This accessible text provides a comprehensive narrative and interpretative account of the entire ...

For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing W...

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have creat...

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shoo...

Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of g...

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to mode...

This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, w...

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating...

Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapi...

Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirro...

Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to t...

Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of...

'Prohibition was materialized by eager Temperance Movements organizers who sought to shape public...

Their heads filled with images of glory and battle, most young men joined the frontier army only ...

In modern times, men and women in America expect to lead long and fruitful lives. In the second h...