The Frontier Club
Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924
Christine Bold
Reviews and Awards
Winner of the 2014 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies from the Western Literature Association.
Winner of the 2014 Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book from the Canadian Association for American Studies
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013
"Based on archival research as well as the rich body of secondary material pertinent to the topic, The Frontier Club adds several new layers of insight into those who produced the 'western' and those who, from the beginning, noted its serious limitations. This, too, is a story too important to ignore." --Journal of American Studies
"Bold does a more than adequate job juggling various complex connections to wave together a book that adds to and deepens a cultural history of the American West." --Panhandle-Plains Historical Review
"Superbly researched and written... It is refreshing to see women, African Americans, and Native Americans getting a fair shake in Bold's tale, and to watch her pull back the curtain on the racism and brutality that informed the era... Bold vividly restores vanishing historical impact of Westerns for the benefit of contemporary readers. Summing Up: Essential." --CHOICE
"Fascinating and engaging... Deftly written with engaging and illuminating examples, Christine Bold's The Frontier Club is an important contribution to the history of capitalism, to the influence of social networks on historical memory, and to the history of literary representations of the American West." --H-Net Reviews
"The strength of this study is its integration of many facets of American culture - business, technology, health, the arts, psychology, class structure, nature, and government - into a meaniful whole represented by the cowboy. That is quite an accomplishment." --Kansas History
