Add to ORKGIn popular imagination, the mythical West is widely associated with the American West. It is misleading to regard the prairie or mountain West in Canada as the mythical West. The mythical West is a constellation of images defined by the interrelation of American imagination, myth, and history. People have always imagined the mythical West, and it has appeared in many forms: images, writings, folk tales, songs, motion pictures, and television. The word 'West' creates expectations and ideas that are historically rooted in American culture. This fascination with the 'West' has also intrigued American historians, and they have focused their energies on explaining the origins and effects of the imagined 'West.' In 1870, Canadians became...
In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postm...
In popular imagination, the mythical West is widely associated with the American West. It is mislea...
Canadians continue to struggle with their western identity. For one reason or another, they have se...
In 1879, the prolific dime novelist Edward L. Wheeler produced a narrative entitled Canada Chet, The...
Historians and geographers have focused on the study of the images of the West. Their studies have d...
The concept of the ‘Wild West’ of America is a source of forms of constructed and staged authenticit...
This paper argues that dominant academic understandings of the Wild West overstate the extent to whi...
English children’s annuals developed as a genre during the late nineteenth century and contained sho...
Few settings are as quintessentially American as the Wild West. In games, the myth of the American f...
Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “...
This paper focuses on the mythical and romantic creation of the American West and its effects on the...
This presentation explores the myth of frontier in regards to both the myth’s creation and in regard...
The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable Americ...
In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postm...
In popular imagination, the mythical West is widely associated with the American West. It is mislea...
Canadians continue to struggle with their western identity. For one reason or another, they have se...
In 1879, the prolific dime novelist Edward L. Wheeler produced a narrative entitled Canada Chet, The...
Historians and geographers have focused on the study of the images of the West. Their studies have d...
The concept of the ‘Wild West’ of America is a source of forms of constructed and staged authenticit...
This paper argues that dominant academic understandings of the Wild West overstate the extent to whi...
English children’s annuals developed as a genre during the late nineteenth century and contained sho...
Few settings are as quintessentially American as the Wild West. In games, the myth of the American f...
Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “...
This paper focuses on the mythical and romantic creation of the American West and its effects on the...
This presentation explores the myth of frontier in regards to both the myth’s creation and in regard...
The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable Americ...
In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postm...