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Frontier and region : essays in honor of Martin Ridge / edited by Robert C. Ritchie and Paul Andrew Hutton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Marino : Huntington Library Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0826317383 (cloth)
  • 9780826317384 (cloth)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F591 .F884 1997
Contents:
The "finding" of the West / Walter Nugent -- A promise of rivers : Thomas Jefferson and the exploration of western waterways / James P. Ronda -- Diverging trails : why the Midwest is not the West / James H. Madison -- Type and stereotype : Frederic E. Lockley, pioneer journalist / Charles E. Rankin -- Federalism and the American West, 1900-1940 / Donald J. Pisani -- Hetch Hetchy Phase II : the Senate debate / Richard Lowitt -- Parks for people : Lyndon Johnson and the national park system / Melody Webb -- "Sunrise in his pocket" : the Crockett almanacs and the birth of an American legend / Paul Andrew Hutton -- Annie Oakley : creating the cowgirl / Glenda Riley -- When Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill both played Chicago in 1893 / Richard White -- More shadows on the brass : Herbert E. Bolton and the fake Drake plate / Albert L. Hurtado -- Keeping the faith : the forgotten generations of literary Turnerians, 1920-1960 / Howard R. Lamar.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F591.F884 1997 1 Available 33710001077986

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "finding" of the West / Walter Nugent -- A promise of rivers : Thomas Jefferson and the exploration of western waterways / James P. Ronda -- Diverging trails : why the Midwest is not the West / James H. Madison -- Type and stereotype : Frederic E. Lockley, pioneer journalist / Charles E. Rankin -- Federalism and the American West, 1900-1940 / Donald J. Pisani -- Hetch Hetchy Phase II : the Senate debate / Richard Lowitt -- Parks for people : Lyndon Johnson and the national park system / Melody Webb -- "Sunrise in his pocket" : the Crockett almanacs and the birth of an American legend / Paul Andrew Hutton -- Annie Oakley : creating the cowgirl / Glenda Riley -- When Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill both played Chicago in 1893 / Richard White -- More shadows on the brass : Herbert E. Bolton and the fake Drake plate / Albert L. Hurtado -- Keeping the faith : the forgotten generations of literary Turnerians, 1920-1960 / Howard R. Lamar.