Author: ATHEARN, ROBERT G.
Title: The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America
Description: Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0700603042. A first printing of historian Robert G. Athearn's observations of how the Old West has impacted the mindset of people of the 20th century. Per the jacket flap, this work is ".a blend of scholarship, personal observation, and opinion." With black & white historic photos and illustrations scattered throughout the text; foreword by Elliott West. --- In full grey cloth-covered boards with black spine titling. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with photo of Judge E. C. Winchell wrapped in an American flag and pointing a revolver while atop Mount Winchell in California. --- An about-Fine copy: bright, newish and unmarked. Unpriced jacket with a little rubbing, else bright, complete, and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xii, 319 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0700603042 >>History of Colorado & the Old West