The frontier in American culture : an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995

White, Richard 1947- (Author). Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951- (Added Author). Grossman, James R. (Added Author). Newberry Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential l.

Record details

OCLC: ocm44961916
ISBN: 0520088441
ISBN: 0520088433
ISBN: 6613382124
ISBN: 9786613382122
ISBN: 9781283382120
ISBN: 1283382121
ISBN: 0520088441
ISBN: 9780520088443
ISBN: 0520088433
ISBN: 9780520088436
ISBN: 9780585115504
ISBN: 0585115508
ISBN: 0520915321
ISBN: 9780520915329
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Publisher: Chicago : The Library, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill; The Adventures of the Frontier in the Twentieth Century; Checklist of Materials Exhibited.
Note:	English.