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Dean Coughenour, Journal of the West Vol. XVII, No. 2, April 1978 : Culture in the West. Journal, paper covers, 128 pp.
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In good condition. Pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and aging. Binding tight. Light age spotting to edge of text block. Interior pages are lightly aged but otherwise unmarked with occasional light spotting. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. The Journal of the West, founded in 1962 by historians Lorrin L. Morrison and Carol J. Morrison. Its purpose is to promote scholarship on the history, culture, and events of the American West. Contents of this volume: Gold and the Growth of a Metropolis: a comparative study of San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia by Dianne Kirkby; The Golden Dream and the Press: Illinois and the California Gold Rush of '49 by Jocelyn Maynard Ghent; Agents of Culture in the Urban West: Merchants and Mercantile Libraries in Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Louis and San Francisco by Bradford Luckingham; The Almanacs of the San Francisco Bay Region, 1850-1861: a neglected historical source by Tanis Thorne; The Newark Museum - Alaskan Eskimos Exhibit; Cain and Abel in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn by Alan R. Velie; The Theatre in Topeka, Kansas, 1858-1883 by William Frank Zornow; The Little Theatre in the Atomic Age: amateur dramatics in Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1943-1947 by Felix Diaz Almaraz, Jr.; Make Milwaukee Safe for Babies: The Child Welfare Commission and the Development of Urban Health Centers, 1911-1912 by Patricia Melvin Mooney; A Fruit for All Seasons: the Pear's Long Journey West by Luis F. Verano; Roosevelt and Turner: Awakening in the West by Stuart E. Knee.