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Examines the fundamental ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on dime novels, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of political figures.
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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.
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This work is the third in a trilogy that examines the role of the frontier in the development of the American national character. Beginning in the late 19th century with the official "closing" of the frontier, the book then deals with the mythologizing of the frontier in various commercial genres.
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- PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0689121636
- ISBN 13 9780689121630
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- Number of pages736
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