Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers - Mary Ellen Snodgrass - Google Books

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Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers—the gold-crazed ’49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has…