The frontier club popular westerns and cultural power, 1880-1924
Title:
The frontier club popular westerns and cultural power, 1880-1924
Author:
Bold, Christine, 1955-
ISBN:
9780199333721
9781299241213
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 298 p.) : ill.
Contents:
The Frontier Club Western: An Introduction: Frontier Clubmen; Vigilante Clubmen; The Virginian. -- Boone and Crockett Writers. The Boone and Crockett Club, 1893 ; Boone and Crockett Clubmen:; Theodore Roosevelt ; George Bird Grinnell ; Owen Wister ; Winthrop Chanler ; Madison Grant ; Henry Cabot Lodge ; Caspar Whitney ; Frederic Remington ; The Books of the Boone and Crockett Club:; Shaping the Voice ; Clearing the Enclave ; Writing the Frontier Club Western ; Lobbying the Federal Government ; Conclusion. -- Cowboys and Publishers. A Very Proper Philadelphian ; Frontier Club Neurasthenia ; A Man's Gotta Do... ; Aristocrats Out West ; Frontier Club Investments ; The Cheyenne Club ; Cowboys and Vigilantes ; Showdown on Publishers' Row ; Frontier Club Investments ; The Frontier Club Western and the Literary Marketplace ; Conclusion: The Frontier Club vs Alkali Ike. -- Women in the Frontier Club. Frontier Club Women and Families ; The Wister Women ; Molly Wister ; Women's Space in the Frontier Club Western ; Conclusion. --Jim Crow and the Western. Wister: "white for a hundred years" ; Roosevelt's Rough Riders ; Remington: With the Eye of the Mind ; Black Rough Riders Redux ; Conclusion. -- Immigrants and "Indians". Vanishing Acts ; Immigration Restriction ; Owen Wister ; Madison Grant ; Another Hank ; American Indian Assimilation ; George Bird Grinnell ; Jack the Young Frontier Clubman ; Conclusion. -- Outside the Frontier Club. Princess Chinquilla ; Cheek by Jowl ; Rewriting 1902; Conclusion.
Abstract:
'The Frontier Club' is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century, they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes - from big-game hunting to conservation, immigration restriction to Jim Crow segregation - and aligned themselves with cattle kings and 'quality' publishers. This book tells the story of that cultural sleight-of-hand.
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