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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Old West"”.
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A Grammar of the Idiom: Theory Development and Its Application to Old French and Old West Germanic
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Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane and the Myth of the West
… legends of two of the most iconic women of the Old West, Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane. The focus of this study is not biography, however, rather a look at how they fit into the classic myth of the West, as envisioned by Henry Nash Smith. A review of the major literature on all three topics is …
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Challenges for the New West: Economic impacts of wilderness in Nevada's rural counties
… will undermine the rural economies in the west that are dependent upon extractive industries such as mining and logging. Proponents argue that the "Old West" reliance on extractive industries is declining and, in the "New West", wilderness promotes economic development in rural communities …
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Lusty Rebels and Lonely Men: Interrogating 1950s Masculinity in the Films of Nicholas Ray
… to 1950s audiences, namely World War II, the Old West, and the growing car-centric suburbs. The postwar struggle for veterans to adjust to domestic life and the violent effects of post-traumatic stress are embodied by Dixon Steele in In a Lonely Place. The rodeo men in The Lusty Men are …
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Grizzly West: The Story of the Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
… and cultural divide that characterized the West during this period. Although the New West, which championed environmentalism, ecotourism, and recreational opportunities, had made great inroads in the region, the Old West of extractive industries such as ranching, logging, farming, and mining …
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Grizzly West: The Story of the Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
… and cultural divide that characterized the West during this period. Although the New West, which championed environmentalism, ecotourism, and recreational opportunities, had made great inroads in the region, the Old West of extractive industries such as ranching, logging, farming, and mining …
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An Analysis of Demographic and Socio-Economic Change in the Clark Fork Watershed Between 2000 and 2010
… to be characteristic of a transition from the Old West of resource production and extraction to a New West of landscape consumption. This thesis uses indicators of socio-economic changes associated with the New West such as rapid population growth caused by amenity migration to examine changes …
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An Analysis of Demographic and Socio-Economic Change in the Clark Fork Watershed Between 2000 and 2010
… to be characteristic of a transition from the Old West of resource production and extraction to a New West of landscape consumption. This thesis uses indicators of socio-economic changes associated with the New West such as rapid population growth caused by amenity migration to examine changes …
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The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter
… while deconstructing myths such as the Old West and Manifest Destiny and reflecting on the ramifications of World War II. Therefore, McCarthy elides Mexico by using its Otherness as a mirror that enables reflection on the Self. Kerouac too is interested in using Mexico to solve U.S. …
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Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum
… the trading post reveals a romantic view of the Old West that hides the meaning of the contemporary Navajo from patrons and viewers. Chapter three focuses on the natural history museum and the effects of its institutional utterance on the Navajo basket's significance. In this learning …
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Portrait of a Popular American Badman : Jesse James
… desperado that has become identified with the Old West. Jesse James robbed banks, waylaid stagecoaches and shot people. Oddly enough, however, Jesse is not considered a blot on our history, but instead has become one of our legends. This is a remarkable contradiction, but it can be explained. …
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Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest
… of identity formation in the emergent Southwest. His children were born to a local Igorot woman Miller met while living in the Bontoc region of the Philippines after serving in the Philippine-American War. Miller briefly attempted to be an impresario of ethnographic exhibitions, or “human …
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"Take my saddle from the wall" : Larry McMurtry and his innovations on the formula Western.
… to discuss Larry McMurtry's use of the formula Western. Chapter One defines the "formula Western" in terms of setting, characters, symbols, and themes; the other chapters examine McMurtry's "Western" novels, Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Anything For Billy in light …
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A Historic Acquittal Re Examined: Would the Earps and Doc Holliday Escape Indictment Under The Modern Grand Jury System
This thesis examines the court proceeding that followed the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881, and its likely outcome if prosecuted under modern jurisprudence. During a month-long proceeding, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, along with Wyatt's close …
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Parasites in freshwater mussels: community ecology and conservation
… time taken for mussel communities to filter the Old West River (Cambridgeshire, UK) by up to 50%, a statistic that depends on parasite and host community composition as well as the suspended particle concentration. Finally, Chapter 9 explores how parasites may affect the success of captive …
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Lightning Flowers
Lightning Flowers traces the psychological collapse of Waylan Dranger, an East Texas construction worker / folk artist. Waylan suffers from hallucinatory encounters with Reeve, his missing brother. Reeve often blames Waylan for his disappearance and implied death. Waylan also worries that Sam, his …