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title	:	Frontier and Region : Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge
author	:	Ritchie, Robert C.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826317383
print isbn13	:	9780826317384
ebook isbn13	:	9780585178943
language	:	English
subject	West (U.S.)--History, West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration, West (U.S.)--Politics and government, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Historiography, Frontier thesis.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	F591.F884 1997eb
ddc	:	978
subject	:	West (U.S.)--History, West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration, West (U.S.)--Politics and government, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Historiography, Frontier thesis.

Page i Frontier and Region

Page ii Martin Ridge (Photograph courtesy Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.)

Page iii Frontier and Region Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge Edited by Robert C. Ritchie and Paul Andrew Hutton The Huntington Library Press San Marino University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv 1997 by the Huntington Library All rights reserved. First Edition Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frontier and region : essays in honor of Martin Ridge / edited by Robert C. Ritchie and Paul Andrew Hutton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1738-3 (cloth) 1. West (U.S.)History. 2. West (U.S.)Discovery and exploration. 3. West (U.S.)Politics and government. 4. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) 5. West (U.S.)Historiography. 6. Frontier thesis. I. Ridge, Martin. II. Ritchie, Robert C., 1938 . III. Hutton, Paul Andrew, 1949 . F591.F884 1997 978dC2197-22538 CIP

Page v CONTENTS Preface Robert C. Ritchie vii Introduction Paul Andrew Hutton ix Part I. Locating the West 1. The "Finding" of the West Walter Nugent 3 2. A Promise of Rivers Thomas Jefferson and the Exploration of Western Waterways James P. Ronda 27 3. Diverging Trails Why the Midwest Is Not the West James H. Madison 43 Part II. The Political West 4. Type and Stereotype Frederic E. Lockley, Pioneer Journalist Charles E. Rankin 57 5. Federalism and the American West, 19001940 Donald J. Pisani 83 6. Hetch Hetchy Phase II The Senate Debate Richard Lowitt 109

Page vi 7. Parks for People Lyndon Johnson and the National Park System Melody Webb 121 Part III. The Popular West 8. "Sunrise in His Pocket" The Crockett Almanacs and the Birth of an American Legend Paul Andrew Hutton 141 9. Annie Oakley Creating the Cowgirl Glenda Riley 169 10. When Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill Both Played Chicago in 1893 Richard White 201 Part IV. The Historiographical West 11. More Shadows on the Brass Herbert E. Bolton and the Fake Drake Plate Albert L. Hurtado 215 12. Keeping the Faith The Forgotten Generations of Literary Turnerians, 19201960

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