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Author Slotkin, Richard, 1942-

Title The fatal environment : the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890 / by Richard Slotkin
Published Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

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Description xvii, 636 pages ; 24 cm
Notes Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1985
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [587]-618) and index
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 -- Historiography.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Myth.
SUBJECT United States -- Territorial expansion http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
LC no. 97038608
ISBN 080613030X paperback