A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C. Fremont, "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets of Washington," love bloomed. Always passionately devoted to the controversial explorer, soldier, and politician, Jessie bore John five children, maintained a family life, charmed and campaigned on his behalf, and helped him write the popular reports of his western trailblazing. These pages, filled with public figures such as Kit Carson...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This edited collection brings together theoretical perspectives, practical educational ideas and current academic debates to help students develop their understanding of core educational issues and the professional relationships necessary for quality learning. Covering a wide range of themes and topics relevant to learning support including styles, with a strong emphasis on developing effective study skills and reflective thinking skills this second edition: Is fully updated with references to current legislation including the Common Assessment Framework, the Workforce Reform agenda and the...

What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was it produced and distributed? What were its relations to the wider world of print culture? How did it develop over time? These questions are central toThe Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.
Volume six explores a cornucopia of US popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded...

From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, 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....

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.