Archive for the ‘American West’ Category


Westerns in the Form of Dime Novels – Fueled Hatred of the American Indian

It is not commonly known that westerns fueled much of the hatred of the Indian by Americans in its early history. Western fiction, in the form of “dime novels,” became the tool used to alter the cultural perception of millions of pioneers. Dime novelists placed images of the Indian into the minds of these early [...]

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The American West Was Not Fiction but Some History was Fictionalized

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American westward expansion from the original colonial settlements to the early 20th century. Enormous popular attention in the media focuses on the second half of the 19th century, a period sometimes called the Old West, or the [...]

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The Causey Trail

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