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Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians-and bloody battles-at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity.Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices-those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American.Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.

Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History --- Turner, Frederick Jackson, --- Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, William Frederick, --- Cody, William F. --- Bill, --- Cody, W. F. --- Cody, Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, Bill, --- Tʻe-na, --- Tʻe-na, Fo-lei-te-li-kʻo Chieh-kʻo-hsün, --- Turner, F. J. --- F. J. T. --- T., F. J. --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- West (U. S.) --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1999 --- american culture. --- american hero. --- american history. --- american west. --- annie oakley. --- buffalo bill. --- columbian exposition. --- cowboys. --- custer. --- empty continent. --- folk tales. --- folklore. --- frontier. --- indians. --- indigenous peoples. --- jack crawford. --- land rights. --- little bighorn. --- log cabins. --- manifest destiny. --- military. --- national identity. --- native americans. --- nonfiction. --- oregon trail. --- pioneers. --- popular culture. --- settler colonialism. --- settlers. --- settling the west. --- sitting bull. --- wagon trains. --- western movement. --- western. --- wild west show. --- wild west.

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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, --- Criticism, Textual. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Пастернак, Борис Леонидович, --- Pa-ssŭ-tʻê-na-kʻo, --- Bastirnāk, Būrīs, --- Paszternák, Borisz Leonyidovics, --- Пастернак, Борис, --- Pasternak, Boris, --- Пастернак, Б. --- Pasternak, B. --- Pasternac, B., --- Pasternak, Borys, --- פאסטערנאק, באָריס, --- פאסטערנאק, באריס --- פסטרנאק, בוריס, --- פסטרנק, בוריס --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליאונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס, --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovič --- Pasternak, Boris --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidowitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, --- Пастернак, Борис Леонидович, --- Pa-ssŭ-tʻê-na-kʻo, --- Bastirnāk, Būrīs, --- Paszternák, Borisz Leonyidovics, --- Пастернак, Борис, --- Pasternak, Boris, --- Пастернак, Б. --- Pasternak, B. --- Pasternac, B., --- Pasternak, Borys, --- פאסטערנאק, באָריס, --- פאסטערנאק, באריס --- פסטרנאק, בוריס, --- פסטרנק, בוריס --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליאונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovič --- Pasternak, Boris --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidowitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

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Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Пастернак, Борис Леонидович, --- Pa-ssŭ-tʻê-na-kʻo, --- Bastirnāk, Būrīs, --- Paszternák, Borisz Leonyidovics, --- Пастернак, Борис, --- Pasternak, Boris, --- Пастернак, Б. --- Pasternak, B. --- Pasternac, B., --- Pasternak, Borys, --- פאסטערנאק, באָריס, --- פאסטערנאק, באריס --- פסטרנאק, בוריס, --- פסטרנק, בוריס --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליאונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס, --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovič --- Pasternak, Boris --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidowitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

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Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in his own words (in translation) and are discussed in the extensive commentaries and introduction. The texts range from 1910 to 1946 and are between two and ninety pages long. There are commentaries on all the texts, as well as a final essay on Pasternak's famous novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is looked at here in the light of what it says on art and inspiration. Although universally acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Pasternak is not yet sufficiently recognized as the highly original and important thinker that he also was. All his life he thought and wrote about the nature and significance of the experience of inspiration, though avoiding the word "inspiration" where possible as his own views were not the conventional ones. The author's purpose is (a) to make this philosophical aspect of his work better known, and (b) to communicate to readers who cannot read Russian the pleasure and interest of an "inspired" life as Pasternak experienced it.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Пастернак, Борис Леонидович, --- Pa-ssŭ-tʻê-na-kʻo, --- Bastirnāk, Būrīs, --- Paszternák, Borisz Leonyidovics, --- Пастернак, Борис, --- Pasternak, Boris, --- Пастернак, Б. --- Pasternak, B. --- Pasternac, B., --- Pasternak, Borys, --- פאסטערנאק, באָריס, --- פאסטערנאק, באריס --- פסטרנאק, בוריס, --- פסטרנק, בוריס --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליאונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס, --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovič --- Pasternak, Boris --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidowitsj --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich --- Anthologies.