From Custer and Geronimo to John Wayne and the Marlboro Man, American notions of masculinity have been deeply interwoven with our image of the West. There is more to the relationship between manhood and the frontier than a simple tale of cowboys and Indians, ruggedness and in Across the Great Divide historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways in which this experience has been represented in films, popular music, dimestore novels and folklore. Ramon Gutierrez ( When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away ) describes the culture of machismo in early New...

From Custer and Geronimo to John Wayne and the Marlboro Man, American notions of masculinity have been deeply interwoven with our image of the West. There is more to the relationship between manhood and the frontier than a simple tale of cowboys and Indians, ruggedness and in Across the Great Divide historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways in which this experience has been represented in films, popular music, dimestore novels and folklore. Ramon Gutierrez (When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away) describes the culture of machismo in early New Mexico;...