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Moving stories : migration and the American West, 1850-2000

Title
Moving stories : migration and the American West, 1850-2000 / edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda M. Long.
Publication
Reno : Nevada Humanities Committee : Distributed by the University of Nevada Press, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Casper, Scott E.
  • Long, Lucinda M.
Description
xvii, 299 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Halcyon series ; v. #23
Uniform Title
Halcyon ; v. 23.
Alternative Title
Migration and the American West 1850-2000
Subject
  • Pioneers > West (U.S.) > History
  • Immigrants > West (U.S.) > History
  • Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
  • Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography
  • Immigrants > West (U.S.) > Biography
  • Migration, Internal > United States > History
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Immigrants
  • Migration, Internal
  • Pioneers
  • West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration > History
  • West (U.S.) > Biography
  • United States
  • West United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Scott E. Casper -- "Some Is Writing Some Reading": Emigrants on the Overland Trail / Theresa Strouth Gaul -- The Frontier Within and Without: Gender and the Memoirs of Rural German-Speaking Immigrants / Linda Schelbitzki Pickle -- Sarah Winnemucca: Multiple Places, Multiple Selves / Gioia Woods -- Stephen Crane and "Some Others": Economics, Race, and the Vision of a Failed Frontier / Matthew Evertson -- A New Opportunity for the "Man with the Hoe": Rural Reform and the Marketing of Montana, 1909-1916 / Douglas M. Edwards -- Migration, Masculinity, and Racial Identity in Taylor Gordon's Born to Be / Michael K. Johnson -- At the Crossroads of Whiteness: Anti-Migrant Activism, Eugenics, and Popular Culture in Depression-Era California / Peter La Chapelle -- Rethinking Black Migration: A Perspective from the West / Josh Sides -- Into the Prefab West: Federal Settlements and Western Migration During World War II / Heather Fryer -- Spanish-Speaking Mormons in Utah / Jessie L. Embry -- Better Living Through Westward Migration: Don DeLillo's Inversion of the American West as "Virgin Land" in Underworld / Marni Gauthier.
ISBN
  • 1890591084
  • 9781890591083
LCCN
2002485442
OCLC
  • ocm48776408
  • 48776408
  • SCSB-1247670
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library