Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Mythology...

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Free Download Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Mythology of the American West) by Richard Slotkin
English | January 23, 2024 | ISBN: B0CN5J1MGK | 840 pages | EPUB | 2.42 Mb
National Book Award Finalist: The "impressive" conclusion to the "magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history" (Film Quarterly).

"The myth of the Western frontier-which assumes that whites' conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society-is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam 'Indian country.' President John Kennedy invoked 'New Frontier' symbolism to seek support for counterinsurgency abroad. In an absorbing, valuable, scholarly study, [the author] traces the pervasiveness of frontier mythology in American consciousness from 1890

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