The Frontier in American Culture

by Richard White and Patricia Nelson Limerick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520088441
• ISBN13: 9780520088443
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.9"