10. The Arcade Western

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Old West
6. 1. Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West 11
7. 2. Frontier Germ Theory 39
8. 3. ‘The Gun that Won the West’ 60
9. 4. Cowboy Presidents and the Political Branding of the American West 87
10. Part Two: New West
11. 5. Women in the West: The Trailblazer and the Homesteader 121
12. 6. Women in the West: The ‘Indian Princess’ and the ‘Lady Wildcat’ 141
13. 7. The Wild West Defiled: The American Indian, Genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre 171
14. 8. The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas 194
15. Part Three: Recreating the West
16. 9. The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the Return of Jesse James 231
17. 10. The Arcade Western 260
18. 11. Turn here for ‘The Sunny Side of the Atom’: Tourism, the Bomb and Popular Culture in the Nuclear West 284
19. 12. Re-creation and the Theme Park West 305
20. Bibliography 324
21. Index 338