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In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming), the Wild West has never died. The West has long been the favoured repository of the East's cultural fantasies, and in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern expectations and demands largely shaped Wyoming's image in this role."Becoming Western" shows how the myth of the "American West" has acted as a force both in history and in individual lives. The sequence of five stories in which Liza J. Nicholas interrogates the creation of Western lore focus on Jack Flagg, a Wyoming legend and the supposed model for Owen Wister's Virginian; an equestrian statue of Buffalo Bill sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; the dude ranch; the creation of the American studies program at Yale; and a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Each story reveals the ways in which the East consciously imagined and manipulated the West and how Wyomingites in turn interpreted this identity, manipulated it, and put it to work for themselves. "Becoming Western" is a fascinating study of how invented traditions can become potent cultural and political ideology on a local as well as a national level.Liza J.Nicholas is an adjunct professor at Montana State University and an independent scholar. She is the co-editor of Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West.
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