"[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree to which the American West was consistently compared to aspects of the Middle East, from desert sands and rock formations to camel caravans and mirages. These comparisons helped to establish the West as an exotic locale, markedly different from the Europe-focused eastern half of the country and having a fascination of its own." Journal of Folklore Researc
According to the introduction, Worldviews and the American West began life as a festschrift for Barr...
"The story is of the hardy men who opened the West to settlement, from the earliest trappers through...
Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West Lincoln, NE: University of...
"[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree ...
Historical geographer Richard Francaviglia tackles the intriguing imagery of the American west as or...
A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consid...
"K.E.M. Dumbell has recently issued a western guide-book. The title, Seeing the West might lead to c...
"Oregon has a full chapter in this interesting and valuable book. Washington is mentioned as having ...
Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of t...
Reviews in brief colour plates which show exactly how Ernst exploited his fortuitous expo...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
"In Oregon Sketches Wallace Smith gives glimpses of the new and glorified West, a West that is a rev...
This paper develops the concept of fantastic orientalism. Fantastic orientalism refers to the imagin...
The object of this investigation is to explore the overtones of the Westward Movement by describing ...
The Middle West is nowhere, Glenway Wescott once wrote, an abstract nowhere. His judgement typifies ...
According to the introduction, Worldviews and the American West began life as a festschrift for Barr...
"The story is of the hardy men who opened the West to settlement, from the earliest trappers through...
Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West Lincoln, NE: University of...
"[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree ...
Historical geographer Richard Francaviglia tackles the intriguing imagery of the American west as or...
A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consid...
"K.E.M. Dumbell has recently issued a western guide-book. The title, Seeing the West might lead to c...
"Oregon has a full chapter in this interesting and valuable book. Washington is mentioned as having ...
Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of t...
Reviews in brief colour plates which show exactly how Ernst exploited his fortuitous expo...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
"In Oregon Sketches Wallace Smith gives glimpses of the new and glorified West, a West that is a rev...
This paper develops the concept of fantastic orientalism. Fantastic orientalism refers to the imagin...
The object of this investigation is to explore the overtones of the Westward Movement by describing ...
The Middle West is nowhere, Glenway Wescott once wrote, an abstract nowhere. His judgement typifies ...
According to the introduction, Worldviews and the American West began life as a festschrift for Barr...
"The story is of the hardy men who opened the West to settlement, from the earliest trappers through...
Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West Lincoln, NE: University of...
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