The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience : : The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister / / G. Edward White.

First published in 1968, The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience has become a classic in the field of American studies. G. Edward White traces the origins of “the West of the imagination” to the adolescent experiences of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister—three East...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1989
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:American Studies Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The East
  • 1. The Formation of an Eastern Establishment
  • 2. Easterners and the Western Experience, 1835-!885
  • 3. Remington, Roosevelt, Wister: The East and Adolescence
  • Part II: The West
  • 4. Roosevelt's West: The Beat of Hardy Life
  • 5. Remington's West: Men with the Bark On
  • 6. Wister's West: The Cowboy as Cultural Hero
  • Part III: East and West in the Decade of Consensus
  • 7. The Rough Riders: Regiment of True Americans
  • 8. Technocracy and Arcadia: Conservation under Roosevelt
  • 9. Roosevelt, Remington, Wister: Consensus and the West
  • References
  • Index