Montana; The Magazine of Western History, July 1st, 2005
TRUE WEST Authenticity and the American West William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis, Editors University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. 2004. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index, xi + 370 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Nearly every academic book on the American West published in the last century labors under the overbearing shadow of Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 frontier thesis, which located the nebulous "West" in an American consciousness of itself as self-determining and manifestly mobile, rather than in any discrete and immutable geographical region. Turner's "The Significance of the Frontie...
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