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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | JV6565 .M675 2001 | Off-site |
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- 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