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. T...
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;...
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. T...
As part of Roosevelt s New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the soul of the nation. While researching at the Montana Historical Society Research Center more than a decade ago, historian Matthew Basso stumbled upon copies of six stories that had been submitted for inclusion in a volume titled Men at Work." "They arrived too late to be considered. Federal Writers Project (FWP) staff had already...
As part of Roosevelt s New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One f...
