The Frontier Club

The Frontier Club

Author: Christine Bold

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0199731799

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The Frontier Club delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social, political, and financial interests in the making of the modern western.


Hearings

Hearings

Author: United States. Congress Senate

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 2268

ISBN-13:

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Manifest Destiny 2.0

Manifest Destiny 2.0

Author: Sara Humphreys

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-02

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1496224809

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At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys’s Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world. Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller. Investigating the social and cultural implications of the Western and noir genres in video games through two case studies—the best-selling games Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)—Humphreys demonstrates how the frontier myth continues to circulate exceptionalist versions of the United States. Video games spread the neoliberal and neocolonial ideologies of the genres even as they create a new form of performative literacy that intensifies the genres well beyond their originating historical contexts. Manifest Destiny 2.0 joins the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural analysis of video games.


Indian War Clubs of the American Frontier

Indian War Clubs of the American Frontier

Author: John Baldwin

Publisher: Early Amer Artistry

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780965114660

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This book completely covers this highly collectable, exciting subject of Indian War Clubs. A historically significant perspective combined with pictures from the top collections in the country, thus ensuring authentic documented artifacts from our American frontier. Invaluable as a teaching reference with accurate detailed information. The text is written as an exciting saga of Americana.


Frontier Follies

Frontier Follies

Author: Ree Drummond

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0062962825

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New York Times bestseller A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. Once upon a time, I lost my marbles and married a sexy, Wrangler-wearing cowboy named Ladd. That single decision would wind up setting the stage for years of rural adventures (and misadventures), and while I can't imagine my life being any different, raising a family in the “idyllic” countryside has not been without a few bumps in the road. (Or were those cow patties? It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.) I'm excited to share this crazy collection of true stories from my full-of-energy, hard-to-tame, wonderfully wild (and very weird) frontier family. From the unique challenges of being married to a rancher to the blood, sweat, mud, and tears of raising country kids, I'll pull back the curtain and let you in on some of the sh*t and shenanigans that have really gone on here on Drummond Ranch over the past two-plus decades. You'll learn about marital spats, run-ins with wildlife, ER visits, my parenting neuroses, triumphs, tribulations, love, loss . . . and how manure has somehow managed to weave its way through all of it. To keep things up to the minute, you'll also hear about more recent family developments that have tested my sanity and pushed me to the brink. (And pleasantly surprised me, too.) This book is both a love letter and a laugh letter, and I hope you get a big kick out of it all: the good, the bad, and the dirty. Mostly, I hope it demonstrates how much I adore this family of mine . . . even if I sometimes have to use rubber snakes to show it.


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Author: Gary Kelly

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 019923406X

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Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.


Bugsy's Shadow

Bugsy's Shadow

Author: Larry D. Gragg

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2023-10-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0826365167

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Early in the Prohibition era, Moe Sedway became part of the New York organized crime gang led by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. A loyal and highly effective operative for Siegel, Sedway eventually gained monopoly control of the race wire service in Las Vegas and also became an effective casino manager of the Las Vegas Club, El Cortez, and the Rex Club. A breach in their relationship led to rumors that Sedway had gained Lansky’s approval for a “hit” on Siegel. The unsolved mystery of who murdered Bugsy in 1947 has spawned numerous theories about the identity of the hitman, but regardless of who pulled the trigger, Bugsy’s death opened the way for Moe to flourish as his own man at last. Long overshadowed by Bugsy in the annals of organized crime in America, Moe Sedway is now at last brought out into the light in this riveting tale of the sensational life and times of one of Vegas’s most mysterious and little-known figures.