Settlers of the American West
Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed ''49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created demand for a gamut ...
Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed ''49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created demand for a gamut ...
