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A Literary Tour of the United States

Summary

Grasp how the familiar archetypes of the American West were created, through the work of popular novelists such as Owen Wister (The Virginian), Zane Grey (The Code of the West), and the exploits of the showman Buffalo Bill Cody. Take account of the highly romanticized and mythologized portrayals of cowboys and frontier life so prevalent in 20th-century American popular culture.

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