Frontiers Of Boyhood
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Author | : Martin Woodside |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080616686X |
When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,” the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley’s exhortation also captured popular sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American boyhood; for many educators, politicians, and parents, raising boys right seemed a pivotal step in securing the growing nation’s future. This book revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another—and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress. The intersection of ideas about boyhood and the frontier, while complex and multifaceted, was dominated by one arresting notion: in the space of the West, boys would grow into men and the fledgling nation would expand to fulfill its promise. Frontiers of Boyhood explores this myth and its implications and ramifications through western history, childhood studies, and a rich cultural archive. Detailing surprising intersections between American frontier mythology and historical notions of child development, the book offers a new perspective on William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s influence on children and childhood; on the phenomenon of “American Boy Books”; the agency of child performers, differentiated by race and gender, in Wild West exhibitions; and the cultural work of boys’ play, as witnessed in scouting organizations and the deployment of mass-produced toys. These mutually reinforcing and complicating strands, traced through a wide range of cultural modes, from social and scientific theorizing to mass entertainment, lead to a new understanding of how changing American ideas about boyhood and the western frontier have worked together to produce compelling stories about the nation’s past and its imagined future.
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : William A. Owens |
Publisher | : Lyons Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Lamar County (Tex.) |
ISBN | : 9781558219892 |
The author describes his quest for an education in the midst of poverty and illiteracy in a small town in early-twentieth-century Texas.
Author | : Chet Huntley |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : John Rogers |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806128917 |
In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, playing games, and participating in sacred rituals. These customs were to be cast aside, however, when he was taken to a white school in an effort to assimilate him into white society. In the foreword to this new edition, Melissa L. Meyer places Roger’s memoirs within the story of the White Earth Reservation.
Author | : Mischa Honeck |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501716204 |
Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The...
Author | : Marquis James |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806135731 |
"Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American boyhood; in honest, winning revelation."–Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Louis C. Jones |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Otsego County (New York) |
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Author | : Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Publisher | : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 745 |
Release | : 2011-01-25 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Author | : Fred Whitehead |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
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A stirring anthology that documents, in poetry, song, stories, memoirs, and essays, the breadth and scope of secularism from the early 19th century to the present. Included are pieces by the notables--Twain, Dreiser, Lindsay, Service, Sandburg, Hughes, Masters, et al.--as well as grassroots contributions. Also included are photographs of authors, historical sites, and The Truth seeker cartoons of Watson Hedges. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR