Moving Stories : Migration and the American West, 1850-2000,9781890591083

Moving Stories : Migration and the American West, 1850-2000

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ISBN13: 9781890591083
ISBN10: 1890591084
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Nevada Pr
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Summary

Scholars from several disciplines explore the meanings of migration from the Oregon Trail to the atomic West in this collection of essays.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Scott E. Casper
``Some Is Writing Some Reading'': Emigrants on the Overland Trail
3(20)
Theresa Strouth Gaul
The Frontier Within and Without: Gender and the Memoirs of Rural German-Speaking Immigrants
23(28)
Linda Schelbitzki Pickle
Sarah Winnemucca: Multiple Places, Multiple Selves
51(20)
Gioia Woods
Stephen Crane and ``Some Others'': Economics, Race, and the Vision of a Failed Frontier
71(28)
Matthew Evertson
A New Opportunity for the ``Man with the Hoe'': Rural Reform and the Marketing of Montana, 1909--1916
99(20)
Douglas M. Edwards
Migration, Masculinity, and Racial Identity in Taylor Gordon's Born to Be
119(24)
Michael K. Johnson
At the Crossroads of Whiteness: Anti-Migrant Activism, Eugenics, and Popular Culture in Depression-Era California
143(42)
Peter La Chapelle
Rethinking Black Migration: A Perspective from the West
185(28)
Josh Sides
Into the Prefab West: Federal Settlements and Western Migration During World War II
213(36)
Heather Fryer
Spanish-Speaking Mormons in Utah
249(26)
Jessie L. Embry
Better Living Through Westward Migration: Don DeLillo's Inversion of the American West as ``Virgin Land'' in Underworld
275(22)
Marni Gauthier
About the Contributors 297

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