The Magic Mirror

The Magic Mirror PDF Author: Elsie Singmaster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780689121630
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description

Gunfighter Nation

Gunfighter Nation PDF Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868

Book Description
Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

Regeneration Through Violence

Regeneration Through Violence PDF Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504090357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 817

Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that “will interest all those concerned with American cultural history” (American Political Science Review). Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award for Best Book in American History In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, historian and cultural critic Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries—including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville—Slotkin traces the full development of this myth. “Deserves the careful attention of everyone concerned with the history of American culture or literature. ”—Comparative Literature “Slotkin’s large aim is to understand what kind of national myths emerged from the American frontier experience. . . . [He] discusses at length the newcomers’ search for an understanding of their first years in the New World [and] emphasizes the myths that arose from the experiences of whites with Indians and with the land.” —Western American Literature

The Fatal Environment

The Fatal Environment PDF Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660

Book Description
Discusses the subjugation of Native Americans on the American frontier, and explains how it was used to justify American territorial expansion.

Abe

Abe PDF Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805066395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
A stunning work of historical imagination, Abe immerses the reader in the past Abraham Lincoln kept hidden: the isolating poverty and frontier violence that shaped his character. Marked by the death of his beloved mother and the struggle to keep reading and learning in the face of his father's fierce disapproval, Abe perseveres, growing into the man who changed the course of American history. Abe comes of age in the course of a dramatic flatboat journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Along the way, Abe and his companions encounter slavery firsthand and experience the violence -- and the pleasures -- of rough river towns, plantations, and the cities of Natchez and New Orleans. Numerous historical figures make appearances alongside the colorful characters of the Mississippi: preachers and vigilantes, planters and thieves, prostitutes and lady reformers. Transformed by what he has seen and done, Abe returns to make his final break with his father and to step out of the wilderness into New Salem -- and history. Richard Slotkin's Abe draws deeply on historical scholarship, but it is not biography. Instead, it is a vivid, persuasive re-creation of the life young Lincoln might have lived, and of the people, scenes, and influences that helped produce the character and conscience of the man often called the greatest of all Americans.

Wishbone

Wishbone PDF Author: Wann Smith
Publisher: Charles M. Russell Center Seri
ISBN: 9780806162898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In Wishbone, veteran journalist Wann Smith provides an in-depth account of Sooner football from the team's final years under Wilkinson through its remarkable turnaround under Coach Barry Switzer. At the heart of this story is the phenomenal success of the Wishbone offense--a hybrid offshoot of the Split-t formation that Wilkinson employed so successfully in the 1950s. Though not without its risks, the Wishbone offense changed the face of college football and was a key factor in Oklahoma's resurgence in the 1970s with Switzer at the helm.

Commie Cowboys

Commie Cowboys PDF Author: Ryan W. McMaken
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
The Western genre has long been associated with right-wing and libertarian politics, and is said to promote individualism and free-market economics. In a new look at the Western, however, Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti-capitalist, and in many ways, the genre attacks the dominant ideology of nineteenth-century America: classical liberalism. The classical Westerns of the mid-twentieth century often feature wealthy capitalist villains who oppress the cowardly and defenseless shopkeepers and farmers of the frontier. The gunfighter, a representative of the law and order provided by the nation-state, intervenes to provide safety and justice. In addition to attacks on capitalism, the Western attacks other prized values of the bourgeois middle classes including Christianity, education and urbanization. McMaken examines these themes as used in the films of John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Howard Hawks. These pioneers of the classical Westerns are then contrasted with later innovators such as Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood. Also included are discussions of the role of the LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE series, Victorian literature, and the nature of crime on the historical frontier. With a foreword by Paul A. Cantor, author of GILLIGAN UNBOUND and THE INVISIBLE HAND IN POPULAR CULTURE.

Age of the Gunfighter

Age of the Gunfighter PDF Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Joseph G. Rosa's vivid and expertly written tale of this violent time combines contemporary accounts with meticulous historical research and an unjaundiced appraisal of the facts. Telling the story of every major gunfighter, peace officer, and outlaw of the West, Rosa places them within the context of a violent frontier and the coming of law and order. Complementing the text are twenty-seven outstanding color spreads featuring firearms from the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum (Los Angeles) and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody). Many of the spreads contain guns owned and used by such well-known individuals as Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, Frank James, and Harvey Logan.

Under an Open Sky

Under an Open Sky PDF Author: William Cronon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393310634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
"If you prefer history served in a dozen fresh ways, get this book." --Chicago Tribune

Freedom Fighters: Rise of a Nation

Freedom Fighters: Rise of a Nation PDF Author: Robert Venditti
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1779506414
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
When a Kryptonian rocket crash-landed in 1930s Czechoslovakia, the Nazi war machine discovered the most powerful weapon on the planet: baby Kal-El. More than 50 years later, a new resistance has arisen... the Freedom Fighters! To crush Hitler's regime, the Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, Black Condor, and Doll Woman launch a guerrilla campaign to reignite the American spirit in the hope of bringing Uncle Sam back from the dead! Collects Freedom Fighters #1-12.
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