The American West

The Invention of a Myth

• Author(s): David Hamilton Murdoch,
• Publisher: Welsh Academic Press
• Pages: 136
• ISBN_10: 1860570119
  ISBN_13: 9781860570117
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / United States / 19th Century , History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , History / Social History ,

Description:... The Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth asserts D.H. Murdoch in this study, which presents a sustained analysis of how the myth originated and why.