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  title info:
    title: Re-living the American frontier
    sub title: western fandoms, reenactment, and historical hobbyists in Germany and America since 1900
  name:
    name part: Reagin, Nancy Ruth
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: iau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The past offers a pleasant refuge from the present for many people, including historical reenactors and other historically-focused fan communities. Historical reenactment and living history groups extend far beyond modern hobbyists who recreate American Civil War battles (probably the best known type of historical reenactment) and go back more than a century in the United States and Europe. Many of these fandoms were inspired by literary works that vividly depicted idealized, romanticized historical cultures. These fans have received relatively little attention from either historians or scholars of popular culture. The historic and mythic elements of the American Old West, covered wagon trains, stockade forts, herds of buffalo that stretch as far as the eye can see, teepee villages, Indian warriors on horseback, cowboys on open ranges, and white settlers "taming" a wilderness with their plows and log cabins, have exerted a global fascination over 200 years, and became the foundation for fan communities that have endured for generations. Artists, writers, entertainment media and quite ordinary people around the world have mined Old West images, tropes and settings for almost two centuries, often with joyful absorption and fascinated attention to the artifacts and cultures of the West. This book examines some of those fan communities, particularly German fans originally inspired by the Western novels of Karl May and American enthusiasts of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series. But the Old West (like all visions of the past) proved to be shifting cultural terrain, as each generation rewrites its own past. In both Germany and the United States, Western fan communities were initially uncontroversial, since Western narratives of white settlement were seen as "unpolitical" and generally widely accepted by both white Americans and Europeans. But in Germany, the American West was reevaluated and politically repurposed during the Nazi period, and in both …
  table of contents: Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.
  note: Nancy Reagin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: e-gx---
    geographic code: n-usc--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
      name part: 1867-1957
    topic: Appreciation
  subject:
    topic: Frontier and pioneer life
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Historical reenactments
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Indianists
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Indian hobbyists
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Cowboys in popular culture
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Fans (Persons)
    genre: Cross-cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Heritage tourism
    geographic: Middle West
  subject:
    topic: Frontier and pioneer life
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: Historiography
  classification: F596 .R3593 2021
  classification: 978
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fandom & culture
  identifier: 9781609387907
  identifier: 1609387902
  identifier: 9781609387914
  identifier: 2021001154
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210111
    record change date: 20220307160007.8
    record identifier: in00004553385