Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
Richard Slotkin
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
Richard Slotkin
Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Year
- 1998
- ISBN-13
- 9780806130316
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Frontier mythologyAmerican cultural historyWestern films and politics
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1993)
Other awarded books from Richard Slotkin
- Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
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