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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"wild west"”.
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Real Wild West
… on the landscape and politics of the American West.
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Real Wild West
… on the landscape and politics of the American West.
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Atlas: a collection of poems on moving to the Wild West
… to what seemed like an open and lawless western city near the Rockies; a journey of finding self, and of home.</p> <p>Atlas is a collection that pushes phonic elements to story telling, captures subtle imagery, and harkens readers back to the fading language of the beatniks and stoic …
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Taming the "Wild West" integrating the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan
… poverty in the FATA lands contributes to their 'wild west' atmosphere, including the proliferation of smuggling and other illegal trade. Fully integrating FATA lands into Pakistan is necessary for both Pakistan and the international community. Pakistan simply cannot afford to have areas operating …
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Wild West in Upstate New York: Native American Culture, Performances, and Public Debates about Indian Affairs, 1880s-1930s
… As this thesis examines, these events –Wild West shows, dances, living museum exhibits, mock battles with torturing, and so on—were just as popular in upstate New York as around the nation. Focusing on the Rochester area, managers variously portrayed Native Americans as savage, …
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Buffalo Bill and the Great Western Story
… understand her own history. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show acts as a case study demonstrating how “history” is often a narrative established by those in power. These narratives often essentialize their subjects, leading to erasure and exclusion. Sitting Bull and Annie Oakley are used as …
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Bones From the Mind Dog
… concerns a gunslinger in a not-quite-our-own wild West, where he has to deal with a threat to a small Western town, while at the same time dealing with his own troubled past; "The Man Who Yawned" is a satirical what-if? Story about what might happen if yawns really were "catching"; "Praying …
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Graveyard Shifts: Unearthing Identity Myths and the Retro Rebrand
… between the American fascination with the Wild West in advertising campaigns, with corporations taking on the role of mythmakers to elevate their founders as heroes. The final section of the paper illustrates how these ideas came together in the logo and visual development for Corporal …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… touristic and ethnographic elements, reliance on Wild West imagery, disavowal of U.S. settler colonialism, and perpetuation of romantic Native tropes.
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'Wild' vs 'Mild' West: A Binary or Symbiotic Unit? The Complexity of the Mythic West Re-Imagined from a Canadian Perspective, 1970-1914
In popular imagination, the mythical West is widely associated with the American West. It is misleading to regard the prairie or mountain West in Canada as the mythical West. The mythical West is a constellation of images defined by the interrelation of American imagination, myth, and history. …
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The Creative Voice--Dialogue Between Writer and Editor: A Portfolio
<p>An author's voice does not venture into the wild west alone; it rides with a full posse. On the surface of a published piece of work, the author appears to be the lone genius; yet, underneath in multilayers of revisions and conversations that carry an author's voice over the rooftops of the …
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Performing American Identity in Great Britain, 1880-1914.
… as ‘America’s National Entertainment’ through Wild West shows, the establishment of baseball as a ‘national pastime’ and the appraisal of Spirituals (as performed by African American vocal group the Fisk Jubilee Singers) as the ‘sole American music’. The status that these entertainments enjoyed …
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Rockin' the Comstock: Exploring the Unlikely and Underappreciated Role of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Northern Nevada Ghost Town (Virginia City) in the Development of the 1960s Psychedelic Esthetic and "San Francisco Sound"
… into decay while fabricating and performing a Wild West of their own styling. In the 1950s and 60s, Bonanza and Gunsmoke brought tourists; the area celebrated its first tangible economy since the mines and brothels closed in the early twentieth century. Tourism came at a cost, though, as the …
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Imagining the Home: A practice based critical investigation into the western frontier domestic space and its mediated form
… the narrative positioning of the home within Western films created between 1920 and the early 1960s. It seeks to juxtapose the reality of the home in the construction of the US West with its subsequent mediated representation through film and popular cultural narratives. The interdisciplinary …
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Buffalo Boy's heart on
… refused to speak of the years after the last wild bison herds were gone, saying, “when the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them again. After this nothing happened.” Nothing Happened: Old Sun represents the reconstruction of cultural icons …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… George Catlin, the founder of the first Wild West Show, explored and sketched unknown tribes in the Upper Missouri-Mississippi and Southwest regions of our country. Hidden Indian encampments, forced migrations and theatric fur trade rendezvous were depicted by Alfred Jacob Miller; the …