Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
by Molly K. Varley
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- ISBN 13
- 9780806144931
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University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. College textbook sticker to back cover, otherwise text is unmarked and book is in nice condition. It was on the frontier, where "civilized" men and women confronted the "wilderness," that Europeans first became Americans-or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians..
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- Title
- Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
- Author
- Molly K. Varley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0806144939
- ISBN 13
- 9780806144931
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Captivity Prisoner Captive native americans expansion
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