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Discusses the American myth of the frontier and looks at the Indian wars, industrialism, the railroads, and Custer's last stand

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"Without question, this is the most ambitious and provocative work in the field of American Studies to appear in recent years." –George M. FredricksonNew York Review of Books

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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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  • PublisherWesleyan
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 0819561835
  • ISBN 13 9780819561831
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages636
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