{"product_id":"frontier-club-christine-bold-9780199731794","title":"Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924","description":"From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like \u003cem\u003eGunsmoke\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeadwood\u003c\/em\u003e, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats-a cadre she terms \"the frontier club\" -created and propagated the myth of the Wild West to advance their own self-interest as well as larger systems of privilege and exclusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMining institutional archives, personal papers, novels, and films, \u003cem\u003eThe Frontier Club\u003c\/em\u003e excavates the hidden social, political, and financial interests behind the making of the modern western. It re-reads frontier-club fiction, most notably Owen Wister's bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Virginian\u003c\/em\u003e, in relation to federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos); it casts new light on key clubmen, both the famous and the forgotten-figures such as Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Silas Weir Mitchell, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Frederic Remington-while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist; and it considers the costs of the frontier-club formula, in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices, including western writings by African Americans, women, and working-class white men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn engaging cultural history that covers print culture, big-game hunting, politics, immigration, Jim Crow segregation, and environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eThe Frontier Club\u003c\/em\u003e provides a welcome new perspective on the enduring American myth of the Wild West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Bold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199731799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199731794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2013","brand":"Christine Bold","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054734995711,"sku":"9780199731794","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7929012-9ba6-4a77-b126-6d8c03f14fc0.jpg?v=1685031685","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/frontier-club-christine-bold-9780199731794","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}