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Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond by Gary Fillmore (review)

Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond by Gary Fillmore (review) Southwestern Historical Quarterly July cusses include the Old West, a supposed place of greater freedom and opportunity, and the urban West, where most westerners live today. A number of individuals who would help shape our vision of the region lived on the Great Plains in the late 1800s. These included Laura Ingalls Wilder, the artist Frederick Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt. All three helped create the modern myth of the American West. The depression and drought of the 1880s and 1890s, as well as the Populist revolt, did not interfere with the popularization of western mythology though. Writers such as Owen Wister, responsible for one of the first western novels, The Virginian, added to the mystique of the West. Historians such as Walter Prescott Webb and Herbert Bolton also helped give western studies legitimacy in the early twentieth century. Over time our understanding of the West has changed. As the frontier closed, artists and writers recorded the West's exotic cultural landscapes. The Native West and the Hispanic West of New Mexico became important cultural icons. Railroads and tourism took Americans to these places and to the glamorized urban West of places like Los Angeles. The Great Depression challenged the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond by Gary Fillmore (review)

Sweeney, J. Gray
Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 117 (1) – Jul 3, 2013
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly July cusses include the Old West, a supposed place of greater freedom and opportunity, and the urban West, where most westerners live today. A number of individuals who would help shape our vision of the region lived on the Great Plains in the late 1800s. These included Laura Ingalls Wilder, the artist Frederick Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt. All three helped create the modern myth of the American West. The depression and drought of the 1880s and 1890s, as well as the Populist revolt, did not interfere with the popularization of western mythology though. Writers such as Owen Wister, responsible for one of the first western novels, The Virginian, added to the mystique of the West. Historians such as Walter Prescott Webb and Herbert Bolton also helped give western studies legitimacy in the early twentieth century. Over time our understanding of the West has changed. As the frontier closed, artists and writers recorded the West's exotic cultural landscapes. The Native West and the Hispanic West of New Mexico became important cultural icons. Railroads and tourism took Americans to these places and to the glamorized urban West of places like Los Angeles. The Great Depression challenged the

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Published: Jul 3, 2013

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