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Also by Richard Slotkin:

The Long Road To Antietam, July 2012
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Gunfighter Nation, April 1998
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Gunfighter Nation
Richard Slotkin

The Myth Of The Frontier In Twentieth-Century America

University of Oklahoma Press
April 1998
On Sale: March 31, 1998
850 pages
ISBN: 0806130318
EAN: 9780806130316
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin’s trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier.

Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures and Washington leaders - to show how the racialist theory of Anglo-Saxon ascendance and superiority (embodied in Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West), rather than Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis of the closing of the frontier, exerted the most influence in popular culture and government policy making in the twentieth century. He argues that Roosevelt’s view of the frontier myth provided the justification for most of America’s expansionist policies, from Roosevelt’s own Rough Riders to Kennedy’s counterinsurgency and Johnson’s war in Vietnam.

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