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Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory and the Creation of the American West David M. Wrobel
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Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory and the Creation of the American West
David M. Wrobel
A study of how the American West took shape in the nation's imagination with the help of the writing of promoters trying to lure settlers, and of original settlers who sought to sustain their frontier heritage. It offers an exploration of this literature from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.
296 pages, 25 photographs
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 31, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780700612048 |
| Publishers | University Press of Kansas |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 28 mm · 721 g |