What has the western of literature and film contributed to American
culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the
West, answers that question by tracing four distinct storytelling
traditions and exploring the indelible images each has left in the
public's mind over the past 125 years. Our images of cowboys,
lawmen, outlaws, and Indians come from a collage of sources,
including Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, Calamity Jane,
Mary Hallock Foote, Geronimo, Mourning Dove, Owen Wister, Zane
Grey, Walter Noble Burns, John Ford, Louis L'Amour, Wallace
Stegner, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Larry
McMurtry.
Etulain begins with the dominant image conveyed in Wild West
shows and dime novels of the late nineteenth centuryAAA1/2the West
as a place of adventure and danger. In the early twentieth century
stories by women and Indians appeared, but they were soon
overlooked and not rediscovered until the 1970s. The period from
the 1920s to the 1950s represents the classic era of western movies
and novels--of cavalry charges to save the day and heroes in white
hats. But since the 1960s a counter story has emerged, one of
ambiguity and complexity that often turned upside down our notions
about what really mattered in how we look at the West.
Etulain carefully explores why stories of the frontier and
American West still rival those of the American Civil War as the
country's most popular tales, and he shows how narratives that
persisted relatively unchanged for a century have moved in notable
new directions since the 1960s.
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