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The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

by Robert G. Athearn

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A portrait of the recent West: its booms and busts, its enormous rearrangements of population, its endless search for a settled identity, and its chronic tension over wanting outside help and resisting outside control.

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Robert G. Athearn

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Western Heritage Award (Non-Fiction Book – 1987)

Caroline Bancroft History Prize (Winner – 1988)

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Canonical title: The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America
Original publication date: 1986
Important places: American West
Original language: English

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Genres: History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 978.03 — History & geography History of North America Western United States 1900-
LCC: F595 .A85 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
BISAC: HIS HISTORY United States 20th Century

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Published: 1986
Genres: History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 978.03
LCC: F595 .A85

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