Frontier Club
Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924
1st Edition
Published on 3. January 2013
319 pages
978-0-19-933372-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Frontier Club delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social, political, and financial interests in the making of the modern western.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- The Frontier Club Western: An Introduction
- FRONTIER CLUBMEN
- VIGILANTE CLUBMEN
- THE VIRGINIAN
- CODA
- 1. Boone and Crockett Writers
- THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB, 1893
- BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUBMEN
- Theodore Roosevelt
- George Bird Grinnell
- Owen Wister
- Winthrop Chanler
- Madison Grant
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Caspar Whitney
- Frederic Remington
- THE BOOKS OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB
- Shaping the Voice
- Clearing the Enclave
- Writing the Frontier Club Western
- Lobbying the Federal Government
- CONCLUSION
- 2. Cowboys and Publishers
- A VERY PROPER PHILADELPHIAN
- Frontier Club Neurasthenia
- A Man's Gotta Do...
- ARISTOCRATS OUT WEST
- Frontier Club Investments
- The Cheyenne Club
- Cowboys and Vigilantes
- SHOWDOWN ON PUBLISHERS' ROW
- Frontier Club Investments
- The Frontier Club Western and the Literary Marketplace
- THE FRONTIER CLUB VS. ALKALI IKE
- CONCLUSION
- 3. Women in the Frontier Club
- FRONTIER CLUB WOMEN AND FAMILIES
- THE WISTER WOMEN
- MOLLY WISTER
- WOMEN'S SPACE IN THE FRONTIER CLUB WESTERN
- CONCLUSION
- 4. Jim Crow and the Western
- WISTER: "WHITE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS"
- ROOSEVELT'S ROUGH RIDERS
- The Black Rough Riders
- Whitening the Rough Rider
- REMINGTON: WITH THE EYE OF THE MIND
- BLACK ROUGH RIDERS REDUX
- Tearing a Piece off the Flag
- "These cats was the original posse"
- CONCLUSION
- 5. Immigrants and Indians
- VANISHING ACTS
- IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION
- Owen Wister
- Madison Grant
- AMERICAN INDIAN ASSIMILATION
- George Bird Grinnell
- CONCLUSION
- 6. Outside the Frontier Club
- PRINCESS CHINQUILLA
- CHEEK BY JOWL
- REWRITING 1902
- CONCLUSION
- Conclusion: Frontier Club Fingerprints
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
- J
- K
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- M
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