Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America / Edition 1

by Richard Slotkin

Overview

The concluding volume of Richard Slotkin's highly acclaimed trilogy draws on a wide range of sources to examine the pervasive influence of Wild West myths on American culture and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900806130315
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	04/15/1998
Edition description:	OKLAHOMA P
Pages:	864
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.26(h) x 1.71(d)

About the Author

Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Editorial Reviews

In the third of a three-volume study in the development of the myth of the frontier in US literary, popular, and political culture from the colonial period to the present, Slotkin (English, Wesleyan U.) covers Theodore Roosevelt's and Frederick Jackson Turner's visions of the frontier, and the expression of the frontier myth in such popular culture phenomena as dime novels, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the formula fiction of 1900-40, and the Hollywood film. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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