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The Rhetoric of the American West

PWR 1MG - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Gemma, M.

Last Updated: 25-Mar-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1MG: The Rhetoric of the American West. Topics include: conservation, ecology, and expansion; identity, race, and cultural encounters; film and Hollywood; or Western industries, such as the railroad or contemporary technology.

Subject Librarians

Benjamin Lee Stone

Curator for American and British History, Head, Humanities and Social Sciences Resource Group, Interim selector for Political Science (March 2015-)

Cecil H. Green Library

bstone@stanford.edu

Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

American history

Around Stanford

Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West

Background/Reference Sources for the Rhetoric of the American West

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Suggested Subject Terms

Suggested books in different call number ranges

Suggested Websites

The American West: The Multicultural West - includes documents and many links
Autry National Center includes - Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Museum of the American West, Institute for the Study of the American West - all in Los Angeles, many resources and exhibits
The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley - large collection of Western Americana; see also their California Heritage Collection
Calisphere – primary documents on California history, including Gold Rush era, closing of the frontier, etc., links to more than 300 UC web sites, include JARDA (Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives)
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1955-, see “Research”