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Title Western places, American myths : how we think about the West / Gary J. Hausladen, editor.

Publication Info. Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Series Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Understanding western places : the historical geographer's view / William Wyckoff -- An inescapable range, or the ranch as everywhere / Paul F. Starrs -- Land tenure : the spatial musculature of the American West / John B. Wright -- National significance : representation of the West in the National Park System / Lary M. Dilsaver -- Mormon Wests : the creation and evolution of an American region / Richard H. Jackson -- Mex-America : from margin to mainstream / Terrence W. Haverluk -- Native America : the indigenous West / Akim D. Reinhardt -- Narrating imperial adventure : Isabella Bird's travels in the nineteenth-century American West / Karen M. Morin -- The return of the one-armed bandit : gambling and the West / Pauliina Raento -- Magical realism : the West as spiritual playground / Peter Goin -- "Good, by god, we're going to Bodie!" : ghost towns and the American West / Dydia Delyser -- Where the cowboy rides away : mythic places for western film / Gary J. Hausladen.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject West (U.S.) -- Historical geography.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnology -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Regionalism -- West (U.S.)
TRAVEL -- General.
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
Historical geography. (OCoLC)fst00958122
Regionalism. (OCoLC)fst01093204
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Etnische minderheden.
Regionalisme.
Historische geografie.
Added Author Hausladen, Gary, 1946-
Other Form: Print version: Western places, American myths. Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003 0874175313 (DLC) 2002015360 (OCoLC)50730824
ISBN 0874176700 (electronic bk.)
9780874176704 (electronic bk.)
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