Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry

by Richard W. Etulain

Overview

Narrates the evolution of the western story from the Civil War to the present, focusing on books, movies, and people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826321404
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	08/01/1999
Series:	Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review (1979-1985 and 1991) and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West.

Editorial Reviews

a[Etulainas] prose is accessible and informative to general readers as well as scholars.a

aEtulain shows how a new story, 'gray, ' complex, and multiple in perspective, has supplanted the old story.a

[Etulains] prose is accessible and informative to general readers as well as scholars.

. . . "Telling Western Stories" deserves a wide audience. . . . Etulains short, clearly-written, readable volume would serve as a stimulant to discussion in any seminar on western cultural history.

ÝEtulains¨ prose is accessible and informative to general readers as well as scholars.

Etulain shows how a new story, 'gray, ' complex, and multiple in perspective, has supplanted the old story.

In "Telling Western Stories" Richard Etulain has produced one of those rare combinations of a book that would make an excellent text for any class in Western literature and at the same time a well-written history easily enjoyed simply as a book of general interest. . . . The book should be read and enjoyed by students and scholars, literary historians and lovers of the West, disciples of Frederick Jackson, and shameless fans of Louis LAmour alike.

"[Etulain's] prose is accessible and informative to general readers as well as scholars."

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