Across the Great Divide : Cultures of Manhood in the American West

In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore. In Across the Great Divide historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways in which popular notions of the rugged American man have been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels and folklore On a cold November night in 1726, Catharina de los Rois of Santa Fe lay sick in bed, feverish, delirious, her body totally covered with a pox-like rash. Edited By Matthew Basso, Laura Mccall, And Dee Garceau. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.