This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both Euro

Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little h

Chronicles the history of the American frontier from 1800 to 1899, discussing how the expansion into the lands west of the Mississippi influenced the nation's f

"This book examines how travel writers viewed the American West from the age of Manifest Destiny through the Great Depression. In the nineteenth century, the We

A seasoned historian assembles a remarkable cadre of authors, who reveal forgotten, true stories of the American frontier.