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Author(s): Liza Nicholas
ISBN(s): 0803233507
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.97 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0803233507
ISBN 13: 978-0803233508
Author: Liza Nicholas

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 the creation of Western lore by looking at five stories that focus on, respectively, Jack Flagg, a Wyoming legend and the supposed model for Owen Wister’s Virginian; an equestrian statue of Buffalo Bill sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; the dude ranch; the creation of the American studies program at Yale; and a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Each story reveals the ways in which the East consciously imagined and manipulated the West and how Wyomingites in turn interpreted this identity, manipulated it, and put it to work for themselves. Becoming Western is a fascinating study of how invented traditions can become potent cultural and political ideology on a local as well as a national level.

Becoming Western Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State 1st Table of contents:

  • Jack Flagg and the Battle over “Westernness”
    Explores the life of Jack Flagg, a Wyoming legend and the supposed model for Owen Wister’s The Virginian, examining how his story contributes to the construction of Western identity.

  • The West, the East, Buffalo Bill, and a Horse
    Analyzes the creation of an equestrian statue of Buffalo Bill by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, highlighting the interplay between Eastern perceptions and Western iconography.

  • The West of Work and Play
    Discusses the development of dude ranches in Wyoming, reflecting on how leisure and labor intersect in the portrayal of Western life.

  • A Museum, Celebrations, and Yale
    Examines the establishment of the American studies program at Yale and its connections to Western cultural representations, including museums and public celebrations.

  • Voting Western
    Investigates a U.S. Senate campaign in Wyoming, illustrating how political narratives are shaped by and contribute to Western identity.

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