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Title: Frontier and Region: Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge
Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0826317383
ISBN 13: 9780826317384
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Twelve distinguished historians explore regionalism, politics, popular culture, and historiography in the frontier and American West. Each article demonstrates how frontier and region are still vital to the understanding of America's past. Diverse topics include Davy Crockett, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, Herbert E. Bolton, literary Turnerians, environment, exploration, and western federalism.

These papers were delivered in 1992 at the Huntington Library upon the retirement of Martin Ridge. Contributors are Richard White, Howard Lamar, Glenda Riley, Melody Webb, Walter Nugent, James P. Ronda, Albert L. Hurtado, Paul Andrew Hutton, James H. Madison, Charles E. Rankin, Donald J. Pisani, and Richard Lowitt.

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Robert C. Ritchie is director of research at the Henry E. Huntington Library. Paul Andrew Hutton is executive director of the Western Historical Association and professor of history at the University of New Mexico.

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