Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West

Whether seen as a land of opportunity or as paradise lost, the American West took shape in the nation's imagination with the help of those who wrote about it; but two groups who did much to shape that perception are often overlooked today.Promoters trying to lure settlers and investors to the West insisted that the frontier had already been tamed-that the only frontiers remaining were those of opportunity. Through posters, pamphlets, newspaper ar...

By David M. Wrobel
Paperback: 340 pages
Publisher: University Press of Kansas; Reprint edition (October 31, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0700618236
ISBN-13: 978-0700618231
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 2727590
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook

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