : Wister's mother --Zane Grey : writing the purple sage -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988 -- The last of the breed : homage to Louis L'Amour -- Two men.
Subject Western stories -- History and criticism.
Western films -- History and criticism.
West (U.S.) -- In literature
ISBN 0195073053 (acid-free paper) : $21.95

 
    
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