Becoming Western: Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State

by Liza J. Nicholas

Book Overview

In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming), the Wild West has never died. The West has long been the favored repository of the East's cultural fantasies, and in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern expectations and demands largely shaped Wyoming's image in this role. Becoming Western shows how the myth of the "American West" has acted as a force both in history and in individual lives.

Liza J. Nicholas interrogates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803220693
• ISBN13: 9780803220690
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"